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High performance HTML5 content in Metro-style Apps
Metro style apps in Windows 8 have all the performance benefits of IE10 when showing Web content. In Metro style apps, Web content is always JIT compiled and hardware-accelerated. Other platforms do not provide the same level of performance in … Continue reading
App Economy has created almost half a million jobs
Could the app economy be the cure for the United States’ employment doldrums? A new report suggests that the nascent app economy spurred on by iOS, Android and Facebook apps has generated 466,000 jobs in the U.S. economy since 2007. … Continue reading
Sky News joins the anti-social media brigade
Even as some news outlets like Associated Press hire social-media editors to try and figure out how to make use of tools like Twitter for journalistic purposes, others seem to be intent on locking these tools down and removing as … Continue reading
Windows 8 blog talks about power efficiency for apps
The Windows 8 blog has posted up a new entry that describes how Microsoft is trying to gain better battery life for PCs by making Windows 8 applications more energy efficient. Read more… Neowin.net
In a suspect move, LightSquared calls for GPS design standards
In its ongoing fight to launch its nationwide LTE service, LightSquared on Wednesday asked the Federal Communications Commission to impose the first-ever standards on GPS device design, claiming such requirements would allow GPS and its 4G network to co-exist peacefully … Continue reading