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Adobe Systems this week confirmed it is on track to deliver Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) for the Google Android mobile platform by the end of the year. AIR enables  Adobe Flash Web applications to run outside of a browser.  [ Check out InfoWorld's review: Microsoft Silverlight 4 vs. Flash 10.1. | Also on InfoWorld: Read [...]

Microsoft is gearing up to release a version of its Visual Studio integrated developer environment that it promises will be easy enough for even business managers to use. On August 23, the company will release a beta version of Visual Studio, called Visual Studio LightSwitch, aimed at simplifying the process of developing applications. [ Check [...]

Firefox 3.6.4 might not sound like a major update, but the latest version debuts an important new feature for Mozilla’s browser. Code-named “Lorentz” and available for Windows and Linux, the update includes the highly-anticipated Out-of-Process Plug-in (OOPP) “sandboxing” feature that prevents specific plug-ins that crash from taking down the entire browser. In this initial implementation, [...]

The Oracle-sponsored NetBeans team on Tuesday announced availability of the open source NetBeans 6.9 IDE featuring JavaFX Composer, a visual layout tool for building JavaFX GUI applications. The NetBeans IDE is available online. Developers using JavaFX Composer can build, visually edit, and debug rich Internet applications and bind components to various data sources, including Web services, [...]

The stable build of Google Chrome has updated, introducing seven security patches to the browser. Version 4.1.249.1059 for Windows incorporates four high-priority security fixes and three medium-priority ones. The high-priority fixes, introduced Tuesday, correct type confusion errors with forums, memory corruption in the V8 JavaScript engine bindings, cross-site scripting vulnerabilities on the Chrome downloads page, [...]

Google with its Chrome browser is making accommodations for the Adobe Flash Player, a move that did not sit well with some early commentators wondering why Google is now pushing Flash when it has backed HTML5, a potential rival to Flash. Flash Player 10.1 will ship with Chrome when the plug-in upgrade is available at [...]

Brightcove announced on Monday Brightcove Experience for HTML5, a framework for publishing interactive and ad-supported Web videos for HTML5-compatible devices, including Apple’s iPad and iPhone. The framework is being offered free of charge to customers of the Brightcove online video platform. Brightcove Experience for HTML 5 supports intelligent device detection, playlist rendering and playback of [...]

Microsoft at its Mix10 conference on Monday will introduce a framework enabling Web analytics to be performed for Siliverlight rich media applications. The open source Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework will debut in a beta form at the conference in Las Vegas, said Michael Scherotter, Microsoft media experience evangelist. The framework, which will be released on [...]

Mozilla has officially decided that the next major version of Firefox will require at least Mac OS X 10.5 when running on Apple computers. “We believe a Mac OS X 10.5 minimum will allow us to provide the best experience possible to our users,” Mozilla Mac programmer Josh Aas said Tuesday in a mailing list [...]

The Novell-sponsored Mono Project will announce on Thursday availability of Moonlight 2, an open source browser plug-in that brings to Unix and Linux desktops the capabilities of the Microsoft Silverlight multimedia platform. The company also will announce an extension of a patent covenant with Microsoft in which Microsoft has pledged not to sue users and [...]