Category Archives: HTML5 et al

Intel CEO (Krzanich) and president (James) combo to assure manufacturing and next-gen cross-platform lead

Update: excerpts from Intel’s CEO Presents at Annual Shareholder Meeting Conference (Transcript) [Seeking Alpha, May 17, 2013] Andy D. Bryant – Chairman of the Board: In his most recent role as Chief Operating Officer, Brian [Krzanich] led an organization of … Continue reading

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Nokia HERE Maps for everything, for FireFox OS in a strategic partnership with Mozilla

A highly recommended prerequisite reading: The Where Platform from Nokia: a company move to taking data as a raw material to build products [April 7, 2012] So, while Microsoft was struggling today with Steven Sinofsky, ex Microsoft: The victim of … Continue reading

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Lowest H2’12 device cost SoCs from Spreadtrum will redefine the entry level smartphone and feature phone markets

And this is not a speculation but already a reality as the new Lenovo A288t came to market this month for ¥ 569 in retail [US$ 89] and as low as ¥ 479 in wholesale [US$ 75]. Such a breakthrough … Continue reading

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Nokia’s strategy for “the next billion” based on software and web optimization with super low-cost 2.5/2.75G SoCs

Preliminary reading: Smarterphone end-to-end software solution for “the next billion” Nokia users [Jan 9-11, 2012] With today’s news that Nokia reportedly to release 2.5G, 2.75G chip orders to Taiwan firms [Feb 14, 2012] (see below among the SoC-related set of … Continue reading

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1st W3C conference for Web developers and designers

14 Sep: W3C is holding its 1st web developer conference in Seattle! Nov 15-16 19 Sep: We may talk a bit about semantic web and metadata, such as RDFa, microdata, and microformats, but the focus is on client-side tech @zaythar … Continue reading

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Web apps for the open web from Mozilla

Mozilla releasing new version of Firefox for Android [Nov 22, 2011] The new version is strategically important for Mozilla for multiple reasons. First, smartphones and tablets are at the center of a mobile-first transformation of the computing industry, and Firefox … Continue reading

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Application Craft: a multiplatform rapid development system and SaaS for HTML5 et al

Application Craft – our one minute overview [Oct 29, 2011] Check out our fantastic one minute video. It shows you just some of the great development features available. Related information: Microsoft and jQuery Mobile, PhoneGap [Oct 13, 2011] More information: – … Continue reading

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Microsoft and jQuery Mobile, PhoneGap

Updates: PhoneGap, Cordova, and what’s in a name? [March 19, 2012] - PhoneGap for Windows Phone Dissected [Dec 19, 2011] - Tombstoning with PhoneGap for Windows Phone 7 (and KnockoutJS) [Oct 24, 2011] A few weeks back I wrote a blog post about how … Continue reading

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The accelerated Adobe strategy for HTML5 et al

Adobe Announces Agreement to Acquire Nitobi, Creator of PhoneGap [Adobe press release, Oct 3, 2011] Open Source HTML5 Mobile App Platform Accelerates Adobe’s HTML5 and Web Standards Strategy At its MAX 2011 technology conference, Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) today … Continue reading

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Qualcomm is very close to getting the HTML5 web apps performance and feature set to rival that of native OS apps

OnQ: Delivering Better Web Experiences for Snapdragon S3 Mobile Processors [Sy Choudhury, Director of Product Management, Web Technologies, Oct 10, 2011] Sy Choudhury, Director of Product Management for Qualcomm, demonstrates how our web optimizations can enhance the overall web browsing … Continue reading

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