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Comment on Near Field Communication and Travel by Glenn Gruber

Glenn Gruber — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 02:32:43 +0000

SR,

Thanks for the comment. I haven’t heard of any handset manufacturer using NFMIC.

Hope the article was helpful however.

Glenn

Comment on Why Adobe Owes Microsoft Big Time by Glenn Gruber

Glenn Gruber — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 02:28:00 +0000

Jim, thanks for the comments. I think we’re pretty much in agreement. I understand that MSFT has decided not to invest in porting IE9 to XP to both save money and entice users to update…not saying I agree, but understand their decision. But at least they have gotten behind HTML5 in a big way for Win8.

Comment on Near Field Communication and Travel by SR

SR — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:51:54 +0000

Hello Glenn,

Stumbled upon this article doing some other research. Specific to NFC range ability and the technology surrounding this do you know if any smartphones are implementing Near field magnetic induction communication (NFMIC)? I believe this is sometime referred to as far-field and I see some wiki posts mentioning it’s range ability to be of 22 meters at the carrier frequency of 13.56MHz.

thanks,

Comment on Why Adobe Owes Microsoft Big Time by Jim Mooney

Jim Mooney — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 22:38:16 +0000

Just to be clear, since I went on at length. XP isn’t holding Anything back. Msoft and IE is holding things back. If Google and Mozilla can make an XP capable browser that does HTML5 and CSS3 just fine (better than the newest IE, in fact), there is no reason Msoft can’t do it. They’re just making a stupid, short-term marketing move that the other two browsers are not.

Comment on Why Adobe Owes Microsoft Big Time by Jim Mooney

Jim Mooney — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 22:30:11 +0000

For a contrarian view, Msoft is holding back HTML5 and CSS3 by stipulating you can only get support for it if you buy Win7. In these money-strapped times many are holding on to XP, which is fine if you don’t want AppleGlitz. So are institutions – they don’t have the $$$ to shell out for thousands of new Win7s.

When developers realize over half their target machines – can only run older IEs, but cannot run a HTML5 capable IE, they realize half the market can’t even see HTML5. And Msoft refuses to develop a HTML5 browser for XP.

This means going back to the bad old days of coding two or more sites – one for HTML5 and one for not, or just taking a wait-and-see, go slow, learn-it but backburner it, attitude to HTML5 – at least for desktops.

Anyway, the problem is in the browser, not XP – and as long as Msoft, in a pure marketing decision, refuses to make a HTML5 browser for XP, even though Google and Mozilla seem capable of it, they will hold back the web even though it means they’ll line their pockets more – maybe. You hamper the public at your peril.

After all, if you have XP, which Most people still have, you have the choice of Chrome or Firefox, both HTML5 capable, or crummy old IE, not HTML5 and CSS3 capable. So maybe Msoft has made their own IE-killer. I certainly hope so. They’ll always be a day late and a dollar short.

Comment on HP Should Open Source WebOS by Last Chance for WebOS: HP Donates to Open Source Community | Software Industry Insights

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 04:37:00 +0000

[...] Now, I’m not saying that Meg Whitman reads my blog or calls me for advice, but I’m glad to see they followed my suggestion last month to make WebOS an open source project. [...]

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Adobe Throws in the Towel on Mobile Flash | Software Industry Insights — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:00:23 +0000

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HP Should Open Source WebOS to | Software Industry Insights — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:44:08 +0000

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Comment on Six questions hoteliers should ask providers of cloud-based systems by Travelgeek

Travelgeek — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 09:25:35 +0000

Has anybody utilized cloud technology for their hotel yet? Hotelogix is one company that is effectively using the technology for property management software. In my experience as a consultant I’ve heard many concerns with the technology but perhaps this blog can answer some of them: http://ow.ly/7hx2R. Overall I think there are a lot of positives and the kinks are getting worked out as it’s a new technology still.

Comment on Why Adobe Owes Microsoft Big Time by 10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 6-27-11 | Software Industry Insights

10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 6-27-11 | Software Industry Insights — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 19:40:06 +0000

[...] Another software leader born in the cloud commits to HTML5. First it was Facebook, not it’s Salesfore.com who has a big footprint within the enterprise. Just another example of how companies who are not bogged down by the baggage of the past 30 years can move faster to adopt new tech…which helps attract more customers. However, WindowsXP and IE 7 & 8 still hold back the pace of adoption of HTML5 in the enterprise. [...]