According to a report over at TechCrunch (drawing on Calcalist, a Hebrew publication), Apple is preparing to purchase Israeli flash memory manufacturer Anobit for $400 million to $500 million.

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The acquisition would be CEO Tim Cook’s first as the guy in charge at Apple , though he has been through the process before. Apple recently purchased P.A. Semi in order to produce the mobile processors (more…)

. aTV Flash (black) has been in beta for almost 10 months now.
 is a software package that brings features such as the ability to surf the web, discover new music via Last.fm, play popular media formats beyond the ones supported by iTunes etc.
The new Media Player included in aTV Flash (black) empowers you to go beyond iTunes and play most popular media formats. This includes formats such as: AVI, FLAC, ISO, M2TS, MKV, MP3, MP4, MPEG, MPG, VOB, (more…)

. While most of them were optimistic about the developments happening in the HTML 5 scene, many Flash enthusiasts were unsurprisingly not pleased with the decision.
Mike Chambers, Product Manager for Flash at Adobe, has penned a 2000 words long post on his personal blog outlining the major reasons Flash as a web platform didn’t gain critical mass on mobile phones leading to Adobe’s decision.
He acknowledged that Flash wasn’t going to be ubiquitous (more…)

Adobe today formally announced that it would discontinue development of Flash on the mobile browser. In a post on Adobe’s conversations blog titled “Flash to Focus on PC Browsing and Mobile Apps; Adobe to More Aggressively Contribute to HTML5,” Danny Winokur of Adobe, confirmed the news, which was first reported by
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Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR (more…)

FireCore has announced the release aTV Flash (black) Release Candidate 1 (RC1) for the 2nd generation Apple TV. aTV Flash (black) has been in beta for almost 10 months now.
aTV Flash (black) RC1 adds a number of new features include a brand new ‘grid view’ browsing mode, huge subtitle related improvements, and other performance and playback related improvements.
Empower your AppleTV to play popular media formats including MKV, AVI, MP4 & many (more…)

Citing industry sources,
has increased its purchases of flash memory from Japanese suppliers like Toshiba and Elpida Memory to reduce its reliance on Samsung. Considering
, it doesn’t really come as much of a surprise that Apple decided to broaden its supplier base and move away from Samsung.
“Apple has moved to reduce its reliance on memory supplies from Samsung Electronics, the sources claimed. The vendor has procured more NAND flash parts (more…)

Users of the Apple iPad can now see Flash-based video content.

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Media publishers can now stream Flash-based video to iPhones and iPads, Adobe Systems has announced.
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Adobe yesterday released Flash Media Server 4.5, which introduces support for Apple ‘s iOS mobile operating system. It does this by letting broadcasters stream Flash-based video content in an Apple -derived format, (more…)

General (default) view – This is the first view and contains a portion of the synopsis, and other info like who’s in the movie and when it was released.
Synopsis view – This is the second view and shows the full movie synopsis.
Technical view – This is the third view and shows technical information about the video file.
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Couple of week, FireCore had released an updated version of their jailbreaking tool –
to support untethered jailbreak (more…)

Adobe released a new version of its Flash Media Server, which now enables website owners to stream Flash based videos to iOS devices. It isn’t the same as Flash running on iOS devices, but a workaround designed by Adobe where the media server does on-the-fly transcoding to deliver an iOS compatible stream.
Website owners need not have two separate source files to deliver compatible videos depending on the device which requests the stream. Instead (more…)

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According to a recent leak in the parts distribution chain, the iPhone 5 may not have the rumored front-facing LED flash as previously expected.

The photo shows what is purported to be the iPhone 5 camera module next to the camera module from the current iPhone 4. The two parts look extremely similar, though the iPhone 5 module seems to be lacking a front-facing LED flash unit, a (more…)