RIM Co-CEO on PlayBooks Support for Android Apps

post from Daring Fireball on 24 March 2011 11:05:18 PM. © Daring Fireball

Crystal clear.

?

Read The Full Article:
http://www.businessinsider.com/rim-ceo-playbook-android-2011-3

Digg this

Color: Breathlessly Overhyped Piece of Crap

post from Daring Fireball on 24 March 2011 09:04:44 PM. © Daring Fireball

Color is a new location-based social photo-sharing app for the iPhone and Android. Or something. I installed it and couldn’t make heads or tails out of it, and even if I could figure out the app, I can’t see why I’d ever want to use such a service. Yet it was somehow the biggest story in tech news circles today. E.g.: “Color Looks to Reinvent Social Interaction”? Really? This thing looks like a turd to me. Now, maybe I’m the idiot and the joke’s on me and Color is going to be a huge hit. But my figurative money says that the investors who funded these guys just flushed $41 million in literal money down the toilet.

Nice domain name, though.

?

Read The Full Article:
http://color.com/

Digg this

Color

post from Daring Fireball on 24 March 2011 08:06:26 PM. © Daring Fireball

Color is a new location-based social photo-sharing app for the iPhone and Android. Or something. I installed it and couldn’t make heads or tails out of it, and even if I could figure out the app, I can’t see why I’d ever want to use such a service. Yet it was somehow the biggest story in tech news circles today. E.g.: “Color Looks to Reinvent Social Interaction”? Really? This thing looks like a turd to me. Now, maybe I’m the idiot and the joke’s on me and Color is going to be a huge hit. But my figurative money says that the investors who funded these guys just flushed $41 million in literal money down the toilet.

Nice domain name, though.

?

Read The Full Article:
http://color.com/

Digg this

Excel Software Releases RbApp 3.0 for REALbasic
Developers

post from prMac on 24 March 2011 07:35:00 PM. © prMac

Excel Software introduced RbApp 3.0 for REALbasic programmers. RbApp 3.0 is a set of programming components for REALbasic 2011. Version 3.0 adds major enhancements to the highly configurable RbGrid component to copy and paste data, sort columns and rows or manipulate a selected range of cells. A programmer can define custom sorting algorithms. RbApp empowers applications that require graphics, page layout, data entry and manipulation grids.

Read The Full Article:
http://prmac.com/release-id-23290.htm

Digg this

BlackBerry PlayBook to Include Support for
Android and Java Apps

post from Daring Fireball on 24 March 2011 07:04:06 PM. © Daring Fireball

RIM:

RIM will launch two optional “app players” that provide anapplication run-time environment for BlackBerry Java apps andAndroid v2.3 apps. These new app players will allow users todownload BlackBerry Java apps and Android apps from BlackBerry AppWorld and run them on their BlackBerry PlayBook.
In addition, RIM will shortly release the native SDK for theBlackBerry PlayBook enabling C/C++ application development on theBlackBerry® Tablet OS. For game-specific developers, RIM is alsoannouncing that it has gained support from two leading gamedevelopment tooling companies, allowing developers to use thecross-platform game engines from Ideaworks Labs and UnityTechnologies to bring their games to the BlackBerry PlayBook.

These options are in addition to RIM’s previously announced Tablet OS SDKs for Adobe Air and HTML5 web apps. So here’s the question. Which one of these is the native SDK for the PlayBook. Which one’s best? What is RIM’s advice for how developers should write PlayBook apps?

?

Read The Full Article:
http://crackberry.com/press-release-rim-expands-application-ecosystem-blackberry-
playbook-android-apps-playbook

Digg this

LightArrow Releases LifeTopix 1.2

post from prMac on 24 March 2011 05:20:00 PM. © prMac

LightArrow, Inc. announces the release of version 1.2 of LifeTopix, the latest update to the companys innovative app for life organization on the iOS platform. LifeTopix 1.2 includes significant new features that continue to set the standard for productivity apps. Ease of use continues to advance with the addition of expanded data search capabilities, progress reporting for online operations, cost and current value summaries for assets, and the ability to create quick lists for LifeTopix items.

Read The Full Article:
http://prmac.com/release-id-23274.htm

Digg this

Google Not Releasing Honeycomb Source Code For
the Foreseeable Future

post from Daring Fireball on 24 March 2011 05:05:45 PM. © Daring Fireball

Ashlee Vance and Brad Stone, reporting for Businessweek:

Google says it will delay the distribution of its newest Androidsource code, dubbed Honeycomb, at least for the foreseeablefuture. The search giant says the software, which is tailoredspecifically for tablet computers that compete against Apple’siPad, is not yet ready to be altered by outside programmers andcustomized for other devices, such as phones.

Guess we need a new definition of “open”.

?

Read The Full Article:
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2011/tc20110324_269784.htm

Digg this

Just a Fad

PCWorld’s Katherine Noyes says “tablets are just a fad”:

Yet strong sales are backing up the hype — at least for now —suggesting something about the devices has caught on withconsumers. What is that mysterious “something”? Purely marketing,I believe. Apple is nothing if not master of the glitzy salespitch, and there’s never been better proof of that than the iPad’scurrent success.
Mark my words: The device — and all the others of its ilk thathave sprung up for a piece of the action — are nothing more thana passing fad, at least in the mainstream.

Words marked.

?

Read The Full Article:
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/223204/why_tablets_are_just_a_fad.h
tml

Digg this

Ill Show You a Fad

Once people see one in person, they want one.

?

Read The Full Article:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng3XHPdexNM

Digg this

Mewshop Talks DSLR and the Art of Filmmaking at
SuperMeet and Post Pit

Mewshop, the cutting-edge authorized digital training destination for post-production and content creators, is pleased to announce its sponsorship of the 10th Annual NAB SuperMeet, as well as the NAB Post Pit: a gathering of users, rock stars, and creators of post-production software. As official sponsors and presenters of the creative community's most popular gatherings, the 2011 NAB SuperMeet and Post Pit, Mewshop brings its trend-setting DSLR and filmmaking training methodology to Las Vegas.

Read The Full Article:
http://prmac.com/release-id-23427.htm

Digg this