“Google dealt a snub to Adobe on Friday with a tribute to the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man,” Electronista reports.

“Despite sharing stage time with Adobe just this week, a playable version of Pac-Man on the page works with both the iPad and iPhone – revealing that it’s not using Flash,” Electronista reports. “Apple’s phones and other touchscreen devices instead use swipe gestures to steer the classic arcade game.”

Electronista reports, “Although it goes without a plugin, it still includes most features of the Namco original.”

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Android did just NOT pass the iPhone in Web traffic in the U.S. last month, despite a story on TechCrunch with that assertion as the headline,” Dan Frommer reports or The Business Insider. “Based on recent comScore data, we estimate that iPhone-based web traffic is still at least 2X Android web traffic in the U.S.”

Frommer reports, “So why did TechCrunch get it wrong? The TechCrunch post is based on the latest monthly ad statistics from AdMob, a mobile ad network that’s being acquired by Google. Specifically, one graph in AdMob’s report showed that in March, Android’s percentage of ad requests in AdMob’s network surpassed theiPhone for the first time.
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“The Gourmet Haus Staudt. A nice place to enjoy good German ales,” Jesus Diaz reports for Gizmodo. “And if you are an Apple Software Engineer named Gray Powell and you get one too many beers, it’s also a nice place to lose the next-generation iPhone.”

“The 27-year-old Powell—a North Carolina State University 2006 graduate and talented amateur photographer—is an Apple Software Engineer working on the iPhone Baseband Software, the little program that enables the iPhone to make calls,” Diaz reports.
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“Apple is projected to have sold 7.5 million iPhones in the first three months of 2010, and a new study suggests those users won’t be leaving anytime soon, with high retention rates due to the investments many users have made in App Store software,” Katie Marsal reports for AppleInsider.

“Analyst Maynard Um with UBS issued a new note to investors Wednesday morning, in which he noted a recent Q-Series survey that found Apple leads the smartphone industry in both mindshare and retention rate,” Marsal reports. “Among respondents, 56 percent said they believe Apple is the best smartphone manufacturer, and the implied retention rate among a sample of 310 users is 95 percent — well beyond, Um noted, anything else seen ever in the industry.”
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Is this Apple’s next-gen iPhone’s “HD touchscreen” and casing?

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“The simplicity of the iPhone and lack of buttons belies a wealth of shortcuts,” Tom Kaneshige reports for ITworld. “We’ve picked six of the most important ones.”

• Two-Button Screenshot
• Double-Click Camera
• Three-finger Zoom
• Hold for Voice Activation
• Double-Tap Safari
• Concurrent Voice and Data

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“Apple is reportedly removing iPhone, iPod, and MacBook screen protectors from its online and retail stores, just a couple of weeks before the iPad hits the stand,” Sarah Jacobsson reports for PCWorld.

“Apple has yet to reveal the reason it is pulling protective products from its shelves. A popular speculation is that Apple wants to promote the idea that its product’s screens are sturdy enough that they don’t need to be protected (even though anyone who’s ever dropped an iPhone knows this is far from the case),” Jacobsson reports. “That’s no explanation for why Apple is also banning antiglare, mirrored, and privacy film, unless they also hope to promote the idea that their screens are easy to read in the sun, can double as mirrors, and have magical privacy properties.”

Jacobsson reports, “Another speculation is that the products, while popular, are hard to apply and thus have a higher rate of return than other products.”

Apple’s “latest iPhone and iPod Touch screens are surprisingly resistant to, well, everything — from finger oil to water to barbecue sauce, and don’t scratch very easily. Even my iPhone 3G (without the [3GS's] ‘oleophobic’ screen) is pretty resistant to scratches… Macworld points out that it’s probably no coincidence that Apple is pulling screen protectors right before the introduction of the iPad — but why? Could Apple be thinking of debuting its very own line of (OLEOPHOBIC) screen protectors?”

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Source: MacDailyNews