Deal Radar 2009: InfoSoft Global

By Guest Author Shailesh Otari Deal Radar heads back to India for the rest of this week, first to a young company created by a young entrepreneur in Calcutta. Straight out of high school, Pallav Nadhani started InfoSoft Global, a software product company, in 2002. Under an umbrella brand called FusionCharts, the company provides data

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Micron Beats Estimates; Memory Market Recovering?

On September 29, Micron Technology, Inc. (NYSE: MU), the leading memory chipmaker, reported its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2009 results. Although the company booked its fourteenth straight quarterly loss, there was one bright spot in that losses were less than last year and beat estimates. Micron’s shares have more than quadrupled since the beginning of the year. Are these

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Think Flash Before You Think Big

By Guest Author Saad Fazil Earlier we talked about several platforms on which to showcase your talent (the iPhone, Facebook, Android, Palm Pre, BlackBerry, and MySpace, to name a few). Having so many choices might cause developers to overlook the most obvious platform of all: the World Wide Web, plain HTML, and Flash.

Apple’s Competitive Strategy

Two moves by Apple have caught my eye today. As I wrote the Adobe post this morning, I raised my eyebrows when I saw that Apple is not permitting Adobe’s Flash on the iPhone. Later, I raised my eyebrow again as I saw the news that Apple is blocking Palm Pre’s iTunes sync capability.

Adobe Flash To Be Available On Mobiles As Smartphone War Heats Up

After a long wait, Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ:ADBE), the leading maker of creative applications with annual revenue of $3.58 billion, is releasing the Adobe Flash for mobile phones in October of this year. While the new Palm webOS, Symbian S60, Android, and Windows Mobile operating systems should benefit from this popular application becoming available on

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Designs of The Week: The Best Interactive Car Websites

By guest authors Charles W. Bush and Kathy Hwang of 3Strand Innovation, a brand, design and business consultancy The idea for this article started when we scoured the web for the best interactive and engaging website designs. When we were done, we realized many of the good ones were automobile websites. And as the public

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