There’s been a lot of talk about which Android devices would get Froyo, and now it seems that Google has quietly upgraded the Nexus One. According to the company’s blog, Nexus One users should have already started receiving Froyo over-the-air.
The Adobe Museum of Digital Media (AMDM) is a unique virtual space designed to showcase and preserve groundbreaking digital work and to present expert commentary on how digital media influences culture and society.
Read MoreYesterday, Amazon released its highly anticipated Kindle e-book reader software for Android devices, which gives Google’s smartphone and MID operating system immediate legitimacy as an e-Reading platform. The Kindle for Android software, once downloaded from the Android Market, has a very similar look and feel to the iPad/iPhone version, with a cool blue home screen.
Read MoreAlthough still early in the process, newly leaked documents about Windows 8 offer some keen insight into where Microsoft wants to head with the next version of the operating system. One thing that is made abundantly clear is that Microsoft has been paying attention to Apple. In the documents, which appear to come from an April meeting with computer makers, Microsoft discusses its Cupertino, Calif.-based rival and outlines plans to offer a Windows Store similar to the way Apple distributes software on its iPhone.
Curious to see how the latest preview release of Internet Explorer 9 stacks up against the competition when it comes to HTML5 performance in Windows? So was Download Squad, and it's now revealed its findings in some vivid, if not entirely scientific tests. The end result is that Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox 3.7 were well ahead of the pack in the 1,000-fish stress test (with Firefox about 5 or 10 percent ahead of IE), while Opera was stuck somewhere in the middle, and Chrome placed a distant last (and maxed out the CPU) -- all with hardware acceleration enabled, of course, although that had to be done via command line switches in the case of Chrome. Head on past the break to check out the four-way showdown for yourself, as well as an earlier test with just IE9 and Chrome.
Read MoreHuge news. My canvas crusade is done. IE9 is supporting canvas, and it is hardware accelerated, in the third preview release! it is also fully Hardware Accelerated so this means great speed for you! IE9 is finally catching up with the other major browsers.
Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) announced registration is open for MAX 2010 on this Monday, Adobe’s annual worldwide conference taking place Oct. 23–27 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. At MAX 2010, thousands of designers, developers and business leaders will discover the next wave of opportunities fueled by the explosion of rich content and applications across multiple screens, the merging of digital content and commerce, and workflows that bring design and development together.
Read MoreAdobe launched Flash Player for Android 10.1 yesterday--the latest move in the Chess match between Adobe and Apple over the future of interactive mobile ads and video content. Now, the world can begin to experience firsthand whether Flash delivers as expected on smartphones, or if Steve Jobs made the right move in turning his back on the platform.
Read MoreThere are localized apps for getting schedules, but it's also convenient that public transportation scheduling is one of a handful of enhanced features in Google Maps for Android version 4.3, new on Tuesday.
Read MoreEarlier this month, Apple unveiled a new site to showcase HTML5. On it, Apple showed off a number of impressive web demos coded using only HTML5 technologies. However, at least on the main page, these demos were restricted to working on only Apple's Safari web browser. So now Google is countering with its own HTML5 site -- called, get this, HTML5Rocks.
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