New info released from The Nielsen Company showing purchase intent for the younger crowd (6 to 12 and 13+). Interesting intel, showing the iPad as the number one most wanted product for the 6 to 12 year old group. What this writer found interesting was where the iPhone fell in relationship to other smartphones and… [Read more…]
October 30, 2010
(NYT) Microsoft said on Friday that it was buying Canesta, a small Silicon Valley company that specializes in gesture-recognition technology. Interest in this technology has surged because it lets people control computers and other devices through hand movements and other bodily gyrations, in similar fashion to the systems depicted in futuristic films like “Minority Report.”… [Read more…]
October 21, 2010
(WSJ) Apple Inc. moved to infuse its Macintosh computers with popular features from its newer iPhones and iPads, including a new online store for Mac applications. The company also introduced a restyled version of its ultrathin MacBook Air notebook. Like the iPhone, the new notebook uses chips known as flash memory rather than a disk drive… [Read more…]
October 11, 2010
HTML5 is currently under development, as the next major revision of the HTML standard. Like its immediate predecessors, HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.1, HTML5 is a standard for structuring and presenting content on the World Wide Web. The new standard incorporates features like video playback and drag-and-drop that have been previously dependent on third-party browser plug-ins such as Adobe Flash and Microsoft… [Read more…]
October 8, 2010
Last night, the first annual WAMM (Wireless And Mobile Media) awards were held in Atlanta at the AT&T campus. Siteminis Mobile Solution platform was named as a finalist along side titans in the industry Apple, Google, Microsoft and RIM in the category Best Development Tools or Platform. Although the balloting was tight, Microsoft tied with… [Read more…]
October 8, 2010
A couple of years ago Microsoft was looking hard at Adobe, but things just didn’t work out. Oh how the times are a’changin! With the rift between Apple and Adobe (see Steve Jobs article about Adobe on Mobile redirect Archives), it seems that the timing (and the government) might be more flexible this time around.… [Read more…]
October 7, 2010
IDG News Service – Intel is developing a tool that will make it easier for developers to port iPhone applications to Intel-based smartphones, tablets and other devices, a company executive said Tuesday. Most smartphones and tablets today run on Arm-based processors, so developers tend to write mobile applications first for the Arm architecture. By making… [Read more…]
September 22, 2010
Whoever discounts Microsoft in the mobile space will probably be wrong. kind of like those that thought Dewey won over Truman in the US presidential election of 1948. The New York Times declared, “Thomas E. Dewey’s Election as President is a Foregone Conclusion.” Top pollsters predicted a Dewey win, as did leading national political writers. … [Read more…]
July 29, 2010
Computerworld- Why is it that Google thrives in the Internet-connected and mobile world, while Microsoft still can’t find success? A look at the fates of Microsoft’s failed Kin phone and thriving phones based on Google’s Android operating system provides some insight. Interestingly, the Kin and Android have their roots in technology created by the same… [Read more…]
November 24, 2010
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