Regarding SVG Open, Microsoft will be hosting SVG Open 2011 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 17-20, 2011, at the New England Research & Development Center. The theme of this year’s conference is “Where SVG meets the Web.” Though SVG itself has been around for a while, it is HTML5 that promises to bring it to the everyday Web.
Read MoreIn a bid to kill its Internet Explorer 6 web browser, Microsoft has launched a dedicated countdown website that shows the percentage of users worldwide still using the decade-old browser. Microsoft hopes to shrink global usage of the Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser to below one percent so that developers no longer have to support it when designing or updating websites.
Read MoreJust three weeks ago, Google kicked off the Year of the Rabbit with a speedy Chrome beta. They’re excited to bring these speed improvements and more to everyone using Chrome. With this stable release, even your most complex web apps will run more quickly and responsively in the browser. This boost corresponds to a 66% improvement in JavaScript performance on the V8 benchmark suite.
Read MoreFlash Player 10.3 for Windows, Mac, and Linux introduces new developer features and enhanced user privacy protection.Developers can begin taking advantage of the beta release and test existing content and new platforms for compatibility. This suits perfectly to tech-savvy end users that are willing to help Adobe test the new enhanced user privacy protection features.
Instant Previews provides a fast and interactive way to evaluate search results. Google Instant Previews is available on mobile for Android (2.2+) and iOS (4.0+) devices across 38 languages. Similar to the desktop version of Instant Previews, you can visually compare search results from webpage snapshots, making it easier to choose the right result faster, especially when you have an idea of the content you’d like to see.
Read MoreMozilla posted the first builds of the Release Candidate of Firefox on its FTP servers: Time for a first comparison with IE9 RC, its main rival. How fast is Mozilla's Firefox 4 RC1? Mozilla's Firefox 4 RC has not been released, at least not officially.
It's not the first browser to get its own app store, but the Opera Mobile Store is another app store. The Store has just launched and is powered by Appia, which offers a white-label app store system for carriers like AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon, as well as some top-tier handset manufacturers.
Read MoreMicrosoft Corp. will pay Nokia Oyj more than $1 billion to promote and
develop Windows-based handsets as part of their smartphone software
agreement, according to two people with knowledge of the terms. Nokia will pay Microsoft a fee for each copy of Windows used in its
phones, costs that will be offset as Nokia curtails its own budget for
software research and development.
Adobe announce Wallaby, which is the codename for an experimental technology that converts the artwork and animation contained in Flash files into HTML. This allows you to reuse and extend the reach of your content to devices that do not support the Flash runtimes.