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Chrome Beta for Android Will Be Good for Mobile HTML5 Development
Feb 7th
When Google announced that the Chrome browser would become its own operating system and run on netbooks, the thought around the tech community was that eventually Google would have to merge Chrome with Android. After all, what is the point of supporting two disparate mobile operating systems? The convergence has not yet occurred but may have taken a step further today as Google announced Chrome for Android available on devices running version 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.
Chrome for Android is a win for everybody. Except, of course, most users. As of Google’s latest Android platform numbers, only 1% of devices are running Ice Cream Sandwich. That will change as 2012 moves along with adoption accelerating from new device purchases and updates. Chrome for Android immediately becomes on of the go-to browsers on the platform, will be good for HTML5 development, reliability and security.
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A Big Day For HTML5
The best thing that Chrome for Android brings to the table is robust HTML5 integration. The native Android browser is known to have mediocre HTML5 performance (pre-Ice Cream Sandwich) but Chrome for Android promises to make up what has been lacking.
That will include a hardware-accelerated canvas, overflow scroll support, HTML5 video specs support along with Indexed DB (for offline caching, presumably), WebWorkers and WebSockets.
The biggest advantage for mobile HTML5 though will be the ability to bring Chrome tools to the Android platform. If a developer knows how to work in Chromium, working in Chrome for Android will be a seamless transition. This is where the possible convergence of the Chrome and Android platforms will take place.
“Much of the code for Chrome for Android is already shared with Chromium and over the coming weeks, the Chromium team will be upstreaming many new components developed for Chrome for Android to Chromium, WebKit and other projects,” Arnaud Weber, Google’s engineering manager for Chrome, wrote in a blog post.
Chrome for Android has already been put through its initial HTML5 tests with a score of 343 (+10 bonus) on HTML5Test.com. The native ICS browser scored 256 (+3 bonus) which put it in the middle of the pack in terms of mobile browsers.
Enhancements For Users
Chrome for Android promises to be fast, simple and reliable. It pre-loads pages with the Chrome Omnibox (only when Wi-Fi is enabled) and predicts where and what you want to navigate to. It also brings a simple user interface to the Android browser environment, something that many users will be very grateful for after dealing with some of the more complicated UIs from third-party options like Opera, Dolphin HD and Skyfire.
The best aspect of Chrome for Android though will be the ability to sign in to your Chrome browser and have access to all of your bookmarks, tabs and browsing history from anywhere. If you leave your computer with open tabs, Chrome for Android will recognize those and open them for you. Chrome will also be able to track your browsing history to better provide search suggestions. Like many other mobile browsers with desktop presences, Chrome for Android will also be able to sync your bookmarks to your mobile device.
This 1% Problem
We are going to be perfectly honest. No writer at ReadWriteWeb has a device running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. So, we could not put the Chrome Beta through the paces (most RWWers use iPhones as well).
And there is the rub. Next to no one has Ice Cream Sandwich yet, outside a couple Galaxy Nexus users. This poses a problem, if a temporary one. Many existing Android devices are never going to get the ICS upgrade and the devices that have it pre-installed are still in early adopter/Android geek territory.
For many, the Chrome for Android is just an exciting announcement to shrug at since most will never see it on their current devices. Chrome for Android developers have plenty of time to roll out dynamic Web apps before the mass of Android users actually gets the browser. So, perhaps there is a positive side.
Excited for Chrome for Android? Will you develop for it? What about signing in to Chrome across all your devices? Let us know your reactions in the comments.
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SEO.in Named Fourth Best Android Development Company by bestwebdesignagencies … – Press Media Wire
Feb 6th
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SEO.in Named Fourth Best Android Development Company by bestwebdesignagencies …
Press Media Wire SEO.in has been named the fourth best Android development company based on the results of a meticulous evaluation process which benchmarks various aspects of mobile development and application creation services. Hundreds of mobile development companies … |
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Slingshot SEO Names John Lawrence VP of Applications Development – MarketWatch (press release)
Feb 6th
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Slingshot SEO Names John Lawrence VP of Applications Development
MarketWatch (press release) INDIANAPOLIS, IN, Feb 06, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Slingshot SEO, the innovative firm delivering digital relevance to deserving brands, has announced that John Lawrence has joined its growing team as VP of Applications Development. |
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Cartoon: Apple’s Product Development Process REVEALED!
Jan 15th
As you get older, you start to see the great cycles of life emerge. Hope and disillusionment and hope again; pride crushed by defeat and then rising again; and of course, the rising wave of speculation in advance of every Apple product launch.
No surprise, then, that Morgan Stanley analysts are getting plenty of news coverage this week for predictions of a March iPad 3 release and a June iPhone 5. They join plenty of other pundits, and the predictions are more or less coalescing around quad-core chips, a higher resolution screen for the iPad and a slimmer profile for the iPhone.
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Here is the part where I’m supposed to write that people who obsess over those product rumors (unless they’re investing in Apple or it’s competitors) are shallow fools destined to spend the next Apple keynote gnashing their teeth in fury that the latest new iDevice doesn’t come with the tachyon emitters that MacRumourLicious.com swore were coming.
Except that I get it. I understand the appeal. For a lot of us, speculating about the next iPhone’s processor or whether the iPad’s touch-screen will be pressure-sensitive (yes, fine, I’m the only one speculating about that) or what the next version of Android will offer is about more than just speed ratings or raw performance. It’s about what we can do with the new features or increased power of the device: what we’ll be able to create, how we’ll be able to collaborate, and how we can foster richer and more satisfying connections with each other.
OK, it’s also about whether the next version of Angry Birds will be able to have 3D-rendered shadows and photo-realistic explosions. But it’s also about that humanity-lofty stuff, too.
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SEO Positive Hires New Business Development Coordinator – PR Web (press release)
Jan 11th
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SEO Positive Hires New Business Development Coordinator
PR Web (press release) The SEO agency declares a confident start to the New Year by employing a new Business Development Coordinator with a view to expanding its successful sales department. SEO Positive, one of the UK's most reputable search engine optimisation companies, … |
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SEO Positive Reviews Impact of the Economic Crisis on Business Development – PR Web (press release)
Dec 27th
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SEO Positive Reviews Impact of the Economic Crisis on Business Development
PR Web (press release) As part of its annual company review, SEO Positive evaluates whether the economic downturn has had an impact on the growth of its business – with surprising results. Like any SEO company, SEO Positive Limited is constantly looking at ways to improve … |
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#1 SEO India Company, #1 Web Design & Development Company, # 1 RPO Agency Sets … – DigitalJournal.com (press release)
Dec 16th
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#1 SEO India Company, #1 Web Design & Development Company, # 1 RPO Agency Sets …
DigitalJournal.com (press release) It is the parent brand company, commonly referred to as India's #1 360° New Media Company Specializing in Web Site Design & Development- Profit By Outsourcing, Search Engine Optimization (SEO)- Profit By Search, & Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO)- … |
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Microsoft Technologies and SEO Web Development – SEOmoz (blog)
Dec 13th
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Microsoft Technologies and SEO Web Development
SEOmoz (blog) There have been a few articles on Microsoft technologies and SEO of late and I have tried not to double up. I will confess I am pro Microsoft, a Microsoft Partner and a Microsoft WebsiteSpark WebPro and have been involved in many Microsoft programs … |
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A Deep Look Into IBM’s Mobile Development Strategy
Dec 7th
IBM is poised to unleash its revamped mobile strategy with a full suite of tools aimed at enterprise developers with the purpose of providing and end-to-end system for collaboration, development and management for mobile applications. IBM is putting the full weight of its history, tools and computing clout behind its mobile strategy and the company’s comprehensive framework has the potential to be one of the most powerful end-to-end development environments available.
We have been studying what IBM is doing in the mobile realm for the last week as the company readies the push of its IBM Mobile Technology Preview. IBM is not going to push its tools and frameworks onto developers in one large product vertical but rather is taking and iterative, pragmatic approach to solving many of the mobile dilemmas that face enterprise developers today. We also interviewed Leigh Williamson, a Distinguished Engineer at IBM and a member of the CTO Team for mobile software strategy development. Check out the transcript of our conversation below.
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What the Mobile Technology Preview Consists Of
Take a look at three applications that show well what IBM is doing in mobile application development: Lotus Sametime, Lotus Traveler and IBM Cognos Mobile. IBM is working to give developers the tools to create cross-platform apps for both the major native frameworks as well as the mobile Web.
The biggest goals for IBM are helping enterprise developers with life-cycle management over the course of a project. That starts from the seed of an idea to management between separate groups that are collaborating on the project to running the tiers that fundamentally make an application. That includes the code on the device itself, the middleware layers that tie to company servers or the cloud and the file hosting from the source.
One of the biggest problems that enterprise developers face is coordinating the runtime of an enterprise-based app with all of these moving parts. That includes accessing data from a cloud or server silo or moving content from that will work well on mobile devices.
The IBM Mobile Technology Preview has a variety of features and functions. Some of those will be released as individual products while others will be integrated as features into other products. Others are just concepts at this point that will not be released at all.
Take a look at some of what IBM is set to offer from the company’s Mobile Technology Preview download page.
- Application Management: An application centric management infrastructure that provides basic support for central control over the mobile applications and allows developers to better tune their applications for central management.
- Location Based Security: Security support has been expanded to include location based & continuous authentication features.
- Hybrid Enablement Framework: Building cross-platform mobile applications with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The IBM Mobile Technology Preview is utilizing the PhoneGap open source framework as a means to quickly deliver hybrid capabilities. Other hybrid approaches exist and may be used in addition to, or instead of, PhoneGap in future technology preview deliveries.
- Notifications: A RESTful notification service and a client side notification library enables enterprise logic to post notifications to one or more target devices.
- Application Server Runtime:The WebSphere Liberty Profile of the WebSphere Application Server 8.5 Alpha is provided as an application server runtime environment to run the server side samples and services.
There are more features in the IBM Mobile Technology Preview included that are not listed here. Check out IBM’s download page for more information.
Below is the transcript of our conversation with Leigh Williamson. He refers to IBM’s mobile strategy and suite of functions as the “IBM Mobile Platform” several times. That is not technically the name, but rather the IBM Mobile Technology Preview, as mentioned above.
Check out more of our coverage on IBM mobile, such as Rethinking Mobile Email and IBM Beefs Up Its Mobile Applications.
What Are IBM’s Goals In Mobile in 2012?
We look at mobile applications and the mobile environment as the significant next generation of information technology. We have these generational shifts that occur every dozen to 15 years and it is pretty clear that mobile constitutes a major generational shift. There is a couple of unique characteristics that personify this new generation in IT, certainly the pervasiveness of very powerful computing that is now available to everybody just walking around with it in their pockets. The way in which end users, human beings, are interacting with that computing power has taken a bit of a shift since the PC, desktop Web application kind of generation. We are looking to enable our customers to be able to, in a cost effective way, develop mobile versions of their business applications and to also support the underlying business infrastructure which is increasingly defined by software rather than by just by hardware as has been the case for a lot of computing infrastructure in the past.
One of the things that is a little know secret is that IBM is actually involved in many of the carrier networks and the software that enables those. Cell towers and various other aspects of the underlying mobile and mobile data infrastructure. We are also looking to play a significant part in enterprises that are looking to reach their target audiences that are accessing the Internet and accessing their business with this new generation of mobile devices.
So, along those lines, in a broad sense we are developing out what we like to call the IBM Mobile Platform. That is a combination of elements that IBM is in a unique position to deliver with a great amount of capability. You may be familiar, IBM has many different areas of focus in our software group. We have the area that I spend a lot of my time in that works on the development tools and methodology. We have areas that deal with the middleware and application run-time support. We have areas that deal with information management and areas that deal with collaborative services and areas that deal with security and systems management. All of those areas apply in the mobile space. So, we are creating this umbrella that brings together all of those different capabilities under the terminology of the IBM Mobile Platform and this will enable us to offer an integrated offering that might be called middleware that not only supports the code that runs on the mobile devices but also the code that those mobile clients interact with to connect to backend business services.
So, there is also a need to be able to manage the mobile devices but the applications that are running on the mobile devices. That is part of the mobile platform as well. From my particular perspective, contributing to the mobile platform is the notion of tools and development methodologies that specifically apply to teams that are developing mobile apps.
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