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Adobe Releases Flash Player 10
Adobe on Wednesday shipped its latest update to what has now become nearly the de-facto standard for multimedia on the web, Flash Player 10. One of the most noticeable enhancements here would be 3D...
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Report: Google Polishes Off Chrome
The browser was are heating up– again. Google vice president Marissa Mayer said that company’s Chrome browser is on the verge of coming out of beta, according to a report by TechCrunch. Chrome made its...
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Microsoft Shoots Back at Adobe Over Silverlight
Adobe CFO Mark Garrett seems to think that Silverlight is “fizzling,” but Microsoft begs to differ. The exec’s comments came as part of a broader talk on Adobe’s business at the homas Weisel Partners...
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Full-Fledged Flash on Smartphones. Most of Them, Anyhow…
It’s tempting to crack a joke about “Skip Intro” coming soon to a smartphone near you. But seriously, this is good news: Here at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Adobe is announcing that it plans to...
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Silverlight vs. Flash: The Winner is…Consumers!
At Microsoft’s MIX conference today, the company Silverlight 3.0, a new version of its rich-media Web plug-in, that includes new multimedia capabilities that aim to it to parity with Adobe Flash, it...
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5Words for April 20th, 2009
Wow, Oracle will own Java… Larry Ellison is buying Sun. Adobe puts Flash on TVs. The post-Windows era begins. TiVo to sell user data. YouTube’s new comment filtering system. Toshiba’s netbook starts at...
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Google Acquisition Could Move HTML 5 Ahead
Google’s $106.5 million acquisition of video technology maker On2 Technologies today could signal that it intends to make technology freely available for the next version of HTML, someday eliminating...
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Why Adobe’s Bum Rush of the iPhone Doesn’t Matter
Apple has done all it can to keep Flash off the iPhone. It has used about every excuse in the book — too memory intensive, a drain on battery power, what have you — even though Adobe has pretty much...
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Frash Could Be Apple’s Flash Waterloo
An enterprising developer has proven that with a little work, Flash will work just fine on the iPad and iPhone, as long as you’re comfortable jailbreaking your device. Yes you will have problems–Flash...
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Jailbreak Your iPhone, Get Flash with Frash
Our regular readers will probably remember my post last month on Frash, a Flash plug-in being developed for jailbroken iPhones. Well, it is now available for download. Comex, the same hacker who...
View ArticleAh, But I Was So Much Older Then, I’m Younger Than That Now
[FURTHER UPDATE: As commenter Jdoors explains, I can see the video I uploaded when I'm logged into YouTube. But I'm the only one who can see it--for everybody else, it's blocked.] [UPDATE: The original...
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Technologizer’s Greatest Hits, 2008-2012
Whenever people ask me what the topic of Technologizer is–which they do all the time–I have a stock answer which happens to be true. This site is about the intersection between the tech-related stuff...
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Starting a New Chapter
Back on February 9th, I announced that I had a cool new job, as an editor at large for TIME. I’ll be writing about personal technology for the publication in both its online and print incarnations. And...
View ArticleTechReads for May 30, 2014
Did Apple save Beats? (Philip Elmer-DeWitt/Fortune) An Apple reporter who knows what he’s talking about on what’s in store for WWDC on Monday. (Mark Gurman/9to5Mac) Apple PR chief Katie Cotton, who...
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The Land Beyond TIME
Jon Stewart furrows his brow at a TIME cover story which I wrote with my colleague Lev Grossman Twenty-five months ago, I became an editor at large at TIME. I’m awfully glad I did. The gig gave me the...
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A Decade’s Worth of WWDC Keynotes
Once a year, Apple kicks off its World Wide Developer Conference with a keynote presentation, such as the one coming up on Monday, which I’ll be covering for Technologizer. Many people seem to think...
View ArticleTechReads for June 1, 2014
Last-moment musings and expectations re: WWDC 2014 (John Gruber/Daring Fireball) Maybe Google Glass should be more like…Beats. (Mat Honan/Wired)
View ArticleWWDC 2014 Live Coverage: Come Join Me on Twitter
In many cases, the only way to learn what Apple is announcing at a media event in real time is to read liveblogs or Twitter. This time around, for the WWDC keynote on Monday morning, the company is...
View ArticleTime For Some TWiT
I had fun spending my Sunday afternoon guesting on This Week in Tech–with guest host Mike Elgan, Cnet’s Lindsey Turrentine and Katie Benner of The Information. We talked about a dizzying array of...
View ArticleTechReads for June 2, 2014
Samsung introduces the first Tizen smartphone. (Samsung) More on the Amazon-Hachette spat. (David Carr/New York Times) Eddy Cue and Jimmy Iovine at the Code Conference: the video. (Re/code)
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