Technology News

Facebook Shows off New Tools to Socialize the Entire Web

Source: All About Jazz
April 21, 2010

Facebook is launching a new suite of tools that bring the Facebook social experience to any site on the web. The company is releasing a set of products called Social Plugins, which any web publishers can drop into their website using one very simple line of code. These plug-ins will let visitors Like news stories, photos and so on. Once a user likes something, it instantly gets added to the appropriate section of their Facebook profile. The plug-ins are part ...

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The Gloves Come off in Fight Between Apple and Adobe

Source: Michael Ricci
April 21, 2010

After much coaxing from media commentators observing the subtle conflicts between Apple and Adobe Systems, the two technology giants appear ready to step into the ring. Mike Chambers, Adobe's product manager for the Flash video platform, published a blog post on Monday with a series of direct and harsh words aimed at Apple. The Cupertino-based maker of the iPhone said earlier this month it would block a program that would let Flash developers easily port their apps to Apple's mobile ...

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Adobe Gives Up on Flash for iPhone, iPad

Source: All About Jazz
April 21, 2010

Adobe will no longer pursue its plans to bring Flash to Apple's iPhone and the iPad. Adobe on Tuesday evening said it is ceasing investment in a software tool that enables Flash developers to port software into native iPhone and iPad apps, according to Mike Chambers, Adobe's principal product manager for Flash developer relations. The primary goal of Flash has always been to enable cross-browser, platform and device development, Chambers wrote in a blog post. This is the exact opposite ...

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Apple Didn't Leak iPhone, and Why That Matters

Source: All About Jazz
April 21, 2010

A controlled leak? The lost iPhone planted by Apple? You have no idea how Apple PR works and how, like it or not, Gizmodo finally beat them at their own game. The only way the iPhone 4 was a controlled leak is if Apple has completely upended its PR strategy, which is the envy of the entire business world. The only way it could even work, presuming it were true, would be the destruction of a decade of meticulously laid ...

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Unreleased Apple 4G iPhone Dissected

Source: All About Jazz
April 21, 2010

4G iPhone Autopsy: We took apart the next iPhone.

There are a number of interesting facts gained from the dissection, the most important of which is more concrete confirmation (as if we needed any more) that this phone is from Apple. There are three separate places, inside the case, where APPLE is written prominently. Upon unscrewing the bottom two screws just like with the 3GS you can use a suction cup and pry off the back portion of the phone, ...

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Google Photographers Go Beyond Where No Photographers Have Gone Before: Inside Businesses

Source: Michael Ricci
April 20, 2010

Google is now accepting applications from businesses to be among the first places the company sends photographers to take panoramic photographs of the insides of buildings. Street view? You aint seen nothing yet. We reported in February on rumors that this project was in the works. The company says the photographs will be taken by professionals trained in low-lighting, will be as unobtrusive as possible, will initially be traditional in format and will be stitched together to form panoramas in ...

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For Apple, Lost iPhone is a Big Deal

Source: Michael Ricci
April 20, 2010

For anyone who has ever lost a cellphone, remember this: it could be worse. You could be the person who left his phone in a bar in California. And it wasnt just any phone; it was a supersecret version of the next iPhone. That model is not expected to be formally unveiled for a couple of months. For the people at Apple, it must be like a bad version of the guy walks into a bar joke. The company is ...

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Facebook Integration Coming to the iPhone?

Source: Michael Ricci
April 20, 2010

Facebook's iPhone application is one of the most popular programs in Apple's App Store. But if recent rumors are true, some of that app's functionality could be available to iPhone owners out of the box when the hardware company releases iPhone OS 4.0 later this year. According to a report from Gunning for Safety, the safety blog has discovered evidence in the developer preview of iPhone OS 4.0 that Facebook friends and events could be integrated into the new software. ...

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