This is the first "cloud based" product from Teppefall. More information will come over the next couple of months. It runs on Google AppEngine and is standard J2EE plus a few Google extensions. JavaMail, Twitter4J and XMPP works great.
Maybe I am repeating myself here. But Apple is fighting Google through proxy companies such as Adobe, Admob, Android and HTC. Going head to head is too dangerous for the stock value. So there is a lot of political speak and little direct action. Apple thinks Google is cloning their business model by proxy. And that cheap Chinese hardware with ad supported software threatens Apple more than Microsoft. Google Chrome OS and Android powered by Admob advertising becomes a problem when HTC is providing quality hardware.
This is probably obvious to many people now, but back when I wrote this I did not realize the truth. The reason Apple wants Flash off the iPad is because Apple wants the touch powered mobile advertising marked all for themselves. Apple wants to own interactive advertising on the iPhone, iPod and iPad.
Apps AS, a small Norwegian company, is setting up shop in Trondheim, Norway. They already have a small development office in Oslo and are now expanding to a new city. Trondheim is mostly known as the only city in Norway that once housed Google, Yahoo, Sun, ARM and Microsoft development groups. A result of the local NTNU university which focuses heavily on math, structural engineering, shipping, architecture and cybernetics. Trondheim also has a high number of female intellectuals. Although most of them prefer medical professions and jobs that require expensive wardrobes.
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