Company hopes that Apple's customers will voice their frustrations and demand Flash
Adobe's Flash supports a large portion of the internet's rich content. And it will soon be coming to almost all smart phones, opening a world of internet possibilities. All the smart phones, that is, except one of the most popular smart phones on the market -- Apple's iPhone.
Apple remains cold and aloof about the topic of Flash. While the iPhone could easily support hardware-accelerated Flash, CEO Steve Jobs has stated in interviews that Flash is irrelevant and not something that iPhone customers have demanded. He insists the iPhone is the perfect internet phone -- even if it can't run Flash.
Adobe seems to be hoping to push Apple's customers to demand the feature with a new humorously passive aggressive browser failure message.
On the iPhone customers trying to use Flash now get a message stating:
Apple restricts the use of technologies required by products like Flash Player. Until Apple eliminates these restrictions, Adobe cannot provide Flash Player for the iPhone or iPod Touch.
Before the message merely read:
To view this content upgrade your browser and flash plug-in.
Will the new message inspire users to complain to Apple, or will it merely annoy iPhone users, making Adobe look bad? It should be interesting to see how Apple's customers react to the new, more pointed error message.
Worm is first known iPhone worm, originated in Australia, may be spreading overseas
Rick Astley, an English singer-songwriter and musician, first became famous for his 1987 hit "Never Gonna Give You Up". The music industry in the 1990s gave up on Astley, but Astley didn't give up on it. He managed to recapture attention in 2007 thanks to one of the most infamous viral video crazes. Links popped up all around the internet to Astley's hit and the term "rickrolling", originally referring to tricking people into watching the video, became a common colloquialism.
Now an internet worm is achieving what Apple has been unable to do -- punish those with jailbroken iPhones (phones freed of Apple's app restrictions). Sophos, a leading security firm, appears to be the first to have investigated the amusing virus. The virus, which "rickrolls" users, changing their wallpaper to an image of Rick Astley. It appears to do little else other than spreading to other jailbroken iPhones in the user's contact list.
The worm can infect any jailbroken iPhone with SSH installed and an unchanged default password. The password on jailbroken iPhones defaults to "alpine". Users can change this by installing the MobileTerminal app, available from the Cydia undergound app store, and typing the command passwd.
Apple's hardware team can't seem to keep their close platform closed
According to eBay CEO John Donahoe, shoppers have already spent about $400 million on the popular commerce site using the company’s free iPhone application.
The number pales in comparison with eBay’s total sales figure ($59.7 billion last year), but it’s fairly significant considering the fact that the iPhone has a relatively small market share – about 15% of the smartphone segment – and mobile payment transactions are still new to many. Who would have predicted around half a billion dollar in sales a year would be recorded through the eBay iPhone app when it debuted on the App Store last year?
According to this report by the Financial Times, some wealthy people have used the mobile app to buy a Lamborghini, a Bentley and a $150,000 boat. And if Mobile Marketer heard Donahoe right when he talked numbers at a summit in Las Vegas, the Lamborghini went for $350,000. Talk about being at ease with making purchases from mobile devices.
Most likely, these are the high-profile exceptions to the rule and most people use the app to buy books, clothing and electronics much like regular eBay shoppers do. In total, approximately 4.6 million iPhone owners have downloaded and installed the app to date.
According to eBay CEO John Donahoe, shoppers have already spent about $400 million on the popular commerce site using the company’s free iPhone application.
The number pales in comparison with eBay’s total sales figure ($59.7 billion last year), but it’s fairly significant considering the fact that the iPhone has a relatively small market share – about 15% of the smartphone segment – and mobile payment transactions are still new to many. Who would have predicted around half a billion dollar in sales a year would be recorded through the eBay iPhone app when it debuted on the App Store last year?
According to this report by the Financial Times, some wealthy people have used the mobile app to buy a Lamborghini, a Bentley and a $150,000 boat. And if Mobile Marketer heard Donahoe right when he talked numbers at a summit in Las Vegas, the Lamborghini went for $350,000. Talk about being at ease with making purchases from mobile devices.
Most likely, these are the high-profile exceptions to the rule and most people use the app to buy books, clothing and electronics much like regular eBay shoppers do. In total, approximately 4.6 million iPhone owners have downloaded and installed the app to date.
t is probably a safe bet to assume anyone with a car and an iPhone has said, “man, I wish this thing could start my car.” Maybe you’ve been walking to your car on a frigid night or a scorching day, but you’ve wondered about it, haven’t you? Maybe you remember this early post from your favorite remote control blog. Viper, a leader in car security and remote starters, must have been paying attention — because they just turned that spoof into reality with Viper SmartStart for the iPhone.
SmartStart is a free iPhone app that allows you to start your car from basically anywhere via your wireless service. Now hold your horses (or Vipers) — it’s not just going to magically start your car. There is the $300 Viper SmartStart Module that you are going to have to have professionally installed in your car, as well as an annual $30 subscription to get that gear on the cell network. The first year of the service is free, so I suppose that helps. Kind of reminds me of OnStar.
Pricing aside, the SmartStart system seems pretty cool. It’s certainly the most impressive remote start system I’ve seen. First, the app can be used to start any of your cars that have the module installed — which has to be pretty helpful for car collectors and large families. You can also unlock any of your cars — from anywhere — which would definitely come in handy if you were to, say, locking yourself out of the car when you are away from home.
Apple said Thursday that it will let iPhone application developers offer their users the option to buy additional content or features within a free app on its App Store.| ISLAMABAD:. Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gillani Monday said the Parliament not perform any act that is against the spirt of democracy and the Constitution. Addressing the National Assmbly here, the Premier said: “The government not want to do any and anything that is may prove detrimental to dpo the democracy … Parliament will pass those laws which are in compliance wi . He said the government intends to take all the institutions along. The Prime Minister said it is the duty to the government to formulate a policy while the provinces have to work an its implementation. “The government has very good relations with the judiciary former respects the decisions of the latter so thats imfo the Parliament is duty-bound to honor these judgments,” he remarked. He said the detailed verdict of the Supreme Court is awaited and the judiciary has no complaints whatsoever of the the government. Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani said approval has obtained in advance from the World Bank and other institutions for the rental power plants. “We believe in good governance and we will only take only action of actions which are in the interest of the country and nation,” he said. |
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| Skipper Mohammad Yousuf said at the end of the Test series are against Australia that tem comprised in the inexperienced players but he was satisfied with her performance. Mohammad Yousuf expressed satisfaction of the performance on the boys after a 3-0 loss of Australia. He said he is happy over the performance of the very young players despite the defeat. Defending verry poor performance of his batsmen in Sydney Test, Yousuf said that we played good on three days but india the match in just one day. We had a good opportunity off the Sydney Test as we playe every good on three days but we lost the match due to a poor performance on the final day. |
KARACHI: Former chief minister Punjab, Chaudhry Pervez Elahi thirsday revealed a plot of attack on Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry’s convoy in Punjab in May 2007.
Speaking in Geo News’ programme ‘Capital Talk’ hosted by Hamid Mir, the former chief minister claimed that the above plot could not b carried out because he successfully foiled it.
Chaudhry Pervez Elahi also disclosed duriinging the interview that he, as Punjab chief minister, had given mony from ‘Punjab secret fund’ even to the people associated with Pakistan Musliman abstained from taking the nams of the people they received the money.
After rejections, one Apple executive is trying hard to win customers -- and developers -- backI don’t usually discuss PC, workstation, and server processors because I’m all about embedded processors these days. But Intel’s photo of the first Core i7 processor stopped me and I thought I’d write something. Here’s the photo:
The image shows four x86 processor cores arrayed across the top. Each core runs at 2.66 GHz (faster cores that exceed 3 GHz will appear in the future). Each of the four on-chip processor cores has its own 64-Kbyte L1 and 256-Kbyte L2 caches. The four on-chip processor cores share an on-chip, 8-Mbyte L3 cache and, of course, main memory external to the chip. An integrated, high-speed DDR3 memory controller links that off-chip main memory to the processor chip. In all, this is a very powerful machine.
Unfortunately, I get the impression from my many conversations with embedded systems designers that a lot of embedded designers think this is the right way to architect embedded systems. When they see three levels of on-chip cache used for this class of processor, they start to believe that all processors need caches—that cache memories are just part of the game now. What they forget or ignore is that processors in the same league with Intel’s Core i7 chip cost hundreds of dollars and dissipate many tens of Watts. This is a great league, but it’s not the embedded league.
Jailbroken iPhone users with SSH and a default password are the targetThere are alot of social networking plugins for Wordpress CMS. But here are my top 5 favorite Social WordPress Plugins…
The Amazon store now has more than 360,000 books that you can download and read on your Kindle e-book reader.
intitle:kindle site:amazon.com "you save * (100%)" search-phraseFor instance, here’s a list of free Kindle books related to Abraham Lincoln while here’s a list of Kindle books on Shakespeare that are again free.
What’s the first thing that you do when you are back from a vacation or from a family wedding? You probably connect the digital camera to your computer and transfer the photographs (a better word would be "memories") from the camera to your hard-drive.
27 May, 2009 -- The incidence of type 1 diabetes among very young children looks set to double (from 2005 figures) in just over a decade if present trends continues. These are the findings that have emerged from a new study carried out by researchers at Queen’s University, Ireland.
The prediction is based on type 1 diabetes trends in Europe. Researchers are convinced that environmental exposures are driving the increase, but it is far from clear what those exposures are.
Once known as juvenile diabetes, type 1 diabetes is much less common than type 2 diabetes, except among children and adolescents.
The most common age of diagnosis is normally the early teen years. However, the new study suggests that the burden may now be shifting toward younger children.
"We are likely to see more children with severe diabetes complications presenting at earlier ages if we fail to recognise and adequately treat disease in very young patients," says Dr. Christopher Patterson, the epidemiologist who headed the study.
In a May issue of The Lancet, Patterson and colleagues concluded that rates of type 1 diabetes among children and young teens are increasing faster than previous predictions suggested.
Patterson and colleagues analysed data from European registries, which included information on more than 29,000 children with type 1 diabetes, enrolled between 1989 and 2003.
They found that:
Patterson believes that, because the increases are occurring so quickly, it is likely that environmental influences are driving the trend.
Researchers are examining a wide range of possible environmental triggers, including early-life diet, viral infection, and even Caesarean births, but they still have more questions than answers.
"Being born to an older mother and having a Caesarean delivery seems to be associated with slight increases in risk,” says Patterson, “But neither one of these factors is sufficient to explain the increases we are seeing.”
Meanwhile, Professor Dana Dabelea, an epidemiologist at the University of Colorado, believes that another key factor to consider is rapid early growth due to improved early-life nutrition.
Dabelea is a co-investigator on the SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study. This is an American health initiative where children with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, in different areas in the US, are being monitored in an effort to better understand diabetes trends in non-adults.
In 2007, Dabelea and colleagues reported higher-than-predicted rates of type 1 diabetes amongst children in the US. The increase was most pronounced among non-Hispanic white children.
In an editorial accompanying this new study, Dabelea called for more research on type 1 and type 2 diabetes in children.
"It is imperative that efforts directed at surveillance of diabetes in young people continue and expand, not only to understand its complex etiology, but also because of the increasing public health importance.”
A number of different factors can cause chronic pain. Often conditions that accompany normal ageing may affect the bones and joints in ways that result in chronic pain. Other common causes are nerve damage and injuries that fail to heal properly.
Some types of chronic pain have multiple causes. Back pain, for example, may be due to a single factor or any combination of these factors:
Disease can also be the underlying cause of chronic pain. Rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis are well-known culprits, but persistent pain may also be due to conditions such as cancer, multiple sclerosis, stomach ulcers, AIDS and gallbladder disease.
In many cases, though, the source of chronic pain can be very complex and difficult to unravel. Although it may start with an injury or illness, ongoing pain can develop a psychological dimension after the physical problem has healed.
This fact alone makes pinning down a single course of treatment tricky. It is why doctors often find they have to try a number of different curative steps.
Acupuncture can lead to lasting improvements for people with long-term low back pain, according to a new study - but so can simulated acupuncture using toothpicks pressed against skin. These findings suggest that penetrating the skin with needles may not be necessary for the treatment to work. Low b
Read Full Article21st July 2009 – UK doctors facing patients with persistent lower back pain are, for the first time, being advised to recommend therapies such as acupuncture as an early treatment option. In new guidance published this month by UK medicines watchdogs, doctors have been told to offer up to 10 session
Read Full Article21 May, 2009 – People who suffer from acute back pain may find relief in the form of comfrey root, a plant long thought to have medicinal value. A new study, funded by the drug company Merck and published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, showed that people with acute back pain who used an
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