Following a routine that gives users a new version of Firefox every 6 weeks, Mozilla has announced a beta of Firefox 7, which will use as much as 50 percent less memory than Firefox 6. The new version's efficiency comes from a project called...
0 replies - 20556 views - 08/21/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose
One of the most promising features coming in Chrome 14 is the addition of the
Native Client, which lets C and C++ code run inside of the browser.
Google has taken preliminary measures to make sure specific calls are
not allowed to prevent malicious...
1 replies - 17963 views - 08/14/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose
One of the most promising features coming in Chrome 14 is the addition of the
Native Client, which lets C and C++ code run inside of the browser.
Google has taken preliminary measures to make sure specific calls are
not allowed to prevent malicious...
0 replies - 14985 views - 08/14/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose
After over a year of no updates, the web app test framework Selenium has finally released version 2.0.
The new version includes addons with support for the WebDriver APIs,
which helps to test JavaScript web applications across multiple
browsers. Among...
0 replies - 14119 views - 07/10/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose
Tomorrow at 9:00 am PT, Oracle will be hosting multi-city events and live webcasts for the Java community detailing the newest innovations for Java 7. The event will highlight the RC release of Java with sessions discussing:
0 replies - 13538 views - 07/06/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose
The first release candidate for version 4.7 of the KDE Software Complilation has been announced, which is a development version of the next major release of the Unix and Linux desktop manager. The new version will feature support for OpenGL-ES 2.0, and...
0 replies - 12757 views - 06/27/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose
Mozilla has released the 5.0 version of Firefox only three months after the launch of the delay-addled Firefox 4. The update contains support for CSS animation, and updated standards for HTML and other languages. The mobile version of the browser has also...
4 replies - 8142 views - 06/22/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose
Good news for IT folks from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, IT employment has finally regained what it lost in the recession. During the recession, nearly 200,000 IT jobs were lost to layoffs by technology companies. This month, statistics show that...
0 replies - 18787 views - 05/23/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose
Microsoft unveiled some shiny new business features for the 'Mango' version of the Windows Phone. Using the new features, users can sync several key Microsoft services, including Lync and Office 365, with Windows. Other new features include: Pinnable...
1 replies - 16761 views - 05/16/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose
Using Maqetta, IBM's open-source WYSIWIG editor, developers can now
easily and cheaply incorporate HTML5 into their user interfaces for
mobile and desktop devices. Also included with
Maqetta is a Drag&Drop UI for mobile devices. Accurate...
0 replies - 19532 views - 04/14/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose
This morning I was notified of an article about the download rate of IE9
by Ryan Gavin, Senior Director, Internet Explorer Business and
Marketing. I had to check the date to see that it wasn’t an April Fool’s
joke; alas, it wasn’t, so here’s my...
1 replies - 4726 views - 04/01/11 by Robert Nyman in News
Mozilla has released their RC version of Firefox 4 as Microsoft is releasing the finished version of IE9. New CSS3 features are supported, like Transitions and Transformations, making it easy to add animations to web pages. Firefox 4 has a faster startup...
9 replies - 23172 views - 03/15/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose
Tired of constantly adapting your code to the latest smartphone OS? The-M-Project might be the solution you've been waiting for. A new open source HTML5 JavaScript framework for mobile devices is now available through The-M-Project. Developers can write...
0 replies - 21633 views - 02/23/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose
The W3C released an official logo today for HTML5 (and web workers, and CSS3, and SVG, and WOFF, and everything under the sun). The 5-sheild logo looks pretty cool to most people, but blogger Jeremy Keith laments the promotion of HTML5's ambiguity from the...
0 replies - 11339 views - 01/19/11 by Anonymous in Daily Dose
Less than a year after Microsoft was forced to provide that "browser ballot" on setup (for Europe only), their browser (Internet Explorer) has lost it's position as the top browser in Europe. Firefox is the new leader of the continent, even though...
0 replies - 18962 views - 01/05/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
