
We're deep into baseball season, so it's time to revisit the preseason predictions made by our three competitors. Who's doing the best and who looks like a Nostra-dumbass?
Looks like one of Steve Jobs' final victories will be the dominant role he played in the destruction of Adobe's Flash as a mobile platform. As reported by ZDnet's Jason Perlow, Adobe today announced that they are ending development of their ubiquitous Flash platform on mobile devices. The company later added through their website, they are doing so to refous ongoing development on HTML5.
As reported by Joseph Flatley on The Verge, Google has once again tinkered with their search algorithm, this time they have sought to make it more representative, which in todays terms means it needs to prioritze the Kim Kardasian fallout.
As resported by the New York Times Nick Bilton, the much rumored Apple TV (the actual television, not the diminutive black box) is now said to be powered by a Siri interface. Siri, which was the headlining announcement on Apple's recently released iPhone 4S, allows users to communicate and control the device using only their voice.
Dollars vs. Eyeballs: Are we seeing a 90s renaissance? The late 90s and early 2000s were characterized by a very specific, and to that point, new phenomenon in capital raising. The years of bootstrapping a company, building that company through the nurturing of strategic relationships and setting up sustainable positive revenue streams that were previously the de facto standard to raise capital were tossed out.
As reported by ZDNET's Ricardo Bilton, Viewsonic has released their Viewpad 3e, joining Amazon's Kindle Fire and the Kobo Vox at the 7" $199 price point.
As reported by Engadgets Dante Cesa, Tablets have officially passed netbooks in total sales. The more susprising thing about this release is that there are still 7.6 million netbooks being sold!