Though recently Apple chief executive Steve Jobs slams Flash by saying at Apple’s shareholder meeting that the version of Flash for desktops and notebooks "performs too slow to be useful" on the iPhone, and the mobile version of Flash "is not capable of being used with the Web." But good news for Adobe, Microsoft just announced that in addition to its own Silverlight multimedia technology, Microsoft will support Adobe’s competing Flash technology on Windows Mobile phones. Since already 450 million Flash-enabled devices out there and Flash is used to display the majority of online video, including that on YouTube, Adobe actually have to worry …
Apple officially announced the long awaited iPhone 2.0 software, which is due to be released this June, but a beta release is already available for download from iPhone DevCenter. The beta version will include besides Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync support and Cisco IPsec VPN for encrypted access to private corporate networks, the highly awaited iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK). This SDK will give freedom to any developers to create native applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Prior to this SDK release iPhone application development has been limited to only applications that can run under Safari browser. Did I even have to mention …
Mobile World Congress in Barcelona has been full of surprises and innovations, every top notch companies were out there showing off what’s under their sleeve. Adobe systems didn’t hold back either, this week they launched two new mobile applications, Flash Home and Flash Cast 2, designed for providers that want to enhance their products with rich mobile content. Flash Home is a mobile application for creating customizable home screens and wallpapers using live data services. The combination gives users a more personalized mobile experience, said Adobe. For example, instead of an idle home screen, users would get instant access to more elaborate content branded …
While Sony Ericsson closing a partnership with Microsoft to run Windows mobile on their phones, some of the biggest mobile brand decided to follow Google’s path to open source the Mobile OS. The world’s second largest mobile phone maker Samsung and LG Electronics showed new phones using free Linux software from Mobile Linux foundation, which said in total 18 phones from seven vendors, would use its software. This isn’t first time for Samsung using Linux. They used Linux in its phones in 2006, launched new SGH-i800 phone model running on LiMo software at the Mobile World Congress trade show, while LG Electronics showed a prototype phone LG LiMo. …
Mobile giant Nokia has begun its second phase on handheld gaming dominance, with the launch of the N-Gage platform dedicated for gaming only. The company has shifted its approach, from focusing on a dedicated games system to titles which can be played on a range of Nokia devices. The N-Gage “First Access” process has been kick-started with N81 owners getting a preview of the download.
This N-Gage First Access lets N81 owners download the pre-release version of the N-Gage application tryout and buy selected N-Gage games. Other N-Gage compatible devices will be added to the service in near future. N-Gage has the support of …
Acquired in a management buyout in 1987, Go North East is the founding company of the Go-Ahead Group. Go North East is now the largest bus operator in the North East of England. Now bus passengers using Go North East are now able to order and receive tickets by mobile phone, very fancy right? Well North East bus giant claims its scheme of selling bus tickets by mobile phone is first in UK. Launched this week following a trial late last year, the service, dubbed txt2go, enables passenger to text 60060 to receive their digital ticket in a matter of minutes. In …
My apologies for long blogging holidays, well not that it’s a big matter J-but still. Let’s start the year with some steered but not shaken news. In this fast paced technology era, we have seen innovation of durability side by side with sophistication. But one major industry, i.e. Mobile manufacturers seems to be missing that durability part all along. A high number of mobile phones are ruined when a careless owner drops it down the toilet, spills drink on it or simply take a bit shower in the rain with his/her mobile phone-hack I ruined two of my phone same way. Fortunately, some scientists in United Kingdom seem to be aware of this very common yet forgotten issue …
Let’s begin this with a very simple question, what is the most fundamental means of interaction with a physical object? Undeniably the answer would be “Touch” or “Grab”. Microsoft re-introduced that very basic method of interaction recently at the D: All Things Digital conference in Carlsbad, California, with the launch of Surface.
Six years ago Stevie Bathieche and Andy Wilson of Microsoft had a concept to mix virtual and physical worlds to bring a rich interactive experience. Half Dozen years later, Microsoft today revealed its plans for Microsoft Surface, the first product of …
I never expected ASUS to came up stuff like Z801, come on guys think ASUS making phones, not just any phone extremely cool phone like Z801. Asus have announced the new Asus Z801, a super cool looking mobile phone with chess-board styled phone keys and Sapphire Quartz mirrored surface. No matter how old style is the model name is, it looks glorious, and comes with 2 megapixel camera, 260k color QVGA screen, MP3 player, tri-band connectivity, A2DP, and, er, “wisdom voice control” (at least, that’s what the translation tells me!) Presumably only the wise can control a phone as good looking as this! Adding to the sense of coolness is the classic analogue watch display on …
When whole media, analysts and net were expecting Apple to release there magic device “iPhone”,Linksys launched A net phone called the iPhone. There has been intense speculation about Apple entering the mobile market for the last few months and Apple was expected to launch this device just a week later. Well most talked about “iPhone” is out, but the difference is instead of Apple the brand is Linksys, a Division of Cisco Systems. The wireless iPhone allows users to make free or low-cost internet phone calls using the Skype service. It joins a growing market of phones which use wi-fi to make telephone calls instead of traditional mobile networks. The phones can connect to wi-fi networks – which are …