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Video Chat Coming To The Next iPhone? All Signs Are Pointing To Yes

As they do with any major new iPhone OS release, people have been tearing apart the iPhone OS 4.0 SDK from the very second it was available. Almost immediately, someone noticed that bits and pieces of iChat had found their way into the new software.
By itself, it didn’t really make sense. The iPhone has plenty [...]

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Sun, April 11 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Adobe Vs. Apple War Generates Rage, Facebook Group

It was inevitable. Adobe has an unofficial Facebook fan club: “I’m With Adobe,” an allusion to the viral “I’m With Coco” campaign for jilted ex-Tonight Show host Conan O’Brien. As of Saturday afternoon, the group (started by John Addis, a Web & Media Director at Rizzi Designs) has attracted more than 1,200 members in [...]

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Sun, April 11 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Medialets’ Universal SDK Gets Android-Friendly

Medialets, an advertising and analytics startup, bet big on the iPhone early, rolling out its universal SDK at the launch of the App Store two years ago. And the startup just launched a universal SDK that works with the iPad. And the company’s Apple-centric strategy has paid off; Medialets is one of the most widely [...]

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Wed, April 7 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Kyte Jumps On the iPad’s HTML5 Bandwagon And Prepares An App SDK

When Steve Jobs tells the technology industry to get in line, it gets in line pretty quick. All the initial hair-pulling and angst surrounding Apple’s decision to not support Flash on the iPad is already mattering less and less. At least for video, most of the major online video platforms such as Brightcove [...]

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Tue, March 30 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

AdMob Launches New SDKs For Android And iPhone Platforms, Enhances Publisher Tools

AdMob, the mobile advertising unit bought by Google last year for a whopping $750 million, is upgrading its platform today. The company is launching new SDK’s for Android, Flash Lite and iPhone platforms and is also rolling out a number of new publisher tools, including a new publisher dashboard, an enhanced Reporting UI, a new [...]

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Tue, March 23 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Opera’s AdMarvel Partners With PointRoll For iPad Advertising Platform

Mobile advertising company AdMarvel, fresh off the heels of being acquired by Opera Software for a reported $8 million plus earn-out, has teamed up with Gannett subsidiary PointRoll to launch an advertising platform for Apple’s iPad.
Dubbed the iPad Advertising Platform, the companies aim to combine PointRoll’s rich media technology with AdMarvel’s mobile advertising capabilities.
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Tue, March 23 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Mozilla Engineer Writes Steve Ballmer; Promptly Takes Foot Out Of Mouth

Mozilla platform engineer Rob Sayre has probably had better ideas.
Hoping Microsoft might allow Firefox on their new Windows Phone 7 Series, Sayre wrote an open letter this morning to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. “Hola, amigo. I know it’s been a long time since I rapped at ya,” is how it starts.
He then proceeds to make [...]

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Sat, March 20 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments