Font maker Bitstream today released the next version of its Bolt mobile browser. Version 2.1 add tight integration with Facebook and support for HTML5 video. The Bolt browser uses Bitstream’s server-side rendering of web pages making it a full Webkit-based browser on feature phones. Read More »
Archive for May 2010
In linking with Google Android for a Chevy Volt mobile application, GM has taken an important step to adapt its OnStar service to the specific needs of electric vehicle drivers. Android could eventually take on a much larger role in connected vehicles. Read More »
Thin film startup MiaSole was once the posterchild of the over-hype of the CIGS solar world. Now its ramping up production, planning a new factory, developing next-gen solar shingles, and looking to hit a cost of fifty cents per watt for solar manufacturing. Read More »
After using Android 2.1 — and some custom ROMs — for the past five months, I’m impressed overall with Android 2.2, aka: Froyo. The user interface provides nice enhancements and the system is slightly faster. Here are some hands on thoughts from the past day. Read More »
Here are some interesting posts from around the ‘Net to catch up with over the weekend: Seth Godin: “The circles (no more strangers)” Six Revisions: “What is The Future of Web Development?” Mashable: “5 Surprising Social Media Business Success Stories” TheAppleBlog: “Your Mom Wants… Read More »
The SaaS model offers two distinct competitive advantages for software developers — massive economies of scale and sustainable profit streams –- over the traditional model. Yet astoundingly, many firms take the plunge into providing SaaS without understanding the underlying requirements necessary to ensure success. Read More »
I wrote recently that the time may be right for AWS to launch its own PaaS offering, if only to preempt any competitive threat from other providers’ increasingly business-friendly PaaS offerings. The time is indeed right, now that Google has introduced App Engine for Business. Read More »
Redbox President Mitch Lowe joins us for this week’s Five Questions With…, and describes his frustrations with the industry’s aversion to change as well as his abiding respect for the Hollywood studio system — including the works of actor Johnny Depp. Read More »
Salesforce.com and VMware recently unveiled a Java-focused platform-as-a-service offering, VMForce.com. Meanwhile, Microsoft has Azure, a PaaS offering focused on the .Net stack, and startups Heroku and Engine Yard both deliver Ruby-on-Rails cloud platforms. But who’s going to offer a PaaS for LAMP? Read More »
iPad owners have wanted a good inking solution for the iPad, but the capacitive digitizer isn’t designed for writing on the screen, as it will misinterpret strokes caused by the hand resting on the display. Penultimate now has palm rejection, the first such feature on the… Read More »
WebKit has gained astounding traction in the world of the mobile web; the open-source layout engine is at the heart of all but two mobile browsers. But it won’t be the unifying force in mobile data that some wishful thinkers have envisioned. Read More »
Google released Android 2.2 this week at its annual I/O conference. Froyo, as it’s been called, brings a number of improvements to the platform, chief among them performance gains across the board. This release is coupled with the Flash Player 10.1 beta for Android 2.2. Read More »
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