There ar a goodness figure of websites that ar now run HTML5 video players that will tally flow embedded videos to the iPad without kicking you out to the YouTube app. Facebook is not unity of this websites. Well, we should clarify by saying that Facebook is not exploitation the HTML5 video recording player, but it is now iPad-compatible when it comes to playing in-web browser videos. All new videos uploaded to the social networking site can now be viewed on the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) tablet. That’s goodness news for vane-understanding sociable butterflies with a newly acquired iPad addiction.

What’s the big deal, you ask? Well, let us remind you that the iPad does not support Adobe’s Flash engineering. That agency any website exploitation a Flash-based video actor is departure to take a big ‘ole dump on your iPad when you hit that little “play” button. That’s just how it is. If you don’t like it, you mightiness wish to try writing an electronic mail to Steve Jobs (we hear he’s real number receptive to such emails).

Facebook is getting around this problem by serving up specially-coded videos that the iPad tin play in the Safari web browser. When Facebook detects an iPad perusal it’s website, it knows to push to you this special savour of video, which uses the iPad’s Quicktime video actor. To get all technical foul, Facebook transcodes the videos into Quicktime-friendly versions based on the h.264 codec.

It’s not all goodness news though. Only new video recording uploads ar encoded in h.264. If you try observation an old video on the iPad, you’ll find you’re still out of fortune.

What’s interesting here is that Facebook is not falling in occupation with many other websites that ar adopting the HTML5 video actor. Whether this is a deliberate breaking from the crowd or an lag solution until Facebook can go fully HTML5, we’re not sure.

Either means, score one for the iPad!

[Via: ReadWriteWeb

“One of the primary election reasons we switched to T-Mobile was its Wi-Fi calling oblation, the only single of its sort,” said Jeremiah David, conductor of engineering exploitation, EOI Robert William Service Company. “This lineament enables our agents to remain connected when travel to remote areas of the U.S. and, when combined with T-Mobile River’s international reach, T-Mobile’s Wi-Fi career service provides international calling and emailing anywhere abroad without roaming fees.”

Further underscoring its committal to provide its customers with high gear-economic value Wi-Fi calling solutions, T-Mobile today unveiled its new T-Mobile River Solution Providers programme, a cooperative deed between T-Mobile River and best-in-class WLAN resellers/organization integrators to ensure customers ar both optimized for UMA and rich person part-optimized Wi-Fi networks. The program provides customers with a broader solution exercise set and additional expertise that complements T-Mobile River’s existing Wi-Fi calling products and services. Further, the collaborative booking provides customers with a streamlined experience, thereby offering the opportunity for both monetary value savings and increased efficiencies.

“While some ar just now jumping onto the Wi-Fi calling bandwagon, we’ve long offered our customers the exemption to make calls from almost anywhere while retention costs down feather. We’re excited about the borrowing of Wi-Fi technology and are continuing to look for shipway to optimize the experience for our customers — from Wi-Fi Calling with MobileOffice to our new T-Mobile River Solution Providers program,” said Femi Lakeru, vice president, Business Sales at T-Mobile USA.

To further improve productivity and reduce telecom costs, T-Mobile also offers Wi-Fi Calling with MobileOffice(SM), an exclusive overhaul that enables organizations to extend their desktop phone functionality to a mobile gimmick. T-Mobile River’s Wi-Fi Calling with MobileOffice uses the BlackBerry® Mobile Voice System (MVS) to mobilize PBX systems, delivery spot earphone features to BlackBerry smartphones. Available upon petition, T-Mobile River offers the “5 Simple Steps: T-Mobile Talks Wi-Fi Calling with MobileOffice” video recording that highlights how easy the merchandise is to install and deploy.

The LG Fashion Touch campaign pairs two of the most fashionable phones with two of the world’s most well-known fashion enthusiasts. LG partnered with the famous friends because their unique personal styles full complement the designing aesthetic of the handsets and their friendly relationship aligned perfectly with the dual product launch. LG Lotus Elite is bold and edgy, which is a reflection of capital of Seychelles’s stylus. LG Rumor Touch is a sleek and more classically designed handset, which is a reflection of Eva’s style.

“We don’t believe you should have to compromise your personal style or productivity, when it comes to your selection of mobile phone,” said Ehtisham Rabbani, frailty prexy of marketing and instauration for LG Mobile Phones. “With new touchscreen engineering, LG genus Lotus Elite and LG Rumor Touch deliver the topper in functionality and way. We ar thrilled to be working with capital of Seychelles and Eva; their involvement in the campaign highlights the relevancy of our designing credo and reinforces the LG stylus heritage.”

The serial of MTV vignettes, produced and directed by documentarist Doug Keeve, depict Eva and Victoria and 2 very talented up and coming way designers -Yotam Solomon and Oday Shakar – as they collaborate together in cooking for the big way result in Los Angeles May 24. Tasked to create groundbreaking pieces influenced by the estimate of being fashionable in a technological and socially-connected worldly concern, Yotam and Oday manipulation their LG phones to gathering inhalation for their designs. Their creations will be revealed at the event.

The photographic print ads launch the week of May 3 nationally and volition run position-by-position, allowing readers to clearly visualize the wave-particle duality of the campaign. The ads were blastoff by way lensman, Ellen Von Unwerth and lineament Eva and capital of Seychelles sitting with their respective phones. Both women wearing fashions that reflect their personal stylus and the designing aesthetic of their handsets. The ads are featured in weekly magazines as well as fashion-driven monthlies. Banner ads also feature the images.

To engage consumers, LG created the Fashion Touch Style Quiz on the LG Fashion Touch Facebook page www.facebook.com/LGFashion. By taking the quiz, fashionistas tin find out what phone and style best suits them and participants will be entered into a sweepstakes for a probability to winnings tickets to the LG Fashion Touch event in May.

To celebrate the partnership and the culmination of the campaign, Victoria and Eva will server an LG scoop party that will reflect the intersection of way and engineering. Guests of the party will include celebrities, stylists and fashion insiders who are known for flaunting their unique ‘way touch.’

The stylish LG Lotus Elite and LG Rumor Touch are successors to the popular LG genus Lotus and LG Rumor. LG and Sprint are proud to offer consumers LG genus Lotus Elite and LG Rumor Touch in an expanded diverseness of stylish colors. These sleek and fashionable electronic messaging devices pass users a more advanced handset with the additions of touchscreen engineering and new scoop features. Available in new colors on April 19 in all Sprint retail channels including www.sprint.com, LG genus Lotus Elite will come in red and blackness for $99.99 with a new 2-class overhaul correspondence and $50 mail-in rebate and LG Rumor Touch (currently available in black) volition now be available in Red and Purple for $79.99 with a new two-year overhaul correspondence and $50 mail-in-rebate.

RipCode is butting its drumhead in Steve Jobs’ war on Flash, as the transcoding company is helping content providers bring Flash videos to the iPad.

The troupe said it volition employment with web sites to create a transcoding layer that tin enable users to view Flash videos on their iPads. They’re betting that many video recording sites ar not quite ready to switching fully to another engineering like HTML5 and RipCode said its product is essentially a video recording-dealing layer in the cloud. This means it won’t involve long consignment or buffer times for the oddment drug user. Because it’s done in the backrest oddment, companies won’t have to vexation about upsetting Apple (NSDQ: AAPL)’s new terms of service for iPhone 4.0.

“The ‘Flash on iPad’ dilemma is really just the latest in a long job of speeding bumps on the road towards ‘any-content, any-time, any-situation, any-gimmick’ that we all desire,” said RipCode CEO Brendon Mills, in a prepared financial statement. “Fortunately, our technology removes this roadblock in a means that is attractive to subject hosters, a key gimmick manufacturer, a keystone video recording player supplier, and the end user alike.”

It’s poise beans but I’m wondering if the lack of Flash is just making publishers adapt to the somewhat-inevitable HTML5 future tense. Netflix, The New House of York Times and other heavy hitters rich person already adopted to reaching the highly-coveted iPhone OS demographic. Well, regardless, RipCode’s solution is an interesting device in the storey.

[Via RipCode]

Medialets, who provides a rich media advertising, and mobile analytics platform, has released an Ad software development kit for Android, devising it the first base interbreeding-chopine, net freelance, rich media solution for mobile devices.

The new Ad SDK  makes it possible to deliver rich, mobile specific ads to the iPhone, and little honey oil automaton devices like the Nexus One. Advertisers can then comparison prosody between the chopine to see how well their ads ar doing. By offering  a single answer, Medialets makes it easier for the advertiser to reaching the particular audience they intend to, and by comparing prosody from different platforms shuffle it easier for them to alter their hunting expedition to get the right field attention on a specific operating organization.

With the influx of mobile app usage, and smartphone users in general, having the power to get your ads out to the two hottest platforms will be very appealing. With a sophisticated dashboard to see how the  metrics between the platforms push-down storage up, advertisers tin see what ads iPhone users potentially would find themselves clicking on, and it’s the same with Android. Though they are both very similar in multiple ways, iPhone and Android users have different tastes and respond to different content.

Medialets volition be face some steep competition in the near future. Rumors that Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) could be announcing its iAd  chopine – on top of the new features of the iPhone 4 OS – sound possible. And if Google (NSDQ: GOOG) finally obtains AdMob, then Medialets sure had their work cut out for them. Apple’s iAd, however, volition probably not be cross-platform, where AdMob is, and that’s where Medialets volition discovery their greatest rival. Only time tin tell if the landscape will variety when these newer mobile ad chopine ar announced, officially.

Medialets is allowing sign-ups for new and existing customers to get their custody on the initial public beta of the Android Ad SDK.

[Via: MedialetsBlog]

It was back in Feb of 2008 when we first base wrote about StyleTap. At that import, the Palm (NSDQ: PALM) OS copycat for iPhone was still an experimental thing. Then, at the remnant of May of the same year, they said the diligence will be released soon — who knew that by “soon” they meant two years?

Anyway, StyleTap is out now for jailbroken iPhone users, allowing them to run Palm OS 5.2 (or earlier) apps, often faster than on the indigene Palm OS devices. Here are the highlights:

Copy/Paste of textual matter and bitmaps between Palm OS applications and indigene iPhone apps, as well as between Palm OS programs.Audio transcription and playbackSupport for a “virtual memory card” – for very large application databases and files that won’t fit in main memory.Backwards rapport – enables both older and newer programs to perform direct screen updates.Virtual “part buttons” – to emulate the hardware buttons on Palm devices.TCP/IP connectivity, serial connections and Bluetooth over serial (RFCOMM) supportSupport for the iPhone GPS!Initiating phone calls (iPhone only)Invoking Safari browserExporting vCards into iPhone Contacts

I’m sure hard heart Palm OS fans just found a reason to jailbreak their iDevice, in case they already haven’t done so. The tiny problem is StyleTap’s price – it’s $49.95, which is kinda steep in today’s app saving. Then again, if you already have a depository library of Palm OS apps you making love, this shouldn’t come as a problem. Plus you tin can effort out StyleTap for free people (14-solar day run) and then push the button, only if you like it.

[Via: Engadget]

I think it’s a crying shame that Tawkon’s iPhone diligence won’t be allowed in the App Store because it seems like a well-crafted program that could discovery a large consultation.

I’m not too concerned about my cell headphone’s actinotherapy but I know a draw of citizenry ar. According to Tawkon’s engineering page, the app uses an algorithm to determine how much radiation your iPhone is gift off at any presumption moment and it offers real number-meter suggestions on how to lower this. This algorithm takes into account known quantities like the radios in the headphone as well as variables like distance from the pedestal station, or propinquity to the facing. The radiation level volition change depending on your locating or even how you’re using the headphone, Tawkon said.

To be carnival, this app is only gift a prediction because you’d motivation expensive equipment to truly quantity actinotherapy, but if the algorithm is correctly programed, it should be a great indicator of how much actinotherapy the device is emitting. The app also includes integrating with the contacts list and dialer so you tin hold an eye on actinotherapy while making calls. Tawkon is hoping to sell the app for $5 to $10 dollars but don’t looking for it in the App Store any time soon.

This marvelous feat of software system development North Korean won’t be coming to your iPhone because Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) told Tawkon, “a diagnostic instrument of this nature would create mix-up with iPhone owners from a usability linear perspective.” Bull spit. Apple is just worried about how this would look from a public relations standpoint. This is another cause of Apple’s arbitrary rules potentially laying waste a developer’s support. This isn’t some silly knocker app either, this appears to be a well-done piece of software that took 18 months to create. Furthermore, I could see a lot of iPhone users interested in this because the matter has yet to fully be figured out.

Tawkon plans to bring the app to BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) and Android, where it won’t really rich person to vexation about such silly rejection rules.

[Via TechCrunch]

During the Mobile World Congress, Motorola (New York Stock Exchange: MOT test) announced the launching of MILESTONE (that’s DROID in the U.S.) in Kingdom of Spain. The gimmick volition be available SIM-free start from the remainder of March — substance they distillery rich person to discovery a aircraft carrier partner. Pricing was not unveiled, though.

You already know what’s interior the MILESTONE, but it’s worth repeating, nonetheless: it comes with a 3.7-in WVGA capacitive touchscreen, 5-megapixel photographic camera with dual-LED flash, Cortex A8 central processing unit, WiFi, Global Positioning System, HSPA, 3.5mm headset jack, Bluetooth, and a microSD store card one-armed bandit.

And for the record, the MOTO MILESTONE has been already launched in French Republic, Italy, Federal Republic of Germany, UK, genus Argentina, Federative Republic of Brazil and Canada.

Verizon (NYSE: VZ) is continuing with its DROID app passport pattern and this workweek it’s all about music. The carrier is highlight three apps:

iheartradio – which gives users approach to over 400 radio stations across the U.S. Users can bookmark their favorite stations, view lyrics, and approach exclusive performances and confidant vignettes from today’s hottest medicine stars. TuneWiki – popular free social media thespian that shows subtitled lyrics. The diligence also comes with the Playback Widget, and Facebook and Twitter integration. Slacker Radio – the free people personalized radio service is probably the best way to discover new artists. You tin create your own custom station or choose from over century expert-programmed radio stations from every musical style.

All troika apps are readily available in the Android Market…

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) may not be on friendly terms with Adobe Flash for the iPhone, but that isn’t fillet Adobe from pushing even further into the smartphone quad. With Adobe Flash Player 10.1 ramping up for a serious safety blitz on smartphones of all creeds and colors, Adobe is taking their AIR engineering to the next measure. Adobe has announced AIR for Android as part of the company’s crossbreeding-platform mobile app development services. Why rewrite your mobile app computer code several times to get your app on iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile River, WebOS, etc. ,etc., when all you have to do is write your app once in Adobe AIR.

Adobe AIR has traditionally been used to develop background applications that employment on any operating system. It’s all about coding once and distributing across multiple chopine. Today, Adobe has announced that it volition be delivery AIR to smartphones, starting with Android and BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM). The approximation is to allow mobile app developers to develop apps exploitation its Flash developer tools and exportation that app to Android, BlackBerry, Flash vane-apps and even iPhone apps that can be submitted to the iTunes AppStore.

It’s been long-known that Apple isn’t leaving to let Flash on the iPhone, so we’re probably not going to see AIR apps advent directly to the iPhone anytime soon. But, with the ability to computer code an app in AIR and exportation the app as an iPhone app, it’s as finis to Adobe-love life that iPhone devs volition ever get.

So, what does Adobe have to say about Flash on the iPhone? Well, they’re not talking specifically about the chances of Flash on iPhone, but Adobe does rich person this interesting little slide that shows the growth of iPhone users interested in Flash. Last December, Adobe saw 7 meg iPhone users attempting to download Flash Player. That’s a nice little increase from the 3 meg iPhone users that tried to get Flash on their iPhones in July of 2009. The increase in number of iPhone users wanting Flash seems to be out-tempo the emergence of Apple’s iPhone market share, which is an interesting little stat. Perhaps Apple volition have to eventually give in to Flash if consumer demand is high gear sufficiency.