June 29, 2012
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You may not have noticed at the time but Adobe told us back in February that Flash Player would not not supported on Android 4.1 and users should uninstall Flash Player prior to upgrading to Android 4.1, Jelly Bean. Adobe was serious. There will be no Flash for Android 4.1.
So, if you were wondering why so many Android 4.1 demos at Google I/O were in HTML5. Well, now you know.
No Flash for Android 4.1, Jelly Bean, users. More >
June 29, 2012
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Some people wonder whether developers should pre-order the Google Glass for $1,500. My response? Shut up and take my money!
What!? I can only order one if I’m attending Google I/O. ARGH!!!
It’s not that I think Google can do no wrong. Oh boy can they ever. What were they thinking when they came up with the Nexus Q, Google’s answer to the Apple TV??
You see I think that Google Glass may just be the Next Big Thing in computing. And, not just because Google had guys sky-drive to the Moscone Center with a pair. Well, OK, that did help some. It was, after all, the Best Tech Demo ever.
June 28, 2012
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At Google I/O , Google’s Senior VP of Chrome and Apps, Sundar Pichaihasm announced that Samsung’s Series 3 Chromebox and Series 5 Chromebook will soon be available in Best Buy stores in the US and Dixons in the UK.
Contrary to what some people are saying, this is far from the first time that Linux-powered PCs have been sold by major retailers. Back in 2008, Best Buy, Sears, and Wal-Mart were all selling Linux desktops. These were all netbooks—low-powered, low-priced laptops. At the time, Microsoft was still trying to talk people into using Vista and people hated Vista.
Microsoft eventually realized that no one was buying Vista at the low-end, and darn few people at at any end really, and so they brought back Windows XP Home in the end of 2008. Microsoft followed this up by selling XP Home at below cost to original equipment manufacturers to kill off the Linux netbook market. Microsoft was successful. By May 2010, ASUS, which had been desktop Linux’s biggest OEM supporter, quietly abandoned the Linux netbook.
That was in 2008. This is 2012.
The Linux desktop, thanks to Chromebooks, goes retail. More >
June 28, 2012
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I wanted to like Google TV. The first models really don’t work that well. I really wanted to like Google’s Nexus Q streaming media player. It was supposed to be a new take on bring Internet video to your TV. It’s not. Feh!
First, here are the facts. The Nexus Q is a black orb, 4.6 inches in diameter, with a ring of 32 LEDs that “shift and change color in time to your music.” You know I had something like that in the 70s attached to my four-track tape and turntable stereo set. This makes the Nexus Q kind of retro-cool, but I’m not sure it’s so cool I’ll want to buy one.
June 27, 2012
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FuseSource is one of those companies that makes software frameworks that big businesses use every day, but chances are you’ve never heard of them. Linux giant Red Hat however, did know about them and brought them from parent company Progress Software.
FuseSource is a provider of open-source application integration and messaging frameworks and services. FuseSource’s products are based on Apache ServiceMix, Apache ActiveMQ, Apache CXF and Apache Camel. The name of the game with all these programs is to provide a enterprise service bus (ESB). This is part of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) model. An SOA, in turn, is a way to get programs to work with each other without being tightly coupled together. So, for example, you could use FuseSource programs and its services to get a Windows .NET Web-based application to work with a Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python (LAMP) program.
June 27, 2012
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t took them look enough, but with the next release of Android, Jelly Bean, Google has finally brought its Chrome Web browser to Android.
Google brought its popular Chrome Web browser to Android Ice Cream Sandwich as a beta feature earlier this year. Today, at Google Input/Output, Google quietly showed that Chrome will now be built into Jelly Bean.
Of course, getting your hands on Jelly Bean, like any new version of Android, depends on your vendor. Jelly Bean itself won’t arrive on anyone’s phone—except for developers—until mid July. The first device to include Chrome is the brand new Asus Google Nexus 7.