By tim, on March 16th, 2010
Follow tim on TwitterI’m at Mix10 in Las Vegas where Microsoft has been showing off the latest preview of IE9 – you can try it here, provided you have Vista SP2, Windows 2008 or Windows 7.
The two themes are performance, with GPU-accelerated HTML and graphics and a new Javascript engine that compiles code in the background, and standards
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By tim, on March 15th, 2010
Follow tim on TwitterI’m just back from a workshop on HTML 5, led by web standards advocate and CSS expert Molly Holzschlag. It proved an illuminating session, though not quite in the way I had expected. Holzschlag, who works for Opera, was keen to convey the ideology behind HTML 5 rather than giving us a blow-by-blow tour of
…continue reading The two specifications of HTML 5.0: WHAT WG vs W3C
By tim, on March 5th, 2010
Follow tim on TwitterMicrosoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave a talk on the company’s cloud strategy at the University of Washington yesterday. Although a small event, the webcast was widely publicised and coincides with a leaked internal memo on “how cloud computing will change the way people and businesses use technology”, a new Cloud website, and a Cloud Computing
…continue reading Microsoft maybe gets the cloud – maybe too late
By tim, on March 4th, 2010
Follow tim on TwitterI’m watching Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer present a session on cloud computing. It’s been underwhelming so far, but I was interested to see how Sky TV will look on Xbox 360 (though I’d readily swap it for BBC iPlayer, which Microsoft seems to be obstructing). The key point: you can watch with your Xbox Live friends
…continue reading Microsoft’s super-exciting Sky TV on Xbox with social interaction
By tim, on March 3rd, 2010
Follow tim on TwitterThe UK’s public broadcasting company the BBC is in the spotlight, thanks to a new strategy review and ensuing discussion. I have only just read it, because of other work, but I think it is significant. The BBC’s Director-General Mark Thompson says:
Clearly the BBC needs the space to evolve as audiences and technologies develop, but
…continue reading What next for the BBC and its world-beating website?
By tim, on March 1st, 2010
Follow tim on TwitterLooking at my browser stats for February one thing stands out: Google Chrome. The top five browsers are these:
Internet Explorer 40.5%
Firefox 34.1%
Chrome 10.5%
Safari 4.3%
Opera 2.9%
Chrome usage has more than doubled in six months, on this site.
I don’t pretend this is representative of the web as a whole, though I
…continue reading Google Chrome usage growing fast; Apple ahead on mobile web
By tim, on February 23rd, 2010
Follow tim on TwitterI attended this morning’s VMWare roundtable, debating the rather silly proposition that IT should be removed from the boardroom agenda. To be fair, even VMWare does not really believe this, but is arguing that its virtualisation technology makes IT service provision so trouble-free that the board can focus on IT as it advances their business,
…continue reading VMWare: the cloud is private
By tim, on February 20th, 2010
Follow tim on TwitterMicrosoft’s Mix conference is on next month – probably the company’s second most interesting conference after PDC, though this Mix looks rather better than last year’s relatively drab PDC (free laptops aside). The company has plenty to talk about, primarily around Windows Phone development – twelve sessions! – Internet Explorer 9, and Silverlight 4. Mix
…continue reading What’s on at Mix 2010 – some surprises as Microsoft talks standards
By tim, on February 19th, 2010
Follow tim on TwitterMicrosoft is rolling out its EU-required Browser Choice update. File under industry madness; but one thing I found interesting was the choice of words used by each vendor to market their browser.
I only saw the top five in Microsoft’s post; but here are the words:
Google Chrome: A fast new browser. Made for everyone.
Mozilla Firefox:
…continue reading Microsoft rolls out its browser choice update – but which is really the best?
By tim, on February 17th, 2010
Follow tim on TwitterThe BBC has announced mobile apps for BBC content, the first being for the iPhone. There is a demo posted by David Madden here:
Our aim is to develop core public service apps that bring some of the BBC’s most popular and distinctive content to mobile in a genuinely user-friendly and accessible way.
In another post Erik
…continue reading Why I don’t want to view bbc.co.uk through an app
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