Adobe will charge a royalty for use of “Premium features” in Flash Player

By tim, on March 29th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe has announced that from August 1 2012, developers who make use of hardware-accelerated Stage3D in Flash Player, in combination with Domain Memory, will pay a 9% net revenue share as royalty. Net revenue is what remains after taxes, payment processing fees and “social network platform fees” (sounds like Facebook) are deducted.

“Domain Memory”

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PhoneGap is Adobe, Cordova is Apache

By tim, on March 20th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

The hot cross-platform mobile toolkit PhoneGap was created by Nitobi, a company acquired by Adobe last year. Almost at the same time, the project was submitted to Apache as an open source project. However, the Apache project is not called PhoneGap; it was briefly known as Callback and is now called Cordova (the name

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Financial Times thrives on HTML 5, paywall, and snubbing Apple iTunes

By tim, on March 6th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

I spoke to Rob Grimshaw, Managing Director of FT.Com, shortly after Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, where the FT web app won an award for “Best Mobile Innovation for Publishing”.

I was interested in speaking to Grimshaw for two reasons.

First, the FT is a publication which has successfully managed the transition

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What’s in Windows 8 client for desktop users who do not need Metro?

By tim, on March 2nd, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft, rightly, is making plenty of noise about the Metro-style side of Windows 8, which is great for those using Windows 8 on a touch device. But has the company spent so much energy on that aspect, that there is little left for desktop users? That is arguable; but there are new features on

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Nokia at Mobile World Congress: one year after the Windows Phone shift, how is it doing?

By tim, on February 27th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Nokia CEO Stephen Elop reminded the press that this is the anniversary of the company’s big change of direction, when it adopted Windows Phone as its primary smartphone platform.

So how is it doing? Nokia’s speed of execution has been impressive. Since that announcement, the Lumia

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Tablets will be bigger than PCs. Are you ready?

By tim, on February 15th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Apple’s CEO Tim Cook spoke at the Goldman Sachs Technology Conference yesterday; Macrumors has what looks like a full transcript. Do not expect hot news; there is little or nothing in the way of announcements. It is interesting though as a recap of how Apple sees its future: iPad, iPhone, iCloud, Apple TV, maybe

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Compile Object Pascal to JavaScript with Smart Mobile Studio

By tim, on February 14th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Here is an interesting project for Delphi developers: a compiler and IDE that takes your Object Pascal code and outputs HTML and JavaScript.

Smart Mobile Studio, also known as OPJS (Object Pascal to JavaScript) is a project from Optimale Systemer AS, and supports not only the Object Pascal language. but also reusable

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Windows on ARM: Microsoft can write Desktop apps, but you cannot

By tim, on February 9th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft’s Windows chief Steven Sinofsky has written a long post describing Windows on ARM (WOA), which he says is a:

new member of the Windows family, much like Windows Server, Windows Embedded, or Windows Phone

There are many point of interest in the post, but the one which stands out for me is

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WebKit dominance threatens mobile web standards – but who will care?

By tim, on February 9th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Daniel Glazman, co-chairman of the W3C CSS working group, has written a strongly-worded post describing how the “over-dominance” of the WebKit rendering engine threatens web standards.

Everyone loves the open source WebKit, so how is this so? The issue is a complex one. Those who make web browsers do not want to be tied

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On BlackBerry 10, Cascades UI and Adobe AIR

By tim, on February 8th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

I spoke to Jeff Lejeune, RIM’s Advanced User Interface Director, here at BlackBerry DevCon Europe in Amsterdam.

He is part of the team responsible for the Cascades UI, a native code UI framework for the forthcoming BlackBerry 10 OS. One of the things he told me is that the Cascades name is actually being

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