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Viral Video: An Interview With Andreessen Horowitz’s Jeff Jordan

Kara Swisher in News on November 3, 2011 at 5:35 am PT

Jeff Jordan: Unplugged.

RIM Buys Android UI Gurus

John Paczkowski in News on December 2, 2010 at 7:45 am PT

Hoping to shake its reputation for aging or otherwise unappealing mobile interfaces, Research in Motion is bringing in some new design talent. The company has acquired The Astonishing Tribe (TAT), the Swedish design house behind the original Android interface.

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Adobe Revamps Acrobat Software, Mobile Apps

Cari Tuna, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 19, 2010 at 12:00 am PT

Adobe Systems on Monday unveiled the latest version of its Acrobat suite of software for creating and viewing PDF files, the company’s latest move to bolster its influence over the popular document format and boost revenue from program sales and upgrades.

BoomTown Talks About the iPhone Apps Economy on the News Hour (Plus Some Future Stuff Blather)

Kara Swisher in News on September 4, 2009 at 1:52 am PT

Last night, “The News Hour With Jim Lehrer” aired a piece on “how technology companies are innovating amid the recession by designing popular new smart phone applications.” BoomTown was to talk about how perhaps not all of the 65,000 apps being created by legions of third-party developers for the Apple iPhone will result in gold, diamonds and unicorns raining down on entrepreneurs. Oddly enough, I somehow went all Jules Verne at the end and started talking about screens on coffee tables, so I am obviously just as bad.

Another Video Site We Don’t Need: AT&T Entertainment

Peter Kafka in Media on September 3, 2009 at 10:54 am PT

There is no shortage of places to watch TV shows free on the Web. There’s a glut of them, really. But here comes another: AT&T Entertainment. How is it different than Hulu, TV.com, Sling.com, Fancast, etc.? It’s not.

Adobe Makes Web's Flash Crawl

John Paczkowski in News on July 1, 2008 at 5:18 am PT

Flash content on the Web may be slow-loading and occasionally nonintuitive, but at least now it’s searchable. Adobe has conceived of a way for search engines to index Flash content, even pre-existing Flash content, without the need for developer intervention.

Adobe Makes Web’s Flash Crawl

John Paczkowski in News on July 1, 2008 at 5:18 am PT

Flash content on the Web may be slow-loading and occasionally nonintuitive, but at least now it’s searchable. Adobe has conceived of a way for search engines to index Flash content, even pre-existing Flash content, without the need for developer intervention.