Adobe Air's big play for desktops, tablets and mobile PC's

Adobe is looking beyond the PC as it releases the next revision of Adobe Air, how will the world react?  Adobe Systems Incorporated just  announced Adobe AIR 2.5 software for televisions, tablets, smartphones and desktop operating systems. A key element of the Adobe Flash Platform, AIR enables developers to leverage existing code to create and deliver standalone applications across devices and platforms.

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Review: 2010 Apple MacBook Air (11-inch)

Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

We've loved subportable Mac notebooks since the days of the PowerBook Duo, the rare and elusive PowerBook 2400c and the feisty 12 inch PowerBook G4. When the PB12 was discontinued in 2005, Apple lost its presence in the subportable market, choosing instead to focus on the 13-inch form factor. Now that the smaller MacBook Air has been introduced, we look at what's been added and what's been removed in this remarkable and game changing laptop.

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Facebook apps caught farming user information

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

A recent investigation by the Wall Street Journal revealed that all ten of the most popular apps on Facebook have been leaking Facebook user’s ID numbers (UID’s) to outside advertising and data collection firms. Moreover, three of these top apps, including the hugely successful Farmville, which has 80 million users, are potentially sharing information about users and their friends.

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MacBook Air 2010 unboxing and first photos

Here is the new MacBook Air 11 inch subnotebook. It is unboxed and compared to a MacBook Pro, a ThinkPad X100e (with a s similar resolution), a 1Ghz 12 inch PowerBook G4 and the original iBook. Full review to follow. Photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla