Sep 11

Zuckerberg: betting on HTML 5 for Facebook mobile app was a ‘mistake,’ native Android version on the way

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Zuckerberg: betting on HTML 5 for Facebook mobile app was a 'mistake,' native Android version on the way

Remember the days before Facebook’s iOS app ditched HTML 5 and sped things up with some native code? It turns out that there’s some regret in Menlo Park about relying on the web markup language. Betting on HTML 5 for the app is “one of the biggest mistakes if not the biggest strategic mistakes we’ve ever made,” Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview at TechCrunch Disrupt today. The firm’s CEO also mentioned that new features will be making their way to the app and a snappier Android version is coming down the pike “when it’s done.”

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Jul 25

Microsoft teams up with shopping search engine for HTML5 digital catalogs

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Microsoft teams up with shopping search engine for HTML5 digital catalogs

Dead tree product catalogs — dated. Fortunate, then, at least for Mother Earth, that Microsoft’s unveiled the results of its team-up with retail-focused search engine TheFind, several web-based Glimpse catalogs, offering the visual pizazz of a retail magazine without the carbon hangover. Injecting Redmond’s HTML5 know-how into the shopping hub’s catalog and social apps, it distills those functions into the single site. Stores including Brooks Brothers and Lands’ End have already offered up their collections in the web store, but Techcrunch reckons the venture needs a little more work. The images appear to be little too compressed and blurred in the new format, while the detail view directs users to social network sharing rather than a product’s description. But with Microsoft already offering the HTML5 juice that powers the online app for free, someone else might improve on the company’s groundwork.

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Microsoft teams up with shopping search engine for HTML5 digital catalogs originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 25 Jul 2012 14:35:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jul 11

Microsoft advises nuking Windows Gadgets after security hole discovery, we mourn our stock widgets

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Windows 7 with Gadgets

Whether you see Windows Vista and Windows 7 Gadgets as handy tools or a blight upon a pristine desktop, you might want to shut them off for safety’s sake. Mickey Shkatov and Toby Kohlenberg have found that the desktop widgets’ web-based code have flaws that would allow malicious Gadgets, or even hijacked legitimate Gadgets, to compromise a PC without having to go through the usual avenues of attack. Microsoft’s short-term answer to the vulnerability is a drastic one, though: a stopgap patch disables Gadgets entirely, leaving just a barren desktop in its wake. There’s no word on a Gadget-friendly solution arriving before Kohlenberg and Shkatov present at the Black Hat Conference on July 26th, but we suspect Microsoft’s ultimate answer is to move everyone to Windows 8, where Gadgets aren’t even an option. We understand the importance of preventing breaches, of course — we’re just disappointed that we’ll have to forgo miniature stock tickers and weather forecasts a little sooner than expected.

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