iPhone OS 4 gets new controls, Apple antitrust, iPhone iPod touch user’s tops in downloads
New features of the iPhone OS 4.0 have surfaced. The iPhone will get new media controls and file sharing capabilities among other things. Apple is facing a possibility of an antitrust investigation by either the DOJ or the FTC. The charges have allegedly come from Adobe by the Flash debacle. NPD Group has issued a [...]
New Google Chrome betas now available
The new batch of Google Chrome betas has just been released for Linux, Mac and Windows platforms, featuring claims that they offer major leaps in terms of performance. All three will sport JavaScript engines that run up to 35% faster in benchmarks like SunSpider. Apart from that, the beta releases are touted to double or [...]
Is Apple Considering Changing The iPhone SDK To Avoid An Antitrust Case?
Adobe’s disappointment with Apple by the terms of its iPhone SDK has been quite obvious, and the whole issue has put Apple in the spotlight, with a possible FTC antitrust exploration looming. That being said, word is going around that Apple could avoid a possible examination by changing the terms of its iPhone 4.0 SDK [...]
Adobe Giving Employees Android-powered Phones With Flash
Looks like Google isn’t the only company that likes to give its employees free Android-powered cell phones, as reports are in that Adobe is plus preparing to give its employees Android-powered cell phones. that is probably related to the upcoming release of Flash 10.1 for Android devices, as well as the recent disagreement with Apple [...]
Adobe Releases Flash For Mac Beta With GPU Acceleration
Adobe has just released Gala, the first version of Flash for the Mac that supports GPU-based hardware acceleration, taking advantage of OS X 10.6.3’s hardware video decoding API, pushing the task of decoding H.264 videos to the graphics chipset rather than the main processor, easing the strain on the system and helping to preserve battery [...]
Hardware acceleration for Flash is a go in Mac OS X 10.6.3
Just when you thought that Apple and Adobe could not get along, we have word from a discovered technical document that points toward a new Video Decode Acceleration framework within Mac OS X 10.6.3. In layman’s terms, that framework will offer developers with low-level access to the following GPUs – NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, GeForce 320M [...]
Bluetooth Raisin health monitor clears FDA, Adobe scraps Apple Flash, friction mount for iPhone unveiled
A new health care monitor that can watch a user’s heart rate, activity, and body position has cleared the FDA called the Raisin. The device connects via Bluetooth to apps on the iPhone and other smartphones. Adobe has announced that it has stopped working on bringing Flash to the iPhone. Adobe is instead focusing on [...]