Engadget.com reports that U.S. American Comedian Ellen DeGeneres apologized for making fun of the iPhone. In her “The Ellen DeGeneress Show ” she aired a funny Apple spoof. Sadly it seems Apple did not find it too funny. And so she seems to have been pleased to apologize…
The vid is courtesy of Warnerbros. Sadly mobile iUsers will see a lego brick instead of the vid as it is embedded using Adobe Flash.
Team Spirit has just released a jailbreak for the latest firmwares for
As it seems it will only jailbreak an already activated device and it will not perform a carrier unlock. The jailbreak tool is available for Windows and Mac OS X and it installs the Cydia repository.
iPad users be cautious, many Cydia Apps have not been checked for compliance with the iPad and might screw up your new gadget.
Get more information and the jailbreak tool here…
Kudos to Comex and Team Spirit.
On Wall Street Journal Adobe’s CEO Shantanu Narayen yesterday nite answered to Steve Jobs latest attack. Jobs had released an open letter yesterday morning. The bottom line of Jobs’ letter is:
Narayan responded in the WSJ.com interview, that
Well, well, that love is not over. We wonder how far we’re away from the point when Adobe decides to stop developing for the Apple platform? Would Apple even care? Or would they just tell thousands of designers to switch to GIMP?
We hope you don’t mind, we embed the whole WSJ.com interview as Adobe Flash ;-)
On saturday, 24ht Israel’s Minister of Communications released a press statement. Israel now approved the import of Apple’s iPads to Israel.
The scrutiny conducted by the Ministry technical team vis-à-vis Apple’s
team, International laboratory and European counterparts confirmed that
the device which could be operated in various standards will be operated
in Israel in accordance to the local standards.
Update: According to german Heise.de iPads need to be used with Hebrew language as regional settings, otherwise iPads might be doing probe requests on 5 GHz channels, which are illegal to be used in Israel.
Murdoch’s Fox TV has spoken to Adobe’s CEO Shantanu Narayen. Besides talking about their intimacy to Apple, Narayen says Adobe Flash for mobile devices like Palm Pre or Android is coming in 2nd half of 2010.
Regarding Apple’s anti-flash position, Narayen said:
With respect to Apple, it really isn’t a technology decision as much as it is a business decision. And they’ve chosen to keep their system a proprietory and closed system, which it why they are not supporting Flash. And I think that this hurts customers.(..)
You’re gonna see phones that run the Android operating system from Google or the Palm operating system support the web in all its glory. (..)
And so what we think is that consumers will eventually vote for the experience that they want through their wallet.
Video is courtesy of Fox TV…
Haaretz reports that several iPads have been confiscated by Israel customs during the last days. It seems the U.S. american iPads don’t comply with Israel’s wireless networks. Thus the Communications Ministry has legally blocked the import of iPads to Israel.
“The iPad device sold exclusively today in the United States operates at broadcast power levels [over its WiFi modem] compatible with American standards,” explained the officials. “As the Israeli regulations in the area of WiFi are similar to European standards, which are different from American standards, which permit broadcasting at lower power, therefore the broadcast levels of the device prevent approving its use in Israel,” said the officials.
Don’t try to bring iPad to Israel in your hand-baggage. It would be confiscated anyway.
Read more on Haaretz.com…
Engadget got their hands on internal documents and photos by Dell describing their upcoming slate product line. They’re gonna be Android based with 7″ and 10″ display sizes.
Dell’s slate line leaked on Engadget…
The Inquirer reports, that Apple’s latest gadget has been rejected from using on networks of George Washington University and Princeton University. The iPad seems to have massive issues with network stability.
Read more on The Inquirer…
Berlin based Company Neofonie now presented their latest high-tech gadget called WePad. The We Pad will be cheaper than the iPad. The WePad will be Adobe Flash enabled.
Tech Specs
The operating system will be a multitouch adjusted Linux. Software can be installed as widgets. Open Office will be available. It is compatible to
Versions
The WePad will be released in two flavors.
Releasedate
The WePad will be released in Germany in July. Pre-Orders can be submitted from April 27th, 2010.
via: Golem.de (german only)…
Apple now has confirmed to be no fan of Adobe Flash. It is too buggy and not open standard and this and that. And foremost: it is no Apple technology ;-) Well, erm… Aswell as the iPhone the iPad is gonna show those nice and tiny Lego bricks instead of Adobe Flash based content. Bringing the web to your mobile device? Or rather bringing back the Lego bricks from our earliest childhood.
Now Adobe strikes back and reimplemented the iPad with all its amazing, wonderful and outstanding features – using real Lego ;-)
Picture is courtesy of Joe Meno of Brickjournal. Find a lot more pics here…
