http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/
Apple has a long relationship with Adobe. In fact, we met Adobe’s founders when they were in their proverbial garage. Apple was their first big customer, adopting their Postscript language for our new Laserwriter printer. Apple invested in Adobe and owned around 20% of the company for many years. The two companies worked closely together [...]
http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/29/apple-patents-invisible-button/
by Erick Schonfeld
One of Apple’s famous minimalist design principles is to get rid of buttons whenever possible. With touchscreen devices like the iPhone and iPad, almost all of the buttons appear when needed on the screen. But what about Macbooks with aluminum casings? A new patent application titled “Disappearing Button or Slider” shows that Apple is [...]
http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20100428/palm-folds-goes-to-hp-for-1-2-billion/
by Peter Kafka
Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) will pay $5.70 a share for Palm (PALM). CEO Jon Rubinstein “is expected to remain with the company”. Here’s the release. [Update: Here's a link to the liveblog of Palm and HP's conference call to explain the deal.]
Why would a Palm-HP combo work? In part, because no one else seemed to want the [...]
http://mashable.com/2010/04/27/android-flash/
Jolie O’Dell
In an interview with The New York Times, Google’s Andy Rubin revealed that the upcoming version of the Android mobile operating system will fully support Flash technology. Code named Froyo, Adobe showed us Android 2.2 with Flash 10.1 on a Nexus One last month.
According to Rubin, Google’s definition of openness “means not being [...]
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/28/technology/28apple.html
By ASHLEE VANCE and BRAD STONE
Apple wants the fastest chip for its mobile devices and has bought another chip maker to gain an edge over its competitors.
Apple has acquired a small Austin, Tex., company called Intrinsity, known for making zippy versions of a computer chip often found in mobile devices. The deal, which closed late [...]
http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/28/microsoft-htc-android-apple-patents/
by MG Siegler
Whoa.
As you may have heard, Apple filed a massive lawsuit against phone-maker HTC nearly two months ago. Apple is alleging that HTC is infringing on over 20 of its iPhone patents. While HTC makes phones for a number of partners, it’s pretty clear that this is Apple going after Google’s Android platform indirectly. And now [...]