In a move that was a long time coming and not terribly surprising, Adobe announced today that they will drop all future development of Flash player on mobile devices. Instead Adobe will put most of its energy behind HTML5. During the past year, Adobe has steadily moved towards embracing HTML5 and refocusing its efforts on continuing to create the world’s best design tools and less...
Recently new HP CEO Meg Whitman announced that the company will keep Personal Systems Group as a part of HP’s core, undoing the decision that caused great consternation about the technology giant’s future and essentially led to former-CEO Leo Apotheker’s ouster and Whitman getting the job in the first place. What’s a little disappointing is that it looks like...
For all of those who demonize Apple as closed, remember this and WebKit. The code is available under an Apache license. The Apple Lossless Audio Codec project contains the sources for the ALAC encoder and decoder. Also included is an example command line utility, called alacconvert, to read and write audio data to/from Core Audio Format (CAF) and WAVE files. A description of a...
In a somewhat surprising announcement one the first day of their MAX 2011, Adobe Systems announced that it was acquiring Nitobi Systems, the creator of PhoneGap. At Ness we’re big supporters of PhoneGap and have used it for clients in some cases, so we’re happy to see this deal happen (not at happy as the Nitobi guys are ) as we think it will lead to more enhancements to an already...
That’s the opening statement from an Amtrak commercial that I saw last night (at least it was new to me). As a consumer of travel it’s a sentiment that resonated with me very strongly. Pretty well executed ad overall, although the point about the ‘shoes’ is probably too veiled a reference to TSA security for the average viewer to catch. But moving right along. As a participant...
In case you were at the beach, shaken up by an earthquake or lost power during a hurricane this summer (I did all three in the past month) and somehow missed our webinar on mobile strategy, fear not. We captured the whole thing for you watch on YouTube. In the webinar, Jean-Noel Lau Keng of Amadeus and I cover The state of the mobile industry (for those of you looking for stats) Common...
The DOJ deciding to challenge the AT&T/T-Mobile merger is a significant announcement but not necessarily surprising. The part of the argument that I buy is that ”AT&T’s elimination of T-Mobile as an independent, low- priced rival would remove a significant competitive force from the market.” Yes, T-Mobile is cheap, but there are even lower cost options like MetroPCS,...
Join me for a webcast on August 11 at Noon ET/9am PT/6pm CET with our client Amadeus to talk about the latest trends in mobile development! Mobile technology is the center of customer interaction for competitive businesses today; spurred by the always-connected customer, mobile has become the primary channel for business and consumer communication. While pushing applications to mobile...
Well you may notice the new headline. Trying to find 10 stories that were really interesting was sometimes a challenge. And sometimes it made it hard to then find one or two others to give a little more perspective on. So I’m shrinking the list. Here we go: I’m not sure why I’m so riveted by the patent fights between Oracle and Google over Java and Apple v. Samsung and...