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Adobe Moves Away from Apple
Adobe has posted a short response to the letter Apple boss Steve Jobs has written about Flash technology. In it, Adobe said the legal terms Apple imposed on software developers had led it to shift its focus away from Apple.
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Microsoft Backups Apple on Flash Battle
A Microsoft executive pitched in later the day Steve Jobs sharply criticized Flash, saying while the ubiquity of Flash makes it easy for consumers to access video on the web, the standard has flaws. "Flash does have some issues, particularly around reliability, security and performance," said Dean Hachamovitch, general manager for the Internet Explorer browser.
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Apple's Jobs slams Adobe's Flash Technology
In an open letter entitled "Thoughts on Flash," Jobs laid out a laundry list of complaints about the technology, raising questions about its security, "technical drawbacks," and power-management.
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Sliding Panels to be Released Next Week!
So you like the way iPad and iPhone work? Having great bouncing scrollable areas, minimalistic scrollbars, amazing sliding pages? Great gestures touch interfaces and stunning styles? Well you can have all that now on your regular browsers as well as touch devices with the new Sliding Panels extension from DMXzone!
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Opera 10.52 for Mac Released
The new Opera browser for Mac is now more than ten times faster, according to speed comparisons between Opera 10.52 and Opera 10.10. With a powerful new feature set tailored for Mac computers, Opera delivers a much improved user experience.
Apple
iPhone Now Runs Android
iPhone users and Android users can stop fighting--because now your iPhone can run Android (as if Steve Jobs didn't already have enough on his plate with the iPhone prototype leak). Yeah, you heard it right. iPhone Dev-team member Planetbeing (the same guy who ported the Linux 2.6 kernel to the iPhone in 2008) uploaded a video to YouTube that shows him successfully running Android on an iPhone 2G.
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Earthly pleasures come to Maps
Earth Day may have just passed, but the Google Earth team loves it too much to let it go. So they’ve found their own special way to celebrate Earth Day (a little late) by making an announcement that they’ve been working toward for a long time: Earth view in Google Maps.
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Adobe will accelerate Flash video using new Apple API
Adobe is getting help from Apple to wring better performance from Flash Player in the form of the new Video Decode Acceleration Framework. Not all Mac users will see the benefits, but Adobe confirms it will roll support into an update to Flash 10.1.
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