Mobile Flash Fail: Weak Android Player Proves Jobs Right
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IÂm the last person on earth who wanted to believe Steve Jobs when he told Walt Mossberg at D8 that ÂFlash has had its day. I took it as nothing more than showmanship when Jobs shared his thoughts on Flash and wrote that ÂFlash is closed and proprietary, has major technical drawbacks, and doesnÂt support touch based devices. After spending time playing with Flash Player 10.1 on the new Droid 2, the first Android 2.2 phone to come with the player pre-installed, IÂm sad to admit that Steve Jobs was right. AdobeÂs offering seems like itÂs too little, too late....
Published on Tuesday 7th of September 2010 06:48:45 PM
A Man Who Took Life's Business Lemons and Made His Own Business Lemonade
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After getting frustrated out of the lemons his problems gave him, David Miller made his own corporate lemonade. Due to the frustration of always having to call technical support to solve his own frequent hardware problems, he started taking the initiative to educate himself.
Published on Tuesday 7th of September 2010 06:48:45 PM
Top 10 USB Thumb Drive Tricks
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What can you do with a few gigabytes and a USB port? Quite a lot, with the right software. Learn how to encrypt your work, run whole systems, rescue Windows, and customize your thumb drive with these USB-geared tricks.Photo by Debs (òâ¿Ã³)âª.Note: Gina previously rounded up 10 thumb drive tricks in April 2007, and we've borrowed a few of those ideas here. But many of the apps have updated, some have been replaced with better offerings, and a few totally new cool things (Chrome OS! XBMC!) have made their way into this mix.10. Give Your Drive a Custom Icon An...
Published on Tuesday 7th of September 2010 06:48:45 PM
Speedy New Traders Make Waves Far From Wall St. [HFT]
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Above the Restoration Hardware in this Jersey Shore town, not far from the Navesink River, lurks a Wall Street giant. Here, inside the humdrum offices of a tiny trading firm called Tradeworx, workers in their 20s and 30s in jeans and T-shirts quietly tend high-speed computers that typically buy and sell 80 million shares a day. But on the afternoon of May 6, as the stock market began to plunge in the flash crash, someone here walked up to one of those computers and typed the command HF STOP: sell everything, and shutdown.Across the country, several of Tradeworxs counterparts did...
Published on Tuesday 7th of September 2010 06:48:45 PM
[Android] HTC EVO rooted once again by using an exploit in Flash Player
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HTC EVO rooted once again by using an exploit in Flash Player. Security concerns arise as users rejoice over being able to root their phones once again after the OTA update.
Published on Tuesday 7th of September 2010 06:48:45 PM
Opera Company of Philadelphia "Flash Brindisi" at Reading Terminal Market
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On Saturday, April 24th, the Opera Company of Philadelphia teamed up with the Reading Terminal Market Italian Festival for a large-scale "Flash Opera" event! Over 30 members of the Opera Company of Philadelphia Chorus and principal cast members of LA TRAVIATA performed the famed "Brindisi" in the aisles of Reading Terminal Market, entertaining hundreds of Philadelphians, and proving that the perfect accompaniment for all things Italian is a little Verdi! The Opera Company sincerely thanks members of the Opera Company of Philadelphia Chorus and cast for generously volunteering their time and talents... BRAVI TUTTI!!... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zmwRitYO3w
Published on Tuesday 7th of September 2010 06:48:45 PM
Adobe fixes 'critical' Flash flaw
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Adobe has fixed a "critical" security flaw that had the potential to allow hackers to take control of affected computer systems. The bug was first spotted in early June week following a small number of targeted attacks. The security update is one in a bumper update package that fixes a total of 32 documented vulnerabilities....
Published on Tuesday 7th of September 2010 06:48:45 PM
Apple's Jobs Takes On Rivals Adobe, Google
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Chief Executive Steve Jobs, in a broad-ranging discussion, took more potshots at Adobe Systems Inc.'s Flash software, vowed not to get into search despite Google Inc.'s move into Apple's turf, and called Apple passing Microsoft Corp.'s stock valuation "surreal." Speaking at the Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital technology conference on Tuesday, Mr. Jobs touched on issues that include suicides at Apple's largest contractor, challenges related to AT&T Inc.'s phone network and the origins of the iPad. The war between Apple and Adobe has been escalating over the last few months. Mr. Jobs reiterated on Tuesday that it believed an...
Published on Tuesday 7th of September 2010 06:48:45 PM
Time Warner, NBC Universal to Apple: Buzz off, were sticking with Flash (Look out Below Alert)
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Hollywood execs from several large entertainment media companies have reportedly told Apple that theyre not going to port their existing content from Flash to Apples iPad (iMaxi)format. The New York Post namechecks Time Warner and NBC Universal, and also implies that there are others. The names dropped are critical. Time Warner is second only to Vivendi in size among entertainment conglomerates. NBC Universal, now jointly owned by GE and Comcast, is also an entertainment giant, as parodied weekly by NBCs sitcom 30 Rock.
Published on Tuesday 7th of September 2010 06:48:45 PM
iPad owners like screen, dislike lack of Flash
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May 20, 2010 3:43 PM PDT iPad owners like screen, dislike lack of Flash by Brooke Crothers Font sizePrintE-mailShare69 comments Yahoo! Buzz .Share13 0diggsdiggSurvey results released Thursday show that iPad owners overall are satisfied with the device, but there is some discontent with its lack of support for the Adobe Flash player. A survey by ChangeWave Research showed that the top dislike reported by new owners of the Apple tablet was "lack of Adobe Flash" (11 percent), followed by "Internet connectivity issues" (9 percent), and "poor screen visibility/keeping it clean" (9 percent). As to what features respondents like about the...
Published on Tuesday 7th of September 2010 06:48:45 PM




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