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Apple, Asus, netbooks on the mind

Avatar for 9to5 Staff Oct 16 2008

You got to admit it, one person you never want to take on in a Poker game would have to be Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, surely?

Think about it. 

This man is one of the most accomplished truth deflectors in the business – we’re not saying he doesn’t tell the truth, he does, he’s pretty much always honest, he’s just good, really, really good at saying truthful things which make listeners think they hear the opposite of what he says

Remember Steve Jobs on enabling video playback for iPods, when he was so often heard to say, “the iPod is for listening to music, it’s not designed for video.”

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Campaign ad: McCain can't even use a Mac?

Avatar for 9to5 Staff Sep 12 2008

We aren’t taking sides here on any political fronts – our comments system probably couldn’t handle it.   Both candidates are amazing stories and we’ll leave it at that OK?

Anyway – Obama’s campaign has jumped on the "out of touch" message toward McCain by saying he "doesn’t use a computer" (see screengrab below).  Not even a nice new MacBook Pro?  Come on, even a 72 year old war vet can use a MacBook.  I call BS!

http://services.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/1185304443

To be fair, the Obama campaign team used Brush Script in the Ad which is just as 1982 as not using computers (thanks comment).  When McCain has an Apple related ad, we’ll throw it up – promise!

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Mossberg video on MacBook Air

Avatar for 9to5 Staff Jan 26 2008

The big boys of personal technology have gotten their reviews out.  Of course,  Walt’s is usually the best.  We always take these reviews with a grain of salt because the the access to early products from Apple may inspire more favorable reviews than would otherwise be given.  I also did a blog post on Computerworld of my pre-firsthand thoughts (wait for Rev2).  Other big sites have gotten early releases and have gained some more information.  Most notably, Ed Baig from USA Today.  Gizmodo.   Engadget.  Macworld.  Newsweek.  NYTimes.

http://services.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/452319854

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Mossberg comes out (yet again) against the US mobile cartel

Avatar for 9to5 Staff Dec 19 2007

 

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You have to admire Walt Mossberg for taking his position as grand exalted leader amongst technology journalists directly to the US telecoms.  He is single handedly trying to break the hold on consumers that the Sprint/Tmobile/AT&T/Verizon Cartel has on the US Mobile industry.  To his credit, he has gotten Verizon to promise that in Q3 2008, that it will accept any device on its platform – as long as it meets a very simple set of requirements (like no VoIP?).  If he were running for Office, we’d vote for him. 

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New York Times' videos to play on iPad for launch?

Avatar for 9to5 Staff Mar 29 2010

Apple may be able to keep those New York Times homescreen videos on their iPad demo videos afterall.  Brightcove last night sent out a press release (below) saying that they’ve developed an HTML5 solution for their partner’s websites.  That includes the New York Times (a Brightcove investor) and Time, both of which should be available at launch, this week.

The New York Times and TIME Inc. are already using the product, which provides support for intelligent device detection, playlist rendering, and playback of H.264 encoded video content.

Interestingly, Jeremy Allaire, Brightcove’s founder and CEO, was also the founder of ColdFusion which was purchased by Macromedia in in 2001.  At Macromedia, Jeremy became CTO and helped create the Macromedia MX (Flash) platform before leaving and starting Brightcove in 2004.


Some of Brightcove’s customers (also IDG/Computerworld)

When you consider that the WSJ, NPR, CBS, and now Brightcove’s customers will have Flash replacements at the launch of the iPad, it looks like Steve Jobs’ crusade to get HTML5 video out the door has been pretty successful so far. 

As of this writing, the NYTimes.com and Time.com still don’t play video on the iPad simulator but we’ll be keeping an eye out for any changes.

Brightcove press release follows:

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Wired Tablet profiled, questions about iPad remain

Avatar for 9to5 Staff Feb 16 2010

Wired today offers an update on their tablet work from their earlier concepts.  While they say that they are designing for the iPad and iPhone, they’ve created this product on Adobe Air from the same Adobe InDesign files they use to create their award-winning magazine.   If it isn’t obvious by now, Apple isn’t going to allow Adobe Air or Flash on the iPad.  They say:

Although the Wired Reader starts as an AIR app, Adobe has created tools that allow us to easily convert it for major tablet and mobile platforms. In Barcelona this week, Adobe announced that AIR would run on Android, and Adobe has already announced its Packager for iPhone tool that will allow Flash apps (including AIR) to run on Apple mobile platforms. And AIR already runs natively on Mac, Windows and Linux operating systems.

So is Adobe offering some magical Adobe Air to iPad conversion tool?  It isn’t out of the realm of possibility, since they’ve got a Flash CS5-> iPhone app exporter already in production.

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