In the recent open letter about flash written by Steve Jobs, he has mentioned several reasons highlighting “deficiencies” in Flash that has kept them from supporting the technology on their iPhone, iPod or iPad or whatever “i-products” they have.

One of the reasons sighted by Jobs to keep it out of iPhone is the battery hungry nature of Flash, which ironically runs on my Nokia 97 mini without using much juice! (as claimed by Jobs)

Another reason sighted by the so called openness loving leader of Apple is that Flash is 100% proprietary and is a closed system, incidentally Apple itself practices questionable policies with regards to the total control on it’s own products. (cases where developers were barred access to the App Store highlight this).

Talk about openness! Talk about hypocrisy! Steve Jobs, sir, you have achieved dizzy heights in both.

The real reason behind barring Flash from iPhone OS based devices could be that Apple itself would loose a lot of the revenue currently being generated from the App Store (Apple gets a 30% cut from all sales) as it’s a lot easier to develop games and run videos based on it. Plus, there’s a whole bunch of things you could do with Flash.

Be brave, Mr. Jobs, and accept your product’s closed nature. Accept that you fear loosing out on that extra cash that you are extracting from the hapless developers!

Even Microsoft has a few things to learn from you I guess. Nokia has a few thing of it’s own to learn from your so called practices.

I hope the consumers take notice of this and get smart. Think before you choose products from such a company.

So, Google has finally made public it’s browser called Chrome :

As you may have read in the blogosphere, we hit “send” a bit early on a comic book introducing our new open source browser, Google Chrome. We will be launching the beta version of Google Chrome tomorrow in more than 100 countries.

Microsoft has released Beta 2 of the upcoming Internet Explorer 8. This is a wider beta release of the browser which has many improvements over Beta 1. It has features which were introduced by Firefox 3 a long time ago (well not exactly a loooong time ago but yes before IE8).

With the release of Firefox 3 being a major event this year, there’s been considerable buzz regarding new add-ons for the 3 and upgrades to popular extensions to enable support for the latest version: 3. Mozilla recently organized a contest to crown the best add-ons for Firefox.

Intel Corporation is going to use the Core brand as it’s flagship brand like the Pentium brand and has named it’s next chip, Core i7:

Intel Corp said it plans to sell its new generation of chips for desktop computers under the established “Core” brand, with the first chips of the new line to be called Core i7.

As for using the Core brand as it’s flagship brand, the article has this to say:

Santa Clara, California-based Intel indicated that the Core name, already used for other chips including the popular Core 2 Duo processor, will be its flagship PC processor brand.

Sean Maloney, general manager of Intel’s sales and marketing group, says:

“Expect Intel to focus even more marketing resources around that name and the Core i7 products starting now”

Nokia PC Suite v7.0 is now available for download from Nokia. It is the first major version release since v6.0 so expect good amount of improvements in it. It supports majority of Nokia’s phones.

Well, I must share this with you. I have been trying to check the issue with the Windows Media Player Plugin for Firefox that is not allowing it to work with my previous Firefox 2 installation and even with my new Firefox 3 installation.

This problem has now persisted with me since 2 months or even more. What really is the reason, I can’t find out. The problem happens (to me since I visit only this site with Firefox) when I visit Indiatimes Broadband and try to watch a video or two!

I was hoping that the upgrade to Firefox 3 would (probably) solve my problem, but it seems to me that the problem has persisted even after the upgrade.

I wonder if anybody else is facing the same issue or is it just me?

While the whole World maybe smitten by the style, features and brand statement of the iPod (and more recently the iPhone and the iPod Touch), there still are worthy opponents of this one sided playing machine out on the market which are worth the money, provided you are willing to overlook brand Apple.

It is being reported that Microsoft maybe building an Internet centric non-Windows Operating System. This operating system will eliminate the dependance on hardware as is the case with the present day operating systems. An incubator project codenamed “Midori” is being headed by Eric Rudder, senior VP for Technical Strategy at Microsoft.

Well, a band of former Google executives have put together a cuil (pronounced ‘COOL’ ) search engine. Or atleast that’s what they have thought of it themselves.

So, what does it have for us? Well, we have to test the results from this new search engine and check it out. I might test it for a couple of days from now and then match the results to that from Google’s own engine.