Tag archive: Air

Is the MacBook Pro slowly morphing into the MacBook Air? If the latest reports are to be believed, it certainly looks like things are heading that way. According to Apple Insider’s unnamed source, the next iteration of the Cupertino company’s MacBook Pro line-up will be radically different from the current design, featuring ultra-thin unibody casing. As with the Air, this would mean the absence of an optical disk drive, a loss which may upset… Read More

Currently available to download and install, Abode announced the launch of version 11 of Flash and version 3.0 of Air. With these new versions of the software, Adobe has tied hardware acceleration into the programming allowing for more robust applications. With this upgrade, Adobe now supports 3D gaming as well as Dolby Digital and DTS surround sound. Adobe claims that Flash 11 is capable of up to 1,000 times faster rendering over previous… Read More

At its Adobe MAX 2010 event this week in Los Angeles, Adobe has formally unveiled Adobe Air 2.5, the latest version of its standalone deployment platform that enables application developers to target not only desktops and browsers with their applications, but also smartphones, tablets (including forthcoming Android devices), and interactive televisions. Adobe intends for Air to be one-stop shopping for application developers looking to leverage… Read More

You may be familiar with Adobe AIR if you've use a third-party Twitter application on your computer. AIR is a popular application framework and environment that allows developers to write an app  that can be used across operating systems. While this is great news for developers and fans of these apps, it doesn't mean you can instantly use AIR applications such as Tweetdeck on your Android. Applications will need to be specially… Read More

It’s a digital world, but most of us are still holding on to a lot of analog media. There are the vinyl records we couldn’t bear to part with; the home movies shot with an analog camcorder; the lovingly-created mixtapes on cassette; and, of course, the photographic prints and 35mm slides from holidays, vacations and family gatherings of yesteryear. Service bureaus are getting rich charging exorbitant fees to bring these analog memories… Read More

Somewhere up in the sky, beyond the birds, the planes and even Superman, there are satellites whose sole purpose is to make sure you can rock out to Blue Oyster Cult, Bette Midler and Baha Men all in the same hour, all commercial-free, and across state lines. Typical radio signals come from local radio towers. They are free for all, but once you move away from the tower (as little as 20 miles away) the signal can become fuzzy or even get… Read More

Flights in and out of some UK airports, including the international hubs of Heathrow and Gatwick near London, were delayed or canceled yesterday when a computer glitch caused problems at the main air control center in Swanwick. The problem hit about 4 pm yesterday, and British Airways alone had to cancel 35 domestic and European flights. There will also be a knock-on effect today with planes not where they should be, according to the BBC,… Read More

Last month, both Delta and American Airlines announced they would be offering in-flight Wi-Fi services on domestic flights via AirCell's GoGo mobile broadband service. This month, in-flight Wi-Fi hops to the Great White North, with Air Canada announcing a deal to offer GoGo in-flight Wi-Fi on Airbus A319 planes that fly cross-border routes to the United States. The service should come online in spring 2009. “Adding Air Canada… Read More

Plenty of manufacturers offer wireless speakers, but what happens when you want to save the sweet-sounding setup you already have in your living room, and take it wireless? JBL launched a simple solution for unwiring ordinary speakers on Thursday with its On Air WEM-1 wireless expansion module, which allows users to snip the cord on any pair of speakers. The On Air comes in two pieces: a transmitter to connect at source material,… Read More

Although rumors about Lenovo’s X300 ultra-light notebook began circulating only days after the announcement of Apple’s MacBook Air, the machine has remained in the ethereal realm of blogs and sneak previews without an official nod from Lenovo. On Tuesday, the Chinese manufacturer broke that silence by simultaneously announcing and launching the notebook officially through its online direct-order site. As expected, the X300… Read More

Delivering on its promise to merge online and offline content with the project once code-named “Apollo,” Adobe released the first version of the newly renamed Air on Monday, a technology designed to bring both worlds together. Adobe Air effectively allows previously online-only services to offer dedicated applications that can work with or without an Internet connection. For instance, one of the first Adobe Air offerings,… Read More

It hasn’t taken long, following Apple’s MacBook Air announcement, for other competitors to wheel out their own ultra-thin offerings – or at least for news of them to leak to Web outlets. Yesterday it was Lenovo’s rumored X300 ultra-light notebook that cropped up on Gizmodo, and more recently, the upcoming Toshiba Portégé R500 models leaked on Akihabara News. According to Akihabara, Toshiba… Read More

After all the buzz surrounding Tuesday’s MacBook Air announcement and the fanboy drooling that came in its wake, someone has already gone and cut down Apple’s claim that the Air is the “world’s thinnest notebook.” Cnet’s Michael Kanellos dug up evidence of it on Tuesday, and then again by a bigger margin on Wednesday with the help of an outside party. While no one argues that the Air is the thinnest… Read More

We are in the final countdown to this year's Consumer Electronics Show, one of the largest trade shows in the world. Here are a few products that look to be hot at the show. We will be writing more about them as they are announced next week. Automotive Electronics This is where you go to see really crazy stuff. Traditionally in this part of the show they have cars that are rolling showcases of audio and video technology. In past… Read More

If you’re flying around Europe, in the near future you might be able to use your mobile phone while in the air.   According to a BBC report, you maywell be able to use your mobile when in the air and above 10,000 feet in European airspace, thanks to technology that will allow calls to be made without interfering with aircraft systems.  However, that doesn’t mean it will happen immediately. Currently, regulators are… Read More