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Google grabs HP webOS Enyo HTML5 team

Chris Davies, May 25th 2012 Discuss [0]

Google has quietly snatched up the HP team responsible for the webOS Enyo HTML5 project, it's been revealed, with the search giant expected to use their expertise in Android, ChromeOS and other products. Initially believed to be the bulk of the team, according to The Verge, then narrowed down to roughly half a dozen by AllThingsD - including project chief Matt McNulty - the ship-jumping was not apparently done all at once, but after a series of individual hires. However, HP says its open-source webOS plans are still on track. Read The Full Story

Console-quality Flash gaming in 12 months says AMD

Chris Davies, May 14th 2012 Discuss [0]

Flash may have fallen out of favor in recent years, but AMD is betting on a resurgence of the technology with the prediction that Flash games will equal their console counterparts in quality within the twelve months. The chip manufacturer made the ambitious prediction at the launch of the new AMD Trinity, the company’s latest APU (Accelerated Processing Unit) that delivers, among other things, hardware-accelerated Flash support.

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Mozilla CEO: “Apple showed us the way”

Chris Burns, May 9th 2012 Discuss [0]

This week Gary Kovacs, CEO of the Mozilla Corporation used AOL and their original model of web service as an example for how the next chapter of the internet worked out here in our present. Speaking first on how its important to look to the past in order to move forward with the future, saying that "You've got mail" were the first words he'd heard on the web, "AOL changed our world" noted Kovacs. Putting the CD in your computer expanded your world right up until 2002 where the whole thing collapsed and AOL went back to 3 million subscribers here in the present, this just 1 million more than they had back in 1995. Read The Full Story

Cube demos WebGL using Google Maps

Ben Kersey, Apr 30th 2012 Discuss [0]

Google may have a little fun with search occasionally, and now the company has created a dedicated game based around Google Maps. It’s called Cube, and is essentially a browser-based version of Labyrinth that uses real world maps. It’s controlled using your mouse, with movements shifting the balance of the cube as you try to navigate the blue ball towards the designated targets. Read The Full Story

Google Doodle HTML5 zipper celebrates Gideon Sundback

Chris Davies, Apr 24th 2012 Discuss [0]

Another day, another Google Doodle, and after the static ZX Spectrum of yesterday it's time for some HMTL5 action to celebrate father of the zipper Gideon Sundback. The Swedish-American electrical engineer was born on this day back in 1880, and holds the original patent for the design of the zipper which he developed between 1906 and 1914. Read The Full Story

Microsoft job listing points to Skype web app

Ben Kersey, Apr 17th 2012 Discuss [0]

Microsoft purchased Skype for the tidy sum of $8.5 billion back in May 2011. Since then, not a lot has changed. Most people expected Microsoft to integrate Skype into Windows Phone, or at least provide a standalone app, but neither has come to fruition. What else is the software giant planning? As it turns out, they may be bringing full Skype access to a web browser near you. Read The Full Story

Google Chrome 18 features improved graphics acceleration

Ben Kersey, Mar 29th 2012 Discuss [0]

Google and Mozilla both seem to content to chase higher version numbers, but we don’t mind looking the other way as long as they bring useful features along for the ride. Google today released the latest version of Chrome. For those who are counting, we’re up to version 18 now. Features include new hardware acceleration for HTML5 elements as well as bug fixes. Read The Full Story

Mozilla launches BrowserQuest to demonstrate HTML5 gaming

Ben Kersey, Mar 28th 2012 Discuss [0]

If World of Warcraft and Star Wars: The Old Republic doesn’t float your boat, what about a retro 2D adventure game? Mozilla has teamed up with design studio The Little Workshop to launch BrowserQuest, a browser based multiplayer game. The game is built on HTML5 and JavaScript standards, and an experimental version will even run on iOS devices. Read The Full Story

TeleNav Scout for Apps brings web-based HTML 5 navigation to light

Chris Burns, Mar 27th 2012 Discuss [0]

This week the folks at TeleNav have brought forth their newest force in GPS navigation: Scout with HTML 5 powered web-based navigation. This system will allow users to navigate the United States without downloading an application and will allow users to continue turn-by-turn navigation and directions without leaving the application they're in. Voice-guided navigation was never easier for users now with app developers on the cuff of innovation, thanks to TeleNav! Read The Full Story

RIM pushes HTML5 apps amid Canada user exodus

Chris Davies, Mar 23rd 2012 Discuss [0]

RIM has turned to courting HTML5-curious developers as a stopgap solution to slumping BlackBerry sales in Canada and elsewhere, arguing the case for universal webapps to counter coder apathy. BlackBerry marketshare in Canada - not RIM's biggest single market, but meaningful as it is the firm's home turf - has dipped below iPhone levels this week, hand in hand with decreasing levels of developer interest as BlackBerry 10's late 2012 launch looks unpalatably distant. That's prompted a charm offensive by RIM code champions, pushing HTML5 development as preferable to native code. Read The Full Story

iOS touted 3X faster in HTML Game Performance than Android by Spaceport

Chris Burns, Mar 5th 2012 Discuss [0]

In a report which comes from a company presenting a mobile gaming engine supporting vector graphics, it seems that HTML5 gaming performance has been rated 3X faster than Android on the whole. In addition to this, the report from this group, Spaceport, found at http://spaceport.io/, shows that the iPad 2 is the top device in the industry rated on its ability to work with HTML5-based games. Browsers coming with each of the selected entrants into this test were displayed in Spaceport's "PerfMarks report" and rated one by one, iOS devices out-performing Android competitors in essentially all cases. Read The Full Story

Mozilla takes on Apple, Android with Open Web apps

Chris Davies, Feb 13th 2012 Discuss [0]

Firefox creator Mozilla has revealed its plans to take on the closed ecosystems of Apple, Google and others, challenging developers to consider the entire web as their potential marketplace, not just the App Store or Android Market. Outlined in the non-profit foundation's 2012 roadmap, Mozilla aims to "enable web apps that rival native [code]"; "The Web must be made easier to develop for than proprietary platforms" the organization insists, as well as revealing plans to broaden the existing Mozilla Marketplace to a range of devices. Read The Full Story