by Harry McCracken, Oct 6, 2009
Google’s Android phone OS may have gotten off to a slower start than I’d have expected, but it’s quickly making up for lost time. Today’s news: Google and Verizon Wireless are working together directly to design new Android phones, the first of which will be unveiled in “the next few weeks.” They’ll come with Google Voice. The proof will be in the pudding phones, but it’s good news for consumers that the nation’s largest wireless carrier will be getting Android phones. It’s good news for Verizon, too–the company’s signature smartphone, the BlackBerry Storm, didn’t turn out to be a particularly formidable iPhone rival, and the Google partnership gives Verizon multiple additional shots at getting phones that are cool enough to grab mindshare and marketshare away from AT&T and Apple. (We still have no idea whether Verizon will get the iPhone anytime soon.)
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Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Adobe iPhone Fix Still Has Flaws, Say Developers
By Ben Charny 9/6/09
Adobe Systems Inc. took a step forward this week in its effort to adapt its popular Flash media player to the Apple Inc. iPhone. But several key steps remain before Adobe will finally resolve its long standoff with Apple, say software executives. Adobe and Apple for the last two years have been at loggerheads over how to deploy Flash for the iPhone, one of the few smartphones that doesn't work with the media player. On Monday, things seemed to shift dramatically when San Jose, Calif., Adobe said its latest Flash software lets software companies create Flash-based apps for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. Adobe executives heralded the move as opening up the iPhone to Flash. But software executives on Tuesday disagreed, saying the latest move barely solves half the iPhone-related problems the company faces. In particular, even with the new developments, iPhones still won't be able to successfully download the estimated 80%-to-90% of Web pages laden with Flash-based graphics, say critics. "Adobe's not putting Flash into the iPhone, no matter how hard you try to read between the lines," said Steve Sheraton, chief executive of Las Vegas-based iPhone software developer Hottrix. "If it sounds too flashy to be true, it probably is." This could be nettlesome for Apple because most smartphone makers have adopted Flash. Nokia Corp. and HTC Corp. smartphones already support Flash. More powerful Flash support for experiencing "virtually all Flash technology based Web content wherever they are" is coming soon to smartphones based on operating systems from Nokia, Google Inc., Research in Motion and Microsoft Corp., Adobe said this week.
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Adobe Systems Inc. took a step forward this week in its effort to adapt its popular Flash media player to the Apple Inc. iPhone. But several key steps remain before Adobe will finally resolve its long standoff with Apple, say software executives. Adobe and Apple for the last two years have been at loggerheads over how to deploy Flash for the iPhone, one of the few smartphones that doesn't work with the media player. On Monday, things seemed to shift dramatically when San Jose, Calif., Adobe said its latest Flash software lets software companies create Flash-based apps for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. Adobe executives heralded the move as opening up the iPhone to Flash. But software executives on Tuesday disagreed, saying the latest move barely solves half the iPhone-related problems the company faces. In particular, even with the new developments, iPhones still won't be able to successfully download the estimated 80%-to-90% of Web pages laden with Flash-based graphics, say critics. "Adobe's not putting Flash into the iPhone, no matter how hard you try to read between the lines," said Steve Sheraton, chief executive of Las Vegas-based iPhone software developer Hottrix. "If it sounds too flashy to be true, it probably is." This could be nettlesome for Apple because most smartphone makers have adopted Flash. Nokia Corp. and HTC Corp. smartphones already support Flash. More powerful Flash support for experiencing "virtually all Flash technology based Web content wherever they are" is coming soon to smartphones based on operating systems from Nokia, Google Inc., Research in Motion and Microsoft Corp., Adobe said this week.
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Still Any "Mac Bigots?" Study Finds Windows PCs In Mac Homes
By David Coursey, October 06, 2009
There used to be something no self-respecting Mac owner would do: Admit to owning a Windows PC. Now, a whopping 85 percent of Mac owners 'fess up. What happened to Windows-hating Mac users? I suppose they still exist, but as Macintosh has grown in market share, true devotees seem harder to find. Obviously, society is in decline. According to NPD Group's "2009 Household Penetration Study," released yesterday: 12 percent of U.S. computer-owning households now own a Mac, up from 9 percent in 2008. Nearly 85 percent of Mac households also own a Windows-based PC. ? ? Two-thirds of Apple households own three or more computers. Only 39 percent Windows PC households how three or more computers. Mac owners are also more mobile, with 72 percent owning a notebook, compared with 60 percent of Windows PC households. The average Mac household owns twice as many consumer electronics devices as the average computer-owning household: 48 to 24. Does it surprise anyone that Mac households also have larger incomes? While 36 percent of Mac owners report household incomes greater than $100,000, only 21 percent of total households make the same claim.
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There used to be something no self-respecting Mac owner would do: Admit to owning a Windows PC. Now, a whopping 85 percent of Mac owners 'fess up. What happened to Windows-hating Mac users? I suppose they still exist, but as Macintosh has grown in market share, true devotees seem harder to find. Obviously, society is in decline. According to NPD Group's "2009 Household Penetration Study," released yesterday: 12 percent of U.S. computer-owning households now own a Mac, up from 9 percent in 2008. Nearly 85 percent of Mac households also own a Windows-based PC. ? ? Two-thirds of Apple households own three or more computers. Only 39 percent Windows PC households how three or more computers. Mac owners are also more mobile, with 72 percent owning a notebook, compared with 60 percent of Windows PC households. The average Mac household owns twice as many consumer electronics devices as the average computer-owning household: 48 to 24. Does it surprise anyone that Mac households also have larger incomes? While 36 percent of Mac owners report household incomes greater than $100,000, only 21 percent of total households make the same claim.
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Dual Screen Netbook Concept shown off
By Sean Kalinich 9/6/09
After showing you the G-Screen dual display laptop we thought you would be interested in seen the lower end side of this concept. Like say, a netbook with sliding displays. The odd looking contraption is from Kohjinsha and it is a netbook featuring two 10.1 inch displays. But it is not just the dual displays that make this net”Thing” interesting to look at and read about. No, it is the fact that they are not using an Intel Atom under the hood. Gasp, Kohjinsha is daring to give an AMD Athlon Neo MV-40 CPU a try. No word on the version of the Radeon mobile GPU that will be used but it had better pack a little power behind it. The rest of the specifications are very netbook, 160GB HDD, 1GB RAM… you know the drill.
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After showing you the G-Screen dual display laptop we thought you would be interested in seen the lower end side of this concept. Like say, a netbook with sliding displays. The odd looking contraption is from Kohjinsha and it is a netbook featuring two 10.1 inch displays. But it is not just the dual displays that make this net”Thing” interesting to look at and read about. No, it is the fact that they are not using an Intel Atom under the hood. Gasp, Kohjinsha is daring to give an AMD Athlon Neo MV-40 CPU a try. No word on the version of the Radeon mobile GPU that will be used but it had better pack a little power behind it. The rest of the specifications are very netbook, 160GB HDD, 1GB RAM… you know the drill.
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