David Becker

Will Flash ever work with iPad/iPhone

Those hoping for a quick resolution to the ongoing spat between Bay Area technology giants Apple and Adobe may have gotten a little extra slap of reality. Morgan Adams, a well-known developer for Adobe's Flash video...

Can Apple iPad meet falling price expectations?

As Bay-Area based Apple ramps up for the release of the iPad, PriceGrabber.com has come with an interesting survey with implications for the success of Apple's tablet. The shopping site found that the growing popularity of...

Will iPad offer easier access to documents?

With nothing to do for now but speculate about the iPad, questions are popping up, and the folks at InfoWorld have come up with some pretty good ones for Bay Area-based Apple. For starters, will there be a reasonably...

Bay Area chipmaker enables high-end phone cameras

Bay Area-based OmniVision, a chipmaker that specializes in image sensors (including the one used in the iPhone) , has announced a new model that could boost cameraphones to a whole new level, The OV5647 grabs images at a middling 5...

Mmm, iPhone stylus...

You might not appreciate this as much living in moderately-climed San Francisco, but it can be awfully hard to get around an iPhone when Jack Frost is turning your fingers into numb little stumps of meat. Which is what...

Can Apple and Adobe kiss and make up?

One of the looming questions in Apple's growing iUniverse is when users will see support for Adobe's Flash video format. The curiosity has reached even greater levels with the announcement of the iPad, yet if anything...

Linux lord praises Google's Nexus One phone

Linus Torvalds, originator of the Linux open-source operating system and consequently a geek demi-god, says he's finally found a smartphone compelling enough to schlep around: The Nexus One from Bay Area juggernaut Google. Torvalds says on...

iPad built for camera add-on?

You may be able to do nothing more than drool in anticipation over the iPad, introduced last week by Bay Area-based Apple, but repair shops already have spare parts to fiddle with. And in doing so, they've...

15 million iPads by next year?

Financial analysts have had time to reflect on Apple's lust-magnet iPad, and they've come up with some prognostications that should give the vapors to any PC wonk involved in previous efforts to sell the tablet...

Woz sees big things for iPad

Apple co-founder and Bay Area resident Steve Wozniak has gotten heat for endorsing products from Apple competitors, but he seems to be solidly in the camp with the new iPad. Speaking to students at CSU-Chico, Woz predicted the...

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