Tuesday - January 6, 2009
The mobile Internet device is the most exciting new device category to hit the market since the smartphone. A MID is a handheld device that delivers high-speed wireless Internet and multimedia services, typically with a 4- to 7-inch screen form factor. Most MIDs will be based on the Linux operating system and at less than half the cost of an average laptop, MIDs are an appealing new alternative. Like the smartphone, there will not be a prototypical MID.
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Monday - January 5, 2009
Building an application for today's Web is a balancing act. Potential users use several competing browsers. Yet the user experience must be uniform for everyone, regardless of his/her browser of choice. And you can't support one or two browsers because you'll cut out major portions of the market. The problem is further compounded if your application is social.
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Friday - December 19, 2008
Looks like Santa visits cybercrooks too. Their present this year was a big, fat security hole in many widely used versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer. The critical vulnerability allowed remote code execution if an Explorer user visited a specially crafted, malicious Web page. That translated into the potential for big-time credit card fraud and identity theft.
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Friday - December 19, 2008
A quiet battle of sorts is taking place behind the scenes in the software industry. Software as a Service and cloud computing have evolved, placing much more attention on Web-based applications. This greater focus has also raised expectations for the services delivered via Web 2.0.
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Thursday - December 18, 2008
Adobe announced Thursday the official launch of its Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) 1.5 for Linux operating systems. AIR, a component of Adobe's Flash platform, enables Web developers to use HTML, JavaScript, ActionScript and Flex, a free open source framework, to create Web applications outside of the browser.
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Thursday - December 18, 2008
With all the free online Web building and design tools, a lot of time-strapped business owners might think that with a few strategic drags and drops into templates, they're good to go. While that might get you online in a matter of hours, if you haven't paid close attention to a few design basics, that site could do more damage than not having a Web site at all.
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Tuesday - December 16, 2008
Yahoo has launched an enhanced version of its Mail service. The changes to Yahoo Mail offer users a "smarter in-box" experience that the company said it will roll out gradually to its users during the coming months. The move is part of its ongoing Yahoo Open Strategy initiative.
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Tuesday - December 9, 2008
The Khronos Group has released OpenCL 1.0, a new open, royalty-free specification standard for cross-platform parallel programming for modern processors. To put it more simply, OpenCL is the key that's going to unlock processors and help Apple unleash Snow Leopard, the company's next Mac OS X version.
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Monday - December 8, 2008
While the Google-backed Android gang is busy building applications and trying to get new phones manufactured, Google itself has ponied up a new unlocked device for developers: the Android Dev Phone 1. Basically, it's a "T-Mobile G1" that's SIM-unlocked and hardware unlocked, which will let users run it with carriers other than T-Mobile. It costs $399.
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Monday - December 8, 2008
SugarCRM has released Sugar 5.2, which packages some existing Web 2.0 features with new technologies. The company is also introducing Cloud Services -- a framework for developers to build links to third-party data sources such as LinkedIn or JigSaw. In a way, SugarCRM has been a cloud company since its beginnings, said Martin Schneider, vice president of product marketing.
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Monday - December 8, 2008
Salesforce.com has announced its latest platform-to-platform integration -- this time with Google. Force.com for Google App Engine is a new set of tools and services that allows developers to build Web applications on App Engine that leverage the enterprise data that resides in Salesforce.com.
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