The latest version of the Google Chrome browser for Windows offers several new tools for developers. For example, it includes a Web SQL Database API, a Web Storage API, WebSockets
InfoWorld’s Randall C. Kennedy argues that a world without Windows would not be the developer utopia that open-source advocates suggest. He writes, “Rather than freeing IT, the demise of Microsoft
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Usually, the iPhone will not display Flash files. However, developer Tobias Schneider has figured out a way to get Safari to display some Flash content using a JavaScript and has
The Guardian’s new World Government Data site collects data from the UK (including London), the U.S., Australia and New Zealand. Currently, the repository includes 19 different sites, and the media
While Amazon originally intended the Kindle to be only an eReader, the company will open an app store for the device sometime later this year. Analysts speculate that the move
After analyzing research reports from Gartner and IDC, eWeek concludes that this year’s hottest job titles will be mobile application developer and cloud computing software engineer. Other IT pros in
If you develop apps based on third-party APIs like Google, Facebook, Twitter, or Salesforce, sometimes it can be difficult to tell whether service outages are due to your app or