David Ansermot Web Developer / TYPO3 Integrator

29oct/100

Apple enters in top 5 mobiles manufacturers

Apple LogoFor the first time in the third quarter of 2010, Apple has placed fourth largest mobile phone manufacturers worldwide, ahead of Research in Motion and Sony Ericsson.

Between July and September, the Cupertino company has won 4.3% of global mobile phone market with 14.1 million units sold, almost double compared to the same period in 2009. Nokia remains the overall leader with 110.4 million units sold, followed by Samsung with 71.4 million, LG Electronics displayed in third with 28.4 million units.

25oct/100

AIR 2.5 available and compatible w/ Android, iOS

Adobe, at MAX 2010 conference, announced the launch of version 2.5 of the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) and a set of tools for its preview versions based on flash. This readiness is clearly the tools to modernize and adapt to different mobile devices, tablets and other new-generation TV.

The company has launched the preview of the new versions of the Flex framework, its IDE Flash Builder and his graphic design software "Flash Catalyst."

Version 2.5 of Adobe AIR embeds the Flash Player 10.1. It can read data from the accelerometer, GPS, and manage the camera, microphone and multi-touch screens.

It also supports hardware acceleration on a variety of mobile processors and can cache application data for use in offline mode.

Adobe AIR now work (in addition to previously supported platforms) Android, Ios and on the shelf "BlackBerry Playbook" RIM.

Source : Adobe AIR blog

18fév/100

WordPress iPhone App v2.2

The new version of the iPhone app is out (note that iPhone app version numbers do not correlate to WordPress core versions, due to separate dev cycles).
You can write posts (save drafts or publish right away), moderate comments, blog photos from your phone (and video on Blackberry!**), and more.

"But what about my Nokia", you ask? Raanan Bar-Cohen, who oversees the mobile projects, recently announced:

“We are very excited to share with all of you that in the coming weeks we’ll be opening up a beta test for the official Open Source WordPress for Nokia app. For developers who are interested in getting involved, we just opened up a dev blog with details, links to the source code and trac tickets, and an early alpha build. We’ll be leveraging the Qt framework which means will be able to support both the S60 and Maemo platforms.”

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21oct/090

The Hero Is In Your Pocket

As technology advances, mobile devices are playing a bigger role in our lives. Thousands of you have been using the iPhone and Blackberry applications to post and edit content for your blog, and over 60 million page views a month of WordPress.com blogs have been on mobile devices. New smartphones do a great job with most web sites, but older phones have many problems and may not display anything at all.

Take a look on the full article