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Happy Birthday Trojan Horse!

  By best approximation, today is the anniversary of the greatest security breach in history – the Trojan horse! The strategy has proved so clever and effective, two thousand years it is still being emulated by computer viruses.

Best Buy’s Social App

What do you get when you combine a telecommunications soft switch (Ribbit) with a leading retailers API (Best Buy)? The world’s first social mobile app called “Consumers Price“, which enables consumers to tap into social conversations to get the best prices on the products.

Tour de Flex 1.2

The evangalists at Adobe have introduced a new version of Tour de Flex, which is available via an AIR application and web site. This is a great resource for Flex/AIR developers to see examples and code for the core Flex components, Adobe AIR, data integration, third-party components, effects, skins, and more.

iPhone’s Legacy

  Although sleek design and multi-touch are the most visible attributes of the Apple iPhone, I believe it’s enduring legacy will be the App Store and it’s integration. Apple topped over 25,000 applications this week, and competitors are clamoring to mirror the same on other smartphone platforms – Blackberry has App World and Google has [...]

Kindle for iPhone

I’ve been eagerly awaiting the release of the Amazon Kindle 2, because of the results I’ve experienced with Amazon.com’s book delivery. I’m going to save myself the expense, because although I’ve used the Stanza iPhone app for quite a while, I have been pleasantly surprised by my last week with Amazon Kindle for iPhone – even [...]