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Just couple of days back, Adobe officially announces that they have given up all hopes of Flash development for iPhone Apps. Steve Jobs obviously had made it clear that Flash is no go citing stability and HTML5 is the way forward.

To cement his stand, Steve Jobs released a press release on the matter that touches 6 points below:
•Not open standards – Flash being closed while HTML5 is more open
•Full web experience – Flash being old and missing out on full web experience
•Reliability and performance – Steve Jobs continue to bang on Flash being the main cause of crashes on Macs
•Battery Life – Flash being software dependent and takes a big chunk out of iPhone battery life
•Touch Interface – Flash being developed for mouse input and not suitable for touch
•Dependency on 3rd party – Any platform enhancements would require 3rd party tools to enhance their features as well which could take time to reach out to developers

Engadget has a nice summary of Steve Job’s statement and have some interesting debate points as well.

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Maxis is striving to be on the forefront when it comes to innovation. In order to stay ahead of the competition, they have been testing various of new technology and intend to be the first to offer in the country.

Recently they have announced that Maxis has started testing 4G LTE (Long Term Evolution) technology on a trial run basis. This will give the company time to play around with the technology before the government announces the allocation for LTE Spectrum.

Maxis has been running various of trial runs on different technology and platforms such as HSDPA, DVB-H and even WiMAX. Some of which were launched and some didn’t.

As competition heats up particularly on mobile internet, LTE is the obvious progress step for mobile Telcos since the government had already awarded 4 companies to run WiMAX in Malaysia.

Besides 4G LTE, Maxis too is looking at expanding its fibre business and they too are looking at doing IPTV to expand its Fibre business. According to its CEO Sandip Das, Maxis is moving towards having “Integrated Play” which is expanding beyond the norm of “Triple Play” or “Quad Play”.

To reach out to the masses, Maxis is looking at tapping into TM’s existing FTTH infrastructure although no commercial terms or deal are not confirmed yet.

If necessary, Maxis is prepared to fork out RM1.4 billion in capital expenditure to reach out to places without fibre. In the mean time, Maxis is also in the final stages of signing an agreement with TNB to utilise their extensive fibre-optic network and possibily lay fibre optic cables along side TNB’s poles.

Currently Maxis has connected to about 400 buildings in the Klang Valley and they are expected to reach out to Johor Bahru and Penang soon.

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Maxis has officially announced that it will be offering the anticipated Micro SIM which is required for iPad 3G and the upcoming iPhone HD/4G. According to the press release, Maxis customers can get the Micro SIM format at any 31 Maxis Centres Nationwide.

The Micro SIM is available however for the following plans:

Mobile Internet Data
•500MB at RM58/month
•1.5GB at RM78/month
•3GB at RM88/month

Maxis Broadband•1.5GB at RM48/month
•3GB at RM68/month
•6GB at RM98/month

This is well thought of ahead of the International release of the iPad which has yet to reach Malaysia.

For more information, refer to maxis official website.

Text search and voice search are so yesterday. Today Google unveiled Google Goggles, turns your camera into a search tool. Check out the video above. In a nutshell, it takes a picture of something, analyzes it, and returns search results. How it works, according to the Big G:

•We first send the user’s image to Google’s datacenters
•We then create signatures of objects in the image using computer vision algorithms
•We then compare signatures against all other known items in our image recognition databases; and
•We then figure out how many matches exist; and
•We then return one or more search results, based on available meta data and ranking signals; and
•We do all of this in just a few seconds

Google Goggles is in its infancy, and we’re going to spend the rest of the day trying to use it on every random object in our basement (save for the bodies, naturally). This should be fun. You can download Goggles now in the Android Market for phones with Android 1.6 and above. [Google Mobile blog]

DiGi’s and Maxis was stepped up to the plate offering a subsidised Android based phone at a very attractive price with its latest DG Smart Plan for Digi and Android™ phone packages for Maxis .

Digi:

Digi’s offer 2 DG Smart Plan™, the only different is 12 months contract and 24 months contract, and claimed that you can save RM 1000 on 24 months contract and save RM 600 on 12 months contract.

Maxis:

Maxis only provide 1 plan and claimed that you can save RM600 by sign up for a data package on a 12 months contract.

Let’s calculate:
For both of 12 months contract, Digi need to pay RM1399 for the phone and RM68 for data plan.
Maxis need to pay RM1399 for the phone and RM58 for data plan, Maxis offer 3 data plan to let u choose, which is 500MB is RM58, 1.5GB is RM78 and 3GB is RM88.

More information:
1. HTC Legend
2. Maxis official Website
3. Digi official website

Therefore, which one u perfer? Share with us?