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Samsung Galaxy Tab – among the first of many iPad clones

By tim, on September 2nd, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Samsung has announced final details and specifications of the Galaxy Tab, a tablet device running Android 2.2 “Froyo”.

It has a 7-inch1024x600 multi-touch screen, 1.00 Ghz processor, GPS, wi-fi, 3G internet, 1.4 megapixel webcam, 7 hours battery life if playing a video (I imagine much longer than that in normal use)

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Silverlight versus HTML, Flash – Microsoft defends its role

By tim, on September 2nd, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft’s Brad Becker, Director of Product Management for Developer Platforms, has defended the role of Silverlight in the HTML 5 era. Arguing that it is natural for HTML to acquire some of the features previously provided by plug-ins – “because some of these features are so pervasive on the web that they are seen

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Develop for Adobe Flash/Flex in Amethyst for Visual Studio

By tim, on August 25th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

SapphireSteel Software is poised to release Amethyst, which lets you develop Flash and Flex applications with Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2008 or 2010.

Why bother? There’s two aspects to this. One is simply the comfort factor: if you are a .NET developer used to Visual Studio, but now working on Flash or Flex, this could

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Render SWF in JavaScript – a solution for Flash on iPhone/iPad?

By tim, on August 9th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Looking at the blazing-fast JavaScript in IE9 Preview 4 made me wonder if anyone had tried to write a SWF renderer in JavaScript. SWF is the Adobe Flash file format and a published specification.

Of course someone has. Tobias Schneider has been working on Gordon and built his first full release in June.

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SOA, REST and Flash/Flex – why Flash does not PUT

By tim, on August 2nd, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe’s Duane Nickull has an illuminating post on how the Flash player handles REST. Nickull is responding to a post by Malcolm Box in which he complains how hard it is to use Flash with a REST web service. Box observes that Flash cannot send POST, PUT and DELETE requests when running in the

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Big browser and RIA news: Canvas comes to Internet Explorer 9

By tim, on June 24th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

I’ve just installed the third Internet Explorer Platform Preview (on a virtual machine just in case) and run through a few of the demos. One of the most impressive is Canvas Pad, which demonstrates the HTML 5 Canvas element.

Canvas is particularly interesting, since it provides a surface to which you can draw

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Adobe financials: strong Creative Suite 5 and Flash, claims company undervalued

By tim, on June 23rd, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe has released its financial results for its second quarter, reporting $227.3 million net income (GAAP) compared to $161.4 million in the same quarter last year; and revenue of $943 million which it says is 34% year on year growth.

Much of this is thanks to a successful launch for Creative Suite 5, which

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Flash and AIR for Windows Phone 7 by mid 2011?

By tim, on June 15th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

I’m at an Adobe partner conference in Amsterdam – not for the partner sessions, but to be one of the judges for tomorrow’s application showcase. However, I’ve been chatting to Michael Chaize, a Flash Platform evangelist based in Paris, and picked up a few updates on the progress of Flash and AIR on mobile

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Google advances its platform – or should that be advances the Web?

By tim, on May 20th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Yesterday Google presented its latest platform innovations at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco. Its strategy is relatively clear: to improve web applications so that you can do everything you need in the browser. The client pieces are HTML 5 – though bear in mind that this is not yet a fixed standard

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Java versus C/C++ performance – which is really faster?

By tim, on May 13th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Cliff Click of Azul Systems has an excellent post on Java vs C/C++ performance:

Is Java faster than C/C++? The short answer is: it depends.

He then presents three categories of cases: the first C/C++ beats Java, the second where Java beats C/C++, and the third and longest, where C/C++ proponents claim Java is

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