Following the announcement from Adobe of the open screen project, news comes from the Embedded Systems Expo that NEC is showing what sounds like it might be an alternative to Adobe’s Flash Lite Player.
Its a little hard to make complete sense of the post from EETimes.com. But some interesting quotes from the short, slightly cryptic article:
By using our new IP, one can design a portable device capable of processing Adobe Flash Lite several times faster, when compared with using a processor.
Also in the announcement is a hint of better video quality as well.
After reducing the number of gates required for an IC and further tuning the video quality output by Adobe Flash Lite, NEC will start offering its IP in August this year.
One thing that does seem to be missing is an explanation of which Flash Lite version they are supporting, although the mention of video implies this is based around the FlashLite 3 player.
You can read the full (breif) announcement of NEC’s new Flash Lite IP over at EETimes.com.
One further interesting thing is that I could find no mention of NEC being involved with the Open Screen Project from its press release.
[http://blog.bittube.com/]Credit where its due: EETimes.com
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The Intellectual Properties of FlashLite is tested by NEC
Silverlight is Microsoft’s foray into building interactive Rich Internet Applications. Microsoft has been pushing hard at getting the developer community, adopt this new framework but faces stiff competition from Adobe Flash and Fle x which have a huge developer base.
Having said that, the Silverlight website showcases some amazing applications that are powered by this new framework. Analysts believe a new mobile version will be out soon which will make it a stronger competitor to the existing Flash Lite framework.
Microsoft has released browser plugins for Windows and OS X but it’s not a surprise that Linux was left out, as usual. Here’s where Moonlight comes in for the Linux world..
Building on the Mono Project’s Linux implementation of the dot Net framework, Moonlight aims to provide both a Linux SDK to build Silverlight apps and a stand-alone Silverlight runtime.
To get started, firefox plugins for Silverlight are available at the Moonlight page. Firefox3 support is available in their experimental builds.
[anojrs.blogspot.com] By Anoj
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Linux Project Moonlight
BELLEVUE, Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–BSQUARE Corporation (Nasdaq: BSQR) today announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2008. Total revenue for the quarter was $17.1 million, up 13% from $15.1 million in the prior year. The company reported net income for the quarter of $1.0 million, or $0.10 per diluted share, up 57% compared to net income of $638,000, or $0.06 per diluted share, in the prior year.
Brian Crowley, BSQUARE’s chief executive officer, commented on the first quarter’s results, “We had a very solid quarter. We showed substantial year-over-year bottom line growth, we made progress in building our service backlog and pipeline, capitalized on our recent entrée into the Flash Lite market more rapidly than expected, and have been encouraged by how quickly we are building business momentum in Japan.”For more details.
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BSQUARE Reports First Quarter 2008 Results
The Java ME API is the new Project Capuchin technology that Sony Ericsson recently constructed to specify the Java ME and Adobe Flashlite programming environments. With the both very rich in information and technology (Java ME and FlashLite) working together this will create a more secure and piquant mobile content.
Both has it priority in the industry for example, the Flash’s strengths in fast UI deployment and well established designer tools, meanwhile Java’s strengths are in services, this will make sure that the project run smooth and efficiently.
Project Capuchin makes it possible to run Flashlite by using Java and this can help user to make different kind of content according to their liking. For more information click here.
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Project Capuchin by Sony Ericsson
