By Greg Mills
Remember all the breathless “iPad killers” announced a year ago? Seems like it was over 100 different prototypes shown. Well, Apple’s iPad is still over a year ahead of the strongest competitor and gaining traction in the market place. The problem for competitors is that the hardware of iPad is pretty awesome, and Apple has bought up so much of the touch screen production even finding parts to build competitive pads is hard.
Read MoreAppMobi (http://www.appmobi.com) has unveiled appFlash, a new web-based application that allows Adobe Flash websites, ads and apps to be converted to native iOS apps.
This experimental utility is available to any developer and leverages appMobi’s cloud-based cross-platform native app “build” service. With appFlash, HTML5 code is uploaded and compiled into native binary apps that are ready to submit to the Apple App Store, purportoedly without the need to set up and learn the Apple platform’s development tool stack.
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The smartphone segment is becoming central to the development of the global mobile industry.
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Apple’s iOS mobile operating system is overall more secure against hackers and other online threats than its main rival, Google’s Android, according to research from Symantec — as reported by “The Telegraph” (http://macte.ch/59JzC).
iOS is more resistant to three out of five types of threats, including malware and data loss, Symantec said. On the other two categories, web-based attacks and social engineering attacks, the two operating systems came out even, according to the security software company.
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Tension Software has released URL Extractor 3.3 (http://pomola.com/products_urlextractor/urlextractor.html). The upgrade imports list of URLs from an external text file to use for starting extraction point .
URL Extractor 3.3 adds additional utility commands for the URL table list and imports list of keywords from an external text file to use for search engine extraction point. There are additional utility commands for the keyword table list . Also, version 3.3 adds google.co.jp (japan) and google.cn (china) to the list of available search engine for search engine extraction.
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