Rafe Needleman reviews mobile apps and products for fun, and picks startups apart when he gets bored. He has evaluated thousands of new companies, most of which have since gone out of business.

In a move that will let Web developers use their existing skills to build rich Internet applications (RIAs) for the desktop, smart clients and browsers, Adobe Systems Inc. today released the first ...

The official 1.0 release of Adobe AIR last month attracted the attention of many software developers. The AIR platform is designed to facilitate rapid development of rich Internet applications (RIA) ...

Adobe Systems today released the beta version of Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), formerly code named Apollo. Adobe AIR is a cross-operating system application runtime that allows developers to use ...

We've been looking forward to this for a while, and now it's here: Adobe AIR runtime for Android. That means developers using Flash Builder or Flash Professional CS5 can publish AIR apps directly to ...

While Microsoft is looking to convince developers and consumers alike to try Silverlight, the alternative to Adobe's Flash, the incumbent has made some strides of its own. Adobe Systems Inc. has ...

Adobe Systems Inc. today released the first public alpha version of its cross-operating system application runtime designed to allow developers to build rich Internet applications for the desktop.