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November 27, 2005
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More links: News items and blog posts which caught my attention, collected into one entry to avoid overwhelming the aggregators....
Samsung is now the #2 handphone manufacturer in Europe, overtaking Motorola, according to this article in The Korea Times.
"75% of cyber attacks are launched upon web applications", according to this press release for a security company. They guard against unsafe URL parameters, script injections into form fields, data discovery via search engines, more. (I'm not sure whether the remaining 25% is considered to be attacks against browsers, databases, or something else.)
Cisco acquires Scientific Atlanta... "Scientific-Atlanta, based in Lawrenceville, Ga., is the second-largest seller of set-top boxes, after Motorola." This caught my eye because of recent Cisco/Macromedia news on Breeze and gaming, but I have no idea of whether there are connections between these individual items.
Standalone solar streetlights are adding wireless networking abilities... big implications, more at IFTF.
Oliver Steele of Laszlo has put together a cut'n'paste Flash Troll Generator. Reload for more fun & frivolity.
Dow Jones has an article titled "Adobe Plans To Move Fast After Macromedia Deal Closes", quoting Bruce Chizen on the expected pace after the Adobe/Macromedia deal is approved by all governments. "The company also plans to move quickly on marketing bundles of software that combine products from Adobe and Macromedia. 'What we can do quickly is anything that doesn't involve engineering,' said Chizen... 'Probably, the biggest challenge we face right now is prioritizing the many great opportunities in front of us,' said Chizen, listing digital video and photography, Web collaboration, and Internet-enabled mobile devices among the market trends that benefit Adobe."
The "Web Content Accessibility Guidlines 2.0" spec has reached Working Draft stage... here's a more accessible gloss of the spec. The emphasis still seems to be on linear text... I like how Guideline 3.1 says to "Make text content readable and understandable," but I'm not sure I could accurately rephrase the followup text.
DVD form-factor will receive a 60-fold improvement in storage next year, from 5 gigabytes to 300... about 26 hours of broadcast-quality high-definition video signal.
Posted by John Dowdell at November 27, 2005 05:04 PM
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Wall Street Journal writes on software's perpetual beta. (If link goes bad, try a news search on "'david kesmodel' beta".)
USA Today says the most desired tech item this shopping season, in the United States market, is some type of MP3 player. There's also a stat from the Consumer Electronics Association: "DVD players are owned by 80% of U.S. households; PCs, by 72%; and cellphones, by 70%, the CEA says... 'Technology products have become low-cost enough and easy enough to use with enough utility that people feel they can't live without them'... Americans now dump old phones about every 18 months and buy a new one, says the CEA. More than 31 million were sold in the third quarter ending Sept. 30, by far the most of any single tech item." There's also a strong bit in the middle about how those born after about 1990 are often the decisionmakers. A good summary of Americans' choices in devices in the stores at the end of 2005.
Posted by: John Dowdell at November 28, 2005 03:48 AM
The importance of style in personal electronics gets focus in a USA Today article (syndication). What makes people want to use an application, what design choices help make a tool or device successful? (Virginia Postrel was one of the first to address this with personal electronics and other modern gear.)
Posted by: John Dowdell at November 28, 2005 04:04 AM