If your organisation is still getting to grips with smartphone apps it may be in for a shock - an even newer class of app is bearing down, one which promises to cut multi-platform development hassles ...

Apple's (AAPL) successful strategy depends on walled garden ecosystems for such iconic products as the iPad and iPhone. Customers get applications and media content directly from Apple, locking them ...

The ongoing debate over how to best get applications onto mobile devices — either through native deployments or writing a mobile Web application — is going to remain a front-burner question for ...

Ever since we got the green light to start an iPad application for FRONTLINE, the main question we’ve gotten from tech people is whether we’re going to have an app at all – or whether we’re going to ...

Visual WebGui Version 7 adds many new features for mobile app developers including PhoneGap device integration, offline support for managing periodic disconnects, and the ability to quickly design for ...

The emerging HTML5 model for Web apps differs in four major areas. The most visible may be the relative standardization of the canvas object, an improvement that makes it easier to write Flash-like ...

Although vendor-written, this contributed piece does not advocate a position that is particular to the author’s employer and has been edited and approved by Network World editors. The app development ...

The use of HTML5 versus other media-centric mechanisms for cross-device support is the latest tech topic causing passionate debate among IT aficionados. Most of us knew Flash would not prevail when ...

HTML5 and the gaggle of related technologies following it down the standards track are set to modernize the technology of the web. HTML5 is an umbrella term that is often used to include HTML5 itself, ...

For companies that compete with Microsoft, HTML5 is almost the Holy Grail, offering the ability to run applications regardless of the underlying operating system. While the browser isn’t more ...