Ben Worthen, Blogger, Business Technology, The Wall Street Journal

Adobe Blurs Line Between Web and PC

February 26, 2008 at 12:01 am PT

The line between software that people access over the Internet and software that resides on their PCs will blur over the next several years, as an announcement from Adobe reminds us.

Adobe today introduced AIR, an application that lets people access Web sites even when they aren’t online. Someone who wants to put an item up for bid on eBay, for example, could fill out the form through the AIR software while the PC isn’t connected to the Web. The software would automatically post the information to eBay the next time the computer is connected to the Internet.

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