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China-based Alibaba Cloud Computing this week announced the launch of its new mobile operating system for both handsets and tablets. The Aliyun OS, as it’s called, can run Android apps as well as web apps created using HTML5 and JavaScript. The Aliyun OS was demonstrated on a Linux-based smartphone which will launch later this month […]

A new service from Google can speed up your website by up to 60 percent–but you have to pay for the speed increase. The Google Page Speed Service grabs your site’s content, optimizes it and serves it to your site’s visitors using Google’s worldwide servers. Ram Ramani, an engineering manager at Google, recently discussed the […]

A band well known for its extremely creative music videos, OK Go, is also very much into technology. So much so that they have worked in collaboration with Google to showcase the interactive HTML5 functionality that is possible with a standard web browser–with no plugins or proprietary video solutions. The OK Go app takes the […]

As with other changes to Google, the emergence of Google+ has caused search engine optimization experts to reevaluate and revamp their SEO techniques. Others have been actively working on ways to buy SEO fixes, such as paying companies to “+1” a website, but in the end, good old fashioned top notch content is the best […]

ClojureScript can be described as subset of Clojure, which itself is a dynamic programming language that targets the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), without some of the features and libaries that are still net ready for prime time in Clojure. By using ClojureScript, developers can tap into the power of Clojure for GUI client programming. This […]

After several years of new content management systems (CMS) coming and going, the top three open source CMSes are still the same: Joomla!, Drupal and WordPress. Developers have different reasons for their preferences, but it likely breaks down to the intuitiveness of the CMS, its functionality, and how easy it is to learn to use. […]

This week RAGE Software released its Mac OS X-based WebDesign 3.5 with improvements including a new Inspector feature which enables developers to select any element by clicking on it, which reveals a live side-by-side preview. The corresponding HTML code is instantly available for the element being previewed. WebDesign is a professional web authoring package designed […]

HTML5 Boilerplate provides web developers with a starting point, an HTML5,

Google+ has grown by leaps and volumes, especially for a social network that isn’t even officially open for business yet. Users and developers have heard rumors of the social gaming that is coming to Google+, but what do we know so far? Developers who have been keenly inspecting the help pages for Google’s APIs have […]

Google is always showing off doodles on its search engine homepage, but this time it’s different. By using the HTML5 canvas element, which enables developers to render dynamic images and 2 dimensional shapes, Google was able to make the doodle come to life. After seeing the creations of Alexander Calder in Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary […]

Over the last two years, search engine optimization experts have had to contend with a lot of changes at Google. With Google Instant, Places, Google Panda, +1, predictive text, and now Google+, experts are having a hard time keeping up–but being prepared is always best. Long gone is the day when a website could scrape […]

In an effort to narrow its focus, Google is shutting down its Google Labs division, which was one of the top places to look for the latest innovations from Google’s developer team. As Google+ approaches its 20 millionth member, the move is not surprising to many in the industry, but still disappoints many developers. Google’s […]