Thanks to its chattiness, the traditional communications protocol for shuttling data around the World Wide Web is not very efficient. Now an HTML5-related standard called WebSocket could cut some of ...

In proper fashion, Facebook didn't make the new HTML5 web app available for the iPad, leaving users to the bulky desktop site while browsing in Safari. But with this trick, you can use Facebook's ...

Kobo is in the midst of developing an HTML5 web application for iOS because of Apple’s new policy that takes 30% of each transaction. Kobo recently removed the link to their own store from within the ...

Dr. Chris Hillman, Global AI Lead at Teradata, joins eSpeaks to explore why open data ecosystems are becoming essential for enterprise AI success. In this episode, he breaks down how openness — in ...

"Financial Times Introduces Web App in Effort to Bypass Apple" I don't usually read the Financial Times, but seeing as how they figure their Web App is a good alternative to a native magazine app I ...

An App Store app called iTether got a lot of attention a few months ago for allowing free 3G tethering from any iPhone. Despite the fact that carriers don’t officially support such activity apart from ...

HTML5 lets you play music through compliant browsers—no "cloud" required. Recently, "cloud"-based music services, from big names like Amazon, Google and Apple, have been getting attention in the press ...

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 ...

CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a technology columnist who has covered everything from HDTVs to computers to Flowbee Haircut Systems. Besides his work with CNET, Don's work has been featured in a ...