In what you could call a backend bombshell, Adobe this week revealed plans to ditch Flash for mobile devices, and instead focus on HTML5 and Adobe AIR.
Who cares?
For one, “those [people] whose job it is to market and sell Android tablets,” writes AllThingsD. “Flash support has been one of the key vantages that aspiring iPad competitors have used to tout their devices.”
“Adobe will have a PR nightmare on its hands trying to...
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
The Asus Zenbook: a steely marvel with an appalling trackpad
arstechnica.com
Adopting the runaway success of the slim and powerful MacBook Air, PC manufacturers have finally arrived on the scene with their own blade-thin models. The Asus Zenbook is one of the first compelling "ultrabooks" and certainly the most striking, with a brushed metal body and clean lines.
While we found the performance of...
Toyota recalls 420,000 vehicles in U.S. to fix crankshaft pulley
latimes.com
Reporting from Seoul—
In a different corporate sputter for beleaguered Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corp., the company said it was recalling more than 420,000 vehicles in the U.S. in connection with potential steering problems.
The safety recall to replace the crankshaft pulley on the V-6 engine affects 283,200 Toyota and...
Asus Transformer Prime Is the First Quad-Core Android Tablet
Android tablets are old news, I know, but Asus’ Eee Pad Transformer Prime hopes to get your attention again with its quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 chip.
The Transformer Prime, which got a quick tease end month, now has a December launch window—Asus still isn’t committing to an actual release date—and a price of $499 with 32 GB of storage, or $599 with 64 GB.
As you would anticipate, the Transformer Prime is a spec-boosted sequel...
ARM's new GPU chip design aims to boost mobile graphics
bbc.co.uk
The Mali-T658 offers up to 10 times the performance of its predecessor.
It paves the way for faster games and other more complex software on smartphones and tablet computers.
ARM hopes to expand its share of a rapidly-growing market. Demand for its mobile GPU designs lags behind that for its central processing units (CPUs).
The...
New iOS 5.0.1 Update ‘Nothing Short of Amazing’
wired.com
Good news if you’re one of the iOS 5 users who suffers from crippled battery life: Most early reports are showing that iOS 5.0.1 fixes the problem completely.
“Frankly the difference is nothing brusk of amazing,” said Wired reader Donald Kuntzman, who downloaded the update on his Verizon iPhone 4. “To go almost an entire day...
Seven Accused Of Infecting Computers With Malware In More than 100 Countries
Federal prosecutors accept charged seven people who allegedly ran a massive online-advertising fraud scheme and used malicious software to infect at least 4 million computers in more than 100 countries.
Six people from Estonia and another individual from Russia allegedly used the malicious software, or "malware," to hijack Web searches and drive traffic to other websites in order to generate "pay per click" income. In some cases,...
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