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Trust-over-IP-Foundation-hosted-by-Linux

Trust over IP Foundation hosted by Linux


Tuesday, May 5, 2020 by

The Linux Foundation announced it will host the Trust over IP (ToIP) Foundation, an independent project to enable trustworthy exchange and verification of data between any two parties on the Internet. The ToIP Foundation will provide a robust, common standard that gives people and businesses the confidence that data is coming from a trusted source, allowing them to conn...


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Blockchain developers get a new ABT wallet from ArcBlock


Tuesday, May 21, 2019 by

ArcBlock has officially released its ABT Wallet giving every user access to their own decentralized identity and the ability to take back control of their digital-selves. Using ArcBlock's unique interconnected blockchain network ABT Network, and Forge Blockchain Application Framework, any developer can now add the ability for any application or service to use decent...


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A world with no passwords and how FIDO2 can help make it happen


Monday, May 13, 2019 by

93.2 percent of the overall web browser market has embraced FIDO2: Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox, and Opera. The FIDO Alliance is driven by hundreds of global tech leaders across enterprise, payments, telecom, government, and healthcare that have come together in support of the organization’s mission to reduce the world’s re...


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W3C Publishing Summit event docket announced


Friday, August 18, 2017 by

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced the program of its inaugural W3C Publishing Summit to be held 9-10 November 2017 in the San Francisco Bay area, California, featuring keynotes from Internet pioneer and futurist Tim O’Reilly and Adobe CTO Abhay Parasnis.Publishing and the Web interact in innumerable ways. From schools to libraries, from design to production ...


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W3Cx celebrates enrollment of over 400k students in their MOOCs


Wednesday, April 26, 2017 by

Just two years after launching its first HTML5 course on W3Cx, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has announced that it has exceeded its enrollment goals with nearly 400,000 students from every country participating in its HTML5 and CSS MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses). W3Cx is the result of a successful partnership with edX, a nonprofit online learning platform, fo...


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Inclusive Development gets open source tools from IBM


Thursday, February 9, 2017 by

Editors note: Submitted by Moe Kraft, Accessibility Transformation Lead, IBM Accessibility ResearchIBM is embarking on a new era of open source accessibility by releasing tooling, samples and design patterns to help streamline the development of inclusive web and mobile applications.They have recently released two new projects on the developerWorks/open community, AccPr...


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Programmatic and Mobile: Whats to come in 2017


Thursday, October 6, 2016 by

Programmatic and mobile is an ever growing hot topic, Tim Koschella (CEO and Co - Founder of AppLift), has been at the helm of this industry since it began and has seen the state of the mobile industry rapidly transform into rich opportunities for today’s marketers. Tim believes that with more than 2 billion smartphones and nearly $400 billion in-mobile-triggered transa...


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VR Developer Nanodegree Program From Udacity Launches


Friday, September 30, 2016 by

Udacity just announced a new VR Developer Nanodegree program where content creators in this space enjoy an unmatched amount of freedom to build out new ideas and applications. As a student in their new program, you will learn to design and engineer compelling immersive experiences, and discover how hardware and software combine to make these experiences possible. T...


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W3C Web and Virtual Reality Workshop October 2016


Tuesday, September 27, 2016 by

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) invites Web developers working in Virtual Reality to attend a Workshop on 19-20 October in San Jose, California. W3C Workshops bring together Web experts to explore use cases and requirements for potential Web standards work. Anticipated topics to be covered at the W3C Web and Virtual Reality Workshop may include: ...


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W3C Working Towards a HTML5.1 Release for September 2016


Wednesday, April 20, 2016 by

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has plans to release HTML5.1 in September 2016. The work is being conducted by the W3C Web Platform Working Group. The long term goal is to release a stable version of HTML as a W3C Recommendation once per year.   Among the core goals stated by W3C for future HTML specifications was to match reality better, to make the specific...


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Sencha CEO Art Landro Provides His 2016 Predictions


Friday, December 18, 2015 by

We recently visited with Sencha CEO Art Landro as part of our series of articles on 2016 industry predictions. Sencha is a provider of products and services that provide a modular platform for managing the lifecycle of web applications.Prior to serving as CEP for Sencha, Landro was the CEO of Cordys (acquired by OpenText in 2013) and President of MontaVista Software. He...


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Android App Developers Can Improve Accessibility with New Testing Criteria


Monday, July 20, 2015 by

We recently reported that the App Quality Alliance (AQuA) was creating a set of accessibility tests designed to help Android app publishers make applications more accessible and easy to use for those with disabilities in certain categories including vision, hearing, speech, dexterity and cognition.The organization has now announced that the final version of the testing ...


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SVG Is the Future of Graphics and Here's Why


Friday, June 19, 2015 by

The enterprise is growing increasingly digital, with data visualization and GIS mapping just a few of the current drivers. In this environment, it’s more important than ever that companies have the ability to interact with images without loss of clarity or resolution issues. Scalable vector graphics, or SVG, coupled with an HTML5 document viewer, are critical to support...


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App Quality Alliance Establishes New Android Accessibility Testing Criteria


Monday, June 8, 2015 by

To help publishers ensure their apps provide as much accessibility as possible for individuals with disabilities the App Quality Alliance (AQuA), with support from the Mobile Manufacturers Forum (MMF), has created a set of accessibility tests designed to help publishers make applications more accessible and easy to use for those with disabilities in certain categories -...


SOA-is-Not-a-Mobile-Backend

SOA is Not a Mobile Backend


Friday, May 1, 2015 by

The rise of mobile devices finally pushed the adoption of web services into the mainstream of application development. But years before this, companies used web services to build sophisticated service-oriented architectures for application development and integration. Some of the API management companies have even tried to adopt SOA systems for the new world of mobile d...


A-Review-of-Database-Technologies-and-Frameworks-for-Mobile-Developers

A Review of Database Technologies and Frameworks for Mobile Developers


Wednesday, March 18, 2015 by

Mobile app developers are continuously feeling the pressure to bring apps to market and update them faster and faster. This demand will only continue in 2015 and beyond. Many mobile app developers need a hard-working database behind the scenes for processing real-time data like transactions, inventory or users. This article offers insight on how mobile developers can im...


O-Brother,-Where-Art-Thou-How-New-Laws-Are-Governing-the-Collection-and-Use-of-Geolocation-Information-Inside-Apps

O Brother, Where Art Thou How New Laws Are Governing the Collection and Use of Geolocation Information Inside Apps


Saturday, September 20, 2014 by

Trying to find out where someone is located is valuable information for businesses and attorneys, but there are new laws winding their way through Congress which directly impact how this information is obtained. In 2000, George Clooney appeared in the Joel and Ethan Coen comedy titled O Brother, Where Art Thou? The Coen brothers’ movie created the story as a modern...


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Intel’s Updated App Framework 2.1 JavaScript Library for HTML5 Mobile App Development


Thursday, April 24, 2014 by

The Intel App Framework JavaScript library is a cross-platform UI library built for mobile HTML5 apps. The UI styles in this library are designed to adapt to a target platform (Google Android, Apple iOS, Microsoft Windows 8, and new RIM Blackberry devices) so apps can have a target-specific look and feel. The App Framework library also includes an optiona...


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Equal Access App Development: Create an App with Assistive Technology


Monday, March 31, 2014 by

You probably have not thought about making sure that your app is accessible to everyone, even those users with some type of disability. Not to worry, the Microsoft App Builder team has been thinking about it and have provided a number of things to think of, no matter what operating system you are using.As they point out, by designing apps with assistive techno...


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Tizen emergences from alpha with the 2.0 SDK


Wednesday, February 20, 2013 by

The Tizen 2.0 source code and SDK are now available for download here. The latest version of the SDK brings improvements over the previous alpha released in September of 2012 and supports additional mobile devices as well. As a mobile developer Tizen is shaping up to be a very viable option for development and is worth checking out.What is Tizen?Tizen is ...


5-trends-for-HTML5-we-saw-in-2012

5 trends for HTML5 we saw in 2012


Thursday, December 27, 2012 by

From Apple shunning use of UIWebview to apps using more native functions -HTML5 has seen a few blows in 2012 along with some advancements which include W3C releasing official specs. Here are the top 5 trends in 2012 for HTML5....


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HTML5 Definition Complete says W3C


Monday, December 17, 2012 by

W3C has made the definitions of HTML5 and Canvas 2D public on their website. These are not the standards yet but it does mean developers should be able to target their code better for browsers that will soon support the coming standards.They are still looking towards 2014 for an official release but this is one small step.....


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HTML5 in 2012 year end


Saturday, November 24, 2012 by

Ben Savage is the founder of Spaceport.io, a platform for mobile game developers.The stage was set with an expected one billion HTML5 phones sold by 2013. Facebook was ready to pave the way. I could repeat many other reasons why HTML5 should have taken off in 2012, but as we’ve seen over the last year, it just didn’t. Mark Zuckerberg said it best, “The biggest...