Some of you have must have seen the documents published by Adobe on devnet that talk about several details of the Flash Lite digital home platform. One of the powerful features of the Flash Lite for digital home is the ability to be able to extend Actionscript. You can create your own Actionscript commands, define them and implement corresponding logic in Flash Lite code. For example, you can have a command to change volume of TV, or channel or fetch updated data for an ad- etc. etc. This is a very powerful feature and is available for Flash Lite on digital home devices. ......continue reading

Fiercemobile is reporting that On2 Technologies has been acquired by Google. As you know, On2 VP6 codec has been at the heart of Flash since Flash 8 and is popular in video streaming. Google apparently paid $106.5 million. Read the press release here. ......continue reading

At Adobe MAX in Japan, Adobe anounced that till date there have been more than 100 million installations of AIR. More impressive than that is the fact that Flash 10 is already on 55 percent of worldwide PCs, and is expected to go to 80% in Q2/09. Some other interesting points are: ......continue reading

Freescale is demoing $199 laptop based on its latest 1GHz iMX515 processor at CES. The processor is based on ARM architecture and among other things offers support for codecs, OpenGL/VG and not to mention, Flash Lite. It claims that because of all the hardware support for Flash Lite, it will give users satisfactory experience. ......continue reading

OK- since Intel blamed Apple for choosing ARM (and not having Flash), it has sort of issued an apology saying that the comments were inappropriate.  One of the main reasons why Atom is not in iPhone is clearly because of its power consumption. If one was to put Atom in iPhone, the battery may just drain in few minutes as compared to a few hours today. Atom may be much better suited to run Flash, but an iPhone that needs charging every few hours isn’t going to do any good to Apple or us! ......continue reading

eWeek recently published Kevin Lynch’s interview(for those of you who don’t know, Kevin Lynch is Adobe’s CTO). The article talks about wide range of topics, including CS4, open Screen and Flash . Here is some interesting stuff: ......continue reading

Yahoo is reporting that FCC has approved HTC’s GPhone that runs Android. The press release goes onto say that the phone will operate in TMobile’s 3G network, and will work in 1700 MHz band. ......continue reading

Flash 7 port running on directfb/gtk Linux is now available to OEM licensees. Directfb is popular in Set Top Boxes running Linux and is a much powerful layer than Linux framebuffer. Why would anyone still want Flash 7? Well ......continue reading

                        Here’s an interesting analogy- would you consider Flash and Silverlite being equivalent of Coke and Pepsi? This was a comment made by a devoted Flash developer Noel Green in an article when discussing with the reporter apparently! ......continue reading

A recent blog in EDN suggests that Infineon CEO was ousted because of difference of strategy with the board and hints that a merger of NXP, Freescale and Infineon is possible. This is not surprising considering the fact that the average price of chip is dropping, margins are shrinking even though the volume is increasing.  It is just a matter of time when today’s top 10 companies merge into 3 or 4 large companies. ......continue reading

                   Adobe Flash player 10 beta is now available.  Among the feature enhanacement it boasts more 3D effects, more filters, 3D apis, better text layout. Did I say that it is optimized for CPU? And it is supposed to play video much smoothly than Flash 9. (Everybody must have seen how Flash 9 randomly drops frames in full screen mode). ......continue reading

 OK- this news is going to come as big surprise to some people- Adobe is opening up swf and flv- and also publishing Flash platform code (that’ll allow you to port Flash to your device)…. ......continue reading

 TieCON East 2008, taking place on May 29 and 30 at Westin Waltham features a panel on new business models in wireless. The panel will focus on business being generated from emerging mobile technologies such as search, advertising, social networking etc. It is being moderated by Mark Lowenstein, and Jeff Glass (From mQube, now with Bain Capital), and Walt Doyle of uLocate are on the panel. ......continue reading

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A recent article in EE Times suggests that AT&T has won rights to ‘B’ and ‘C’ block spectrum in 700 MHz band. These two spectrums have less strict regulations than the block ‘A’ won by Verizon, and so AT&T believes that they can quickly ramp up the infrastructure for 4G networks.  4G networks promise download speeds upto 236.4 MBPS according to Wikipedia. ......continue reading