While Bing by Microsoft seemed to some like a huge step forward in the search world, Google’s Instant is a whole new world of search. Rendering the “enter” key nearly useless, Instant anticipates your query and combines its Google Suggests recommendations that would appear as you typed in past queries with an instant live search [...]
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Jobs vs. Flash? Ego vs. the Market
Steve Jobs recently penned a missive “explaining” Apple’s reasons for failing to integrate Adobe’s Flash technology (a standard for games and entertainment online) into its iPhone, iPod and iPad devices. His argument? Flash “falls short” of what it could be and what is needed on a mobile device. What would Jobs have said if everyone [...]
Apple’s Aggressive Patent Stand Inhibits Innovation
We’ve already noted how Apple – once the edgy, cool company for the outsider who was just slightly smarter than the average – is now the industry behemoth with the lion’s share of the market. But while Apple likes to promote itself as a freedom-loving, innovation above all company, that moniker applies only to the [...]
Coby Smartbook Gives a Glimpse into Portable Future
Coby Electronics probably hasn’t had this much press in the existence of the company. At the CeBIT expo in Germany at the first of March, the value – oriented consumer electronics company picked up its share of the buzz because of a brand new smartbook as reported by Engadget. The buzz isn’t about great styling, [...]
Appcelerator: the Latest Big News From Android
In the past months since Webdatamation released FileDroid, our Android-based file management system, the phones, applications and interest in the Android operating system have exploded.
The latest development in Appcelerator Titanium development software in Beta version takes the next huge step forward in cementing Android as a mobile software platform for the future.