FeedHenry (http://www.feedhenry.com), a cloud-based platform-as-a-service solution for cross-platform apps, has announced that its Hosted Development Environment enables users to build and run the same application across the iPhone, iPod touch, iPadAndroid, Symbian and Blackberry smartphones, and also across web and social media sites including Facebook and MySpace.
Read More>Here are the latest iPhone/iPod touch/iPod apps announced. You can find ’em at the Apple App Store (http://www.itunes.com/appstore/).
Meebo has released a free app for the iPhone and iPod touch. It lets users chat with their buddies on every major instant messaging (IM) and social network in a single buddy list.
Read MoreAdobe Chief Technical Officer Kevin Lynch told “All Things D” (http://kara.allthingsd.com/20100217/adobes-cto-kevin-lynch-talks-about-apple-insults-flashs-future-and-more/?reflink=ATD_yahoo_ticker) that Mac improvements for Flash are coming. The exec also defended the technology, which Apple CEO Steve Jobs has recently criticized.
The iPad was unveiled without Flash, which is also lacking on the iPod and iPhone. Jobs has said that Flash is buggy and resource intensive and that Adobe is “lazy” when it comes to making improvements. Or not making improvements, in this case.
Read MoreEastman Kodak Co.’s patent- infringement complaint seeking to block U.S. imports of, among other things the iPhone, will be investigated by a U.S. trade agency, reports “Bloomberg” (http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-02-17/kodak-gets-review-in-bid-to-block-apple-rim-imports-update1-.html).
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Ken Winograd and Space-Time Associates (http://www.winograd.com) have released the first completely rewritten version of the Mac accounting and bookkeeping program called TinyBooks Pro. The new version is version 7.0.
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