Here is a short demo of chromeTouch, a Google Chrome extension which enables touchscreen and inertia scrolling within Google Chrome. Works great if you’ve been waiting to find an alternative to Firefox and the Grab and Drag addon!
Find…
Posted on 09 March 2010
Here is a short demo of chromeTouch, a Google Chrome extension which enables touchscreen and inertia scrolling within Google Chrome. Works great if you’ve been waiting to find an alternative to Firefox and the Grab and Drag addon!
Find…
Posted on 07 March 2010
Memory, screen and CPU utilization are serious considerations for the UMPC and Netbook user. I’ve been looking at Twitter clients to try and work out what the best solutions are. I’ve found a few that you need to avoid too!
Posted on 02 March 2010
Opera 10.5 has been knocking around in Beta for a while but from today it’s available as a fully released product and ‘The fastest browser on Earth.’
“Opera 10.50 is the fastest browser we have ever produced. Under the hood,…
Posted on 02 March 2010
Amy Barton from Intel explains the Million Dollar Fund intended to kick-start developers and get applications into the Intel Atom Developer Program
Posted on 01 March 2010
In a call with Intel last Friday we heard about a ‘Million Dollar Development Fund’ which should be officially launching right about now. (Should appear here.)
The fund is aimed at reducing the challenges that developers might have…
Posted on 16 February 2010
Posted on 16 February 2010
We’re still trying to digest and analyse the Maemo, Moblin, Nokia, Intel, MeeGo news but it’s clear that this is a serious marketing effort. It also raises a lot of questions.
Posted on 15 February 2010
It happened. Maemo and Meego launched. Im standing in the press conference now and will report later but expect Meego to be available in Q2.
More info at Meego.com
Posted on 11 February 2010
I’ve already seen a Dalvic runtime component on a Moblin build running on a netbook (Canonical were working on it and gave a quick glance at Computex last year) but here’s another clear indicator that there’s interest for running Android…
Posted on 09 February 2010
While I was at DevMob2010 last week the organisers interviewed me for a video. We talked about some of the sessions at DevMob and the opportunities for developers in the 4-10” screen size range.
I’ll be talking…
Posted on 02 February 2010
We were expecting (a beta release of) Moblin 2.1 for handhelds before end of 2009 but it didn’t turn up. In a search this morning, however, found this. It’s a month old but it’s a build of Moblin for…
Posted on 28 January 2010
I’ll be talking about the 4″ to 10″ space, along with my beloved ‘Mobile Computing Segments’ diagram at DevMob 2010 in London next week so if you’re in the area, please drop in and say hello. I’ll have a bunch of devices with me too so if you want hands on with the new UMID BZ, Viliv X70, S5, Android Tablet and other MID-space devices, it’s the place to be!
Posted on 13 January 2010
For those of you with netbooks running Windows in the U.S. or Canada, you might be interested in testing out the Intel AppUp applications store. If you haven’t heard the news, it’s a full app store with a purchase system…
Posted on 10 December 2009
AllMyApps, with the support of Intel, have launched a helpful one-click online app installer for small-screen windows devices which looks like it might make a nice stop gap during the wait for the real applications store.
Posted on 02 December 2009
Intel have just announced that the SDK for the Intel Atom Developer Program has reached Beta stage and along with the announcement comes information about how you can now start testing and submitting applications to their program. In order to get things moving, Intel are offering some big big prizes. How about a Smart Car or a $20K vacation? There are 100 netbooks on offer too!
Posted on 17 November 2009
Two items of news related to Linux support on the Menlow platorm have caught my attention in the last 24 hours. Both news items are related to the Ubuntu Linux distribution.
Posted on 10 November 2009
I doubt many of you will be spending $599 on a UMPC just for the Kindle PC application but if you’re thinking of a mobile tablet PC anyway, here’s my tip for a good PC-based Amazon Kindle reading experience. The Viliv X70 UMPC. (Video after the jump.)