Adobe’s Mobile Flash to get accelerometer, multi-touch support in 2010
One of the big topics at our MobileBeat 2009 conference last week was whether the future of smartphones lies in native mobile applications that we download, or in rich mobile websites that we access through our web browser. Now Adobe may be giving websites a boost — it has plans to release a mobile version [...]
$500 Acceleglove promises to finally bring Rad Racer to life
Data gloves may have come a long way since the days of the Power Glove, but they’ve also tended to get pretty expensive as more and more tech found their way into ‘em. The folks at AnthroTronix look to be doing their small part to change that with their new Acceleglove, however, which packs a [...]
Speeding Up RSS
I’m sorry, but RSS feeds are way too slow. I know this first-hand. As part of my job here at TechCrunch, I monitor a lot of RSS feeds for breaking news. We also produce our own feed and I can see how quickly it propagates to various feed readers and feed-powered news [...]
Y Combinator Endorses Bump Technologies In The Quest To Destroy The Business Card
Last summer, I wrote a lengthy rant against business cards, calling them “virtually useless as one of the last bits of information that we pass non-digitally”. Ten months later, I couldn’t agree with myself more. Just like the handshake, the business card is an annoying relic of the past. Each card I [...]
