Adobe recently announced the success of iPad as it managed to sell 2 million units within 60 days despite it’s few short-comings. Asking Apple to provide us with the flash feature on our iDevice is like fighting a lost battle. However, thanks to Chris Smoak, there is a way to play flash videos on iPad.
The workaround developed by Chris is called SmokeScreen. It runs entirely in the browser, reads in SWF binaries, unzips them (in native JS), extracts images and embedded audio and turns them in to base64 encoded data:uris, then stitches the vector graphics back together as animated SVG. It’s written in Java framework and thus work as JavaScript in your browser.
According Digitimes, HP Taiwan Vice President Monty Wong has confirmed a webOS based tablet. It is scheduled to be launched in October of this year. Earlier, there were reports of Palm, launching an webOS based tablet, however due to Palm’s manufacturing capabilities and financial trouble shooting, there was skepticism towards this story.
We know HP bought Palm, and thus it shouldn’t be of any surprise to see an webOS driven tablet in the market. HP, earlier was looking at Android to drive its launch and now with its own webOS, it is looking to accelerate things. Still, these are just reports from credible sources.
OLED screens are in great demand, especially among users who go for high-end products. This has resulted in product manufacturers scaling up the demand for OLED screens which is good for Industry. Now the sad part of the story is that Samsung’s VP of Marketing, Lee Wong-jong announced that Samsung would probably not be able to fulfill all the demands being placed upon it for OLED screens.
Lee further added that “… demand for high-end displays is very strong and we may continue to fail to meet all customer requirements, even after expanding capacity by seven-fold, until next year.” Smaung have been desperately trying to keep up with demand and the shortfall is having noticeable effects on consumers, especially as smartphone sales look to be 50% higher this year than last.
For instance, Verizon in the U.S. reports that the Droid Incredible hasn’t outsold the DROID, largely due to the fact that not enough screens can be produced to make Droid Incredibles. For their part Samsung have committed to spending some $2.15 billion to build the world’s lrgest supply of AMOLED displays by 2012.
Newton was Apple’s first tablet, a PDA with handwriting recognition which still has plenty of hardcore fans but went down in history as one of Cupertino’s biggest flops. The new iPad video ad below recalls the TV advertising for the Newton, remaking the “What is Newton?” campaign for the modern age as “What is iPad?”
In both the iPad ad and the Apple Newton spot, a gruff voiced man runs down the features of the product while ordinary folk fondle the tech. And just as Apple now calls the iPad “magical”, the What Is Newton? ad declared it to be “magic”.
Videocon announced its luanch of dth service across pan India presence by offering a range of satellite products. After being launched in Punjab and in Various regions in Kerala, it is offering world’s first satellite LCD, satellite TV, satellite DVD as well as the satellite box (STB), which is seen as a next step in Direct to home (DTH) services.
With Abhishek Bachchan as the brand ambassador for Videocon d2h, who according to Khera makes a perfect match with the Videocon d2h brand attributes of innovation and high-quality entertainment, Videocon d2h, which launched its operations in the 2nd Quarter of 2009 and will offer direct-to-home services in March-April.
Apple has never been friendly for developers or consumers, it is just that their products stand out for brilliance and being a company which has its start up user base at U.S always helps. Apple on Friday told developers could begin submitting their iPad applications starting next week, so that their applications could find their way to the opening store. Now, just imagine designing applications for a product without even seeing it to know, how your app will stand out! Apple’s e-mail, provided to Wired.com by a developer who wished to remain anonymous, told developers to submit their apps by March 27, 5 p.m. if they wished to release their apps with the iPad on April 3.
According to the New York Times, Google is reportedly building a new platform in association with Sony and Intel to deliver a medium, where users can browse the web while watching their Television. The new platform is being dubbed “Google TV” as of now and would be available as a set-top box or as part of a Internet service or embedded in to the television itself. Google will soon release a developer tool kit in a few months, hoping to encourage developers to create apps for Google TV.
A fighter aircraft is a aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat with other aircraft, as opposed to a bomber, which is designed primarily to attack ground targets by dropping bombs. These type of aircraft are small, very fast, and highly maneuverable. Right from the BF-109 Messerschmitt, fighter planes have ruled the enemy skies with their ability to defy enemies attack. Fighter planes are far advanced than normal aircraft used for transport purposes. Here I have compiled a list of the best jet fighter’s present on the planet. To choose one over the other would be sheer injustice and frankly, each one has its plus and minus points witch each one being one hell of a dream machine to possess. Continue reading “World’s Best Jet Fighters” »
The ipad has finally arrived and as Steve jobs claims that it’s “more intimate than a laptop and it’s more capable than a smartphone.” Well, smartphones make and receive phone calls and that’s the reason for attachment of word “phone” to smartphone, and ipad can’t. It definitely features a faster processor but Nexus one too features a 1GHZ processor but ipad excels with appstore and a brilliant screen. The high-resolution, 9.7-inch LED-backlit IPS display on iPad is remarkably crisp and vivid however, it can’t be compared to a smartphone.
Steve Jobs once slapped netbooks as cheap laptops and now he says “its more intimate than a laptop”. Let’s compare it with a netbook and see why iPad may not be so hot except for its wow factor:
1. There is no multitasking feature. Well, cheap netbooks can multitask easily.
2. Screen is not widescreen. It’s perfect for reading books but what about watching movies.
iPad’s launch date has finally been officially announced. For US, the pre-orders start as of March 12 via Apple’s online store and it will be available in the stores from April 3. Other regions where sales are scheduled to start from late April cover are Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK.
In the meanwhile, check out this first iPad commercial that was aired yesterday at Oscars 2010:
Newsletter from Apple – “Apple today announced that its magical and revolutionary iPad will be available in the US on Saturday, April 3, for Wi-Fi models and in late April for Wi-Fi + 3G models. In addition, all models of iPad will be available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK in late April. Continue reading “iPad available in US from April 3; pre-orders start on March 12” »
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