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WebKit dominance threatens mobile web standards – but who will care?

By tim, on February 9th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Daniel Glazman, co-chairman of the W3C CSS working group, has written a strongly-worded post describing how the “over-dominance” of the WebKit rendering engine threatens web standards.

Everyone loves the open source WebKit, so how is this so? The issue is a complex one. Those who make web browsers do not want to be tied

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Telcos have a dying business model – APIs and cloud services are the future says Alcatel-Lucent’s Laura Merling

By tim, on February 3rd, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Laura Merling from Alcatel-Lucent spoke at the Monki Gras conference in London earlier this week, saying in effect that telecommunication companies have a dying business model.

She gave a two-minute summary of Telco history. “First it was all about voice,” she said. “Then the intertubes happened. Now you had data … then it

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How to brew better software: The Monki Gras in London

By tim, on February 2nd, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

I attended The Monki Gras in London yesterday, a distinctive developer event arranged by the analyst firm RedMonk.

This was not only a developer event, with the likes of Andre Charland and Dave Johnson from the PhoneGap team at Adobe, Mike Milinkovich the executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, and Jason Hoffman with

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Wikipedia goes dark for a day to protest against proposed US legislation

By tim, on January 18th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

All Wikipedia English requests today redirect to a page protesting against proposed US legislation, specifically the draft SOPA and PIPA legislation.

Other sites will also be protesting, including Reddit (a 12 hour protest) and Mozilla, the Firefox people.

Many web searchers will be discovering the value of the cached pages held by search

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Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2 with Office 365 migration wizard and retro Outlook Mini

By tim, on December 6th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft has released Exchange 2010 SP2, which I have successfully installed on my small system.

There is a description of what’s new here. The most notable features are the Hybrid Configuration Wizard for setting up co-existence between on-premise Exchange and Office 365, and Outlook Mini for low-end phones with basic browsers.

A hybrid

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HTML5 scorecard: Amazon Kindle Fire weak, iOS 5 great, IE10 preview one of the best

By tim, on November 23rd, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

The Sencha blog has a great series of posts on HTML5 support on various devices. This is of direct interest to Sencha because its products are JavaScript and CSS application frameworks, Sencha Touch for mobile and ExtJS for any browser. The latest post is on the Amazon Kindle Fire – and it is weak:

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Microsoft backs ECMAScript, dismisses Google Dart

By tim, on November 22nd, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft has posted an article on Evolving ECMAScript on its IE Blog. ECMAScript is the official standard for what we call JavaScript. The company is proposing some minor additions “to address gaps in Math, String and Number functionality as well as Globalization.” It has also taken the opportunity to take a shot at Google,

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The power of Google: how the Panda update hit Experts Exchange

By tim, on November 1st, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Searching Google recently it struck me that I rarely see results from Experts Exchange. I used to see a lot of these, because I typically search on things like error messages or programming issues for which the site is a useful source.

The site is controversial, because it (kind-of) charges for access to its

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Twilio: programmable telephony, SMS comes to the UK, Europe

By tim, on October 26th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Web telephony provider twilio, which is based in San Francisco, has today announced its first international office, in London. You can now purchase UK telephone numbers at a cost of $1.00 per month, or Freephone numbers for $2.00 per month.

Twilio is not in competition with Skype or Google Voice; rather it offers

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Google offers the web a new language called Dart – but why?

By tim, on October 10th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Google has announced an early preview of Dart, a new language for web applications. The news is not a surprise, especially if you have been keeping track of the developer conference GOTO Aarhus, whose organisers had pre-announced that Google would be announcing its new language there, as indeed it did.

Dart is a

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