Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Adobe announced two new betas, Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2.0, that look forward to greater mobile device support. The new betas also support hardware-based H.264 video decoding.
The announcement would seem to be a preemptive strike against any Silverlight news Microsoft may have up its sleeve at this week's Professional Developer Conference.
On all platforms, Flash 10.1 adds support for hardware decoding of H.264 high-definition video. That means that companies like AMD, for example, can support Flash 10.1 natively. AMD said Tuesday that a number of its GPUs will support Flash 10.1, including the ATI Radeon HD 4000, HD 5700 and HD 5800 series, the Mobility Radeon HD 4000 and higher, the Radeon HD 3000 integrated graphics series, and the latest FirePro series.
It's also the first release in Adobe's "Open Screen Project," an initiative intended to allow developers to target different devices without rewriting code. Even Google, with its large stake in Flash use on its YouTube site, has signed up for the Open Screen Project. But it seems somewhat of an extension of the term "open" for a standard to require a proprietary software plugin.
"With the beta availability of Adobe AIR 2 and Flash Player 10.1 today, we are taking an important step toward realizing the Open Screen Project vision to enable rich Internet experiences across any device, anywhere," said David Wadhwani, general manager and vice president of the Platform Business Unit at Adobe. "Content creators will provide multi-screen experiences with uncompromised Web browsing and standalone applications across desktops and netbooks, and in the near future across a wide range of mobile devices."
The announcement would seem to be a preemptive strike against any Silverlight news Microsoft may have up its sleeve at this week's Professional Developer Conference.
On all platforms, Flash 10.1 adds support for hardware decoding of H.264 high-definition video. That means that companies like AMD, for example, can support Flash 10.1 natively. AMD said Tuesday that a number of its GPUs will support Flash 10.1, including the ATI Radeon HD 4000, HD 5700 and HD 5800 series, the Mobility Radeon HD 4000 and higher, the Radeon HD 3000 integrated graphics series, and the latest FirePro series.
It's also the first release in Adobe's "Open Screen Project," an initiative intended to allow developers to target different devices without rewriting code. Even Google, with its large stake in Flash use on its YouTube site, has signed up for the Open Screen Project. But it seems somewhat of an extension of the term "open" for a standard to require a proprietary software plugin.
"With the beta availability of Adobe AIR 2 and Flash Player 10.1 today, we are taking an important step toward realizing the Open Screen Project vision to enable rich Internet experiences across any device, anywhere," said David Wadhwani, general manager and vice president of the Platform Business Unit at Adobe. "Content creators will provide multi-screen experiences with uncompromised Web browsing and standalone applications across desktops and netbooks, and in the near future across a wide range of mobile devices."
Monday, April 20, 2009
You've probably seen the commercials comparing the Subaru Stella to the BMW Mini. The commercials are lame if you ask me, I don't see any comparisons to begin with so of course they can dish out tons of incomparable features.Fuji Heavy Industries, parent company and maker of Subaru automobiles, has just announced its plans to begin testing prototypes of its Subaru plug-in Stella electric vehicle, which will be introduced in Japan this summer. Furthermore, the company has managed to boost power output from 40kW in the previous iteration to 47kW, and it also stripped away some unnecessary weight and fine-tuned the output management system. There's no mention of a price or expected launch date in North America.
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Adobe is working to bring its Flash web animation and video viewer to the living room via a new run-time system for HD TVs, set-top boxes, Blu-ray players and other connected living room devices.
This is all part of bringing Internet content into the TV viewing experience.
Adobe has signed up a host of partners to support the technology, called the Adobe Flash Platform for the Digital Home. The new platform is available now to OEMs (original equipment manufacturers), and the first devices and processors that will support it should be available in the second half of the year, Adobe said.
Partners that have signed on to support the new version of Flash are Atlantic Records, Broadcom, Comcast, Disney Interactive Media Group, Intel, Netflix, STMicroelectronics, The New York Times Company, NXP Semiconductors and Sigma Designs.
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Oracle will acquire Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of Sun's cash and debt. The deals comes after IBM withdrew its offer to buy Sun earlier this month.
"The acquisition of Sun transforms the IT industry, combining best-in-class enterprise software and mission-critical computing systems," said Oracle CEO Larry Ellison in a statement. "Oracle will be the only company that can engineer an integrated system - applications to disk - where all the pieces fit and work together so customers do not have to do it themselves. Our customers benefit as their systems integration costs go down while system performance, reliability and security go up."
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Today sees the public launch of Tweetie for Mac, the desktop-based big brother of what many consider to be the iPhone's best Twitter client. People have been playing around with a beta version of the app for the last few days since the initial preview last Thursday.
In other Twitter news...
Late last night, former Engadget editor-in-chief Ryan Block tweeted out that he had done some research to attempt to quantify the "Oprah Effect" - that is, the number of users who signed up for Twitter after Oprah featured the service on her show on Friday. The number he came to was about 1.2 million new users.
Labels: adobe, auto, flash, iphone app, online tv, oracle, subaru, sun microsystems, tweetie, twitter
Monday, April 7, 2008
Simple Help is a site which does exactly what it says; it simply helps. Today they have a post about Toggle Flash which is a free application that allows you to enable and disable Flash with the click of a button.
There are two reasons why this is a great tool. One being you can stop flash loading on a page whenever you feel the need. So if you go somewhere and are immediately faced with an oh-so-slow preloader you can stop it and get on with the rest of your information hunt.
Secondly, in testing sometimes it is nice to be able to easily test how your new web page will work in a setting where Flash in disabled. Especially if you are using a Flash navigation menu. You'll be able to see exactly what that user would see.
Makes sense, right?
Monday, August 27, 2007
The press release states that Samsung has announced their development of NAND flash software specially created for high performance multimedia applications.
"The new 16Gb flash software supports increasingly popular Linux systems and enables chipset designers to reap the full storage and performance advantages of Samsung's 16Gb NAND," said Youngjoon Choi, Vice President.
Sounds pretty snazzy to me.
Source
"The new 16Gb flash software supports increasingly popular Linux systems and enables chipset designers to reap the full storage and performance advantages of Samsung's 16Gb NAND," said Youngjoon Choi, Vice President.
Sounds pretty snazzy to me.
Source
Labels: flash, media, new technology
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