The Air 3 cross-platform development runtime from Adobe is out in the market now and the company says it will allow game developers to use Flash, Actionscript, JavaScript, and other technologies to create high quality 2D and 3D games for iOS devices. Flash doesn’t work on iOS devices, but Air 3 does work on the iOS devices as well as even Mac and Windows.

Those who have used TweetDeck have a good idea how well an application built with Adobe Air works. Even another popular game, Machinarium for iPad is also built using the Adobe Air.

Adobe is in a slightly precarious position right now because it needs to be present on iOS devices, from which it was barred earlier. Adobe says users will be able to play 3D games in web browsers or iOS devices in the same way that they do on consoles.

It’s okay to take the claims from Adobe slightly sceptically, but it is also a positive for the game creators to have one more way to bring their games on the iOS devices. Air 3 will be available for all only in early October.

The major features for Air 3 would include accelerated 2D/3D graphics which will provide 1,000 times better performance than earlier version of the same software.

Facebook has introduced a new Timeline feature to the social network, which will help users display all their important milestones gathered over a period of time.
The newly announced feature for Facebook, ‘Timeline’ has three main components that comprise of – firstly user’s stories, secondly applications and third a new way to express a person’s identity.

Pictures and videos are featured on the timeline more prominently making profiles more visually focused and users can sort through information by date, type of media and location.
The social network has also introduced a music service on the website. Now users will be able to listen to music, watch videos and use application without leaving the page they are on. Users can also listen to what their friends are listening via a ‘Share Music’ feature.
To provide music, Facebook has tied up with services such as Clear Channel’s iHeartRadio, Spotify while video contents will be provided by services such as Netflix and Hulu.

Facebook is also aiming at changing the way News is delivered to the users by getting in to partnerships with news giants such as Washington Post and alike.

This is not new for Facebook as a similar model has already been adopted for applications and has turned out to be popular but will the same model also work for other media, still remains to be seen. The beta version of the Timeline feature will be available to all users in coming times including the users in India and after that only things will be a little clearer as what the future of this service will be.

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Box.net, a cloud based storage space provider, has announced 50 GB worth of Cloud Storage space exclusively for BlackBerry Playbook users absolutely free of cost. This same service with a year long commitment for any other user will cost $20 which amounts up to Rs 1,000 approximately per year.

Besides, Box.net has also not kept any limitations in terms of usage whatsoever. So BlackBerry playbook users can practically save anything and everything in this 50 GB of cloud storage space. And also since this is an online space they need not bother about the access to data. Also, there is no size limitation of data to be uploaded.

The Cloud storage service will also offer collaboration service for users. Box.net users will be able to share files with others with the help of a public link directly generated from within the service only.

This offer is valid for a limited time and is only available to BlackBerry Playbook owners. To avail this offer, Playbook owners will have to download the Box.net application for the BlackBerry Playbook tablet before December 31 and sign in or register to receive 50 GB free storage.

Facebook has announced the availability of a new photo-sharing App – the Color app.
With the new mobile app, users would be able to send live video captured from their mobile phone cameras right to their Facebook friends &#151 it doesn’t matter whether they are on smartphones or on the Internet.

The app is still at an early stage, hence users should not expect it to work like Skype or Facetime since they would not be getting any audio to go with the video.

To use the app, one needs to install it on their iPhone 4 or Android phone with a video camera. Next they need to log into Facebook. All the photos uploaded by the users on Facebook is visible in reverse order, means the last picture uploaded will appear first and so on.

Hosting a visit on Facebook is more interesting since the users can invite their friends to join in and show them whatever their camera is seeing. For example, if they are walking through a new city, their visitors on Facebook can watch everything through their smartphone camera.

Initially, the Color app will be available to few Facebook users and the company may open it for all later depending on the user response.