Late to the touchscreen MID party, Chinese manufacturer SmartQ spent the month of April touting its new R7 e-reader as -- you guessed it -- the iPad killer. With the same ol' 600MHz ARM11 and 256MB of RAM inside as its ho-hum MIDs, that claim's quite a stretch.
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http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/29/smartq-r7-e-reader-boasts-3g-touchscreen-lcd-magazine-service/
Steve Jobs penned a letter on Apple's website this morning outlining why Apple doesn't support Flash on the iPhone and iPad.
Source:
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/?AID=10480621&PID=3821802&SID=1ksyiurz1oha3
Apple's CEO doesn't like Flash.
Here's the full memo explaining why the company is keeping Adobe Systems' software off the iPhone and iPad. Read this blog post by Stephen Shankland on Deep Tech.
McAfee, Symantec, and even Microsoft confirm facts that Adobe PDF exploits are continuing to climb during 2010.
According to one security researcher, Adobe will take its cue from Google Chrome and add sandboxing defenses to its PDF software this year in order to beef up on Reader and Acrobat security.
Source:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/195206/pdf_exploits_explode_continue_climb_in_2010.html
We were surprised to find a long missive penned by Apple's CEO Steve Jobs posted to the web this morning.
The subject? Why Apple hates Adobe Flash.
You may be an addict if...
Source:
http://www.cio.com/article/592066/Eight_Signs_You_re_an_Apple_Addict
An FTC filing today revealed that Apple has quietly bought out Siri.
The deal gives Apple the creator of an iPhone personal assistant app that can automatically handle common tasks through searches, such as hailing a cab or buying tickets for a movie at a nearby theater.
Source:
http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/04/28/apple.hints.at.integrating.search.with.siri.buy/
