June 3, 2011
The Register
Caleb Cox reports on the company’s new tablet.
” The 10.1in Toshiba Thrive runs on Android 3.1 with a display resolution of 1280 x 800. It features a removable battery system, full-sized HDMI and USB ports, and packs a 5Mp rear camera with a 2Mp one on the front. It comes with the choice of different coloured rubber case covers too.”
Adobe CEO says no Flash on iDevices is a business decision
The VAR Guy
Dave Courbanou reports on the justification for no Flash on Apple products.
“Why? Because Apple’s browser supports HTML5, and there’s no police on the Internet when it comes to HTML5-based applications (or any other content, for that matter). If HTML5 app development went crazy, there would be nothing Apple could do to control it.That’s the position Playboy Magazine has taken because of its de-facto exiling from the App Store. It created a purely HTML5 version of its content, and thus, removed the so-called Apple bondage.”
VMware, Citrix on virtual desktop collision course
ZDNet
Larry Dignan looks at the increasingly intense competition between the two companies.
“The problem for VMware is that Citrix has been on the desktop as a virtualization play well before it was cool. Now Citrix is leveraging that experience in bringing the Windows environment to thin clients to expand into mobile. Citrix’s Receiver app is a popular vehicle to bringing desktops to any device—phone, tablet, Google Chromebook.”