Apple has placed three products — the iPad, the iPhone 4, the 11-inch MacBook Air and the Apple TV — in TIME’s “Best of 2010” list, which includes 50 top ten lists in news and politics, arts and entertainment, science and society, business tech, pop culture and more.
Read MoreIdeum, a multitouch software and hardware development firm, has updated their GestureWorks multitouch authoring solution to version 2.0, which has built-in support for over 200 hundred gestures.
The GestureWorks software environment provides a standardized approach to multitouch application development in Adobe Flash and Adobe Flex. ActionScript developers can associate gestures with objects and layers as simply as mouse events are handled, according to Jim Spadaccini, director of Ideum.
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Global market research firm, Harris Interactive (http://www.harrisinteractive.com) has released the 2010 results of the first annual Youth EquiTrend study, which asks 8-24 year olds to rate between 98 and 125 brands on several key elements of brand equity including familiarity, quality and purchase consideration. Apple’s iPod ranked number five overall.
The top 10 brands, based on equity, are M&Ms, Google, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, Oreo’s, iPod, Target, Subway, Hersey’s Milk Chocolate, Doritos and Pixar.
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By Greg Mills
I found an interesting illustration on an Australian news web site that says a lot. While the story was about Chrome, the unreleased beta of the new web-based Google OS, it foreshadows a three-way platform race that Microsoft has baldly bungled. Apple has eaten away at the numbers and Chrome threatens to do more of the the same, as Microsoft repeatedly strikes out when trying to expand beyond the Windows PC OS monopoly.
A series of studies, undertaken by Arieso (http://www.arieso.com) — a provider of customer centric network management software solutions — comparing subscriber demand for mobile data has shown that different users and different devices exhibit markedly different demands on mobile networks.
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