Sneak peek into iPhone OS 4 features
As expected, Apple unveiled their new OS 4.0 , which supports some of the most critical missing features so far.
1Cross ShuBook – Android MID and eBook in one bottle
Company 1Cross Tech decided to “pour oil on the fire of his” gaining momentum in the market of electronic books and presented at the CeBIT device ShuBook – a hybrid of MID on Android 1.6, and e-book. Device opens up like an ordinary book, which is left in the six-electronic ink display with a resolution of 800 × 600 pixels, but on the right side – a small color LCD TFT touch screen with 480 × 320 pixels and a QWERTY-keyboard, which is perfect for text input , web-surfing and navigation instruments. API extension allows users to “flip” the content with LCD display to a larger E-ink display
Adobe introduced AIR technology for mobile devices, and is preparing to release Flash 10.1
The exhibition Mobile World Congress 2010 the company Adobe Systems Incorporated announced Adobe Flash platform upgrade, and provide Adobe AIR for mobile devices. This platform is a unified operating environment for running stand-alone applications developed within the project Open Screen Project – industry-wide project, led by Adobe, which includes around 70 partners.
Intel has released a beta SDK for netbooks based on Atom
Intel has released a beta version of the toolkit Intel Atom Developer Program Software Development Kit (SDK), allowing to create applications for Microsoft Windows operating systems, and Moblin. The kit is intended for software vendors and programmers and is intended to simplify the creation of applications for the netbook processor-based Intel Atom. The program support the creators of software for processors Intel Atom (Intel Atom Developer Program) was introduced in the Intel Developer Forum, held in September
Google Wave: New details
Held on 10 November in Moscow conference were announced time frames starting platform Google Wave, combining a social network, tools, simultaneous access to documents, instant messaging and much more. Now Wave is being semi-open beta testing (by invitation). From the words of Lars Rasmussen, one of the developers, and Stephanie Hannon, manager of the projects Google Wave, for 5 weeks invitations received about a million people, and hundreds of thousands of active use of the project.
What should be Skype’s strategy to replace P2P?
Folks from Skype are wary of the fact that the P2P technology they use is under lawsuit from former Skype founders, and could become a bottle neck moving forward.