Adobe Blurs Line Between PC and Web

Ever been frustrated that you could not get to Web data when off the Internet and annoyed that you could not get PC data when traveling? Why couldn’t we have access to all his information, like movie schedules and word processing documents, in one place? Adobe will release the official version of AIR, a software development system that will power potentially tens of thousands of applications that merge the Internet and the PC, as well as blur the distinctions between PCs and new computing devices like smartphones. Adobe sees AIR as a major advance that builds on its Flash multimedia software. Flash is the engine behind Web animations, e-commerce sites and many streaming videos. It is, the company says, the most ubiquitous software on earth, residing on almost all Internet-connected personal computers.
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