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Commentary: Adobe, Apple, and the iPhone

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:03:00-0400

CNN has an interesting article about why there isn't Flash on the iPhone. The article lightly touches on the "Relationship": between Apple and Adobe. Unfortunately, the article makes a huge generalization stating that ; "Several yea...

Forbes a bit stingy on linking

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 16:37:00-0400

I was reading the latest Forbes article "No Flash In the Pan" by Dan Frommer, which is peppered with references to Adobe, Apple, On2, as well as osFlash.org (though Dan only referenced the Red5 project) and noticed that all the reference li...

USPTO Rejects 19 of 47 claims in JPEG Patent

Tue, 30 May 2006 13:58:00-0400

Computerworld reported that the U.S. patent office has issued an Office Action that rejected 19 of the 47 claims of the Forgent Networks '672 JPEG patent. The Public Patent Foundation initiated the request to have the USPTO reexamine the ...

Apple Starting to feel the effect of the Adobe Juggernaut

Fri, 28 Apr 2006 10:06:00-0400

Apple just announced a price reduction of Aperture from $499 to $299 as well as reports of significant staff reductions of the Aperture team. Could Apple be a bit worried about AdobeLightRoom, which is still in beta?

Blending of the Camera and Screen

Thu, 27 Apr 2006 10:41:00-0400

New Scientist (by way of Slashdot) is reporting on a new patent by Apple where the camera is part of the screen, by embedding the image sensors between the pixels. I find this particularly exciting. My suspension of disbelief when w...

Guy Kawasaki on Sucking Up

Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:30:00-0400

John Dowdell has an interesting viewpoint on Guy Kawasaki's article on How To Suck Up to a Blogger.First off, Guy Kawasaki is truly an amazing speaker. He could sell sand in the Sahara. I was fortunate enough to hear him speak to our grou...

Apple's touch sensitive GUI patent and Prior Art

Mon, 13 Feb 2006 13:45:00-0400

Since1968 blogged about Apple trying to get a patent for touch-sensitive input devices. Check out flashcomponents.net and navigate to Interfaces/widgets/Jogs/Potentiometer and Jog Knobs. Run that swf on a touch sensitive screen and ...

iPod and the Music Biz

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 00:00:00-0400

BusinessWeek is reporting that "Apple May Be Holding Back the Music Biz". The article makes an interesting point that other than file swapping, a large portion of the contents of iPods consists of the user ripping their old CD's. ...