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San Francisco - Adobe Systems is rolling out on Monday public beta versions of ColdFusion 9, which is the latest version of the company's Web development platform that leverages server-side services, and the accompanying ColdFusion Builder IDE, for rapid development of ColdFusion applications.

San Francisco - Seeking an edge in the crowded rich Internet application technology space, Microsoft on Friday officially launched its Silverlight 3 platform, championing the technology at a launch event in San Francisco that also featured partners such as NBC Sports and Continental Airlines.

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San Francisco - Microsoft's Silverlight 3 technology, which adds offline capabilities to the company's rich Internet application platform, already is available for download on the Web, ahead of Friday's official launch event.

San Francisco - Microsoft, IBM, and Adobe cited during a conference at an IBM facility on Thursday ongoing  efforts to improve the lives of programmers and designers.

San Francisco - SPARQL, the query technology for the Semantic Web, is set for improvements for application development via a proposal before the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

San Francisco - Last May, InfoWorld presented a comparative roundup of workstations built on the then-new quad-core processors.

San Francisco - Yahoo is enhancing on Wednesday its Web service API for querying and joining data across any Web source or service on the Web, with the addition of capabilities to write and modify data on Web services.

San Francisco - Microsoft's Silverlight technology for rich Internet applications is gathering steam among developers in Asia, an Evans Data survey unveiled on Tuesday reveals.