Microsoft don't exactly have a spotless track record for "putting people first" over the interests of advertising: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/08/ie8-waterdown-privacy... Maybe attitudes have genuinely changed…
Navis of ASD who wrote the winning demo is ex-games industry: http://www.hugi.scene.org/online/hugi34/hugi%2034%20-%20demo... Smash of Fairlight who wrote the 2nd placed demo is in the games industry (at Sony Europe…
I posted the link because I'd guess the international readership of HN know about Branson/Virgin from the airline and music operations - which are clearly successful - whereas his domestic UK initiatives have a rather…
An alternative take on Branson and the Virgin empire: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2005/dec/12/digitalmedia.bro... (NB: article is 5 years old)
http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2010/05/announcing-google-app... See under the section "Enterprise Features". Note that this is a page about GAE for business, so I wouldn't be surprised if SQL databases require a…
I'll have to take your word for it re. the Android version of Angry Birds, as it fails to run properly on my Android phone, due to the fragmentation problems that Android advocates say are overblown.…
Yeah, but you have to monetize that larger market, and the Android world seems very much oriented around getting free stuff: http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/05/distimo-june-2010/ I think it's calmed down a bit recently,…
> Apple plays a great value game. That they are considered some sort of BMW of electronics is laughable. They are the Toyota of electronics: Great products, but if you really think they're exclusive... In some…
> But Apple don't seem intent on capturing the mass market. Absolutely - they're clearly more interested in profitability and not having to kow-tow to partners than market share. And who can blame them - would you…
Android won't become the dominant platform if for no other reasons than: (a) The carriers won't let any platform become dominant, as the owner of that platform would then be able to dictate terms. The original…
http://diveintohtml5.org/detect.html#techniques http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/download/detection... Now, if you have a browser which supports both HTML5 video and Flash, it's arguable which a player should…
Sorry, wrong link - the URL used for the iframe embed version (which I guess is what you'd use to include the video on a regular webpage, rather than the link I previously posted) is…
I've not done any exhaustive testing, but beware that some YouTube videos won't play in Mobile Safari, even though they play fine on the standalone iPad YT app. Instead you get the "You need to upgrade your Adobe Flash…
I suspect it's there in large part as a psychological "trick" to make the £2 charge for a week seem good value in comparison, and thus - in theory - make people be more inclined to sign up for that.
The Times iPad app is currently free - I think it has been for a while - so it may be that people are downloading it for the 30 day trial, with no intention of continuing when the charge kicks in, so possibly it's not…
Would seem to be more of a test of canvas than HTML5 in its entirity, given that over three quarters of the tests (179 out of 233) are canvas related. Also, I'm not sure how seriously I can take an HTML5 conformance…
Even using such a browser (Minefield 4.0b7), I get results that are best described as mixed on my machines when I view the presentation: - MacBook running WinXP Pro via BootCamp - works fine - Dell Inspiron 1110 running…
Microsoft don't exactly have a spotless track record for "putting people first" over the interests of advertising: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/08/ie8-waterdown-privacy... Maybe attitudes have genuinely changed…
Navis of ASD who wrote the winning demo is ex-games industry: http://www.hugi.scene.org/online/hugi34/hugi%2034%20-%20demo... Smash of Fairlight who wrote the 2nd placed demo is in the games industry (at Sony Europe…
I posted the link because I'd guess the international readership of HN know about Branson/Virgin from the airline and music operations - which are clearly successful - whereas his domestic UK initiatives have a rather…
An alternative take on Branson and the Virgin empire: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2005/dec/12/digitalmedia.bro... (NB: article is 5 years old)
http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2010/05/announcing-google-app... See under the section "Enterprise Features". Note that this is a page about GAE for business, so I wouldn't be surprised if SQL databases require a…
I'll have to take your word for it re. the Android version of Angry Birds, as it fails to run properly on my Android phone, due to the fragmentation problems that Android advocates say are overblown.…
Yeah, but you have to monetize that larger market, and the Android world seems very much oriented around getting free stuff: http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/05/distimo-june-2010/ I think it's calmed down a bit recently,…
> Apple plays a great value game. That they are considered some sort of BMW of electronics is laughable. They are the Toyota of electronics: Great products, but if you really think they're exclusive... In some…
> But Apple don't seem intent on capturing the mass market. Absolutely - they're clearly more interested in profitability and not having to kow-tow to partners than market share. And who can blame them - would you…
Android won't become the dominant platform if for no other reasons than: (a) The carriers won't let any platform become dominant, as the owner of that platform would then be able to dictate terms. The original…
http://diveintohtml5.org/detect.html#techniques http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/download/detection... Now, if you have a browser which supports both HTML5 video and Flash, it's arguable which a player should…
Sorry, wrong link - the URL used for the iframe embed version (which I guess is what you'd use to include the video on a regular webpage, rather than the link I previously posted) is…
I've not done any exhaustive testing, but beware that some YouTube videos won't play in Mobile Safari, even though they play fine on the standalone iPad YT app. Instead you get the "You need to upgrade your Adobe Flash…
I suspect it's there in large part as a psychological "trick" to make the £2 charge for a week seem good value in comparison, and thus - in theory - make people be more inclined to sign up for that.
The Times iPad app is currently free - I think it has been for a while - so it may be that people are downloading it for the 30 day trial, with no intention of continuing when the charge kicks in, so possibly it's not…
Would seem to be more of a test of canvas than HTML5 in its entirity, given that over three quarters of the tests (179 out of 233) are canvas related. Also, I'm not sure how seriously I can take an HTML5 conformance…
Even using such a browser (Minefield 4.0b7), I get results that are best described as mixed on my machines when I view the presentation: - MacBook running WinXP Pro via BootCamp - works fine - Dell Inspiron 1110 running…