Daily Archives: May 6, 2012

Facebook Call to Boycott Airline Takes Off for Treatment of Dying Vet

Facebook Call to Boycott Airline Takes Off for Treatment of Dying Vet

Facebook users are rallying around a campaign to boycott Spirit Airlines, after the carrier refused to refund the cost of a dying veteran’s flight. Jerry Meekins, a 76-year-old former marine, requested a refund on his $197 flight to New Jersey from Florida, to visit his daughter during a surgery. Meekins’s doctor told him not to … Continued

Why Sound Could Win in the Battle Against Video on the Web

Why Sound Could Win in the Battle Against Video on the Web

Just like you learned to crawl before you walked, you learned to listen to your mother’s heartbeat from within her womb before you saw anything outside of it. On stage at Mashable Connect in Orlando, Soundcloud CEO Alexander Ljung described the early developments of our senses, saying we’re born with imperfect eyesight but enter the … Continued

Third betas of Adobe Flash 11.3, AIR 3.3 give peeks at low-lag audio and deeper iOS support

Third betas of Adobe Flash 11.3, AIR 3.3 give peeks at low-lag audio and deeper iOS support

Adobe‘s famous desktop browser plugin may be looking forward to a 2013 overhaul, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t out to improve itself in the here and now. Flash Player’s 11.3 beta, for instance, rolls in low latency audio support through NetStream, designed specifically to cut back audio lag in cloud gaming. The beta also … Continued