Category: Technology

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Flash is coming to iPhone for real?

Bloomberg.com reports that Adobe is working (with Apple?) to bring Flash to iPhone finally.

“It’s a hard technical challenge, and that’s part of the reason Apple and Adobe are collaborating,” Narayen said today in a Bloomberg Television interview from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “The ball is in our court. The onus is on us to deliver.”

Well, we’ll see about that. It’s been a long time since Adobe & ARM announced their partnership back a few months ago. I guess it’ll be a slow process provided that it’s made for performance on ARM devices, iPhone particularly.

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Whacky Apple concept products of the past

Before the iPhone, iPod or the Newton, there were plenty concept products which have never made it to the production line. Here’s some whacky products from some old magazines.

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iPhone/iPod touch 2.2.1 update available

For all you iPhone and iPod Touch users, there’s a newly release 2.2.1 firmware update available in iTunes. News from TUAW.

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Apple finally gets Mark Papermaster

An Apple press release indicates Apple will finally get (the ex-IBM staff) Mark Papermaster as senior vice president of Devices Hardware Engineering, reporting to Apple CEO Steve Jobs, on April 24

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Apple will launch netbook in 2009?

This article from “Taiwan Headlines” is surely interesting since a lot of Apple fan boys having been praying for this. In 2009, it might actually happen.

Quanta is expected to add Sony and Apple as clients for the contract manufacture of netbook computers in 2009

Yeah, you read that right. A Mac netbook from Apple. Save your money for Uncle Steve. No more fiddling with those horrible eee peecee.

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Linux on iPhone

The iPhone DevTeam has ported Linux 2.6 kernel for 1st and 2nd generation iPhone and 1st generation iPod Touch!!

Video, download, etc available from their blog post.

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Adobe & ARM announced to bring Flash & AIR to ARM platform

Today Adobe and ARM announced their plan to bring Flash and AIR to ARM 11 family in the second half of 2009. Why is it interesting? Coz iPhone is also using ARM 11 family, and Steve Jobs said Flash is no good for iPhone so to speak.

We’ll be seeing an very interesting future on mobile platform particularly iPhone. Could Flash 10 make it to iPhone v3.0? If so, will Uncle Steve enable the technology for the new iPhone? If Uncle Steve did enable Flash, will there be raging iPhone 1.0 & 2.0 users suing non-sense?!

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Customize fonts on your Nokia …

You can customize interface font on your Nokia N73 & N95 if and only if you are on Vodafone in UK. Monotype is providing FlipFont application to mobile users with a selection of 10 nice scalable fonts to customize the user interface. No, it’s NOT free. A signle font starts at GBP 1.99 though.

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Beware this bogus app “MacGuard”

There’s a bogus software MacGuard claiming to be spyware, adware remover but it actually will hijack your Mac. It’s a clone of the Windoze app WiniGuard.

So beware. Don’t install it. Tell your friends don’t fall for it.

Read more about it here.

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iPhone security bug again

This security bug is uncovered by a 12-year old kid of Karl Karft. It’s related to emergency call again. You can read all the details here.