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Adobe Flash 10 released: feature rich and improved

Oct 15th, 2008
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After a long time in public beta, Adobe finally decided to release the 10th version of the popular Flash. It’s obvious that Adobe launched Flash 10 earlier than expected, due to Microsoft’s Silverlight, its direct competitor.

Let’s see what Adobe Flash 10 brings with this new version:

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Symantec’s Norton products entered the 2009 open beta stage

Jul 17th, 2008
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Symantec Norton BetaSymantec Corporation, opened this week the 2009 Public Beta versions of Norton Security and Norton Antivirus. Symantec claims that this versions will be more faster than their predecessors, more user friendly and moreoever, less resource hungry.

While the Symantec security products lost some market share to other companies such as Kaspersky, Avira or Esset (NOD32), the new features and overall speed increase might get them back on the average home user’s list.

Let’s review some important features, worth taking in consideration:

Speed Increase

The Norton programs can determine now which files are trustworthy based on prior scans and community feedback, adding them to a “white-list” and avoiding them in the future scans.

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