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Demand on Video Conferencing Soars High After Air Flight Ban
The ashes coming from a Vulcan in Iceland causes massive cancellation on flights in the European region. Many business travels had been disrupted from this flight bans and the huge ash clouds puts the business continuity on misery.
The unfortunate event brought Airline companies major losses but it open up a high demand on Videoconferencing. CISCO Systems announced that they got a huge spike of usage after the travel disruption on Europe caused by the Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano.
The rise of Videoconferencing demand was due to travelers stranded by the Icelandic volcano are using telepresence and videoconferencing to stay in contact with their businesses.
On Monday, Cisco became the biggest provider of Videoconferecing equipments as it finally closes the acquisition of Tandberg amounting to $3.3 billion.
Videoworks, a new Videoconferencing provider CEO also said that the timing of the Volcano’s disruption is just right and that most businesses should consider Videoconferencing as a vital part of the continuity of their businesses.
A boom of Videoconferencing market is expected because most companies are cutting travel expenses and will be relying on Videoconferencing and Teleconferencing for business transactions.
Adobe Retaliates on Apple’s Attack Against Flash
Adobe finally broke their silence on Apple’s claims that Flash will be fading away due to arrival of HTML 5. As HTML 5 arises, a war on words started on the web giants Adobe and Apple.
Adobe retaliated by saying that a switch to HTML 5 will put web users to “back to the dark ages of video on the web” . Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch also sighted reasons on the lack of Flash support to iPhones and the upcoming iPad and put the blame on Apple. Lynch stressed that it is due to Apple’s lack of cooperation that impedes Flash support to Apple’s products.
Here is the quote from Lynch’s blog:
“We are ready to enable Flash in the browser on these devices if and when Apple chooses to allow that for its users, but to date we have not had the required cooperation from Apple to make this happen.”
It is early to predict the fate of Flash with the arrival or HTML 5. Flash is not just a web browser tool but a web development tool with a community of dedicated developers. Flash may suffer a downfall when it comes to video support on browsers but obviously Adobe will not just sit around and let it fade away. Flash is a ground breaker and well loved by web developers so expect improvements on its usability and supports in the near future.
Right now, Flash is gearing up for the latest version (Flash Player 10.1) which will support mobile devices such as blackberry, nokia and also Apple’s products.
A Should Have Been Banned Sexy App Earned $10,000 a Week
Apple made a smart move by purging smut or sexy apps for iPhones. Apple started an anti-smut campaign as a response to parent’s rising complaints of their children being able to access sexy apps. But one sexy app slipped through the cracks of the banning campaign and instead gained $10,000 a week.
Tubes was able to skip in the culling because of its target market. Tubes was developed for a client who specifically ask that it should not be released in the U.S. and the banning of sexy apps by Apple was targeted in the U.S.
Tubes was finally banned by Apple’s, but earned huge revenues first. The remaining sexy apps for Apple are now only the ones coming from prominent companies such as FHM, Playboy and Sports Illustrated. If Tubes earned $10,000 a week, imagine how much the remaining sexy apps will earn now that they are the only ones left in market.