The next, big update for Windows Mobile will be - as Microsoft calls it - "6 on 6", which is Internet Explorer Mobile 6 on Windows Mobile 6.1. The current Internet Explorer Mobile code, as it is used for today's Windows Mobile devices and smartphones, is based on the pretty much outdated Internet Explorer 4.x, which was initially released back in September, 1997!
Read MoreThanks to a technological advance, Jim Denham, the assistive technology coordinator at the Perkins School for the Blind, who is visual impaired, can sit at
home by himself and browse among the thousands of audio books, podcasts
and albums digitally stored on Apple’s iTunes.
WebKit is the first browser engine to fully pass. A while back, it was posted that it scored 100/100 and matched the reference rendering. Now, thanks to recent speedups in JavaScript, DOM and rendering, it has passed the third condition, smooth animation on reference hardware.
Read MoreGoogle unveiled a cellphone tied globally to Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile network, a patent application suggests it is planning to rid users of the need to choose a single network at all.
The patent describes a system where instead of always connecting to one network, a phone, laptop or other wireless device invites all available networks to bid for your business. The US patent application was filed in March 2007 and published on 25th September.
Read MoreRight now you can use Flash to work around a lot of JavaScript limitations and many products use an invisible Flash movie to batch upload files, play movies in a screenreader accessible manner, automatically add content to the browser clipboard and more.
All of these will cease to work without user interaction in flash as reported on the adobe devnet. It is a real problem that will cease to make Flash a useful tool to patch inaccessible solutions.
Read MoreA security hole in Adobe Systems Inc software, used to distribute movies and TV shows over the Internet, is giving users free access to record and copy from Amazon.com Inc's video streaming service.
The problem exposes online video content to the rampant piracy that plagued the music industry during the Napster era and is undermining efforts by retailers, movie studios and television networks to cash in on a huge Web audience.
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Google is offering $10 million as prize money in a competition aimed at transforming the world's best ideas into useful products. As part of the company's 10th anniversary celebrations, Project 10 to the 100th asks people to submit ideas in seven categories to the project.
Read MoreThe first phone to use Google's Android operating system has been created by Taiwanese handset maker HTC, and T-Mobile will be unveiling it this week and bringing it to the U.S. market next month. The HTC Dream, aka the T-Mobile G1. The public appearance will be on Tuesday in New York.
Read MoreAdobe announces the Adobe Creative Suite 4 product family, an important release of the industry-leading design and development software. Delivering radical workflow breakthroughs that bridge the gap between designers and developers, the new Creative Suite 4 product line advances the creative process across print, Web, mobile, interactive, film and video production.With new levels of integration and expressiveness for Flash technology across the entire product line, Adobe’s biggest software release to date includes Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design editions, Creative Suite 4 Web editions, Creative Suite 4 Production Premium, Creative Suite 4 Master Collection, as well as 13 point products, 14 integrated technologies and seven services.
Read MoreIntroducing the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.1 release candidate. The ‘release candidate’ label indicates that this update is well tested but would benefit from additional community testing before it is distributed automatically to all customers. The goal is that the application be tested on a diversity of hardware and software configurations not available internally at Adobe.
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