Britain’s oldest Tweeter has died in her sleep at the age of 104, staff at her care home have said. Ivy Bean, from Bradford, acquired over 56,000 followers on the popular micro-blogging service. Pat Wright, manager of Hillside Manor where Mrs Bean lived, broke the news on her Twitter feed.
Mrs Bean joined the site in 2008, one year after she registered on Facebook. She soon attracted attention for being the oldest "tweeter".
The Mozilla Foundation has announced the first beta version of Firefox 4, the next generation of its cross-platform web browser.
Although there is some way to go until the final release, the beta is considered to be stable and safe enough for daily use.
Today Apple has unveiled the iPhone 4, which will be launched in the UK on 24 June.
Apple said this week it has sold two million iPads, less than two months after launching the touchscreen tablet in the US, much faster than predicted. This is despite the fact the company had to delay the device’s international launch by a month because it could not keep up with demand.
Only last Friday, the iPad, which combines the mobility of a smartphone with the speed of a laptop, went on sale in the UK, and also launched in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain and Switzerland. The original UK launch date had been set for late April.
The ongoing row between Adobe and Apple regarding the use of Flash doesn’t seem to be going away. Now Jonathan Gay, co-creator of Flash media software, has said that Flash still has a future even if Apple are trying to kill it off.
In recent weeks, Adobe Flash has been heavilly criticised by Apple boss Steve Jobs.
During the past week the relationship between Adobe and Apple have hit the headlines.
On Friday 30th April, Steve Jobs wrote an open letter defending Apple’s decision not to allow Flash technology on many of their products.
He was making the point that Flash was made for an era of “PCs and mice” and performed poorly when translated to run on touchscreen smartphones and handheld devices.
Adobe then responded and now they have said that they wish to further themselves from Apples products.
