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Apple, Adobe, HTML 5, Flash and Standards

Image via Wikipedia Apple doesn’t like Flash. We know that already. Steve Jobs recently called Adobe lazy, and we all know that iPhone and iPad doesn’t support Flash. But the story is a bit more complex than that. Apple’s opposition to Adobe is linked to HTML 5 – an open standard that would enable developers to use [...]
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The Latest Meme – Apple Bashing

Cover of Waterworld [Region 2] Bashing Apple is the new black in the blogosphere. It started with Michael Arrington that announced that he dropped iPhone due to the Google Voice Debacle, followed by a less than accurate  (to say the least) post by  Calacanis where he bashed Apple for reasons starting with Google Voice story to [...]
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New York Media Summit’s Lesson – We Are All Going To Die (at least in the media business)

Last week I attended the New York Media Summit, done by Digital Hollywood. The event, featuring keynote speakers such as NBC’s CEO Jeff Zucker and Microsoft’s CEO Balmer, had a somewhat depressing message: We are all going to die. Well, I might be a bit too dramatic. But the conversion of analog dollars to digital cents [...]
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Rosh Pina Festival is Just Around the Corner

Rosh Pina Festival is taking place in 3 days, and the program is full of media and technology insights: - The role of Telecom companies in the world of media will be presented by Gary Shainberg, VP Global Technology and Innovation in British Telecom, as well as in a panel focused on mobile content with speakers [...]
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Apple’s New Ads – Direct Assault on Vista

After mentioning Vista as one of the things that helped Apple grow in the last years, Apple continues in its heads on attack on Vista in two new video ads: This one is a bit childish but funny: Wonder what Microsoft will the next…
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