AFI BLOG: Media and Technology

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Apple this week bought a fabless chip company called PA Semiconductor and pundits far and wide are trying to explain the deal with broadly varying ideas, some of which are close but none seem to really understand what the deal is about. In the short term this acquisition means precisely nothing to Apple users. [...]

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Nokia has confirmed that it’s developing a touchscreen-equipped handset to take on the Apple iPhone, and has shown off pictures of the upcoming phone to drooling onlookers.
The Finnish giant’s handset is codenamed ‘Tube’, and Tom Libretto, VP of Forum Nokia, said the device will be the company’s “first touch device”.
Libretto remained unsurprisingly coy about the [...]

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Adobe developing Flash for iPhone - 9 to 5 Mac
Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen has confirmed his company is now working with Apple with a view to offering Flash support on the iPhone.
The move follows Apple’s release of the iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK). Narayen, who was speaking during the company’s conference call with Adobe investors [...]

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Kleiner Perkins Launches $100 Million iPhone Fund - Business Week
The new iFund will invest in companies that focus on focus on location-based services, social networking, m-commerce, communication and entertainment
US venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) has launched a $100 million fund to invest in iPhone applications.
KPCB said the iFund would invest in [...]

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Hello BlackBerry, Meet the iPhone - The New York Times
Before you start reading this, a word of warning: this column is about the iPhone. If you’re one of those people who are sick and tired of hearing about the iPhone, then scroll on while you still can.
Then again, if you’re one of those people, you’ve [...]

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Apple to give outsiders access to its iPhone - The Los Angeles Times
The device will run Microsoft’s corporate e-mail service and applications by other software makers.
Trying to blunt two criticisms of its iPhone, Apple Inc. on Thursday said the device would soon work with corporate e-mail services and run software applications made by outside developers.
“Apple [...]

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Adobe’s Flash Player Not Suited For IPhone, Apple CEO Says - CNN.com
Adobe Systems Inc.’s (ADBE) popular media player for cellphones simply isn’t good enough for Apple Inc.’s (AAPL) iPhone, Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs said Tuesday in the most substantive comments to date about why the iPhone can’t now be used to view a large [...]

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Adobe, Apple Hit Flash Point - The Wall Street Journal
Relationship Strained by iPhone’s Incompatibility
Apple Inc. and longtime partner Adobe Systems Inc. are at a flash point over the iPhone.
Since its debut in June, the iPhone’s mobile Web browser has been off-limits to nearly all videos delivered over the Internet. That is because the browser isn’t [...]

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From AFI.com..the full citation of the Moments of Significance
From International Herald Tribune:
The Hollywood writers strike, the iPhone and the “hyper-tabloidization” of television news are among the American Film Institute’s “Moments of Significance” for 2007.
On Thursday, AFI’s 13-member jury — which includes film scholars, artists and critics — announced seven events that affected “the world of [...]

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Apple Future Headline: New Products Including Super Laptop? - CNBC.com
A very good source of mine with good connections to Apple’s Asian manufacturing partners called me this morning with some news: Seems like Apple will be making headlines in the next few weeks and months with some of its hottest products: the iPod Touch, the iPhone [...]

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