Mozilla CEO says the first Alpha version of Firefox Mobile will be available in a few weeks. That's pretty exciting. It's not clear exactly what devices or operating systems will be supported by the early Alpha.
Read MoreAlthough the largest PC makers can't sell XP anymore (except for ultra-low-cost machines), they can sell Vista Ultimate and Vista Business machines with XP discs in the box, or even Vista machines that are "factory downgraded" to Windows XP.
Read MoreThe WebKit Web Inspector has been redesigned and improved, and it looks great. Here is a brief look into the features.
Read MorePaul Betlem (senior director of engineering at Adobe Systems) confirmed that Flash is coming to iPhone. However, Betlem says that "Apple calls the shots as to when it'll be available".
Microsoft will unveil what the so called "Windows Cloud." The OS will likely have a different name and is intended for developers writing cloud-computing applications. Cloud computing is a term often applied to programs that are presented in a Web browser, but the actual computing is performed at a distant data center.
Windows Cloud is a separate project from Windows 7, the OS Microsoft is developing to succeed Windows Vista.
The company put up a notice on the main Apple developer Web page that developers are released from the NDA regarding iPhone software that has already been released.
The NDA was one of the most frustrating aspects of iPhone development in its first three official months, forbidding developers from discussing their software and throwing into legal limbo the status of programs such as iPhone development classes.
Six years after Google Inc. launched Google News by applying its search technology to breaking news stories, the company has moved to apply its technology to a similar service to track new blog posts.
Google Blog Search tool was updated and will use the technology that powers Google News to track and organize the 900,000 new blog posts added to the Web every 24 hours. Previously, the tool only allowed users to simply type queries to search blogs.
Read MoreAdobe announced Creative Suite CS4 on September 23th. The new release includes six editions ot Creative Suite 4, each combining tightly integrated, industry-leading components, and online services that enable designers to handle virtually any creative task (Design Premium, Design Standart, Web Premium, Web Standart, Production Premium and Master Collection).
Read MoreBoth Microsoft and Nokia are adopting jQuery as part of their official application development platform. They will be using it not only for their corporate development but as a core piece of their platform for developers to build with.
A big part of the appeal of jQuery is that it allows you to elegantly (and efficiently) find and manipulate HTML elements with minimum lines of code. jQuery's "selector" API allows developers to query for HTML elements, and then apply "commands" to them. One of the characteristics of jQuery commands is that they can be "chained" together so that the result of one command can feed into another. jQuery also includes a built-in set of animation APIs that can be used as commands.
Europe could take the lead in the next generation of the Internet. The European Commission outlined the main steps that Europe has to take to respond to the next wave of the Information Revolution that will intensify in the coming years. Trends such as social networking, the decisive shift to on-line business services, nomadic services based on GPS and mobile TV and the growth of smart tags will lead to this Information Revolution.The report shows that Europe is well placed to exploit these trends due to its policies to support open and pro-competitive telecom networks. The Commission report also unveils a new Broadband Performance Index (BPI) that compares national performance on key measures such as broadband speed, price, competition and coverage. Sweden and the Netherlands top this European broadband league, which complements the more traditional broadband penetration index used so far by telecoms regulators.
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