Adobe Extends Streaming Video Solutions to iPad and iPhone
21.05.36
At this week's International Broadcasters Convention (IBC) in Amsterdam, Adobe is delivering new tools for streaming broadcasts to more mobile devices, including Apple's wildly popular iPad and iPhone.
No longer will target devices need to have Adobe Flash-playing capability in order to display video broadcast by Adobe Flash Media Server, which was updated to version 4.5 today. But that was just one of several new technologies being unveiled or demonstrated by Adobe today, however. Others include Flash Access 3.0, Open Source Media Framework (OSMF), and Adobe Pass.
In addition to the added iOS device support, Flash Media Server 4.5 will simplify deployment of advertising-supported online video. It will also let content providers far more easily offer on-demand streaming of a single video source to multiple target devices.
Source: PC Magazine
Check Out This Funky Atari Retro-Joystick for iPad
21.05.72
Remember those old tabletop arcade machines? The iCade? That took actual quarters? This reminds me of those, except you can do a lot more than play the same game repeatedly (or wallpaper your office with dozens of micro-arcade boxes). The promotional ad claims it'll work with games like Asteroids, Centipede, and Missile Command. The "games like" part suggests those and a whole bunch more, too.
Take Atari's Greatest Hits , where we're talking Battlezone, Black Widow, Crystal Castles, Gravitar, Star Raiders, Pong, Lunar Lander, Super Breakout, Tempest, and more.
Discovery Bay announced in early in August that it was partnering with Atari to manufacture a gaming accessory for Atari's Greatest Hits for the iPad, so we more or less knew this was coming, but not what it'd look like.
Source: PCWorld (blog)
Apple: Pac Crest Sees Large Upside To iPhone, iPad Numbers
21.05.51
By Tiernan Ray
Pacific Crest’s Andy Hargreaves this morning writes that there is “significant upside” to his estimates for Apple’s ( AAPL ) iPhone and the iPad , based on his survey of the component supply chain and what it suggests about orders Apple has been making for parts for the two devices.
While Hargreaves has been modeling Apple shipping 18.7 million iPhone units in the fiscal Q4 ending this month, he now sees a prospect for a total that is 29% higher than that, at 24.05 million units. He’s been modeling Apple shipping iPad
Source: Barron's (blog)