Microsoft’s latest web browser, Internet Explorer 9, is coming out of beta today and takes IE’s minimalist design attitude even further.
Internet Explorer 9 is billed as a simple window into web browsers. Microsoft opted to create a minimalist browser …
Here’s our roundup of the week’s top tech business news. First, the most popular stories we’ve published in the last seven days:
Microsoft’s Kinectified game business grows 55 percent — fastest-selling consumer electronics device in history — Call it Kinectification. …
Facebook may be the most-downloaded free application on the iPhone, but today the company’s chief technology officer Bret Taylor seemed more excited about the opportunities offered by the mobile Web and HTML5.
Taylor was speaking today at the Inside Social …
Moblyng, a developer of games using HTML5 for mobile devices, is looking to raise about $10.9 million and has raised about $7.5 million of that so far, according to a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Moblyng began …
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One of the biggest technology stories of 2010 has been the battle between Flash and HTML5 over who will reign supreme as the standard-bearer for video on the web and beyond.
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Streaming video site Vimeo has jumped on the Google TV bandwagon with its new Couch Mode — a way to easily view the site’s videos uninterrupted like a TV channel.
Much like Google’s own YouTube LeanBack, a couch-friendly way to …
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is apparently fed up with being the black sheep of the web browser family. The newest version strips away all extra baggage, including its own identity, and focuses exclusively on the site at hand.
IE9 offers support …
Spil Games operates Web game portals that reach more than 130 million users. So it’s interesting that the company is adopting the HTML5 standard for making mobile games that run in Web browsers.
HTML5 is under development as the next …
In a major play in the battle for HTML5 video, MPEG LA — the firm that manages patents for audio and video codecs like MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 — announced today that it will offer a royalty-free license for its H.264 …
Video sharing site Vimeo says it’s going to be the latest video company using the new HTML5 format as its path onto mobile devices. The site plans to release a “Universal Player” later today that will detect your smartphone browser …
Online games platform company Heyzap is announcing today that its platform will support games that are written in HTML5, which is making a bid to be the lingua franca of the internet.
Until now, Heyzap has created an index and …
Google’s video supersite YouTube has been ramping up support for HTML5 this year, most recently with the launch of a mobile website powered by the new Web format. YouTube’s latest move is a new code style for embedded videos that …
One of the biggest debates in the mobile industry has been over platforms and standards — particularly the contest between Adobe’s Flash technology, the new version of the basic Web standard HTML5, and the lure of native applications like those …
Sencha, the maker of a couple of application development platforms, including the recently launched Sencha Touch, said today that it has raised $14 million in a first round of funding.
The Palo Alto, Calif. company launched in 2007 with a …
Steve Jobs’ ban of Adobe’s Flash technology for videos, animations and interactive mini-applications from his iPhone and iPad computers is one of the most widely controversial decisions the Apple founder has made. In an attempt to prove that Flash isn’t …
Document-sharing and collaboration startup Box.net is joining the growing wave of companies embracing the HTML5 Web format. This morning, Box announced a new feature powered by HTML5 (more on that in a second). And looking beyond today’s announcement, cofounder and …
The document sharing site Scribd has extolled the virtues of its move away from Adobe’s Flash technology, and towards HTML5, earlier this month. Today at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, company CTO and cofounder Jared Friedman offered even more insight into …
Netflix director of Web engineering Adrian Cockroft teased yesterday that the company was looking into implementing HTML5 on its site — but not in the way you’d initially think. At first, it seemed as if Netflix was readying an HTML5 …
“We are scrapping three years of Flash development and betting the company on HTML5,” Scribd CTO Jared Friedman told TechCrunch, “because we believe HTML5 is a dramatically better reading experience than Flash. Now any document can become a Web page.”…
