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Microsoft will release a new mobile OS for enterprise handheld devices later this year, the company said Thursday. The Windows Embedded Handheld OS will come out later this year and be based on the Windows Mobile 6.5 technology, said David Kelley, product unit manager for Windows Embedded at Microsoft, at an event in New York. [...]

Steve Jobs’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) keynote was not without its share of glitches, and bad luck continued to plague Apple on Monday as what appeared to be a prematurely released press release dished the features on the latest update to the company’s Web browser. According to the release, which has since been pulled, Safari 5 adds [...]

Three years after being sued by Cisco Systems for giving its iPhone the same name as a Cisco product, Apple has taken another page from the Cisco playbook, renaming its iPhone operating system, iOS. Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the new iOS name at his company’s Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco Monday. He said [...]

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been very clearly and fairly adamant that Adobe Flash is fraught with too many issues to be allowed on the iPhone or iPad platforms. No worries. Adobe has partnered with Greystripe to implement a solution that circumvents Apple’s ban on Flash and enables mobile advertisers to deliver Flash content on [...]

HTML5 will figure prominently at this week’s Google I/O technical conference for developers. HTML5 is the budding specification for standards-based Web multimedia. It is gaining traction from not just Google, but Apple and Microsoft as well. A status update on HTML5 itself will be offered at one session during the San Francisco conference. Another session [...]

HTML5 will figure prominently at this week’s Google I/O technical conference for developers. HTML5 is the budding specification for standards-based Web multimedia. It is gaining traction from not just Google, but Apple and Microsoft as well. A status update on HTML5 itself will be offered at one session during the San Francisco conference. Another session [...]

Apple’s refusal to allow Flash on the iPhone hurts innovation and is “like 1984 in a lot of ways,” Adobe Systems’ CTO said on Wednesday, implying that Apple has become the “Big Brother” it rebelled against in its iconic TV ad from that year. “The story is bigger than HTML versus Flash. It’s about freedom [...]

Apple on Tuesday released the third beta version of iPhone OS 4, only to temporarily rescind it due to an apparent problem with the installation process for the accompanying software development kit. The beta OS versions are available only to registered developers via the official iPhone Dev Center. The 9to5Mac Web site picked up on [...]

The same day that Steve Jobs spelled out Apple’s opposition to Flash on its mobile devices, Adobe’s CEO responded, calling the problems cited by Apple a “smokescreen.” In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen contends that Apple’s decision to bar developers from using Flash to make mobile apps is restrictive [...]

Smartphones and mobile devices are becoming a nightmare for IT shops to manage, with users carrying multiple types of phones with different operating systems and expecting access to email, video-conferencing, and various types of corporate applications. Management was relatively simple when IT managers gave mobile employees a Dell Latitude laptop and a BlackBerry and told [...]