Adobe’s AIR 2: Faster, with better HTML

Adobe Systems on Thursday released AIR 2, upgrading the features and aspirations for the software foundation. AIR is a programming foundation that lets a Net application run on a variety of computing platforms–Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and, significantly, forthcoming Google Android mobile phones now as well. The software can run standalone programs written either with Adobe’s Flash technology or, courtesy of a built-in WebKit browser engine, with HTML and JavaScript, too.

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Adobe’s AIR 2: Faster, with better HTML

Microsoft plans update to Exchange 2010

Microsoft on Wednesday announced the first details of a planned service pack to Exchange Server 2010, which will add several new features to the messaging and calendar server software. In addition to the usual crop of tweaks and fixes, Service Pack 1 for Exchange 2010 will allow for better archiving and discovery of mail, improvements to Outlook Web Access, and better management capabilities, among other features

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Digg reworks its browser extensions, Boxee app

div class=”cnet-image-div image-regular float-right” style=”width: 245px” img class=”cnet-image” src=”/i/bto/20100119/Digg-for-Chrome.png” alt=”" width=”245″ height=”386″ / p class=”image-caption”Digg#39;s browser extension comes to Chrome./p span class=”image-credit”(Credit: Josh Lowensohn / CNET)/span /div pSocial news site a href=”http://www.Digg.com”Digg/a relaunched its a href=”http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8384″Firefox extension/a on Tuesday, adding a a href=”http://about.digg.com/blog/new-digg-extensions-firefox-and-chrome”small number of iterative improvements/a. The company also launched an a href=”https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/nphjpicjdnignjenbhkimpjjkpbidohb”extension for Google’s Chrome browser/a, which lets users see if a story has been submitted to Digg, as well as vote on it–all without leaving the page./p pBoth extensions show a count of how many Diggs a story has if it has been submitted, as well as a speedy way to submit links if they haven’t. They also let users share any page they’re on, not just through Digg, but on social networks like Twitter and Facebook too

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