Once the only third-party apps on smartphones — remember the first iPhone in 2007? — web apps are in the spotlight again. Mozilla is showing how HTML5 apps for Firefox OS… Read more »
Native apps have come to dominate the time we spend on our mobile devices as opposed to the broader “mobile web,” and some industry insiders are concerned that trend will stifle… Read more »
A new worldwide survey finds that HTML5 is gaining ground among developers in emerging markets, and is actually more popular than iOS in some regions. That’s good news for Firefox OS… Read more »
Cisco last week said it will take its version of H.264 open source, paying licensing costs to make it freely available to third-party developers. The move may boost H.264’s chances of… Read more »
Tim Berners-Lee suggests that allowing content protection mechanisms into the HTML5 web standard may be necessary in order to help web standards fight back against the rise of proprietary platforms. But… Read more »
With its global dominance, Android will see its share of shipments increase in 2013. It will lose a little share after that, but to Microsoft and Samsung — not to Apple. Read more »
Google’s strategy to take over the computing world through its Chrome browser takes another step forward: New Chromium code supports drag-and-drop support for Chrome apps to the Windows Taskbar. Read more »
A flurry of announcements out of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week have underscored how emerging markets have become the newest hotbed in the worldwide mobile industry. Those markets present… Read more »
When developers choose to develop for a device, that choice has an impact on their platform preferences, the type of apps they develop, and the monetization and profitability of those apps… Read more »