Opinion: What Android needs to do to keep it’s users happier than Apple’s
No matter how avid a Droid fanboy one is, and I am not pretending to be, Google have sold their souls to phone manufacturers and network carriers. Today’s Android ingredients would include the following: 1) Raw pure open source Google operating system, flavoured with well-intended goodness. 2) Add a cup of Phone manufacturer widgets and ‘crapware’ to it, such as Samsung’s UI and background-threaded memory intensive hogs. 3) Finish off with an AT&T or Optus network-carrier set of widgets and useless apps. What do you end up with? Something that is far from...
read moreAdobe Developer Connection Videos: Three-part series on using Flex to create mobile Applications
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read moreHTC Desire Android Phone Video
A sneak-peek inside the HTC “Desire” Google Android-powered phone, with this official Youtube video:
read moreiPad may kill Kindle with it’s own software
Everyone has been talking about the iPad and how it with it’s iBook app store would destroy Amazon and it’s Kindle but I dare say, we no need look further than the Kindle software to realise that Apple can use Amazon’s own ordinance to kill it. Kindle has late last year distributed on the iPhone it’s Kindle app which works just like Amazon’s device, purchasing and reading books from the Amazon store and using Whispersync to sync your account with the PC and any other Amazon account. Now to presume that either Amazon would be foolish enough to design an...
read moreAcrobat.com now on iPhone
Mark Szulc has reported in his personal blog that acrobat.com, an Adobe press release statement that announced Acrobat.com is now available for the iPhone. Acrobat.com is an Adobe collaboration package that allows for a user to work with, and create PDFs, and print and share PDFs, as well as fax PDFs directly from your phone. So you can take a photo of a whiteboard (as Mark says) and share it as a pdf with your buddies on the other side of the world. See the full gallery on...
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