Adobe announced today at the Google I/O conference that a new HTML5 solution is available for web designers and developers. The Adobe HTML5 Pack is an extension to Adobe Dreamweaver CS5, the latest version of the HTML authoring tool for web site design.
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O’Reilly has released “iPad: The Missing Manual,” a 320-page book by J.D. Biersdorfer (with David Pogue), looking at Apple’s new tablet. It costs US$24.99 for a print version and $15.99 for an ebook version.
“The iPad is a brand new product that’s already sold a million units and is converting people who don’t even use a regular laptop because it’s so versatile,” says Biersdorfer. “It’s so much more than just an ebook reader and web browser, and my book shows you how to maximize the iPad’s potential to make it be whatever you want it to be.”
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The iPhone had 2.7% of the worldwide mobile phone market in the first quarter of 2010 compared to 1.55 in the same time period of 2009, according to the Gartner research group (http://www.gartner.com). Apple sold approximately 8.4 million iPhones in 1Q2010 compared to approximately 3.9 million in 1Q2009.
Ahead of Apple, globally, for 1Q2010 are Nokia (35% market share), Samsung (20.6%), LG (8.6%), RIM (3.4% and Sony Ericsson (3.1%). The first quarter of 2010 was Apple’s strongest quarter yet, which placed the company in the No. 7 position with a 112.2% increase in mobile devices sales.
Read MoreAscender Corp. has launched http://www.FontsLive.com, a new service for web designers and developers seeking high quality fonts to format web sites with CSS @font-face using licensed downloadable fonts instead of system fonts or headline graphics.
Ascender, known for the creation of screen and user interface fonts for Microsoft, Google, Motorola, Nokia and other leading technology companies, launched the site this week. FontsLive.com leverages the Ascender Web Fonts platform, using the CSS @font-face rule and downloadable fonts.
A new ABI Research (http://www.abiresearch.com) forecast for handset-based navigation shipments finds they are expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 43% over the next five years, rising from 30 million in 2010 to 181 million in 2015.
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