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Creative Pros prefer iOS says Adobe, explaining lack of Android support in new apps

By tim, on May 7th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe has shown a new touch app for Kuler, its web application for creating and choosing colour themes, which will be available in June.

I asked Scott Morris, Senior Marketing Director of Creative Cloud, about Android and whether apps like this will also be supported there.

“That is coming out to begin with at

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Google forks WebKit into Blink: what are the implications?

By tim, on April 4th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

Yesterday Google announced that it is forking WebKit to create Blink, a new rendering engine to be used in its Chrome browser:

Chromium uses a different multi-process architecture than other WebKit-based browsers, and supporting multiple architectures over the years has led to increasing complexity for both the WebKit and Chromium projects. This has slowed down

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Power shifts at Mobile World Congress: Samsung rises, Apple absent, Google hidden, Microsoft missing

By tim, on February 27th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

Mobile World Congress, now under way in Barcelona, is a big event. Exact numbers are not available, but I have heard talk of 70,000 trade attendees; it is not something you can safely ignore if you have a presence in the mobile industry.

Nevertheless Apple chooses to ignore it, preferring its own exclusive events.

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Android up, Apple down, Microsoft so near, so far: 2012 in review

By tim, on December 31st, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

What happened in 2012?

Windows 8

Whether you regard it as the beginning of the end for Windows, or a moment of rebirth, for me it was the year of Windows 8. Microsoft’s new Windows is fascinating on several levels: as a bold strategic move to make a desktop operating system into a tablet operating

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The disruption of pay as you go hardware – and I do not mean leasing

By tim, on December 3rd, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Last week Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos spoke at a “Fireside Chat” with AWS (Amazon Web Services) chief Werner Vogels. It was an excellent and inspirational performance from Bezos.

If there was a common theme, it was his belief in the merit of low margins, which of necessity keep a business efficient. Low margins

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Infragistics building cross-platform development strategy on XAML says CEO

By tim, on November 30th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

I spoke to Dean Guida, CEO at Infragistics, maker of components for Windows, web and mobile development platforms. Windows developers with long memories will remember Sheridan software, who created products including Data Widgets and VBAssist. Infragistics was formed in 2000 when Sheridan merged with another company, ProtoView.

In other words, this is a company

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Telerik Icenium: new desktop and cloud IDE for mobile development

By tim, on October 22nd, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

When I heard that Telerik is bringing out a new IDE for mobile app development, I could contain my excitement, especially after learning that it is another PhoneGap/Cordova based approach, wrapping JavaScript and HTML as a native app. While speaking to Telerik’s Doug Seven though, I found myself increasingly impressed.

If that name sounds familiar,

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Mac App Store, Windows Store, and the decline of the open platform

By tim, on July 30th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Valve Software’s Gabe Newell caused a stir recently when he said at the Casual Connect event in Seattle that Microsoft’s Window 8 is bad news gfor game vendors:

I think Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space. I think we’ll lose some of the top-tier PC/OEMs, who will exit the market.

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Microsoft to make its own tablet called Surface, puts Windows RT centre stage

By tim, on June 19th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft has announced its own tablet, called Surface, for “work and play”, said CEO Steve Ballmer at an event in Los Angeles yesterday.

The first of what will be a family of devices has a 10.6” Corning Gorilla Glass screen, is just 9.3mm thick, and has a magnesium “VaporMg” case with a built-in stand/magnetic

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