Adobe had an event “Flash On The Beach” in which they made public that they are now developing a flash player for the iPhone. This comes following various statements by Steven Jobs, stating that the current version of flash for the iPhone is not quite good enough.
This Adobe flash may not be seen right away until it is developed to work correctly with the iPhone and Apple determines what apps make it into the App Store. It may not actually be seen in the near future since Flash has the ability to cause CPU overload on computers and on smartphones.
Meanwhile in related news, the technology firm from Finland which produces the Nokia cell phones has just released their latest the 5800 Xpressmusic phone. All in all, this is the very first touch screen phone the company has released and with it they are setting their sights on competing for a part of the digital music market that the Apple corporation currently dominates.
This particular phone will be made available to customers for free when they sign a service contract, which will place certain pressures on Apple’s iPhone. According to Jo Harlow the head of the phones, they think that they will listed with most of the mobile firms in due time.
Meanwhile in official statements from the Nokia Corporation as part of their free music bundle they have named “Comes with Music”, they claim to have all the major music labels and many of the independent labels with as many as five million tracks.
They also have plans of offering their music service in America next year in competition with the Apple Corporation, which now is in control of more than half of the digital music sales with iTunes.
Cellular telephone traffickers have found some new angles. They have found that by obtaining fairly cheap prepaid mobile phones and manipulating the software, they can be used to make phone calls on all networks. After they are unlocked, they are then sold all over the globe.
The mobile telephones in question are obtained in retail stores all over in Oregon, Florida, Maryland and some other states. In addition, many individuals have been hired to be runners. They generally into the retail stores and buy up the prepaid phones when the prices are low. The mobile are then hacked into and resold at perhaps fifty or sixt dollars over the regular cost. Hacking into the phones and reconfiguring the software is not actually against the law, surprisingly. But of course it does indeed cause a problem for the mobile phone firms themselves, who are losing huge revenue by not selling the extra air time. The phones are sold in retail stores sometimes at a loss for the phone firm, as they obviously count on making up for it in the new additional minutes they would be selling for the same phone. This is how the prepaid cell phone company makes its profit. Trac Fone Wireless, along with other producers of these mobile phones are suing the cell phone traffickers in federal courts all around the United States…….Trac Fone and other firms like Virgin Mobile and AT&T, contend that Federal Law protects their copyrighted software and trademarks. However, there is a company called Incomtel that feels it is perfectly legal to unlock these phones so they work on any cellular system. They have filed suit against Tac Fone, arguing that Trac Fone buys their phones from Nokia and Motorola. Finland based giant Nokia as well as Motorola use their own software. They claim that Trac Fone has no right to lock the software so others cannot use them and anyone should be able to buy these particular mobile phones for use on any network.
