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May 04

Mobile Development Strategies

Malenka Warner | Technology

Malenka Warner

Quite a kerfluffle going on around mobile development strategies.

Apr 10

The new iPad features are centered around one thing - its new display, packing four times as many pixels in the same area as the iPad 2. What this means for users is a crystal-clear display capable of making you forget you are looking at a computer screen, and also makes reading text or looking at photos a true joy. But if you already have one, are the new iPad features worth buying a new one?

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Apr 03

Retina Display on the iPad

Daniel Andrews | Technology

Daniel Andrews

Apple.com is now serving retina images to new iPads. What they’ve chose to do is load the regular images for the site and then if the device requesting the page is a new iPad with the retina display, they use javascript to replace the image with a high-res version of it.

Doesn’t really work for everyone (because of bandwidth concerns), but for Apple it’s more about promoting that insanely nice display in any way possible.

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Feb 16

Google's Broken Promise

Daniel Andrews | Technology

Daniel Andrews

I don’t know if I’d say they’re “evil” now, but as Google has to fight more and more for eyeballs on their ads, you’re going to see a bit more aggression in their tactics to get users to stick around on their empire of sites for longer periods of time.

Because ultimately, you’re a product they’re selling to advertisers.

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Oct 05