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Last week, Adobe announced that they were dropping development for Flash for mobile devices and TV. According to Adobe: "Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app stores. We will no longer continue to develop Flash Player in the browser to work with new mobile device configurations (chipset, browser, OS version, etc.) following the upcoming … [Read more...]
Tuesday 19 April 2011, government and industry technologists and executives will gather in a venue designed to enhance collaboration on the hot topic of Video. This Government Video Solutions Forum will be held at the Knight Conference Center at the Newseum in Washington DC. I'll be helping the information exchange during this event and look forward to a very dynamic session. Here is more info from the Carahsoft website: Government … [Read more...]
Zafesoft provides enterprises with new means of securing content while ensuring users get access to the info they need. The designers of the technology are some of the greatest minds in the security business. The company CEO, Sandeep Tiwari is a world renowned IT business professional with extensive experience in delivering functionality at scale. He has also created technologies and has a history of success. Zafesoft's co-founder A Shukla has two … [Read more...]
The Samsung Galaxy Tab looked like it could be a really great foil to the tablet of the year, the Apple iPad. Especially considering the success of the Samsung Galaxy line of phones (powerful Android 2.2 devices for every major carrier). However, it is my belief that the Galaxy Tab will both fail to compete with the iPad and may even dissuade others from following in their footsteps. Samsung has learned a few lessons from Apple's iPad, especially … [Read more...]
Thanks to a very generous offer by Adobe, five organizations will be receiving donations of Adobe Creative Suites 5. Candidate organizations must be a school or charity. The organizations selected will receive either CS5 Design Premium, Production or Web Premium. If you know of a charity that can make use of Adobe CS5 please visit the website at: http://crucialpointllc.com/adobe-creative-suite-5-donation/ Fill out the information on the form at … [Read more...]
Carahsoft is a unique, trusted firm that helps government find and rapidly acquire the right technologies and helps high tech firms successfully interact with government (which has famously onerous processes for businesses that want to serve the federal mission). Carahsoft is a client of my firm and one of the things I'm particularly proud about is their sponsorship of venues where government and industry tech leaders can interact together. One venue … [Read more...]
The CTOvision.com Tech Titans list has just been updated with a new snapshot of the globe’s top Information Technology (IT) firms by market cap. The firms on the list are all important for enterprise chief technology officers (CTO) and chief information officers (CIO) to track. Links to financial information and news sources are provided with the list. More comments are at: CTOvision.com Tech Titans list For reference, links are also … [Read more...]
In mid February, Notion Ink released completed specs on their Adam tablet (here). It did not receive the attention that Steve Jobs did with the Apple iPad, but in my estimation it is the far superior device. Apple has the ecosystem to back their products with a large application catalog. Apple also has the iTunes content delivery system. This is going to be where Android and Google most need to compete, in the application and content delivery … [Read more...]