Adobe Chief Shantanu Narayen has said that the company is trying make flash working for iPhone, though, he asserted that it’s not a easy thing.
In an interview with Bloomberg media at the Davos, Switzerland event, Shantanu said “It’s a hard technical challenge, and that’s part of the reason Apple and Adobe are collaborating,” he says. “The ball is in our court. The onus is on us to deliver.”
In the mean time, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has maintained since nearly a year ago that the real obstacle is the nature of Flash itself.
While desktop Flash is too resource-heavy for the small processor and low memory of smartphones like the iPhone, Jobs has warned that Flash Lite is too feature-limited and doesn’t do many of the things users expect Flash to do — such as playing video on the web or showing complex animations on websites.
You’ve a chance to save the jet plane moving into the Hudson River.
Links are quickly being spread on the Internet of “Hero on the Hudson” - a game where you have to use your left and right arrow keys to land a jet onto the river.
This particular game is not offensive when people are clamoring for someone’s head, but it’s completely unnecessary.
The game is about as primitive as you can get, as many of the games are on Addictinggames.com. Of the 3,117 votes received, 75% give it a thumbs down.
Most of the comments below the game hit it on the head. It’s boring, stupid and offensive.
Nobody died or no serious injuries occurred when Flight 1549 had an emergency landing on the Hudson earlier this month.
The game is the latest in a chain of humorless acts that makes little sense to me. Stuff like this only perpetuates and sensationalizes similar schtick in the wake of tragic events.
TechCrunch founder Mike Arrington would be taking a break from his work. In an uncommonly personal post from Europe, Arrington reported Wednesday that he is going to take some time off and reconsider his future.
The decision, he said, was prompted by an encounter he had as he was leaving a tech conference Tuesday in Munich, Germany.
Arrington, whose Web site had more than 2.2 million unique visitors in December, according to comScore, is the major-domo for startup showcase events and hands out “Crunchie” awards for companies.
The incident, as Arrington portrays it, represented a culmination of harassment that has come with TechCrunch’s success in its business niche.
Of the more recent incident, Arrington declared: “I draw the line at being spat on. It’s one step away from something far more violent.”
Such harassment may be interpreted as a dubious validation for TechCrunch, a high-profile part of the nonstop dialogue in the business of digital technology.
President Barack Obama is allowed to keep his BlackBerry phone with him. Obama is a Self-confessed BlackBerry addict.
President George W. Bush was forced to give up using e-mail when he took charge, while President Bill Clinton sent just two e-mails during his administration.
There are also concerns that mobile devices such as BlackBerries, which contain built in GPS technology, could be hacked into, revealing the president’s location within a few feet.
But Obama may have pushed his Secret Service handlers’ technological patience far enough. Ambinder also reports that instant messaging in the White House will still be a definite no-no.
IT giant Microsoft announced Thursday it will cut up to 5,000 jobs in the next year and a half. It would be the 5.5% of its global workforce.
Microsoft will slash 1,400 positions immediately, with the rest of the cuts coming by June 2010.
The company said it will save about $1.5 billion in operating expenses and $700 million in 2009 capital expenditure.
Shares of the company fell 7% in early trading on the news.
Microsoft also announced second-quarter net income of $4.17 billion, down 11% from a year earlier
The software maker said sales of its Vista operating system slumped 8% on weak PC sales as well as a continued shift toward lower-priced laptop computers.
Since 1970, Japan has sent dozens of satellites into orbit, mostly on rockets built by other nations. But it has fallen behind China in the lucrative commercial satellite launching business.
Mitsubishi Heavy, which produces the H2A rocket, said it received an order from the Korea Aerospace Research Institute to launch its multipurpose Arirang 3 satellite during the fiscal year beginning April 2011. Still the price is not disclosed.
The H2A rocket was initially designed and built as a government project in which Mitsubishi Heavy took part. The rocket project has since been privatized as a business of Mitsubishi Heavy, now considered a vital part of Japan’s space program.
According to a report published BBC News, Laurence Painell, product manager at Microsoft “We didn’t quite anticipate the demand that we saw.”
he new operating system apparently is more attractive than its predecessor, the Windows Vista, as the new version requires lesser PC resources.
The unlimited download of Windows 7 Beta will last for two weeks, according to Microsoft.
Based on preliminary estimates, the CEA said, more than 110,000 people attended the conference last week in Las Vegas.
That’s far fewer than the 130,000 the group conservatively predicted for this year and 23 percent off the 141,150 who attended last year. And last year was down from the 143,695 who attended in 2007.
The report said that MySpace is a party for teenagers, Facebook is for a hangout for college students, and LinkedIn is a conference for working professionals.
The research group found that some 35% of online adults now have at least one profile on a social networking site, more than quadruple the amount that did in February 2005, when the figure was 8%.
Another surprising finding in Pew’s study is the prevalence of minority groups on social sites. The portion of African-American adults with an online social profile (48%) as well as non-white Hispanics (43%) both eclipse the portion of white adults on the site, just 31%.
