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Intel fights back against iOS with free tools for HTML5 cross-platform mobile development

By tim, on April 16th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

Today at its Software Conference in Paris Intel presented its HTML5 development tools.

There are several components, starting with the XDK, a cross-platform development kit based on HTML5, CSS and JavaScript designed to be packaged as mobile apps using Cordova, the open source variant of PhoneGap.

There is an intriguing comment here:

The XDK

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Virtual meetings: as good as the real thing?

By tim, on March 15th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

Last night I participated in an unusual event: a virtual wine-tasting laid on by Citrix for a few journalists, to demonstrate the capabilities of its GoToMeeting online conferencing software.

Sommelier Akos Hervai at Clusters to Wine talked us through the serious business of how to taste wine and we discussed the merits of four selected

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Browser monoculture draws nearer as Opera adopts WebKit, Google Chromium

By tim, on February 13th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

Browser company Opera is abandoning development of its own browser engine and adopting WebKit.

To provide a leading browser on Android and iOS, this year Opera will make a gradual transition to the WebKit engine, as well as Chromium, for most of its upcoming versions of browsers for smartphones and computers.

Note that Opera is

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Microsoft scraps Expression Web and Design, blends Blend with Visual Studio

By tim, on December 21st, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft is giving up its long effort to compete with Adobe in the design tools space. The Expression range of products is being discontinued, in favour of enhanced design capabilities in its developer-focused Visual Studio. Blend for Visual Studio continues, as a design tool for Windows Store apps and Windows Phone apps. A future edition

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The Windows 8 app platform: how is it going? A few clues from developers

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

One way of looking at Microsoft’s Windows 8 strategy is as an attempt to establish a new tablet platform. By welding the tablet platform to the desktop platform, Microsoft ensured that every customer who wanted the latest Windows release would also get the tablet release, though some are stuck with keyboard and mouse to control

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Slow JavaScript performance in Microsoft Surface RT

By tim, on October 30th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Outlook Web Access is useful on Microsoft’s Surface RT, since the built-in mail client is only basic. However I noticed sluggish performance, which made me wonder if Microsoft’s “Chakra” JavaScript engine is slow on Windows RT.

I ran the Sunspider JavaScript performance test on the Samsung Slate 7 I bought back in February, which has

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How Adobe turned on a pin to embrace the web (and Google)

By tim, on October 4th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe’s Create the Web world tour – which came to London yesterday – is in the public unveiling of of Adobe’s new wave of tools, the first since it turned away from Flash and towards open web standard, hardly a year ago.

Michael Chaize is a developer evangelist at Adobe. I asked him when

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Adobe Creating the Web, offers Edge animation tool for free

By tim, on September 25th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

It is less than a year ago that Adobe pivoted wholeheartedly from Flash to HTML, a moment that to mind was marked by the acquisition of Nitobi, the PhoneGap company, announced at MAX in October 2011.

Yesterday Adobe clarified its plans for its new wave of web design tools branded Edge. These are as follows:

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Adobe results: 200,000 Creative Cloud subscribers and an impressive transition

By tim, on September 20th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe has released its quarterly figures for its third financial quarter 2012. The figures show the success of Creative Cloud, Adobe’s subscription-based model for purchasing the Creative Suite applications, including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat and Flash. Total revenue is fractionally up on the same period in 2011, from $1013.2M to $1080.6M.

Adobe reports over 200,000

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BBC web site has a Metro look

By tim, on July 27th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

The BBC redesigned its web site last year borrowing elements of Microsoft’s Metro design language, as seen in Windows 8, Windows Phone, and Office 2013. Note the tiles, the typography, the horizontal scrolling, the way elements stand out against a pale background.

The BBC site is the 5th most popular in the UK and

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