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Google said Tuesday that it’s going mobile with its Google Gears technology, the stuff that’s supposed to let web-based apps run unconnected to the web, beginning with Windows Mobile 5 and 6 devices ahead of its own nascent Android platform.
And with Steve Jobs slamming Flash publicly at the Apple shareholders meeting as too slow and lacking in web functionality for the iPhone while the sound of the Nokia-Microsoft alliance was still ringing in people’s ears, one can hardly blame the pundits for speculating that iPhone will skip down the Silverlight path too.Terms of the Microsoft-Nokia deal weren’t disclosed of course but Adobe hasn’t had much luck with manufacturers or carriers since it started asking a perphone license fee for the Flash plug-in.The next day, Microsoft made its mobile-supporting Silverlight 2 beta available for download. The beta includes new features like Deep Zoom, some 40 new controls and a .NET base class library of functionality.DoubleClick, the pending Google acquisition, has got a Silverlight 2 SDK for in-stream advertising. Content publishers that deliver video content can use it in a Silverlight environment to target, serve, forecast and report on video-based advertising.Microsoft’s also cut a strategic Silverlight alliance with Move Networks, which provides live and on-demand “long-form” video content like TV episodes, news and sports programming.
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