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With several major mobile platforms available for users, application developers might find it difficult to do actual testing to ensure their apps work as intended on different platforms. AppCentral's (news, site) newly launched Developer Lab provides tools for sandbox testing and multi-platform deployment of applications, with focus on the enterprise market.

Newly updated, K4 is a German-originated product shipped in America by MEI. It offers tighter control of the publishing process with task-based workflow giving specific instructions on each user's tasks to keep them on the ball.

Yesterday Microsoft and Xandros Inc, a Linux platform provider, formalized a collaboration consisting of technical, marketing, business and intellectual property commitments. The various conditions seek to ultimately provide end users with stronger interoperability, intellectual property assurances and more effective systems management solutions.

The pair are positioning the union as the creation of a bridge between open source and commercial software.

Looks like the busy bees at Adobe are making the most of their decision to swallow Macromedia whole in 2005. In a move highly anticipated by the interactive programming and design community, Adobe releases the alpha version of Apollo, a cross-OS runtime that acts a little like the hot-headed lovechild of the dull but handy Acrobat Reader and bells-and-whistles Flash Player. In short, Apollo provides the ability to run Web apps both online and off.