The Firefox maker has announced the first developer release for the Mozilla Web Apps Project. Unlike Google s Chrome Web Store, which launched in December with apps from big names like the New York Times, Sports Illustrated and NPR, Mozilla s project is off to a modest start, with a series of disparate parts that will eventually coalesce into a full-blown platform.
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Adobe s making a serious play for the app space today, and it s not limiting itself to phones its new Air cross platform runtime environment is designed to toss apps on your smart televisions and tablets as well. Air 2.5 supports accelerometers, multi touch gestures, cameras and microphones, GPS data and hardware acceleration in a variety of silicon.
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