If there is a worse desktop application for a better mobile device, I cannot imagine what it is.
The first oddity today was that suddenly my PC came up as "unauthorized". Then an entire album could not be found. I re-authorized the PC and was told that now 2 of a possible 5 computers were authorized for my account. What!?! I went to look at iTunes Preferences and decided to update address and phone number. But country was a separate entry ( we are now living in Canada.) Bad idea. All record of purchases went poof!
In an effort to wake up the iTunes "store", I went ahead and purchased yet another tune for 0.99$ - a nice guitar rendition of an old blues number by the late John Fahey. And there it stands: my one music purchase.
O Apple! Must I be driven to Amazon? Must I use an Android? What does the "i" in "iTunes" really mean? Indifferent? Inexplicable? Let me see ... a word starting with "i" meaning "doomed" ... "idiotic" ?
Showing posts with label Apple. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Apple. Show all posts
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Curl International to merge with Sumisho (SCS)
A news item in Japanese at http://curlap.com/ reports that at their April 28, 2010 annual meeting, Sumisho Computer Systems Corporation (SCS) announced that Curl International, their wholly owned Tokyo-based subsidiary, would merge into SCS.
Curl International was formed in 2004 following the Sumisho acquisition of the MIT spin-off Curl.
While tech journalists have been noting the issues between Apple and Adobe over the use of Flash, there tends to be little mention in the press of Curl as an alternative to Flash + HTML + Javascript + CSS.
Curl was developed at MIT as a web content language and is now used almost exclusively by Japanese corporate clients of Sumisho. An exception is the widespread use of Curl by corporate clients of Paisley, now owned by Reuters.
Curl Corporation in the USA will not be affected.
In 2009, Curl Corporation in Cambridge MA had relocated from the square at MIT to few blocks away and then had down-sized further late in the year.
Curl 7.0 was the last release of the Curl environment; several open-source Curl projects are hosted at sourceforge.net
As an alternative to HTML + Javascript + CSS, the notable requirement for Curl, like Flash, Air or Silverlight, is the Curl runtime environment - either for desktop or as a web browser plugin. Curl had not developed a server-side solution and had failed to protect their trademark (Curl is often confused with haxx.se cURL.)
In the USA the corporate office of SCS in New York.
Curl International was formed in 2004 following the Sumisho acquisition of the MIT spin-off Curl.
While tech journalists have been noting the issues between Apple and Adobe over the use of Flash, there tends to be little mention in the press of Curl as an alternative to Flash + HTML + Javascript + CSS.
Curl was developed at MIT as a web content language and is now used almost exclusively by Japanese corporate clients of Sumisho. An exception is the widespread use of Curl by corporate clients of Paisley, now owned by Reuters.
Curl Corporation in the USA will not be affected.
In 2009, Curl Corporation in Cambridge MA had relocated from the square at MIT to few blocks away and then had down-sized further late in the year.
Curl 7.0 was the last release of the Curl environment; several open-source Curl projects are hosted at sourceforge.net
As an alternative to HTML + Javascript + CSS, the notable requirement for Curl, like Flash, Air or Silverlight, is the Curl runtime environment - either for desktop or as a web browser plugin. Curl had not developed a server-side solution and had failed to protect their trademark (Curl is often confused with haxx.se cURL.)
In the USA the corporate office of SCS in New York.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
