Imagination Technologies has recently been contracted into a supplying an anonymous partner company with its current and future graphics and video cores. The new licensing agreement states that the unnamed company will be paying Imagination Technologies royalties throughout the life of the contract. The contract may also lead to a line of new graphics cores to be used as components of future products. Many suspect that Apple is the anonymous partner.
Written by Kevin Dunahee | Source: http://www.iphonealley.com/sitewide?
on September 5th, 2008 with no comments.
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For everyone waiting for iTunes to become more like Rhapsody or Last.fm, don’t hold your breath. The rumor that Apple may announce a much-awaited music subscription service at their invitation-only “Lets Rock” September 9th press event appears to be just that, a rumor.
Written by Michael Johnston | Source: http://www.iphonealley.com/sitewide?
on September 4th, 2008 with no comments.
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iLounge just published a very interresting review about 16 App Store programs which could help stressed people to relax a bit. It is done very detailed with plenty of screenshots. One of the Apps is the famous Koi Pond program, a relaxing way to interact with koi fish in a traditional Japanese zen koi pond. Their top picks are these four:
Ambiance (1$)aSleep (1$)Koi Pond (1$) iZen Garden (5$)
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According to Gizmodo, "a friend in the industry" has seen the iPhone playing 1080P video on several occasions without a problem. Although HD doesn't make sense on the iPhone's small screen, it could be useful if iTunes starts selling HD TV shows. Keeping HD movie rentals on the Apple TV is one thing, but customers likely won't settle for storing purchased content there.
Written by Michael Johnston | Source: http://www.iphonealley.com/sitewide?
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Startup 280 North on Thursday released a new online programming language that promises to bring Mac-like software to the web.
Called Cappuccino, the programing language will allow developers to bring the look and feel of Mac OS X desktop apps to online apps. 280 North promises that online apps will have drag ‘n drop, copy and paste, undo and redo, and document saving functionality simply by pointing your browser at a URL.
A major trend in the development of Web 2.0 functionality is toward applications that work within your browser as opposed to relying on desktop programs that live on your hard drive and use up CPU resources every time you call on them. Cappuccino will let designers create apps like 280 Slides, the highly regarded presentation application the 280 North shop released in June to showcase the framework’s robust capabilities.
Unlike the Cocoa-based native application programming environment for Mac OS X, Cappuccino doesn’t expect its developers to know any HTML, CSS, and JavaScript - the languages used traditionally for standards-based web development. Cappuccino’s Objective-J works in every major browser, is completely extendable and comes with useful language features not available in JavaScript.
280 North co-founder Ross Boucher says “Cappuccino is an attempt to restore control of the language and basic building blocks of web development to the developers” and is quick to point out that it’s not about building web pages. “Cappuccino is about building applications - think 280 Slides, GMail, Meebo,” he says. “We believe the future of the core technologies of the web should not be in the hands of a select minority and that no one company [should] control the destiny of any other.”
Cappuccino is being released as open source software under the lesser general public license which Boucher and his colleagues hope will build a strong open source community around the development platform. “We believe in the importance of getting the entire community involved, so that we can experiment and move forward at our own pace.”
In addition to the 280 Slides site, Cappuccino developers have a Flickr Photo Demo and a Puzzle Demo to showcase the platform’s capabilities.
Written by Lonnie Lazar | Source: http://cultofmac.com
on September 4th, 2008 with no comments.
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