But he said the downturn also provided an opportunity to forge a new relationship whereby Africa drives its own development agenda in partnership with the world community.

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Microsoft has countered Adobe's AIR and Flex technologies with its own development tools called Live Mesh and Silverlight. (Sun Microsystems in May launched similar technology called JavaFX, and Google has a tool out called Gears.) Microsoft has 4 million software developers already using its .

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Hsu told us that when the iPad Mini debuted with its own rudimentary grip-sensing hardware, Synaptics was heartened to continue development on its own.

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Google has its own digital newsstand under development and it wants to make similar inroads with its Android platform, the Wall Street Journal reports.

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