Mobile apps aren’t an important factor in the success of a smartphone platform, Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie claimed today. Interviewed at the company’s Professional Developer Conference, the veteran developer tried to downplay apps as a lure and insisted that “all the apps that count” will be available on every smartphone as the time to write and port code is much shorter than on the desktop. Ozzie instead implied that it was the OS itself and its built-in features that would make the difference….
From the daily archives:
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
AT&T has invested nearly $65 million into 3G network upgrades in the San Francisco Bay area in response to massive growth in total data traffic over the past year.
Adobe has announced an update to its live audio and video capturing utility, Flash Media Live Encoder 3.1. The app is designed as a media encoder that streams both audio and video in real time to Flash Media Server software or the Flash Video Streaming Service. Users can perform up to three simultaneous encodes and save data to a local file during encoding. The upgrade provides support for Mac OS X, while retaining all of the features of FMLE 3 for Windows….
EA Mobile has launched two new games for the iPhone and iPod touch, Auditorium and Surviving High School. Auditorium is an audio-visual puzzle game where players must guide a ìFlowî of particles into audio containers. The game features five acts with up to 7 levels in each, and has variety of different ways for users to win each level. Players control the ìFlowî via the touchscreen, where they can attract, repel or deflect the light stream, while avoiding obstacles that can disrupt it. Users can also go to the in-game store and buy additional movement features such…
Shares of Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) have dipped sharply in mid-session trading as we are hearing that an analyst at Needham & Co. has downgraded the stock from …
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Dauger Research has announced Pooch and Pooch Pro 1.8 with new support for Snow Leopard. The clustering software provides a graphical user interface for its supercomputer-compatible parallel computing utiliities. Version 1.8 can configure, manage, monitor and maintain Mac clusters (also Linux clusters) and uses technology like BSD-standard sockets for communications, POSIX-standard paths for file access, and Apple’s open source mDNS library….
Snarb.tk has released a public beta of its new iTunes controller, Everplay. The new media player offers playback of music from iTunes libraries and Last.fm online radio services. It can browse and search for individual tracks, with metadata and playcounts both updated on the next launch of iTunes. Everplay also supports a jukebox mode for making playlists on the fly….
Electronic Arts on Tuesday announced that World Adventures, the first expansion pack for The Sims 3, will be available in stores worldwide this week. The expansion takes players to Egypt, China, and France, where they meet new characters, learn new skills, obtain new objects, and explore puzzle-filled underground locations.
Google’s rumored Chrome OS release should primarily center on its first public demo of the platform, a notice tonight. An event is said due on Thursday that should include a “complete overview” of the web-centric OS, including its technical underpinnings as well as demos. It’s now thought by TechCrunch that a code release is possible but that a more formal release isn’t coming until 2010….
Big In Japan’s popular Android app ShopSavvy has finally been ported to the iPhone platform. The software utilizes the phone’s integrated camera to scan barcodes, enabling users to quickly view information such as local and online prices and inventory availability. The app was believed to be awaiting the auto-focus capabilities of the latest iPhone 3GS, however the developer claims it is compatible with the full range of iPhone generations….
