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"絵しりとりも楽しいな。" - 絵しりとりをどの様に遊びますか？ - Norbert Klein

Macnica Inc, a Japanese firm developing and marketing semiconductors and network devices, and Fujitsu Software Technologies Ltd jointly developed the "Software Platform for Home Network Digital Photo Frame," a digital photo frame that employed Google Inc's "Android" as its platform. Macnica will exhibit this digital photo frame for reference at the 12th Embedded Systems Expo (ESEC2009), which runs from May 13, 2009, at Tokyo Big Sight in Tokyo, Japan. It will be exhibited as an example of digital home appliances that incorporate Android as their embedded platform. The developed digital photo frame can display a slideshow of photos on a home network via DLNA. Using Fujitsu Ltd's middleware, "Inspirium HomeNetwork Library for AV," Macnica and Fujitsu Software realized a capability to share photos on a home network via DLNA. Macnica's "Marbo PictImpact" is included as middleware for slideshows of still pictures. It can process photos with oil paint... more... - 31o5 from Bookmarklet

Hey, if you can take Google's open source OS for mobile telephones and chunk it into a netbook, then why not digital photo frames? Fujitsu and Japan's Macnica have teamed up on what they're calling a "Software Platform for Home Network Digital Photo Frames" based on Google's Android. In other words, it's a software platform for home network digital photo frames based on Google's Android. Uh, riiight. The prototype frame above was on display in Japan yesterday running slideshows off a standard DLNA network. Honestly, we don't care what OS is running at the core of those cheap, off-brand digital photo frames cluttering big box shelves every holiday -- just make the navigation intuitive and we're happy. Android seems like a good (and free!) start along the road to standardization. - 31o5 from Bookmarklet

And well, if Android can save Digital Photo Frames from bad UI and all around obsoleteness that'd be an accomplishment in itself. If Fujitsu and Macnica can actually come up with a Digital Photo Frame pseudo-standard OS off Android, that'd be even more amazing. - 31o5 from Bookmarklet

An updated version of the WebKit HTML engine in AIR 2 features a faster JavaScript engine. HTML5/CSS3 (Cascading Style Sheets) 3 capabilities are in AIR 2, too. The local microphone access API in AIR 2 enables recording of audio locally, which benefits applications running in a disconnected mode, Adobe said. Improved socket support in AIR 2 enables development of local servers and lightweight P2P applications. Adobe at some point plans to enable AIR to run on devices. - 31o5 from Bookmarklet

Flash Player 10.1 features availability for a range of devices, including smartphones, netbooks, and other Internet-connected devices, Adobe said. Content can be delivered across different OSes and devices. Also, SWF files can be deployed on devices with limited processing power. - 31o5 from Bookmarklet

"What we're announcing now is really the full Flash Player. Everything that the full Flash Player can do on the desktop we trying to take over to a mobile device," Everett-Church said. - 31o5 from Bookmarklet

SAN JOSE, Calif. and LONDON — June 24, 2009 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) and HTC, a global designer of mobile phones, today announced that the new HTC Hero is the first Android phone to ship with support for Adobe® Flash® Platform technology. The new phone delivers a more complete Web browsing experience and provides access to a broad variety of Flash technology based content available on the Web today. - 31o5 from Bookmarklet

FlashビデオやFlash用スクリプト言語「ActionScript 2.0」に対応しており，パソコン並みのWebブラウジング環境をモバイルで実現できるとしている。 - 31o5 from Bookmarklet

米Adobe Systemsは2008年5月1日（現地時間），自社のFlash技術をオープン化し，パソコンや携帯電話機などの様々な機器でコンテンツやアプリケーションを利用できるようにするための「Open Screen Project」を立ち上げると発表した。Adobeが持つFlashとAIRの技術をベースにランタイムとして提供され，パソコンから携帯電話機，携帯型インターネット端末，STB（セットトップボックス）など機器を選ばずに，同じコンテンツやアプリケーションを利用できるようにする（発表資料）。 　Open Screen Projectを推進するためにAdobeは，（1）Flashのファイル形式であるSWFとFLV/F4Vの仕様の利用制限をなくす，（2）Flash Playerの機器移植レイヤーAPIを公開する，（3）Flash CastプロトコルとAMFプロトコルを公開する，（4）端末向けのFlash PlayerとAIRについて次期バージョンからライセンス料を無料にする──といった支援を行う。 　なお今回のプロジェクトは，米Ciscoや米Intel，米Motorola，米Qualcomm，韓国Samsung Electronics，NTTドコモ，ソニー・エリクソン，東芝といったメーカーのほか，英BBCや米MTV Networks，米NBC Universalといったメディア企業も支持しているという。 - 31o5 from Bookmarklet

The Open Screen Project is an industry-wide initiative, led by Adobe and backed by other industry leaders who all share one clear vision: Enable consumers to engage with rich Internet experiences seamlessly across any device, anywhere. - 31o5 from Bookmarklet