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Nokia's N900 Takes on the iPhone

Kit Eaton — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:56:55 -0400

Back in August Nokia pulled the veil off its Maemo OS flagship smartphone/MID mini-tablet device, the N900, and touted its advanced Flash powers. Now the Finnish company has revealed lots more on the gizmo, and it's impressive.

Can FluidHTML Make Flash Popular Again?

Ariel Schwartz — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:00:02 -0400

HTML, XML, and...FHTML? If the developers of FluidHTML, launched at TechCrunch50 yesterday, have their way, FHTML will be the next big markup language. In a nutshell, the server-side language allows programmers to create Flash-like applications in a format that makes sense to any skilled HTML user.

Nokia Enters the Smartbook Race, Reveals the N900

Kit Eaton — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:22:17 -0400

It's really Nokia's week for new gizmos--first the news of its first netbook, and now it's pulled the veil from the N900, a high-end Linux-powered touchscreen device. It's basically a smartbook--the device that could supersede the smartphone.

Is It a Bird, a Plane? No--It's HTC's Third Android Phone, The Hero

Kit Eaton — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:50:13 -0400

Just yesterday came news of HTC's G2 Magic hitting the U.S. as the T-Mobile myTouch, and now HTC's pulled the veil from its third Android-powered smartphone. It's called the Hero, and unlike the iPhone it'll play Flash straight out of the box.

Can a Flash Game Fix Outrage over CEO Pay?

Chris Dannen — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:53:36 -0400

Everyone's furious at the brass. In France, workers detained four Caterpillar executives. At Obama's town hall meetings, citizens rail about CEO pay. This week, unionized airline workers took a creative 21st century approach. They made a "viral" online game about CEO pay. But is reverting to Web animation a good method for driving real reform, or is it simply just roiling vague, untargeted populist rage?

A Busy Professional's Plea: Please Use Flash Sparingly...

Karrie Sullivan — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:51:29 -0500

Flash websites make the busy professional's mobile experience with your company unmanageable. Who cares? You do if your brand appeals to busy professionals like me who can't survive without our mobile phones...

Flash is pretty but it's not useful if it kills your customer experience.

Carbon-Nanotube Memory Catches Up With Flash

Kit Eaton — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:57:16 -0500

Carbon nanotubes have been proposed as solutions to a host of modern technical problems, from space elevators to pin-point accurate drug delivery. But a more viable role for the 'tubes is as a computer memory storage device. And a Finnish research group has created a nanotube memory array that's 100,000 times faster than any made before.

Planning: Failure to plan is Planning for failure

William Grigs — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:36:35 -0500

We actively collaborate with our clients to create a road map to navigate a direct path to desirable results. Planning has one goal: Determine the exact elements required to achieve the overall strategic goal. The final result should be a mutually agreed upon plan which outlines specific deliverables, suitable technologies, project’s timeline, and overall cost projections.

Execution: Quality is never an Accident

William Grigs — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:36:23 -0500

The centre{source} team of strategists, creatives, developers, web architects, producers, usability designers, project managers, and online specialists interact to deliver a comprehensive strategic plan previously out of reach for many of our clients accustomed to working in a non-collaborative environment.

Strategy: the science of ensuring future success

William Grigs — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:24:53 -0500

centre{source}'s mission

William Grigs — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:53:18 -0500

Every relationship begins with a vision, an idea that needs to be fully explored. We treat every client as a partner and this allows us to be active collaborators on your strategy - not just the execution. We often deliver ideas and suggestions that revolutionize the client’s initial ideas. Most important, 0ur proven methodology allows us to develop a strategy that ensures your organizational goals are met. This is in stark contrast to firms that only focus on the ‘how’ and then blame you when the project doesn’t meet your actual goals.

Who Gets "It"? The Alliance For Climate Protection Doesn’t

Alder Crocker — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:21:25 -0500

I like looking at logos. The good and the not so good, and trying to discern how they were conceived, the strategic thought process that went into developing the strategy, and then into the design itself.

But a few months ago I read in Brandweek the convoluted psychobabble about the genesis of the we/me logo for The Alliance for Climate Protection and was left with the feeling that the people who contributed to the article have a relationship with mirrors that is unhealthy.

Google Invades Gaming; Outer Space

Chris Dannen — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:43:28 -0400

Adding to its already-formidable AdSense product-line this week, Google [GOOG] announced AdSense for online Flash games. Comscore says that up to 25% of Web surfers worldwide play these games, so Google might be tapping a sizable market: 200 million computer-users.

AdSense’s new gaming platform will allow game-writers to incorporate text, image or video advertisements within their games, likely with a similar content-related algorithm that drives regular text-based AdSense to make sure you’re getting relevant ads.

Samsung Attempts Purchase of SanDisk

Chris Dannen — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:50:16 -0400

Samsung [005930] had a few billion laying around, so the company decided today to make an unsolicited offer to purchase Flash memory maker SanDisk [SNDK]. In what was apparently an attempt to broaden its influence as the second-largest chipmaker in the world, and perhaps to expand its growing solid-state memory offerings, Samsung bid $26 in cash for the company, or a total of $5.85 billion. That represents a margin of 93% higher than the company's share price the day on September 4th, a day before Samsung expressed industry. SNDK's share price responded by jumping 56% after hours today.

SanDisk Announces 32GB CompactFlash Cards

Chris Dannen — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:20:41 -0400

Let's say you take a lot of photos. A lot of photos. Like, tens of thousands. Well, SanDisk [NASDAQ:SNDK] announced the CompactFlash card of your dreams this week: a 32GB card, double their old max capacity of 16GB. The new 32GB card will be branded in SanDisk's Extreme III series.

Before this announcement, you couldn't really consider CompactFlash cards anything but still camera storage, for practical purposes. But with that much space, storing even HD video seems feasible: about 80-minutes worth will fit on SanDisk's new card, which isn't too shabby.

Google and Flash - Marriage Counseling Still Not Working for the Couple

Jeffrey Olchovy — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:05:40 -0400

Google recently announced that it was able to now crawl through Flash Web sites. Hog wash.

Well, not really. I'm sure that they have no problem extracting data, but for someone not in the know about optimized HTML code - there's no way in hell that text stripped from Flash can retain the semantic meaning found within good development and strong coding practices.

So, verdict is in, this news release from Google is very, very slanted and subjective.