When I first heard about Intel’s Wireless Display technology after this year’s CES, I was intrigued. This technology, which is built into your laptop, lets you view the contents of your computer on your HDTV. All that’s required is a small adapter, the Netgear Push2TV, that […] Read more »
I was only just talking about how long its been since Adobe released a new major update to its flagship Creative Suite product with an imaging professional friend, and now there’s a sign that we won’t have to wait much longer for said update to arrive. […] Read more »
Adobe is at the Mobile World Congress to share the latest news about Flash 10.1 and to make some announcements about other happenings at the company. They will be talking Flash at MWC, and announcing a new AIR for smartphone along with other new things. Read more »
Brightcove is moving aggressively to help its customers take advantage of new mobile video capabilities that will be available on a wide variety of mobile devices when Flash Player 10.1 is released later this year. By extending support for the new Flash Player, Brightcove will make […] Read more »
I often wish the iPhone and iPod touch supported memory extension via external modules. It would make my old iPod touch much more useful, which I suppose is why Apple doesn’t allow it (it’s a good reason to buy a new one). Soon, you’ll be able […] Read more »
Good news for HTML5 proponents: MPEG LA has announced that it will extend its royalty-free license of the H.264 video streaming format for an additional five years. In doing so, the license holder has agreed not to charge for use of the near-ubiquitous H.264 encoding format […] Read more »
In techno-tourism terms, I’m fairly well-traveled. Mostly because I’ve visited the mecca of gadgetry, Japan, but I’ve also stopped at quite a few other places as well. During those travels, I’m on the look out for one thing in particular: Flash drives. Read more »
iPad Can’t Play Flash Video, But It May Not Matter; while Flash is present on nearly every Apple desktop and laptop computer, Apple has concerns over its vulnerability to viruses and other malware, as well as the way Flash-based content can voraciously consume battery life. (NY […] Read more »
Secondhand reports of Steve Jobs at a town hall meeting for Apple employees have the iconic CEO telling it like is about Flash, Google’s “Don’t be Evil” philosophy, and maybe telling us what to expect in 2010. First, the stuff for your inner rumormonger from MacRumors. […] Read more »
In arguing that Apple’s iPad could change the way people consume video, the biggest hurdle to my thesis was that the iPad doesn’t support Adobe’s Flash, which has become the de facto vehicle for delivering video from a number of popular web sites. How could the […] Read more »
It has been a long time (if ever) that a new product has generated such hype after its announcement as the iPad from Apple. Who really needs one of these new iPads? My answer may surprise many — no one. Read more »
Just a few years ago, Move Networks was a high-flying startup with what seemed like unlimited possibility. The company had succeeded where many video technology startups (and some incumbents) had failed to deliver — by providing high-quality video streams to the end user without having to […] Read more »
Just one day after YouTube made it so that (some of) its users could begin watching (some of) its videos using HTML5 as opposed to Adobe Flash, Vimeo has announced that it will also support the new web standard. With its new HTML5 player, Vimeo says […] Read more »
YouTube made a bit of noise yesterday with the introduction of a new video player that uses HTML5 standard, which (in theory) could enable browsers to render video without an installed plugin like Adobe’s Flash player. With the largest Flash video site in the universe now […] Read more »
YouTube announced the launch of an HTML5 video test on its blog last evening, but had some trouble delivering on its promise. The test only went live hours after the blog post, leaving many users wondering what all the fuzz was about. Adding to the confusion […] Read more »
The iPhone’s lack of support for Adobe’s Flash platform has been a topic of much debate ever since the smartphone’s 2007 début. However, a recently developed JavaScript work-around successfully manages to get Apple’s popular iPhone running Flash files, without the need to void your warranty by […] Read more »
Mediacom Will Launch Epix in April; the deal marks the second announced this week for Epix; the first was that it will be part of Cox Communications’ movie tier when it joins that distributor, also in April. (Multichannel News) Microsoft Urges Windows XP Users to Ditch […] Read more »
When Flash appeared near the end of the last millennium it promised a bright new world of rich multimedia content creation and delivery via what would otherwise be drab old web pages. At a time when Geocities was the best the Web had to offer, Flash […] Read more »
I’m cuckoo for Chrome. It’s super fast, it’s Webkit, it’s got some nice developer tool options that aren’t available in Safari and it’s combo Search Box/Address Box is so intuitive it’s completely ruined me for any other browsers that still split up those two elements. The […] Read more »
The chip company MIPS this morning threw its support behind Android in a big way, unveiling a variety of products and technologies based on Google’s operating system. It’s one more sign that Android is moving beyond mobile phones into a host of devices and mediums. Read more »
Why use one streaming server for Flash and one for Silverlight and another for delivery to the iPhone, when you can deliver to all those platforms (and more!) with a single piece of equipment? If that’s a pitch that sounds attractive to you, then maybe you’re […] Read more »
As our sister site OStatic reports, Minitube is a new, open-source YouTube viewing client that gives users a way to search and watch videos without the visual distractions of the YouTube web site. Once installed, users can fire up the app and type in a keyword, […] Read more »
If you have a 64GB iPod touch and you read this headline, you might be thinking, “What gives? Isn’t this already a no-brainer?” but the fact is, before Toshiba announced its 64GB drive today, there was no way to cram that much storage into the iPhone […] Read more »
Adobe Drops Flash Support for PowerPC G3; Flash Player 10.1 will be the last to support PowerPC-based G3 computer, which was last made in 1999. (CNET) YouTube Adds PBS NewsHour; the official NewsHour YouTube channel will have reports from the NewsHour television broadcast posted the same […] Read more »
It can sometimes be easy to forget that Apple’s primary purpose as a company is to make money, not to continually wow the industry and the public with fresh designs and technical innovation, which is all actually just a means to the end of profitability. Occasionally, […] Read more »
It’s been a double-edged sword, this no-Flash-on-the-iPhone business. On the one hand, we don’t get the complete Internet. On the other hand, the web pages we do get are less likely to crash or drag-along at a snail’s pace. And really, who wants to see yet […] Read more »
Shattered glass. Flickering displays. Non-booting machines. So-goes the list of maladies affecting Apple’s brand new quad-core 27” Core i7-based iMacs. Threads over on the Apple Support Discussion forums are alive with complaints and debate by affected users. After hitting the power button, some owners hear the […] Read more »
Forget multitouch: By far the most disruptive — and overlooked — feature of the Flash Player 10.1 beta that Adobe launched this week is the ability to transmit video via P2P multicast. In fact, Adobe built some enhanced P2P capabilities into both the new Flash Player […] Read more »
Adobe has released new betas of AIR 2 and Flash 10.1, James over at jkOnTheRun reports. Both products now support multitouch, but most interesting for me in this news is that AIR 2 promises to be less memory-hungry than the previous version. I’ve shied away from […] Read more »
Adobe Labs has released beta versions of Air and Flash, bringing new features and opening up both for better developer support. Both Air 2 and Flash 10.1 now have support for multitouch and gestures, and Flash can use hardware to better handle H.264 video. The new […] Read more »
Adobe will on Tuesday release developer betas of Flash Player 10.1 for the web and AIR 2 for the desktop. Both runtimes are to be released to the public in the oh-so-very narrow and specific time frame of “the first half of 2010.” Key to plans […] Read more »
It’s the weekend and I’m over in London investigating a host of new iPhone apps out later this year. In the meantime, I’ve hand-picked four of the latest releases from the App Store for you to check out. This week I’ve selected a smattering of fun […] Read more »
Adobe today unveiled a new version of Flash in an effort to expand support for the popular technology beyond the traditional Internet to mobile phones, netbooks, set-top boxes and other connected consumer devices. Flash Player 10.1 will run on platforms including Google’s Android, Research In Motion’s […] Read more »
Today’s big announcement is that Flash is getting an update to 10.1 that will bring support for full Flash functionality to a lot of mobile phones — except, of course, for the iPhone, which remains staunchly Flash-independent. Google Android, Symbian, and now BlackBerry are all signed […] Read more »
Adobe plans to announce Monday that the Flash platform will include HTTP streaming. The move brings the online video leader up to speed with the rest of the video market, including Microsoft and Apple. However, the new Flash Player 10.1 release is not due until “the […] Read more »
What happens when you promise end-users a persistent connection to data, applications and services regardless of the device they’re using? Mobile cloud computing aims to deliver just such a promise. Mobile access to popular web-based services such as Facebook and Gmail, combined with next-generation smartphones like the iPhone, Palm Pre and Android devices, is driving broad adoption of mobile data. However, the center of economic gravity is shifting. Historically, access to the mobile network was the service. But as users have expanded the uses for those bits, what the user does in a given session becomes fundamental to how much the service provider can charge the user or a third party (e.g. an advertiser). Thus, it’s likely that the mobile, IT and MCC sectors will continue their current marriage of convenience to attack a rare convergence of both short-term and longer term opportunity. However, in the process of adapting to an Internet that’s becoming more global, mobile and web-based by the day, the mobile and IT industries will be forced into new ways of doing business. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
CBS Sports announced today that all of the SEC football games the network broadcasts will also be streamed live for free on CBSSports.com. CBS’ coverage of the SEC starts this Saturday at 3:30 p.m. ET with Tennessee vs. top-ranked Florida. CBSSports will live stream 15 SEC […] Read more »
Project management seems to be the 21st century’s “better mousetrap.” There seems to be an endless supply of new project management services; the latest addition to the ranks of this huge category is Ubidesk. It has an interface that I find more attractive than some of […] Read more »
Everyone has a different way of doing things. Fortunately, there’s a huge number of web services that offer groups different ways to coordinate their activities. Convos occupies a middle ground between basic group communication systems like listservs and Google Groups, and full-fledged project management apps. As […] Read more »
Never rains, but it pours, eh? As if Apple doesn’t have enough on its plate with the FCC, the latest patent infringement accusations are in, this time courtesy of BTG International. BTG claims some of Samsung’s flash chips violate patents it owns on multilevel NAND Flash […] Read more »
