iPad on Ulitzer
Yesterday, I finished my dinner in a French restaurant with traditional
crème brulee. This time I've also ordered a small glass of Sauternes wine.
Then we went to our friend's house to follow it with some good old port.
But no matter what software developers drink or eat in February 2010, one way
or the other the conversation will slide into a No-Flash-Player-on-iPad
discussion. Apple pretends that they will never allow Flash Player on Steve's
OS (SOS), because it's buggy. Adobe's CTO, Kevin Lynch, states that Apple
doesn't cooperate.
Jobs Has a Few Words for Google & Adobe
After the third round, I made a statement that when the dust settles,
everyone will thank Steve Jobs for forcing Adobe to make Flash Player better
and faster, which is a win-win situation for all application developers.
My drinking buddy responded that Adobe has a tiny group of ha... (more)
"We did not enter the search business. [Google] entered the phone business.
Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won't let them...I want to
go back to that other question first and say one more thing. This don't be
evil mantra - It's bullshit." - Steve Jobs at an employee Town Hall the other
day according to Wired, MacRummors et al although he may have said "load of
crap" not "bullshit"; sources vary.
Jobs reportedly means to use "aggressive updates" to stay way out front of
the Android phone.
Stevie also reportedly called Adobe "lazy." That it could do interesting
... (more)
RIA Sessions at Cloud Expo
[UPDATE: Since this story was published at 12:45AM on January 15, the source
quoted by the author - iDefense - has in fact retracted its initial
assessment by providing the following statement: "In iDefense's press
announcement regarding the recently discovered Silicon Valley compromises, we
stated that the attack vector was likely "malicious PDF file attachments
delivered via email" and suggested that a vulnerability in Adobe Reader
appeared to have been exploited in these attacks. Upon further review, we are
retracting our initial assessment regarding... (more)
The recent announcement of iPad has ignited yet another wave of emotional
discussions around the role of Flash Player in the evolution of mankind.
People easily take sides and everyone seems to know what’s right and
what’s wrong. Actually the word ‘’people” is too vague in this
context, because vast majority of the population has no idea what Flash
Player is, and they don’t have to know! As long as they go to youtube and
it plays videos people are happy and casually say, “Youtube is a great
site!”
On the same note, I have no idea how my car operates. Back in my school
days... (more)
iPad on Ulitzer
On2 Technologies on Wednesday announced that its stockholders approved the
merger of On2 with a wholly owned subsidiary of Google Inc. at its Reconvened
Special Meeting held earlier today.
On2 stockholders holding in excess of a majority of the outstanding shares of
On2 Common Stock voted in favor of the merger proposal.
Under the terms of the merger agreement, as amended, each outstanding share
of On2 Common Stock (other than shares owned by
(a) Google, Oxide Inc., Oxide LLC or On2 and
(b) any On2 stockholders who are entitled to and who properly exercise
apprai... (more)
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