Remember the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)? Before smartphones, it seemed as though everyone was building mobile …
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Mobile Flash Abandoned for HTML5: Adobe Surrenders, Apple Wins?
You can look at this one of two ways: Steve Jobs was right on the money about Adobe Flash, or Steve Jobs shrewdly worked to ensure he’d be right about Adobe’s mobile multimedia plugin by using Apple’s leverage to put the tool in a stranglehold. However you view it, it’s death seems all but assured: Adobe’s reportedly killing mobile …
Google Quietly Drops Elegant Google Music Web App
Whoa-hoa-hoa. Google quietly released its HTML 5-optimized Google Music web app a few moments ago on Twitter. And—surprise, surprise—it’s a thing of beauty, dare I say a bit Android-feeling.
It has a rich, responsive UI that allows users to access their Google Music accounts from iDevices and it’s surprisingly fast and easy to …
Amazon, Walmart and Others Build Web Apps to Sidestep Apple Rules
And so it begins.
Let’s jump in the Wayback Machine and set our coordinates for June 11, 2007. Apple had just announced something called the “iPhone” and with it, an “innovative new way to create applications” for the device.
The premise was simple: In lieu of an actual app store, Apple urged developers to “create Web 2.0 …
Mozilla Firefox 4 Hits The Streets Today
Internet Explorer 9 may have gotten all of the attention a few weeks ago, but let the browser wars begin because the final release of Firefox 4 makes its appearance today.
That’s right – it’s no longer in beta. The final build was available yesterday through Mozilla’s FTP servers, but the folks over there aren’t keen on …
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Adobe Helps Turn Flash into HTML5, Targets Apple Devices
This article has been cross-posted from our partner site, Technologizer.
Flash vs. HTML5. HTML5 vs. Flash. Whatever your take on the respective merits of the two high-profile technologies for creating splashy Web content, you can’t deny that the rivalry between Adobe’s venerable Flash and the assortment of evolving open-source …
Facebook Names Mobile The Number One Priority in 2011
Facebook had their own pseudo-State of the Union at the Inside Social Apps conference in San Francisco, Calif. where they discussed the biggest concerns and changes for the company. Number one on their list was improving mobile functionality according to Chief Technical Officer Bret Taylor. More than 200 million people are accessing …
Daily Dose
Tuesday, November 2, 2010 –
Quote To Live By:
“A Mario Brother never says ‘can’t’, Luigi!” – Mario from The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3
Up Front:
Steve Jobs Teases Updated, 64-Final Cut Studio [9 to 5 Mac]
Gadgets:
All These Terrorist Scares Are Putting In-Flight Wi-Fi At Risk [Gizmodo]
First official HTML5 tests topped …
Google Chrome Experiments With The Wilderness Downtown
It’s about time that someone created a film that enhanced your watching-videos-at-work experience.
Chris Milk’s The Wilderness Downtown is more than just a music video for the Arcade Fire’s “We Used to Wait.” The HTML 5 project — which can only be viewed on Google Chrome — turns your whole computer screen into an interactive …
New YouTube Mobile Site Handles HTML5 Quite Nicely
Goodbye, YouTube apps on my iPhone and Android devices. The fine folks at YouTube have put together a nicely revamped mobile site at m.youtube.com that works with a fair amount of smartphones, leveraging HTML5 videos instead of Flash videos.
The new mobile site is currently accessible on iPhones and Android phones and, according to a …
Adobe Goes After Apple In New Ad Campaign
Depending on the sites that you frequent today or the newspapers you read, you might see a few ads from Adobe professing their love of Apple and Choice. The ongoing feud between Adobe and Apple over Flash vs HTML5 will go on for some time, but Adobe is making it clear that Apple and Steve Jobs have made a mistake in shutting them out …
iPad Content Roundup pt. 2
Let me apologize in advance for our moderately heavy iPad coverage, but this is what’s popular and actually worth talking about in tech right now.
Apple’s iPad goes on sale this Saturday and details on which apps will be in the App Store at launch are starting to trickle in.
(More on Techland: Hands-on With the Apple iPad …