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By Vladislav Savov  posted Apr 30th 2010 at 4:05AMWhere Steve Jobs leads, Microsoft follows — how’s that for shaking up the hornet’s nest? It’s said in jest, of course, but we’ve just come across a post from the General Manager for Internet Explorer, Dean Hachamovitch, and the perspective expressed by him on the subject of web content delivery broadly agrees with the essay penned by Jobs yesterday on the very same subject. Echoing the Apple CEO’s words, Hachamovitch describes HTML5 as “the future of the web,” praising it for allowing content to be played without the need for plug-ins and with native hardware acceleration (in both Windows 7 and Mac OS X). He goes on to identify H.264 as the best video codec for the job — so much so that it’ll be the only one supported in IE9’s HTML5 implementation — before turning to the dreaded subject of Flash. 

This is where it gets good, because he literally repeats one of Jobs’ six pillars of Flash hate: “reliability, security, and performance” are not as good as Microsoft would like them. Where Hachamovitch diverges from Apple’s messiah, however, is in describing Flash as an important part of “a good consumer experience on today’s web,” primarily because it’s difficult for the typical consumer to access Flash-free content. Still, it’s got to be depressing for Adobe’s crew when the best thing either of the two biggest players in tech has to say about your wares is that they’re ubiquitous. Wonder how Shantanu Narayen is gonna try and spin this one.

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By Vladislav Savov  posted Apr 30th 2010 6:47AM
Has the Nokia N8 made a Symbian^3 believer out of you? If so, you’ll be glad to know the beta tag has been peeled off the web application development tools for the platform, which — according to Executive Director Lee Williams — provide “an ideal entry point” for coders of all skill levels. This is because the primary languages spoken are HTML, CSS and JavaScript, familiar to almost anyone who’s tried to create for the web, and with just a little extra JavaScript exercise, you’re promised access to the phone’s contacts, camera, accelerometer, and location. It sounds all kinds of refreshing, but the usefulness of this tool set and the entire environment will be determined by what people produce with it — and to that end we’ve provided you with a link to the downloads page (Windows, Mac and Linux users are all being served) where you can get your Symbian dev career started in earnest. 
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Google’s TV ambitions scrambled into view last month, when the NYT outlined the company’s plans. Today, we learn a little more: Google—with Sony—is making an announcement next month, around a version of Android called Dragonpoint. UPDATED

Dragonpoint! We’ve reached out to Google for what on earth this is—it could be anything from a codename for a new widget interface to a whole new fork in the Android project—but here’s what we’re working with now. Says Bloomberg:

Sony, aiming to win back share lost to Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc., would use Intel and Google to help produce televisions and Blu-ray DVD players with Internet access. Intel, whose processors run 80 percent of personal computers, wants to get its chips into new areas, including mobile phones and consumer electronics…

…Intel is contributing a customized version of its Atom chip that will run a new version of Google’s Android operating system called Dragonpoint.

Sony’s Blu-ray players/set-top boxes boxes/TVs will run Android atop a variant of Intel Atom processors—odd, but not unheard of—and almost certainly incorporate video acceleration, if not in the for of Nvidia’s Ion, in a similar product from Intel themselves. Logitech will make a special keyboard-y remote. It’s nice to have some new details here, but this info falls well within predictions from last month. Except, well, the Android part.

What Google is facing in adapting Android to be suitable for TVs is nearly unprecedented. Desktop operating systems like Windows have to be massively overhauled to be functional in a TV context (see: Windows Media Center). To adapt a mobile OS to TVs is something else entirely: easier in some ways, since the OS is already suited to remote-control-style navigation, by virtue of having been built around devices with d-pads and a handful of buttons; and harder in others, since it was designed for use on palm-sized screens.

What we’ll probably (hopefully?) see here is a piece of software with an heretofore unseen interface, bearing virtually no resemblance to the Android we’re used to. And that’s fine! The point here is to lay the groundwork for connected TV software that any manufacturer can use, that’s built on a real, internet-centric operating system, and which gives developers a platform that they can write for that isn’t doomed by brand exclusivity or general crappiness. On another note, this is a rare chance for Sony to get out in front of everyone else on a genuinely exciting new concept, so, yay Sony!

The announcement is expected on May 19th or 20th, with both Sony and Google on the stage. We’ll keep you up to speed.

UPDATE: Google’s response to our inquiry:

You won’t be surprised to hear we don’t comment on rumor or speculation. Sorry.

[Bloomberg]

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