After months of working on the technology, it appears Adobe is still having technical issues with creating a workable version of Flash for the Apple iPhone.
Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen elaborated during an interview with Bloomberg:
“It’s a hard technical challenge, and that’s part of the reason Apple and Adobe are collaborating,” Narayen said. “The ball is in our court. The onus is on us to deliver.”
In November, when Apple confirmed that they were working with Adobe to bring the Flash plug-in, Narayen said:
“To bring the full capabilities of Flash to the iPhone Web-browsing experience we do need to work with Apple beyond and above what is available through the SDK (the iPhone software development kit) and the current license around it.” It appears not too much has changed since then.
At the same time, Adobe released a version of Flash that works with Android and Windows Mobile phones.
Result for: software development kit
Silicon Image, an innovative chip-maker that helped to pioneer< the High-definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) standard, has revealed its intention to make media available throughout the home on all available displays. The company touted LiquidHD at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. The new technology can connect all televisions, Blu-ray / DVD players, games consoles, DVRs and computers to a single home network.
In use, a user could, for example, pause a video game or Blu-ray movie in the living room, and then go to another room in the house and resume play on a different television with just one remote control. “This is presaging a whole new generation of smarter consumer devices that are aware of each other and able to share content across a very cheap commodity network,” Silicon Image Chief Executive Steve Tirado said in an interview ahead of the start of CES.
The company has created a chip that manufacturers can embed in the next generation of television models, while it can offer software development kits for makers of games consoles, DVRs and Blu-ray players. TVs currently on the market can also be used with the system through the use of a small external device.
Silicon Image doesn’t expect to have the first products incorporating LiquidHD on the market until 2010, but has already gotten approval from Fox Studios for the security and content protection used by the technology. The company will form a consortium to develop an international LiquidHD standard and promote it, mimicking the approach used with HDMI. Over 800 manufacturers have adopted HDMI.
Result for: software development kit
BitTorrent Inc. has had a rough year. The company looking to make revenue from Bram Cohen’s file sharing software is just another company struggling in today’s turbulent economic climate. The company announced on Firday that it cut about half of its staff, and replaced its CEO Doug Walker. The company already experienced a 22% layoff back in August this year.
Eric Klinker, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) has been named as Walker’s replacement. He has “two decades of networking, content delivery, and management experience.” Walker had left Alias Systems just last year to take up the CEO position at BitTorrent.
“Klinker has…been instrumental to the continued development of the BitTorrent client, BitTorrent’s Delivery Network Accelerator (DNA) content delivery service, BitTorrent’s Software Development Kit (SDK) and BitTorrent’s proprietary advanced congestion control technology. The latter has been at the center of BitTorrent’s influential discussions and well-publicized collaboration with Comcast Corporation, as it seeks to deploy a protocol-agnostic network management solution.” A BitTorrent statement read.
According to the Times, the company is planning to shut down its BitTorrent Entertainment Network media store.
