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In a move that speaks highly of Microsoft’s fight to regain the momentem they have been losing in the mobile marketplace, they are ready to release a Windows Mobile 6.5.3 Software Development Kit (SDK). Visual Studio 2008 users will be able to develop and test mobile applications on their computers, reports have mentioned. The Windows […]

Last week YouTube announced that they were supporting HTML5 video, using the H.264 video codec. Mozilla hasn’t settled on which codec they will support, but many Mozilla supporters have been pushing for the browser to use the royalty-free alternative called Ogg Theora. YouTube’s announcement was quickly followed by an announcement by Vimeo, another video site, […]

After yesterday’s announcement that YouTube announced an experimental version of an HTML5-supported video player, Vimeo has joined the mix with support for HTML 5 videos on their website. Vimeo’s video player is an alternative to the familiar Flash player, and it looks and works almost exactly the same way. Brad Dougherty from Vimeo stated that […]

YouTube has joined the HTML 5 bandwagon by offering their videos in HTML 5 format–no Flash Player is required. This is another example of the capabilities of HTML 5, specifically its ability to perform many features long associated with plug-ins and additionally required software. HTML5 includes support for video and audio playback, so users with […]

With the relase of Mozilla Firefox 3.6, developers have a reason to be excited. Expanded support for emerging web standards, a PluginCheck utility and Personas make this release worth the download. This new release offers support for CSS, DOM and HTML 5 technologies, as well as for full-screen video and the open-source Web Open Font […]

In what used to be a client-server application world, the web-based application has brought new implications and new challenges. Cross-browser testing plays a more crucial role in testing application performance, and an open source, cross-browser testing platform named Selenium is breaking new ground with its cloud-based testing model. Selenium was created by Jason Huggins in […]

Last year Micrsoft introduced its latest brainstorm, a kid-friendly, easy-to-use game creation application called Kodu that runs on the Xbox 360 platform. Retail is next to free at $5, and with Kodu for the PC, Microsoft seems to be trying to tap a market of game developers from the ground up, literally. Now Microsoft has […]

Social Networking is still booming–most of us have a profile page on a social network, whether it’s MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Ning, or countless others. Let’s take a look at how social networks handle millions of users and even more updates using open-source software and web servers–lots and lots of web servers. One thing that […]

“Gordon” may be its name, but Tobias Schneider’s software which enables Flash applications on the iPhone is actually a Flash interpreter written in JavaScript. Gordon is supported by most web browsers, and allows web page elements to be interactive. Using the iPhone’s support for SVG, (Scalable Vector Graphics), Tobias added JavaScript to the mix to […]

Not only are land lines on their way out, but a recent Gartner report indicates that within three years, most of your site’s visitors will be viewing them via a cell phone, and social networks will play vital role in your virtual success. According to the report, by 2013 there will be 4 million more […]

HTML 5 isn’t new by any means–the first Public Working Draft of the specification was released on January 22, 2008 by the W3C. HTML 5’s canvas element and audio/video tags offer particularly promising potential for developers, especially since it’s plug-in free and non-proprietary. Recently some very impressive demos have been released that showcase what HTML […]

As many developers and end users already know, especially search engine optimization (SEO) pros, Google search now features an option known as “real time search”. Search results that use that option include updates from social networking sites including Twitter, MySpace and Facebook. These real time search results usually show up in the top rankings for […]