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On2 acquires Hantro Products helping Flash Video on devices: Yesterday On2, the company that powers the VP6 codec that is leveraged in Flash Video, announced the acquisition of Hantro Products. Hantro is based in Finland and specializes in video players for mobile devices. According to the press release, Hantro's customers include Nokia, Freescale, LSI, Vimicro, Sanyo, and others.All of...; Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Online Video, On2, Mobile-Web, Flash, Adobe; Blog posts 2007-05-22
Project Orbit launches, puts OpenLaszlo on devices: Lost in some of the hoopla last week of JavaFX was that Sun launched Project Orbit, a runtime for OpenLaszlo that takes the DHTML from OpenLaszlo 4.0 and makes it available to Java ME devices. More information is available on the OpenLaszlo Project Blog as well as the official page...; Tags: Java, Mobile-Web, OpenLaszlo, Rich Internet Applications; Blog posts 2007-05-15
Adobe's Device Central makes rich mobile development easy: With so much media push during the CS3 release this week, it may have been easy to miss the announcement for Adobes Device Central, an application and social community aimed at making the process for mobile development smoother. Developing mobile applications has been traditionally very difficult. Working with the variety...; Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Mobile-Web, Flash, Device Central, Adobe; Blog posts 2007-03-31
Adobe's expanding mobile world: I had a call today with Adobe to talk about their mobile announcements and get a little clarification about what Flash Lite 3 is going to be. I had to wake up at the ridiculous time of 8:00 in the morning, but it was worth it ;). I posted yesterday...; Tags: Adobe, Mobile-Web, Rich Internet Applications; Blog posts 2007-02-13
Flash video coming to mobile devices with Flash Lite 3: Some interesting news this week around video on mobile phones. Thanks to John Dowdell, I saw a press release went out that announced a new version of Flash Lite, Adobes Flash technology for devices, will be supporting Flash video. The details in the press release are kind of sketchy, but...; Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Adobe, Flash, Mobile-Web, Online Video, Flash Video, On2 Technologies; Blog posts 2007-02-11

Samsung's Flash based iPhone killer: I just caught this on Tux:Tops, but it looks like Samsung is coming out with an iPhone killer that runs Flash as the user interface. Akihabara News in Korea has the main info as well as some beautiful screenshots. The phone is the Samsung Ultra Smart F700 and it...; Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Flash, Mobile-Web, iPhone, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.; Blog posts 2007-02-08
Will the iPhone legitimize Ajax applications?: I stopped to read a post by Raju Vegesna about the iPhones impact on web applications like Zoho (See, Techmeme sponsorships work). In it, Raju talks about how hes excited by the prospect of a "full fledged browser" on a mobile device: I was particularly excited about...; Tags: AJAX, Ajax Application, Apple iPhone, mobile marketing; Blog posts 2007-01-16
Microsoft's A.U.R.A. project - information at your fingertips: Normally a device running on a mobile phone that uses a mobile web browser as its primary delivery method wouldnt fall into the realm of things I cover. But Microsoft sent me a Smartphone to play with (I didnt keep it, it was just a review phone) and so that...; Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Mobile-Web, Aura, A.U.R.A.; Blog posts 2007-01-15
Rich Internet Applications at CES: Im not at CES and I wasnt anticipating much in the way of Rich Internet Application news to come out of it so I havent been rabidly following it today but a couple of things caught my eye that I thought you might be interested in. The first is...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., mobile marketing, server, Windows Home Server, Yahoo! Inc.; Blog posts 2007-01-08
Universal Desktop Daily - Tuesday, November 14, 2006: A few random items from the past few days. Im skipping the graphic for tonight because Im in a hurry, but it will be back tomorrow. Thomas Nicholls pointed me to this walkthrough to get set up using OpenLaszlo over on XML.com. Its a pretty thorough step-by-step and...; Tags: Instant messaging, Blogging, Adobe Connect, mobile-Web; Blog posts 2006-11-14

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Google's $10M, no, $100M Android Challenge: So does Google have anything up its sleeve, when it comes to the Android mobile communications platform? It better have. Because expectations keep getting lowered. And Apple keeps raising the ante, at least in getting attention for new mobile applications. According to a Forbes.com...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, Google Inc., Phone, Mobile, Android, Advertising & Promotion, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld; Blog posts 2008-07-24
Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soon: I listened to the Black Hat webcast today to grab as much info as I could on this subject. The biggest thing that I heard from the whole talk is that the patch fixes things to a reasonable point, but that long-term, there will have to be more work...; Tags: CERT, DNS Server, Server, Kaminsky, Dan, Patches, Domain Names, Security, Internet, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-07-24
Samsung INNOV8 S60 mobile device with 8 megapixel camera revealed: The Nokia N96 was revealed back in January and should be hitting the streets in the next couple of months. I guess I haven't been following the S60 rumors closely enough lately and was a bit caught off guard by the post that Ricky made regarding the Samsung i8510INNOV8 S60...; Tags: Mobile, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Mobile Device, Camera, 3G, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Matthew Miller; Blog posts 2008-07-24
Microsoft buys DATAllegro: Microsoft on Thursday said that it will acquire DATAllegro, which makes data warehouse appliances. The purchase is expected to "extend the capabilities of Microsoft's mission critical platform," according to a statement. DATAllegro will ride shotgun with other software to manage data and give the software giant one...; Tags: Data Warehouse, Server, Microsoft Corp., DATAllegro, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-24
Microsoft confirms IE 8 will ship this year: Microsoft Senior Vice President of Online Services and Windows, Bill Veghte, just told attendees that Microsoft will release the final version of Internet Explorer IE 8 to the Web "later this year." by Mary Jo Foley; Tags: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web Browsers, Internet, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-07-24
Speculation over possible Skype backdoor: There's growing speculation coming out of Europe that there's a backdoor in Skype that allows remote eavesdropping of telephone conversations. A report in the reputable Heise Online says the issue was discussed at a meeting with ISPs last month where high-ranking officials at the Austrian interior...; Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Telecom & Utilities, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Ryan Naraine; Blog posts 2008-07-24
Intel launches new chip for consumer electronics: In its latest bid to expand beyond PCs and servers into industrial and consumer electronics applications, Intel has announced a new family of embedded processors. These chips are not based on the Atom processor already used in netbooks and Mobile Internet Devices MIDs--those versions won't arrive until...; Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics, Intel Corp., Chip, Atom, SoCs, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Processors, Hardware, Networking, Components, John Morris; Blog posts 2008-07-24
Weak US dollar starts to drive up mobile software prices: I am working on a full review of the excellent SoftMaker Office 2008 for Pocket PC and just received a note from the company that has an effect on pricing for U.S. buyers. Due to the fact that SoftMaker is a German company dealing in Euros, the significant loss in...; Tags: U.S., Mobile, Reduction, Pricing Strategy, SoftMaker Office 2008, Pocket PC, Pricing, Marketing Research, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Hardware, Marketing, Software, Matthew Miller; Blog posts 2008-07-24
How SlideRocket plans to make money: Unlike so many misguided Web 2.0 startups, SlideRocket is going to ask its users to pay to use its Flex-based on-demand presentation application, and it plans a potentially lucrative add-on marketplace too. I got an exclusive sneak preview of its pricing plans. by Phil Wainewright; Tags: Asset, Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Billing, Analytics, Aria Systems Inc., SlideRocket, Mitch Grasso, Web 2.0, Software As A Service (SaaS), Financial Planning, Internet, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-07-24
Google creates a new market and wreaks havoc on another: When they first announced it, I was certain Knol was simply a way for Google steal some of the attention away from Wikia search -- and I'm still sure that's what was actually happening. Google doesn't normally pre-announce applications months in advance. After a long wait, Google finally...; Tags: Google Inc., Wikipedia, Knol, Wiki, Online Communications, Garett Rogers; Blog posts 2008-07-24