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HTML5 provides a tour of The Hunger Games' "Capitol"

Microsoft and Lionsgate Entertainment have partnered for an innovative web experience for fans of The Hunger Games.

RIM stands by Flash mobile as it pursues HTML5

Research in Motion will continue to use Adobe Flash Player, at least for the BlackBerry Playbook tablet, even after Adobe announced it will discontinue Flash for the mobile Web.

By Matt Hamblen | 11 November, 2011 06:53

Tags: applications, consumer electronics, Google, Microsoft, mobile, Mobile and Wireless, Mobile Apps and Services, Mobile OSes, smartphones, software

Adobe Flash vs. HTML5

You know a technology's future doesn't look promising when even the company that manages it has started offering a toolset for the competing approach.

By Joab Jackson | 04 November, 2011 07:14

Tags: Adobe Systems, software

Kindle Fire, others to get HTML5, CSS3 in 'Kindle Format 8' update

Amazon is refreshing its staid, black-and-white take on the e-book with a new format that supports HTML5 and CSS3. Kindle Format 8 (KF8) will give Kindle users something a little more colorful to read on the new tablet/e-reader hybrid, the Kindle Fire, which is set to hit stores in time for the holiday season.

By Eric Mack | 25 October, 2011 03:17

Tags: amazon.com, consumer electronics, e-books, e-readers, Kindle Fire, upgrading

Facebook to enrich mobile with HTML5

Facebook has an internal tool for developing mobile applications primarily using HTML5, which eventually should allow it to bring every feature of its Web platform onto mobile devices.

By Stephen Lawson | 28 September, 2011 10:13

Tags: Facebook, internet, Internet-based applications and services, mobile, social networking

How to convert PowerPoint to Flash

We look at several different ways that you can convert PowerPoint to Flash

By Staff Writers | 15 September, 2011 09:49

Tags: Flash, Microsoft, powerpoint, presentations

HTML5 adoption might hurt Apple's profit, research finds

The widespread adoption of HTML5 for Web apps could cut Apple's operation profit growth by 30 percent, with Microsoft, Google and carriers benefiting, Bernstein Research predicted.

By Loek Essers | 13 September, 2011 04:17

Tags: Apple, Bernstein Research, internet

Salesforce.com moves to make enterprise more social

When you hold the world's largest software technology conferences in the world, you expect to announce a few innovations to your flagship product. True to form, Salesforce.com has announced several additional products and services based around the theme of 'the social enterprise' at its Dreamforce 2011 event in San Francisco.

By Georgina Swan | 01 September, 2011 16:47

Tags: consumerisation of IT, CRM, Dreamforce 2011, salesforce.com, social networking

11 hard truths about HTML5

HTML5 heralds some nifty new features and the potential for sparking a Web programming paradigm shift, and as everyone who has read the tech press knows, there is nothing like HTML5 for fixing the Internet. Sprinkle some HTML5 into your code, and your websites will be faster and fancier -- it'll make your teeth white, too. But the reality of what HTML5 can do for those seeking native-app performance on the Web falls short of the hype.

By Peter Wayner | 16 August, 2011 00:38

Tags: internet

European security group issues warning on HTML5

The European Union's computer security agency is warning that standards under development as part of HTML5 are undergoing rewrites that may neglect important security issues.

By Jeremy Kirk | 02 August, 2011 00:43

Tags: applications, browsers, European Network and Information Security Agency, security, software

Adobe launches HTML5 rich media editor

Planting the seeds to potentially disrupt its own successful franchise in Flash-based animation, Adobe has released a preview version of a new application, called Adobe Edge, designed for assembling dynamic Web content using HTML5 and related open Web standards, the company announced Monday.

By Joab Jackson | 01 August, 2011 14:05

Tags: Adobe Systems, application development, Development tools, internet, Internet-based applications and services, software

CommBank updates mobile apps, eyes social payments

The CommonWealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has updated is suite of mobile banking applications with native apps for the iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Phone and the browser-based HTML5, with technology for near field communications (NFC) and social payments on the way.

By Rodney Gedda | 12 July, 2011 13:47

Tags: Android, CBA, Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), html5, iPhone, mobile applications, mobile banking, Near Field Communications, tablet PCs

Android apps, HTML5 heat up freelance job market

The growth in freelance jobs for the Android mobile platform is outpacing the venerable iPhone and iPad, and HTML5 demand is snowballing at more than 30 per cent, according to skills marketplace Freelancer.com.

By Rodney Gedda | 11 July, 2011 10:17

Tags: Android, careers, Flash, Freelancer.com, Google, html5, iPhone, jobs, software development

Startup tames open source for enterprise mobility

The ability to support the myriad of mobile devices in a coherent way is a bugbear for mobilising enterprise applications, but one local start up has leveraged open source components to make it all happen without the need for an on-premise server or native app.

By Rodney Gedda | 14 June, 2011 15:29

Tags: Blink Mobile, central coast, mobile applications, open source, PhoneGap, regional IT

HTML5 isn't solving mobile dev issues yet

HTML5 will likely make mobile development easier but not for some time, a group of wireless experts said Monday.

By Nancy Gohring | 17 May, 2011 06:49

Tags: AT&T Wireless, consumer electronics, Phones, smartphones, starbucks

Melbourne hacker releases open source Django apps

To fill a requirement for flexible content and management and e-commerce, Melbourne-based software engineer Stephen McDonald has released two open source projects built with the Django framework.

By Rodney Gedda | 18 March, 2011 15:58

Tags: cms, django, e-commerce, frameworks, open source, python, software development

HTML5 in the Web browser: HTML5 forms

The changes and enhancements to the form tags are some of the most extensive amendments to the HTML5 standard, offering a wide variety of options that once required add-on libraries and a fair amount of tweaking. All of the hard work that went into building self-checking widgets and the libraries that ensure the data is of the correct format is now being poured into the browser itself. The libraries won't be necessary -- in theory -- because the work will be done seamlessly by all browsers that follow the standard. In practice, we'll probably continue to use small libraries that smooth over slight inconsistencies.

By Peter Wayner | 10 March, 2011 03:01

Tags: application development, applications, html5, software, web browsers

Microsoft bolts HTML5 video onto Chrome for Windows 7 users

Microsoft has released an HTML5 video-player extension for the Chrome browser to counteract Google's decision to drop support for the most widely used HTML5 video format.

By Jon Brodkin | 03 February, 2011 03:46

Tags: applications, Google, Microsoft, software

In HTML5 video standards war, Vid.ly is Switzerland

A site called Vid.ly this week is debuting its answer to the emerging battle between Google, Microsoft and others over the future of HTML5 video standards.

By Jon Brodkin | 25 January, 2011 06:21

Tags: Amazon Web Services, Google, H.264, Microsoft, Nintendo, software

HTML versioning eliminated

The working group for HTML has done away with version numbers for the Web page rendering standard.

By Joab Jackson | 21 January, 2011 08:54

Tags: internet, software, Web servers, World Wide Web Consortium