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Google Gears Grind Out Web Apps

Google announced an open source browser extension that enables web applications to run offline.

Adobe Flex Enters Open Source

Adobe hopes to attract more developers to their Flex platform by releasing its SDK under terms of the Mozilla Public License.

Apollo Blasts Off From Adobe

The new platform has entered a public alpha test for developers who want to create web applications capable of running online or offline on a computer.

Open Source Developer Warns of Adobe

Ted Leung is an open source developer (he works on Mitch Kapor’s Chandler project) and he warns that Adobe wants to be the Microsoft of the Web with its Apollo and Flex platforms. He doesn’t want to give control of his work to yet another single vendor.

How Times Have Changed for Flash Video

I've been digging around on a few technology websites and came across a few interesting articles, some from way back (who remembers CNET's Talk to us live series, courtesy of FCS? This was cutting edge back then. Check out the christmas countdown: -726 days left LOL).

Adobe's Apollo - the Next Killer App?

Today, Apollo caught my undivided attention when I saw the post from a Rich Inter Application Mountaineer, Ryan Stewart.

Adobe's Apollo to Ease Desktop Development?

In early 2005, when Adobe announced an agreement to acquire Macromedia, creative professionals released a collective gasp. Many worried about a creative software monopoly, others pondered the fate of competing applications (GoLive versus Dreamweaver, Freehand versus Illustrator, etc), and some dreamed of what offspring may come of this union.

Adobe's Apollo Program

Offline applications have often been a thorn in the side of developers. Adobe is coming to the rescue - the company has begun work on a project, dubbed Apollo, which would allow developers to insert hooks for portability to offline clients.

Apollo 13 Engineers Get Recognition

Whether you were around for the original Apollo 13 mission, or have only seen the thrilling Tom Hanks movie of the same name, you remember the engineers' role in saving the astronauts.

GlobalSpec Awards First Great Moments in Engineering Award To Apollo 13 Engineers

The team of NASA engineers whose ingenious, ad hoc air scrubbers sustained lives aboard the Apollo 13 spacecraft as it limped home will receive the first GlobalSpec Great Moments in Engineering award April 19th marking the 35th anniversary of their unsung heroism.