At the Open Mobile Summit, Adobe Chief Technology Officer Kevin Lynch demonstrated a notification to install an app with the details of Tate Modern's paintings and exhibits when he arrived there, an app to let him browse hotel's movies and show his photos off on TV, and an app that let him browse a bookshelf of publicly shared books and magazines on a friend's mobile, which he could electronically "borrow" and get permission to read for a few hours.
"Some of this ready," he said. "This peer-to-peer awareness of devices is something that's becoming possible now. It's enabled in Flash and AIR now," two Adobe software foundations for running apps across a wide range of devices.
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