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Firefox on Windows RT 'probably not worth it'

Mozilla will "probably not bother" building a version of Firefox for Windows RT if Microsoft does not allow other browser makers to call important APIs for the new operating system, according to a Mozilla product director.
Mozilla preparing to move app marketplace to public beta stage soon

Mozilla Marketplace will be online in a few weeks to take on Apple App Store and Google Play Store
C is still leading over Java, but Tiobe index's accuracy is questioned

An important PHP developer dismissed the validity of Tiobe's language survey, which has C continuing to displace Java as the most popular language
Google simplifies use of Analytics API in new dashboard library

Google has developed a tool to automate the creation of custom-reporting dashboards for its Analytics website-usage tracking service, the company said on Wednesday.
Criteo launches competition to find 100 new software engineers

Criteo, the online search advertising banner company, is looking to employ 100 engineers to strengthen its research and development team based at its Paris labs.
Microsoft Open Technologies release allows websites and mobile apps to use Metro style

Microsoft Open Technologies has made the Metro style theme available for the jQuery Mobile open source mobile user interface framework, thus fitting Metro to applications running on the Windows Phone 7.5 OS.
Oracle releases upgrades to standard Java, JavaFX

The company is making available Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) 7 Update 4 and JavaFX 2.1. Java developers, Oracle said, can download Oracle's JDK, which includes the JavaFX SDK for MacOS X from the Oracle Technology Network. Java SE 7 Update 4 and JavaFX 2.1 run on Windows, too. The company plans to release a consumer version of Java SE 7, complete with the Java Runtime Environment, for Mac OS X later this year.
Box API upgraded to make it easier for developers and more powerful

Box has given its API (application programming interface) a makeover so that developers will have an easier time building and integrating applications with its software, and have those applications do more than is currently possible.
Google warns 20,000 websites they could be infected with JavaScript redirect malware

Google has warned 20,000 websites that they might be hacked and injected with JavaScript redirect malware.
Google adds new data visualisation tools to Fusion Tables

Google is adding more user-friendly options to its Fusion Tables app to try to popularise the somewhat obscure art of data visualisation.

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Cloud APIs ? Extending SOA and Web 2.0 architectures

Cloud APIs are emerging as a successful means of making cloud-based data centre resources and applications available to an array of web-connected devices in a flexible and cost-effective way.
Could it now be time to de-Flash your website?

Developers agree that there is no other application that can directly replace Flash and do what Flash does as well as it does. And that includes HTML5 - the only seriously suggested substitute for Flash - despite all its promise.
What's the fastest browser? Maybe you're measuring it wrong

Among all those very scientific benchmarks we forget one factor: the user. Our human eye is incapable of distinguishing the 221 ms load time of a JavaScript applet in IE9 from the 220 ms load time in Firefox 17. Do we even notice if Chrome opens a website in 778 ms versus IE's 953 ms? Humans think in seconds, not milliseconds.
Sirius CTO: UK businesses must start tapping SME talent

The time has come for small and medium businesses to get the recognition they deserve, according to Andrew Savory, newly-appointed Chief Technology Officer at open source systems integrator Sirius
The most essential tools for web developers

Out of the thousands of cool add-ons out there for Firefox, Chrome and other popular Web browsers, only a select few make it onto the desktops of professional Web developers and designers. Which are the most useful for the day-to-day work of designing and developing websites?
Cobol on the mainframe: Does it have a future?

David Brown is worried. As managing director of the IT transformation group at Bank of New York Mellon, he is responsible for the health and welfare of 112,500 Cobol programs -- 343 million lines of code -- that run core banking and other operations. But many of the people who built that code base, some of which goes back to the early days of Cobol in the 1960s, will be retiring over the next several years.
SkyDrive in Windows 8 - Three ways you can benefit

Though Dropbox is more popular with over 45 million users, with 17 million users Microsoft?s SkyDrive is a strong competitor. SkyDrive?s most desired feature has been 25GB of free space, much larger than that of most rivals. Earlier this week, Microsoft revealed its desire to be the "world?s hard drive", integrating SkyDrive with Windows 8 to make it easier to access your data from any device.
Six ways to prevent drive-by download malware attacks

In the first quarter of 2011, enterprise users encountered an average of 274 web-based malware attacks, a 103 percent increase over 2010, according to research from Cisco ScanSafe. Why the dramatic increase? One major cause is the growing number of drive-by download attacks. Drive-by downloads are an especially pernicious method cybercriminals use to install viruses and spyware, and otherwise take control of unsuspecting end users' computers.
JavaScript on the server: The rise of Node.js

Microsoft and others have already adopted this technology to extend JavaScript beyond the browser, but it has limits developers must beware.
Battle of the cloud-based music players: Google Music vs. Amazon Cloud

After months of anticipation and a limited beta release, Google finally released its cloud-based music offering, Google Music.

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