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Will native mobile apps business become HTML5’s next victim?

Posted by: altabel on: November 24, 2011

Seems like the world is pushed towards HTML5. Apple has been amongst those trying so hard to get Web developers out of the Flash domination, and judging by the latest news of Adobe becoming HTML5-religious Apple’s anti-Flash campaign was successful. Becoming stronger and better polished HTML5 looks to supplant not only Flash but also press [...]

Windows 8: The death of the silverlight framework? That was the question that I asked to LI users and it triggered a great deal of debate. And now we can say for sure that Silverlight is dead , my friends. Certainly it won`t happen right now, tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, as the customers [...]

Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer stressed some weeks ago that Windows is “the backbone product of Microsoft” now and into the future: “Windows PCs, Windows Phones, Windows slates…” What do you think? Is Windows Microsoft’s biggest strength or a weakness going forward? When IBM was still working with technology and marketing mainframe solutions, they almost missed the [...]

Windows 8 vs Windows 7: Hyper-Virtualization 3.0

Posted by: altabel on: July 4, 2011

The old-fashioned PC paradigm has run out of gas. As conventional Windows systems are too hard to manage and pose too much of a security risk so that sales are declining. For lack of a better alternative, you may need to live with Windows for the foreseeable future. But now that the sins of Vista [...]

People Say: Is a unified Android OS a good thing?

Posted by: altabel on: June 20, 2011

Google unleashed Android 3.1 OS for tablets recently, but the buzzer news is that come its next release, dubbed Ice Cream Sandwich and landing this year, the company is putting a fork in “forked” versions of Android. Is one Android for all only good news? For better understanding this questionI have chosen the most valuable [...]