Posted by A Ocean on September 10, 2010 ·
iPhone
After Apple has announced yesterday that it will be relaxing all restrictions on the development tools used to create iOS apps, as long as the resulting apps do not download any code, developers were greatly relieved, as it meant that they could again start using third party development tools to create iOS apps.
Adobe was glad at this development and has termed Apple’s decision “great [...]
Posted by A Ocean on June 24, 2010 ·
iOS 4 and iPhone 4 (almost) have been released by Apple how can its nemesis in the smartphone market – Android, be away. Verizon Wireless has unveiled Android based Motorola’s Droid X a day before the iPhone 4 hits stores.
Droid X is the latest smartphone from Verizon Wireless to carry the Droid name, which the carrier has attempted to push as its line of high-end phones running on [...]
Posted by A Ocean on June 23, 2010 ·
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Two days after the iOS 4 release and a day before the iPhone 4 launch Apple has published official user guides for the iPhone 4 and iOS 4 in PDF format ( No, they don’t hate all Adobe softwares – its just Flash they don’t like). If you got few hours to kill either waiting for a pre-ordered iPhone 4 to arrive or camping out to purchase one tomorrow, [...]
Posted by A Ocean on June 18, 2010 ·
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself
Google announced the launch of cloud-based YouTube Video Editor which is a basic video-editing system for the world’s largest video sharing website, through this feature you can edit your videos inside YouTube itself.
Apart from making it makes it easier to edit videos uploaded to YouTube, Google takes another shot at Microsoft’s Windows Movie [...]
Posted by A Ocean on June 4, 2010 ·
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Apple Inc. on its website has started flaunting the abilities of the next generation of web standards known as HTML 5 which is Apple’s way to snub Adobe. Apple has been promoting HTML5 as an alternative to Adobe’s Flash, as the two firms battle it over Apple’s refusal to allow Flash to work on its iPhone and iPad.
The “HTML5 Showcase” by Apple features seven [...]
Posted by A Ocean on June 2, 2010 ·
Apple in hot water over iTunes
Few days after reaching numero uno position and becoming the most valuable technology company in terms of market capitalization, Apple has joined the infamous club of big companies – including IBM, Intel and Microsoft – which got investigated for antitrust allegations by United States Department of Justice(DoJ). The Department of Justice is investigating [...]
Posted by A Ocean on May 21, 2010 ·
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Folks, its official.
Google has formally announced Android 2.2 update named Froyo ( following Google’s alphabetized dessert naming convention, is the next one called Gateau?) on the second day of Google Conference at the Moscone West, San Francisco.
Most of the features which Sporkings.com have written about earlier does find a place, Android Froyo will [...]
Posted by Calvin Robinson on April 30, 2010 ·
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Shantanu Narayen, president and chief executive officer of Adobe has responded to Steve Jobs‘ article which ironically claimed that Adobe do not develop open platforms. Narayen spends most of the interview plugging Creative Suite 5, but he does address a few of the points raised by Jobs’ and claims this has “nothing to do with technology”. This is in an [...]
Posted by Calvin Robinson on April 30, 2010 ·
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Steve Jobs has released a statement clarifying his opinion on Adobe’s Flash platform and it’s place on the web / mobile:
Apple has a long relationship with Adobe. In fact, we met Adobe’s founders when they were in their proverbial garage. Apple was their first big customer, adopting their Postscript language for our new Laserwriter printer. Apple invested in Adobe [...]
Posted by A Ocean on March 11, 2010 ·
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HP began to brag about the ability of its forthcoming tablet pc to run Adobe Flash content, a feature which the iPhone never did and iPad will not do. Though HP did not mention the iPad specifically by name, its choice of words and the specific promotion of Flash make it clear that the company is attacking Apple’s iPad and displaying what will HP’s Slate Tablet [...]