TweetDeck has been acquired by Twitter. Both completed the deal and are now in the process of "joining the flock". The past three years have been an epic journey, with many highs and lows, accompanied by the constant thrill of never really knowing what to expect next.
Read MoreMozilla released a beta version of Firefox 5, its first on a new quick-release plan intended to bring features to browser users and Web developers sooner. Firefox 5 beta's big new feature is support for CSS animations, which let Web developers add some pizzazz to actions such as making dialog boxes pop up or switching among photos. Also in the new version is canvas, JavaScript, memory, and networking, according to the release notes and bug-fix list.
Read MoreSony's nightmare may not be over yet. New reports show that PlayStation
Network user accounts can be exploited by hackers through the password
reset page. Hackers can use the PSN reset page to get into users'
accounts using only a PSN email and date of birth. Both of these pieces
of information were stolen during the original breach. As a result,
sign-in is now unavailable across a wide number of Sony's sites, as the
company deals with the issue.
Programmer Fabrice Bellard's latest project is a JavaScript program that emulates an x86 processor fast enough to run Linux in a Web browser. The JavaScript PC Emulator can do the work of an Intel 486 chip from the 1990s, but doesn't have a built-in floating point unit for numeric processing, Bellard said. Linux itself can emulate that, and a version of the operating system's core--2.6.20--runs on the foundation.
Read MoreSencha's HTML5-centric world has expanded with the arrival of Ext JS 4, the company's biggest upgrade to its flagship JavaScript framework in two years. The cross browser framework's new features include plug-in-free charting, customizable theming, as well as upgraded components.
Read MoreSony made it official in Tokyo, disclosing two new tablet designs that will run Android 3.0 "Honeycomb" software and have access to PlayStation content. The Japanese company said in a brief statement that it is "developing two tablets," including the S1 which is "optimized for media entertainment" and the S2 (both codenames), aimed at "mobile communication and entertainment."
Last week YouTube sent an email to Google Video users letting them know YouTube would be ending playbacks of Google Videos on April 29 and providing instructions on how to download videos currently hosted on the platform. Since then YouTube received feedback about making the migration off of Google Video easier. Based on that, here’s what YouTube is going to fix.
Read MoreAll new videos uploaded to YouTube are now transcoded into WebM. WebM is an open media file format for video and audio on the web. Its openness allows anyone to improve the format and its integrations, resulting in a better experience for you in the long-term. YouTube hopes to reduce the technical incompatibilities that prevent you from accessing video while improving the overall online video landscape.
Read MoreFirefox will undergo its biggest developmental upheaval ever. Mozilla-central, the source of nightly builds, will be renumbered to version 5 - and at long last, after years of wallowing around version 1, Mozilla's rendering and layout engine, Gecko, will also have its version number updated to match Firefox.
Read MoreMozilla has further detailed its new development model for Firefox. The current draft says Firefox 5 will arrive on June 21, 2011 and Firefox 6 will be released on August 18, 2011. All changes to Firefox source code are initially integrated in the mozilla-central Mercurial repository.
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