Once the only third-party apps on smartphones -- remember the first iPhone in 2007? -- web apps are in the spotlight again. Mozilla is showing how HTML5 apps for Firefox OS can easily run on Android phones.…
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The Samsung Z is the first Tizen smartphone
Samsung announced the first smartphone running its Tizen operating system on Monday. It's a mid-range handset, and it's headed to Russia.…
Read MoreGoogle Chrome for Android can now re-open closed tabs
Google Chrome(s goog) users on Android should keep their eyes peeled for the newest update, which is rolling out Wednesday. Chrome version…
Read MoreGot an HTML 5 web app? Now you can sell it in Amazon’s Appstore
Paid web apps gain a new home in Amazon's Appstore. The company allowed such apps in the store since last August but now developers can set a price and sell their web wares.…
Read MoreNew Chromebook brings a little fragmentation to Chrome OS (Updated)
If a web app works on Google's old Chromebooks, it works on the new one just announced, right? Not exactly: Netflix doesn't, nor does Bastion, a fun browser-based game. Native code in the browser may require web apps to be recompiled for the new chips.…
Read MoreGoogle makes a big push for offline Chrome apps
Google is making a concerted effort to enable offline use for its Chrome browser and Chrome OS platform. There's a new collection of apps in the Chrome Web Store that can already run offline. And offline editing for Google Docs is coming "soon" per the company.…
Read MoreStackMob looks beyond backend to the future of connected devices
Mobile backend as a service StackMob is announcing a hosted HTML5 solution that will make it easier for developers to build HTML5 and hybrid apps that use HTML5. The move allows the company to become a more full fledged platform as a service.…
Read MoreHere’s why Soundcloud ditched Flash for HTML5
One of the main reasons to embrace HTML5 for media playback is to make things work on the iPad. But for SoundCloud, HTML5 has also shown much more user engagement than Flash. That's why the company switched its default widget to HTML5.…
Read MorethePlatform introduces one HTML5 player to rule them all
Publishers are pushing HTML5 video, despite a lack of real standards around the display and rendering of supported players. thePlatform is addressing that problem with a new offering that enables customers to create one video player that can be delivered through any device or browser.…
Read MoreAT&T gets behind HTML5 with API platform, app store
AT&T is showing some love to HTML5 with a new API platform to enable web apps and an AppCenter app store that will highlight HTML5 apps. The moves help build more momentum behind web apps, which are poised to grow as HTML5 matures.…
Read MoreMobile app use soars while mobile browsing wanes
The world is increasingly going mobile: mobile apps, to be more exact. New data out of app analytics firm Flurry finds mobile users are spending more time in mobile apps than mobile web browsing, widening a gap that began for the first time last summer.…
Read MoreWill 2012 be the year of hypermedia?
Imagine citizen journalists could remix radio programs or TV news features simply by copy and pasting text fragments of their manuscripts and closed captions: That's the idea behind hypermedia, and first tools to make it happen could become available as early as next year.…
Read More4 out of 5 videos are encoded in H.264
A full 80 percent of videos are encoded in H.264, according to new data from MeFeedia. The latest figures show just how far the industry has come in adopting the H.264 video format as the de facto standard for video encoding.…
Read MoreH.264 is still winning the codec war
H.264 remains the dominant force in online video, as the video codec now accounts for more than two-thirds of online video, according to a blog post by MeFeedia. Meanwhile, Google's WebM format has yet to gain any significant traction after being released a year ago.…
Read MoreSorry HTML 5, mobile apps are used more than the web
HTML 5 and the mobile web are supposed to be the great unifier across platforms, but we might not need such a solution. For the first time ever, Flurry Analytics says people are using apps more than they're using the mobile web on smartphones and tablets.…
Read MoreProject Spartan isn’t anti-Apple — it’s pro-Facebook
Many recent headlines have been devoted to Facebook's focus on HTML5, and specifically on an internal HTML5-based project at the company dubbed "Project Spartan." But Facebook's investment in HTML5 is nothing new -- and it's certainly nothing that the company has been secretive about.…
Read MoreWant to See the Future of Mobile Web Apps? Just Watch Google
Google improved the web version of its Gmail application for Apple iPhone and iPod touch devices, further blending the lines between web and native applications. Client apps are still hot, but developers should look to Google for examples of a mobile future filled with web apps.…
Read MoreWhy Porn and the iPad Are Key for HTML5
Apple’s move to ban Adobe Flash from its iOS has opened a huge window for any technology that can deliver a top-notch multimedia experience on the iPad and other Apple gadgets. And porn purveyors are starting to tilt the balance in favor of HTML5.…
Read MoreApp Creep and the Case for the Mobile Browser
App stores are so successful that some are arguing that native apps are the way we will experience the web on mobile devices. As more and more companies offer services on the mobile web, I believe the mobile browser will play a bigger role.…
Read MoreiPhone and Android Fueling Worldwide Smartphone Growth
Sales in the smartphone market far outpaced that of feature phones in the first quarter of 2010, with each of the top five handset makers registering sales growth. As to the handset makers that gained market share -- they all used one of two platforms.…
Read MoreKaazing Pushes Web Sockets to Make Browsers Real Time
Jonas Jacobi's Kaazing is pushing forward a new protocol called web sockets. Rather than AJAX-type hacks to make web apps quick, web sockets are a full browser upgrade to better send and receive data between a web client and server.…
Read MoreWhy Firefox Is Hardly Doomed
Even as Mozilla rolls out Release Candidate 2 of its Firefox 3.6 browser update, and is only days from official release, some are convinced that the upstart open source browser is doomed. However, Mozilla's Director of Firefox, Mike Beltzner, provides some good reasons why it isn't.…
Read MoreNewTeeVee Live: Adobe CTO: HTML 5 Is “Trying to Do What Flash Already Does”
Despite standardization happening around HTML 5, the CTO of Adobe Systems (S adbe) told audiences at NewTeeVee Live that members of the…
Read MoreWill HTML 5 Break Apple's Stranglehold on Apps?
It’s no secret that the iPhone App Store is a walled garden. Mobile platform developers like Apple (s aapl) have several ways…
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