Html5 News & Articles

Cloud-based software company, Easy WebContent has released Easy WebContent Presenter to help both small and large organizations create more interactive web content.

TweetDeck has long been a favorite resource for those scanning Twitter across multiple accounts and dimensions. But the app editions will soon be removed from iOS, Android and PC stores to make way for a pure-web version. 

The DAM spring arrived in the last week, at least here in the eastern U.S. And, in digital asset management news, Yangaroo integrates with Pacific Media Tech, Picturepark hearts 2012, ADAM releases an update to its product information management system, Netflix hearts HTML5 and a digital asset to explain digital asset management. 

Open source CMS provider Nuxeo has debuted native mobile apps on iOS and Android devices, and developers now have access to tools for building feature specific hybrid apps of their own.

Microsoft has announced several Windows Azure updates this week including a Hadoop distribution preview called HDInsight.

Citing a dynamic app development marketplace and the speed of innovation, Brightcove has announced it is abandoning its hybird HTML5-based video player in favor of native iOS and Android versions.

While Android is still the leading platform for mobile software development, and iOS is second, there is considerable interest in Windows Phone and BlackBerry 10. That’s one of the key findings in a new report on choices by mobile developers.

Would a new mobile operating system completely based on Web standards -- theoretically allowing apps for websites to be easily ported to mobile devices using that platform -- have a chance in today’s crowded marketplace? The Mozilla Foundation is trying to find out, with its unveiling this week of two developer preview smartphones that use its new Firefox OS.

 Firefox opens up a new front in the smartphone war with its own OS that can help turn any website into an app, and bring greater interaction with the phone's hardware features to the fore. 

Web content management (WCM) vendor Ektron is entering an OEM agreement with Austrian CMS provider Gentics Software GmbH that will allow Ektron to distribute its Web CMS with the HTML5-based WYSIWYG Gentics Aloha Editor.

What does 2013 hold for the future of HTML5? If predictions by industry analysts are correct, mobile will be its calling card. And rightly so -- HTML5 has the power to help smartphones, feature phones, tablets, notebooks, desktop PCs, televisions and vehicles come together through cloud services.

Analysts at reputed Forrester Research have released a study on making the business case for standardizing on a single browser. The report was commissioned by Microsoft, however, so it takes a bit of a limited approach to the browser question.

According to NewsGator VP of mobile, Walker Fenton, the SharePoint-based social software has now "covered the waterfront on mobile", making BYOD a reality.

Microsoft has dropped the Silverlight.net website and put up a developer's network page instead.

The Brightcove App Cloud Mobile Platform aim to make mobile app creation a little easier thanks to some new updates from Brightcove.