Adobe Gives up Flash on iPhone, Comuto Profits from Eruption and Silk Brain Implants
Microsoft sponsors new Web font standard – showing we’re serious about web standards by sponsoring an effort to standardise web based fonts with a technology called the Web Open Font Format (WOFF).
Adobe tosses in Flash towel after Apple limits iPhone dev – Apple say it’s too slow to be useful.
A positive side to the volcanic [...]
Apple Screws Developers, Boy Sues Mom for Facebook
Boy sues mother for Facebook harassment as she argues ‘parental duty’. Although I want to agree with the mom, changing your kid’s Facebook and email password is a bit much. Maybe talking with your 16-year old over a drink would provide for a more amicable solution? Oh yeah, you also might want to actually have [...]
It’s all about the money (and telly)
My Mum said ‘nothing in life’s free’ – looks like she was right (for a change), as Apple to charge for iPad OS upgrades after one freebie
There could be an exception to the ‘free’ rule as Freeview HD launches in the UK.
Grundig pushes BBC iPlayer to Freesat boxes – although some early boxes can’t receive [...]
Twitter Spam, Facebook Syphilis, Bill Gates Goes Nuclear
Twitter slashes spam levels to one per cent, which is leads me to ask what does twitter do different from email providers.
According to a Telegraph article, Facebook ‘linked to rise in syphilis’, though upon reading it, you may realize that the art of fact-checking is dead. Syphilis is bacterial, not viral.
Eye-Fi Launches Pro X2 WiFi Card [...]
What We Found Out Yesterday
Codeplex Foundation, which was started by Microsoft, names Apache Software Foundation co-founder to Board.
Cambridge start-up quadruples productivity by hiring 20 interns in a go!
The latest update in smartphone marketshare gains, Google rising, Apple on-level, Palm declines.
OnLive, a live streaming gaming service, to go live in June.
Finally for a bit of comic relief, here’s a comic [...]
Daily News Round-Up
Google Releases Tablet Concept – Maybe Google should finish their OS first, no?
File-Sharing Scam on Twitter – Twitter suggests different passwords for each service.
Windows on iPad via Citrix – An IT administrators dream?
An “AppStore” for All Platforms? “Yes Please” says Government
Posted by viral on March 11, 2010 · View Comments
A lot of buzz has been generated by Google’s annoucement of a Google Apps Marketplace. Like app-stores before it, third-party developers can use it to sell and distribute value-added software that enhances existing platform functionality, in this case to Google Apps. Although it may seem like Google is taking a play from Apple’s book, their [...]
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