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Today is Apple iPad day in the UK; but the portable device I’ve been playing with is not from Apple. Rather, I downloaded the first release build of MeeGo, proudly labelled 1.0, and installed it on my Toshiba NB 300 netbook, which normally runs Windows. You can choose between the evil edition with Google Chrome; …continue reading What chance for MeeGo in the age of the iPad? Spare a thought for iTunes user Peter Bilderback. His account was hacked and someone downloaded almost a $1000 worth of items from the iTunes store using his account. Bad stuff, but it happens. Bilderback wonders why Apple did not query the purchase of iPhone apps, when it knew that he had no iPhone – you …continue reading iTunes user has account hacked, loses access to his own purchases I’m just back from the BBC’s press briefing on the new iPlayer. This is a public beta. The press release is here. The big story is that social media features are now integrated. The idea is that you can post recommendations (or otherwise) to Twitter and Facebook about programmes you are viewing, or participate in …continue reading BBC iPlayer goes social Today Google announced that Chrome for Mac and Linux is now fully released: Since last December, we’ve been chipping away at bugs and building in new features to get the Mac and Linux versions caught up with the Windows version, and now we can finally announce that the Mac and Linux versions are …continue reading Google Chrome Mac and Linux arrives – may hurt Firefox more than Safari The UK government today announced that Becta, a government body to “promote technology in learning”, is to be closed. Becta stands for “British Educational Communications and Technology Agency”. I have mixed feelings about this, though in a period when severe cutbacks are required a body like Becta is hard to justify. I first came across …continue reading Farewell to Becta Yesterday’s Google I/O was remarkable for several reasons. The most significant was not a specific technical announcement, but rather the evidence for a successful Google-led alliance against Apple in the mobile device market (and perhaps also in home entertainment with Google TV). Apple has hardly put a foot wrong since Jobs rejoined the company in …continue reading A great day for Android at Google I/O; not convinced by Google TV 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 – …continue reading Google advances its platform – or should that be advances the Web? Last September, Microsoft and Intel announced a port of Silverlight to Moblin Linux. I posted on the subject here, including a quote from Microsoft’s Brian Goldfarb: Microsoft and Intel announced today that the two companies have agreed to work together to bring support for Silverlight 3 to Intel’s Atom-based Mobile Internet Devices (MID). These Atom-based …continue reading What is happening with Silverlight on Intel Moblin/Meego? Microsoft has filed a patent infringement actionagainst Salesforce.com. The Register has posted more details. The filing[pdf] lists nine counts of alleged infringement: 1. Method for mapping between logical data and physical data 2. System and method for providing and displaying a web page having an embedded menu 3. Method and system for stacking toolbars in …continue reading Microsoft sues Salesforce.com for patent infringement – but why? |
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