Posts Tagged ‘RIA’

HTML5 & Flash, the two story technology

November 13th, 2011 Featured, Information Technology No Comments
The demise of Adobe Flash for mobile devices came as a surprise and reeling flash developers and mobile device vendors alike(source). Flash enjoyed almost unchallenged supremacy as multimedia platform since its macromedia days up until Apple’s iPhone came to life. Still now majority rich media application & Games on the web circumnavigate around Flash. Flash Player for smart phones was made available to handset manufacturers at the end of 2009 in order to achieve mobile platform dominance just as web. But unfortunately the rein of Flash is about to come to an end. Things started to fall apart for Adobe Flash, when Steve Jobs famously posted a note on Apple’s website calling Flash closed, unstable, and antiquated. Accusing Adobe of living in the past and not innovating to keep up with the mobile Web, he reason why Adobe Flash won’t be supported by iPhone & iPad. Nonetheless Adobe kept investing on Flash and managed to get Apple’s Mobile & Tablet market competitors as partners who are willing to support Flash on their device in order to get an edge over Apple. So things aren’t that bad for Flash, right? Support for all vendor’s mobile device minus one, even though Apple’s…
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AdSense for Games-what could be next?

October 8th, 2008 Web No Comments
Those who were making some handsome cash with AdSense referral, bad news for them is AdSense Referrals were retired at the end of August 2008. But while closing down one Goggle did open up to new dimension to publishers by starting to offer AdSense for feed. But hey there is more, Google just announced a public beta for AdSense for Games. Yes that’s right beta users of AdSense can display video ads, image ads, or text ads within online games to earn revenue. They’ll be able to show these ads in placements they define, such as interstitial frames before a game, after a level change, or when a game is over.  Sweet isn’t it? Hold on before you get carried away! In order to be eligible for beta testing "AdSense for games"-you must have 500,000 game plays/day and 80% of your traffic must be from the US and/or the UK. So now you know why heavy weight publishers like Konami, grab.com, Archade Town, HeavyGames and others are on board. This can be considered as a turning point to both Game advertising as well as for any Flash based RIA (Rich Internet Application) advertising. Reason: Practically this is the first time…
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Windows mobile phones will support Flash Lite

March 17th, 2008 Gadgets No Comments
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 a very little bit about iPhone. Now it’s even merrier since Microsoft will include flash support to windows mobile. Microsoft has licenced Adobe Flash Lite, the Flash Player runtime for mobile devices, so that Windows Mobile phone users can view Flash content in the Internet Explorer Mobile browser. Microsoft has also licenced the Adobe Reader LE software, so that Windows Mobile users will be able to view PDF documents. As smartphones become more and more common, people are starting to get fed up with the basic Web surfing experience offered by many phones. They want something…
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Adobe’s AIR, bridging online and offline world

February 25th, 2008 Information Technology No Comments
Adobe took an important step in merging desktop and Internet applications upon announcing the availability of AIR 1.0, a run-time module that provides a way of running "rich Internet applications" (RIAs) on the desktop. Since the release of the beta version of AIR, several organizations already adopted the technology; among them, NASDAQ Stock Market Inc, AOL, EBay and many others. I agree with most developers, that AIR will reduce download time due to the fact that the desktop is constantly being updated while connected to the Internet. A free download will allow users of Macs, PCs and, later this year, Linux machines to run any Air applications. Talking about interpretability, the word will get a whole new meaning on the web now. It’s about taking existing web applications and adding extra functionality whether you want to work offline or whether you want to access data on your disk. Adobe had and is still facing a challenging task – to spread wider in the predominantly Java/.NET enterprise world.  But they already made some serious achievement in this direction. The birth of AIR is pretty much the death of Java on the desktop, well at least some of e thinking that way…
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