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We Love Apple – Adobe

May 13, 2010 by Avinash Leave a Comment

Adobe is thinking different countering Apple’s hate with love.

This blog readers already knew that Steve Jobs announced in the past of removing Flash support from Apple products –

http://avinashkblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/we-are-removing-flash-support-from.html

Today Adobe started a new campaign to the world that they love openness and Apple through essays, ads, etc.

Adobe says:

 

We love creativity

We love innovation

We love apps

We love the web

We love Flash

We love our 3 million developers

We love healthy competition

We love touch screens

We love our Open Screen Project partners

We love HTML5

We love authoring code only once

We love all devices

We love all platforms

What we don’t love is anybody taking away

your freedom to choose what you create, how you create it,

and what you experience on the web

Filed Under: Apple, Best Of

Google to bring new ‘iPad Killer’ Tablet with Verizon

May 13, 2010 by Avinash Leave a Comment

Google seems to be working on a Tablet to rival Apple’s wonder tablet computer; the iPad.

google-tablet

However, to the most of us this shouldn’t come as a surprise as Google had previously shown interest in bringing Android and Chrome OS to the market on a tablet computer and even shared a video mock-up.

For now the details of the tablet are all under the hood but now with Microsoft Courier and HP Slate out of the scene, this is our only contender for the ‘iPad Killer’ but will it be?

Filed Under: Google

Microsoft Natal to Launch in October; Confirmed!

May 12, 2010 by Avinash Leave a Comment

Project Natal is a controller free gaming and entertainment experience by Microsoft for the Xbox 360 Video game platform. Experience it at http://www.xbox.com/en-us/live/projectnatal/

 

The latest scoop  in the series confirms that Microsoft plans to launch Natal in October this year. This was confirmed by Syed Bilal Tariq speaking to GamerTagRadio who happens to be the Marketing Manager for Microsoft Saudi Arabia.

“[The launch of Project Natal] is going to be somewhere in October and we will be in a position to confirm the date at E3, which is in June, but definitely it is going to be October 2010.”

Natal will definitely offer first-of-its-kind experience to all gamers out there and even for entertainment as Microsoft plans to expand the Natal technology to TV and media devices.

Filed Under: Microsoft

Apple developing Flash alternative named Gianduia

May 12, 2010 by Avinash Leave a Comment

As Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight duke it out over their plugin-based, HTML-alternative web platforms, Apple is using Gianduia, its new a client-side, standards based framework for Rich Internet Apps, to create production quality online apps for its retail users.

Apple introduced Gianduia last summer at WOWODC (World of WebObjects Developer Conference), an independent event scheduled near the company’s own WWDC event in June. It is likely that more information will surface at this year’s WOWODC and WWDC events.

Gianduia, named after an Italian hazelnut chocolate, is "essentially is browser-side Cocoa (including CoreData) + WebObjects, written in JavaScript by non-js-haters," according to a tweet by developer Jonathan "Wolf" Rentzsch. "Jaw dropped."

After watching the NDA demo Apple gave for the new framework at WOWODC last year, Rentzch also tweeted, "Blown away by Gianduia. Cappuccino, SproutCore and JavascriptMVC have serious competition. Serious."

Source: AppleInsider

Filed Under: Apple

More Web Industry Leaders Quit Facebook, Call For Open Alternative

May 12, 2010 by Avinash Leave a Comment

A number of high-profile web industry leaders have quit Facebook this week, a turn of events that’s sure to heat up conversation about the social network’s perceived transgressions. Tonight leading video podcaster Leo Laporte announced that he’s closed his Facebook account and made a financial donation in support of Diaspora, a project working to create an alternative social network outside of Facebook’s control.

Laporte said he was convinced to make the move by a post written by entrepreneur Jason Calacanis, in which Calacanis called Facebook a "monster" and called for users to throw their support behind OpenID and advocates of distributed social networking as open as the internet. Calacanis to date has not canceled his own Facebook account.

Earlier this week, uber-blogger Peter Rojas, co-founder of Engadget and Gizmodo, announced on Twitter that he has deactivated his Facebook account. "The issue," he said, "is that users should have real control over what is shared, that’s all. FB keeps taking that away."

Last month a number of Google employees made high-profile exits from Facebook, though as employees of Facebook’s leading competitor their departures are a little more complicated.

A search on Twitter for deactivated Facebook turns up a number of interesting thoughts from other people doing just that, though it’s hardly a torrent of quitters in the face of more than 400 million Facebook users.

Deactivating or deleting your Facebook account is a fairly drastic step for a self-promoter to take, and it’s not clear where these people were when OpenID and the movement for distributed social networking had their biggest pushes over the last several years. But now the chorus of Facebook critics is getting very loud.

What an Alternative Might Look Like

An ideal alternative would probably not be a single replacement social network, but the creation of an interoperable social networking protocol. That way multiple vendors would compete based on quality of service and would keep each other honest, while still allowing users of different services to message and subscribe to each other much like customers of different phone carriers can call each other.

That’s many the ideal alternative many people have proposed to a near monopoly over mainstream social networking by Facebook. Of all the biggest 2nd-tier social networks currently online, Google Buzz is most in line with this vision of standards-based interoperability.

Arguing Privacy With Facebook

We’ve argued at length for months that Facebook is wrong about privacy. A thorough counter-argument is made on the New York Times today by Elliot Schrage, vice president for public policy at Facebook. Unfortunately, Mr. Schrage continues trying to frame the new changes as increased control for users and everything as opt-in (you chose to use the service, after all!).

-Post adapted from RWW

Filed Under: Social Media

Twitter: Serious Flaw

May 10, 2010 by Avinash 5 Comments

Twitter, the popular short message service has a serious flaw that can impact your feeds and timelines. If you tweet accept @k_avinash, you will automatically be added to that persons follow list.
What exactly does this mean?  It means that anyone can force themselves into your “follow” list without your approval.  No longer do you have control over whom you will follow or who is posting information to your feeds. This works with both native and third party clients.
If a spammer were to exploit this flaw, the results could be devastating to the Twitter service.  A simple script could easily force a spammer’s message into thousands of feeds.  A tactic such as this could render the service useless if it becomes overwhelmed with spam. Malicious users could also use it to DM spam users with links and tweets.
Twitter has confirmed they are working on a fix for the issue. All users are currently displaying “0 followers” at present.

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Post adapted from Neowin. Image credit goes to @k_avinash
Direct update from Twitter:
Follow bug discovered, remedied. We identified and resolved a bug that permitted a user to “force” other users to follow them. We’re now working to rollback all abuse of the bug that took place. Follower/following numbers are currently at 0; we’re aware and this too should shortly be resolved.

Filed Under: Social Media

Google Apps To Become More Connected—Adding Picasa, Reader, AdWords And More

May 7, 2010 by Avinash Leave a Comment

I love that my Gmail account can connect to iGoogle, YouTube, Blogger, Picasa, and other products in the Google family, making the transition between applications seamless and easy.

Google is now planning to bring this interconnectivity to Google Apps. Google says 9 of the top 20 requests from Apps customers are for their accounts to work with more services from Google. Currently, Apps works with Gmail, Docs, Chat, Groups, Video and Calendar. Later this year, Google will roll out functionality with Apps for Picasa, Google Reader, AdWords, News, Finance, and other products. Users won’t need to switch between their personal and work account to interact with these products from within the Apps interface.

Filed Under: Google

Visa to Launch Contactless Mobile Payments for iPhone

May 6, 2010 by Avinash Leave a Comment

Want to pay for purchases by waving your iPhone in front of a payment terminal at checkout? That will soon be a reality thanks to a new partnership between Visa Inc. and DeviceFidelity, who have teamed up to launch a mobile payment technology for iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS devices.

payWave for iPhone

According to the release, the new Apple-certifed technology combines a protective iPhone case with a secure memory card that will host Visa’s contactless payment application, Visa payWave.

The iPhone-enabled payWave technology, too, will be made available at thousands of merchants, claims the release, including fast food restaurants, retail stores, in taxis, during sporting events (such as baseball games) and even at vending machines that have contactless payment terminals.

Beyond iPhone: Works on Any Phone with a Memory Card Slot

What’s even better about this news is that the mobile payment technology won’t be limited to iPhones. It will also work with "a majority of smart phones that have a slot for a memory card," which means that owners of other popular smartphones won’t necessarily be out of luck. To use Visa’s technology on non-iPhones, users can insert the card into their phone’s memory slot to transform their phones into mobile payment devices.

Apparently, Visa has found a workaround for the lack of NFC phones by embedding the computer chip needed into specially designed iPhone cases instead.

Source:    RWW

Filed Under: Apple

Facebook Security Flaw: See your Friends’ chats

May 5, 2010 by Avinash Leave a Comment

A famous blog has pointed out a shocking security flaw in Facebook that allows users to see the live chats.

There is an option in privacy settings, under personal information and posts, that allows you to preview your profile as it would look to one of your Facebook friends. You are then able to select one of you friends and view it, literally, from their eyes.

The feature works so well, that if your friend happens to be live chatting at the time, you will see their conversations in action.

Steve O’Hear posted the video below, showcasing the problem.

 

Update: After a few hours Facebook sent us this statement.

“For a limited period of time, a bug permitted some users’ chat messages and pending friend requests to be made visible to their friends by manipulating the “preview my profile” feature of Facebook privacy settings. When we received reports of the problem, our engineers promptly diagnosed it and temporarily disabled the chat function. We also pushed out a fix to take care of the visible friend requests which is now complete. Chat will be turned back on across the site shortly. We worked quickly to resolve this matter, ensuring that once the bug was reported to us, a solution was quickly found and implemented.”

Source: Techcrunch

Filed Under: Social Media

Apple sells over 1 Million iPads and still Counting!

May 4, 2010 by Avinash Leave a Comment

Apple has just unveiled some statistics that suggest iPad is definitely the people favorite gadget.

The Cupertinos have managed to sell more than 1 million iPad and that too in less than a month, in 28 days to be precise. iPad besides being larger in size to iPhone, has also proved to have a larger fan following since the iPhone reached the same landmark after 74 days of its launch.

Just remind yourself of this fact – the iPad is currently available for US folks only and still has managed to reach this milestone. This says a lot doesn’t it. Here’s how the influential Steve Jobs described it

One million iPads in 28 days—that’s less than half of the 74 days it took to achieve this milestone with iPhone. Demand continues to exceed supply and we’re working hard to get this magical product into the hands of even more customers.

The other notable points include the number of download apps surpassing the 12 million count and the impressive count of over 1.5 million ebooks being downloaded from the extremely gorgeous iBookstore.

Source:   http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/05/03ipad.html

Filed Under: Apple

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