Tag Archives: HTML5

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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Standards-based adaptive layouts in Windows 8 (and IE10)

Windows 8 Consumer Preview: Product Demo [on WindowsVideos YouTube channel, Feb 28, 2012] Jensen Harris from Windows User Experience gives a demo of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview. With Windows 8 (and IE10) Microsoft is carrying out a future-proof web … Continue reading

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The killing power of bloated web communications

Case #1: Will Windows 8 be a complete failure? 1. IDC Predictions 2012: System Infrastructure Software, Dec 15, 2011 2. A recruing twitter [Dec 2, 2011] for that event by an IDC person: #IDC SIS 2012 Prediction 10: Windows 8 … 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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Samsung push for bada in 2012 and other Linux based devices–with Tizen UPDATE: 1st Tizen devices in 2013

‘bada’ = the Korean word for ‘ocean.’ It is a Linux based proprietary operating system by Samsung which is otherwise rooted in MOCHA (Modular & Configurable Handset S/W Architecture), later evolved into SHP (Samsung Handset Platform) on which the bada … 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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