Facebook abandons HTML5 on iOS: A shift or exception?

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	Facebook abandons HTML5 on iOS: A shift or exception? We've been hearing the constant drumbeat of HTML5 for a few years now, with its seemingly incessant march to dominance in developing rich Internet applications as major providers such as Adobe, Google, Apple, and Microsoft endorse HTML5. But HTML5 has just suffered a setback. Facebook, citing performance issues, has redone its iOS application in native Objective-C code and backed away from its previous HTML5 code. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Google Google Apps for Business Do more for less with your team using Google Apps. Custom web-based email, calendars, and documents to easily share & work together in the cloud. Start with a free 30-day trial! In this Issue 'New' Windows 8 PCs: We've seen 'em before Oracle seeks to delay cloud features in enterprise Java 5 key new improvements in OpenSuse Linux 12.2 Windows 8 'doesn't move the needle' on security, says Symantec RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Drobo Drobo SAN for Business Live Demo Daily! We want you to learn from the very best–Drobo experts–available every day. Participate in live interactive sessions to see a live demo of Drobo products, ask questions, validate deployment ideas. Our experts cover configuration, sizing, network best practices, and infrastructure monitoring–and talk VMware, Hyper-V, iSCSI, Tiering, SSD acceleration. Join us for a live demo every business day, Monday to Friday 'New' Windows 8 PCs: We've seen 'em before On the surface, it's pretty surprising: The industry has cooked up a raft of new PCs, including various laptop-tablet hybrids, supposedly just for Windows 8. That's a lot of engineering to support the new features of a Windows release that has been panned so badly the word "Vista" comes to mind. Look closer, however, and you'll see that nobody -- with the possible exception of Microsoft -- has dreamed up a truly "new" hardware home for Windows 8. Read More Oracle seeks to delay cloud features in enterprise Java Oracle is finding its road map for enterprise Java is a bit too ambitious, with the company now proposing a postponement in cloud computing capabilities that had been anticipated for Java EE (Java Platform, Enterprise Edition) 7 next year. Instead, the cloud capabilities would be included in Java EE 8 in 2015. Read More 5 key new improvements in OpenSuse Linux 12.2 After numerous delays along the way, openSuse Linux 12.2 on Wednesday finally made its long-awaited debut. "Two months of extra stabilization work have resulted into a stellar release, chock-full of goodies, yet stable as you all like it," wrote openSuse community manager Jos Poortvliet in a blog post. Read More Windows 8 'doesn't move the needle' on security, says Symantec Symantec said Windows 8 "doesn't move the needle much" on security as it rolled out new versions of its antivirus software and promised to provide users with several so-called "Modern" apps for the new operating system. On Wednesday, the security developer released new versions of its consumer titles Norton AntiVirus, Norton Internet Security and Norton 360. Read More
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