AT&T unveils a new API platform for HTML5 apps

Nancy Gohring, IDG News Servic, 1/9/2012 The operator also said it plans to launch an online store for HTML5 apps this year AT&T is hoping to encourage developers to use HTML5 with the release of a new API platform. “It’s essentially a rich set of APIs and tools aimed at furthering the HTML5 appeal as [...]

Betting Big on the Future of HTML5, Financial Times Buys Dev Shop

John Paul Titlo, ReadWriteWeb, 1/5/2012 In a demonstration of its confidence in the future of HTML5, business newspaper The Financial Times has acquired the development firm that built its mobile Web app. London-based Assanka was purchased by the FT for unnamed sum of money. The firm will presumably be absorbed into the FT’s existing operations, [...]

Google adds Flash-to-HTML5 conversion to Adobe development tool

Paul Krill, ComputerWorld, 11/17/2011 Flash Professional users can use their existing skills to develop HTML5 animations Google is enabling developers who use the Adobe Flash Professional developer tool to convert their animations to HTML5 via an extension based on Google’s Swiffy conversion technology. The debut comes in the wake of Adobe’s revelation last week that [...]

Is Silverlight the Next Victim of HTML5?

Chris Knight, CMSWire, 11/9/2011 With Adobe quitting Flash development for mobile, it looks like Microsoft could give up on Silverlight too, leaving users with no more “incompatible browser” messages and giving developers just one standard to focus on. No Silver Cloud? On the day that Adobe appears set to announce no more Flash for mobiles, Microsoft [...]

Adobe confirms Flash Player is dead for mobile devices

Tim Stevens, Engadget, 11/9/2011 Flash Player for mobile devices is officially dead. Adobe is reaffirming its commitment to “aggressively contribute” to HTML5, a platform with broader support and capabilities than Flash was ever able to deliver. Adobe will of course also be pushing developers to work in its AIR platform for a more native experience, [...]

New MobiUs Browser For iOS Makes Mobile Web Apps Act More Like Native Apps

Sarah Perez, TechCrunch, 10/31/2011 Mobile development firm appMobi is launching a new HTML5-powered browser for iOS on Monday which will bring additional capabilities typically found only in native apps to the mobile Web. The MobiUs Web App Browser, as it’s being called, works both as a standalone browser alternative or in conjunction with Apple’s mobile [...]

NuCaptcha Brings User-Friendly Captchas To Mobile Phones And Tablets

Leena Rao, TechCrunch, 10/5/2011 NuCaptcha, a startup that develops a ‘human-friendly’ video captcha technology, is announcing a dedicated captcha produt for mobile devices, available for all mobile platforms including Android and IOS platforms. For background, captchas are security questions you find on Web sites that require you to decipher and type words or numbers and [...]

Adobe Acquires Developer Of HTML5 Mobile App Framework PhoneGap Nitobi

Lena Rao, TechCrunch, 10/3/2011 Adobe has acquired Nitobi Software, the creator of HTML5 mobile app framework PhoneGap and PhoneGap Build. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. PhoneGap’s open source platform allows developers to build cross-platform mobile applications with HTML5 and JavaScript, and distribute these applications to a variety of platforms. To date, PhoneGap’s [...]

Limo Foundation And Linux Foundation Announce New Open Source Software Platform, Tizen

Mobile Tech New, 9/28/2011 LiMo Foundation™ and the Linux Foundation today announced a new open source project, Tizen™, to develop a Linux-based device software platform. Hosted at the Linux Foundation, Tizen is a standards-based, cross-architecture software platform which supports multiple device categories including smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, netbooks and in-vehicle infotainment systems. The initial release [...]

Intel Ditches MeeGo Mobile OS for HTML5-Centric Tizen

Sara Yin, PCMag.com, 9/28/2011 After months of speculation, Intel has officially abandoned the Linux-based MeeGo mobile operating system it launched in 2010 with Nokia. Instead, Intel will focus on Tizen, an open-source Linux build being developped with Samsung. Like MeeGo, a hybrid of Intel’s Moblin and Nokia’s Maemo, Tizen is hosted by the Linux Foundation. [...]

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