Technologizer

The Myth of Platform-Independent Applications

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

At Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference in Los Angeles this morning, Seesmic announced that its Seesmic Desktop, a popular tool among Twitter power users, is coming to Windows. Finally! Um, hasn’t Seemsic run on Windows all along? Well, yes, but that’s because it’ s written in Adobe AIR, an application platform that lets programmers write Flash applications [...]

5Words: Want iPhone Flash? Blame Apple!

Monday, November 2, 2009

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It’s Flash on the iPhone (Well, Sort of)

Monday, October 5, 2009

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The iPhone may be the only major smartphone in the known universe that’s unlikely to get Adobe’s Flash Player anytime soon, but there is a bit of iPhone/Flash news today. At Adobe’s MAX conference in Los Angeles, the company announced that Flash Professional CS5, the next upgrade to the Flash developer package, will be able [...]

5Words for May 12th, 2009

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

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I’m about to visit Google… ViewSonic: from displays to smartphones. Unhappy laptop owners sue Nvidia. Adobe helps media player builders. A Moto G1 from T-Mobile? Twitter: bigger than NYT, WSJ. Help! My iPhone is overheating. Intel’s laptop and netbook roadmap. Why is Microsoft raising money? Microsoft tweets about Zune phone? Apple nixes religious humor app. Sorry you got a Kindle?

5Words for April 20th, 2009

Monday, April 20, 2009

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Wow, Oracle will own Java… Larry Ellison is buying Sun. Adobe puts Flash on TVs. The post-Windows era begins. TiVo to sell user data. YouTube’s new comment filtering system. Toshiba’s netbook starts at $600. iPhone refurbs: a good deal. Apple leads in customer experience. A review of iPhone Quickoffice. Microsoft gets $15 per netbook.

“Whatever Happened to…?”

Thursday, March 26, 2009

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Old computer products, like old soldiers, never die. They stay on the market–even though they haven’t been updated in eons. Or their names get slapped on new products–available only outside the U.S. Or obsessive fans refuse to accept that they’re obsolete–long after the rest of the world has moved on. For this story–which I hereby dedicate [...]

Silverlight vs. Flash: The Winner is…Consumers!

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

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At Microsoft’s MIX conference today, the company Silverlight 3.0, a new version of its rich-media Web plug-in, that includes new multimedia capabilities that aim to it to parity with Adobe Flash, it can now run applications offline as well, as Adobe’a AIR can. Adobe will doubtlessly respond by improving both Flash and AIR, continuing its [...]

Full-Fledged Flash on Smartphones. Most of Them, Anyhow…

Monday, February 16, 2009

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It’s tempting to crack a joke about “Skip Intro” coming soon to a smartphone near you. But seriously, this is good news: Here at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Adobe is announcing that it plans to bring Flash Player to phones running the Windows Mobile, Android, and Symbian Series 60 operating systems, as well as [...]

Microsoft Shoots Back at Adobe Over Silverlight

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

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Adobe CFO Mark Garrett seems to think that Silverlight is “fizzling,” but Microsoft begs to differ. The exec’s comments came as part of a broader talk on Adobe’s business at the homas Weisel Partners Technology & Telecom Conference being held this week in San Francisco. Garrett’s contention is that while Silverlight may have launched strong, demand [...]

How to Produce Great Web Video in a Whole Lot Less Time

Friday, December 5, 2008

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[David Spark (@dspark) is a veteran tech journalist and the founder of Spark Media Solutions, a storytelling production company that specializes in live event production. He also blogs and does a daily radio report for Green 960 in San Francisco at Spark Minute.] Ten years ago when I worked at ZDTV (later to become TechTV) I [...]

Adobe Releases Flash Player 10

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

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Adobe on Wednesday shipped its latest update to what has now become nearly the de-facto standard for multimedia on the web, Flash Player 10. One of the most noticeable enhancements here would be 3D support, which would add a whole new layer of interactivity to Flash-enabled applications. Using 3D would be easy, Adobe says — it [...]

Six Burning Questions About Flash on the iPhone

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

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It may be the single biggest thing on the iPhone to-do list that’s not completely under Apple’s control: getting Adobe’s Flash working on the thing. Yes, there are cynics,lovers of lightweight surfing, and haters of animated intros who will contend that the iPhone is better without Flash. But anyone who’s ever tried to visit a [...]