The website digitimes showed up some information about a buy on WebOS by Samsung. Raymond Wah, the vice president of the HP PC division, have been attracted to lead the Samsung’s PC division. They also in negotiation to purchase the division of WebOS. Samsung and HP denies these rumors.
Adobe launched Edge, the HTML5 alternative for Flash
The struggle between Flash and HTML5 has been around for a few years now. The support for Flash on iOS devices was not available giving Adobe a hard time to keep Flash around. But with the release of Edge they changed there strategy. With this new piece of software web-developers are able to easily create web animations with HTML5.
Information about Windows 8
A while back Microsoft has delivered some facts about the new version of Windows, we want to sum some of these facts. Microsoft new version of Windows will put it focus on touch, just like Apple did with their new OSX codename “Lion”. They introducing a new interface, based on the tiles we had seen on the Windows Phone 7. This interface is mainly focused on tablet interfaces, but will be used and seen on all devices such as laptops, desktops and others systems.
Windows 8 gets the looks of mobile
The new Windows mobile was fully focused to touch. The total user interface had an overhaul to make it more work for a mobile device. Now this technology has been ported towards the desktop version of Windows, Windows 8. Is this the correct approach? I don’t really know. Its all focused on devices with a touch screen, and currently the majority of the users don’t have a computer with a touch screen. The start-up screen now also works with tiles, and you can flip screens back and forth. Microsoft posted a YouTube video of all this cool stuff, but they use the hands as a pointing device, I’m interested if its still usable when actually using a mouse.
Tweetbot for iPhone
Recently tabbots released a new iPhone application called Tweetbot. There are a million twitter clients available, and most of the users used the official twitter application made by twitter.com. But they lost a lot of people when they added the new top bar in there application, then Tweetbot appeared!
Nintendo is losing grip on the mobile gaming market
In 2009, 70% of the american players played a game on the Nintendo DS. In the years to follow this market share dropped to 57%. This was recently published by Flurry Analytics. The biggest competitors of are iOS and Android. Together they holded a 34% market share in 2010. The numbers are not yet available for this year, but with the lift of of Android and iOS devices it seems logical that Nintendo is losing grip.
Some amazing artwork made on iPad
Sometimes you stumble across a video thats jaw dropping. Well this artist makes you do that. The guy made a portrait of an older man with a beard on his iPad with the “Brushes” app.
The total portrait took 3 hours to complete and was streamed live to the audience on 21 June, where you could chat live with Kassan.
He made a quick motion video and published this on YouTube. Go watch this awesomeness!
HTC Hero 2.1 Update available
Finally news from HTC releasing there HTC Hero 2.1 update. Its the second part of the update where your phone is realy updated to Android 2.1 (first update was a preparation software update). For availability you can check your device (Settings > About > Updates). With this update you will lose all content on your device so backup before you dive into the world of android 2.1.
It took a while before this update was available, they delayed this update a few times: February, March, April, May… But finally the update can take place.
If you don’t see any updates try to change your system clock a few hours ahead of time.
Microsoft Courier your own digital journal device
Sometimes you stumble across some awesome device, Well the Microsoft Courier is such a device that makes you scream! Recently they released a new mock up video of the device, internal specifications are not yet available. The device contains two screens which can be flipped together just like a book. The device will run on the same OS as the Zune which we believe is Microsoft CE 6.0. The interface will be pen based, with build in handwriting recognition, so you can draw and write on screen. Not much too tell about this device, and the cost of the thing. But from what I heard it will be released in Q3/Q4.
Windows Phone 7 Series revealed
First of all I want to congratulate two dear friends of mine, they gave birth to a little baby girl with the name Isa.
Now to the point, the revealing of the new mobile operating flagship Windows Phone Series 7. With this new version they want too step away from there old and non touch friendly mobile operating system and introduce a new and friendlier interface to work with. This version is based on the Windows CE 6 kernel, like they used on the Zune HD. The first handsets that will running this operating system will be available this summer.
The interface is a completely renewed with the intention for more finger friendliness. It looks like pages from a newspaper where you can swipe through, my personal opinion is that it looks a bit messy at start, and you can lose focus on where you are. But maybe it just takes time to get used too.