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AT&T to Launch HTML5 App Store, Offers SDK for Mobile Web Developers AT&T’s new AppCenter is an Android app store which will sell “unwrapped” HTML5 apps, promoting HTML5 as an alternative to native mobile apps.  The AppCenter was launched January 9, 2012, and is available in beta form on Android devices, with plans for additional platforms in 2012.  According to a January 11, 2011 article in Ars Technica, “AT&T Offers HTML5 SDK for Third-party Mobile Web App Developers”, the company has also “released a set of JavaScript APIs and a software development kit (SDK) that provide Web developers with access to certain mobile network features”. Read original content Microsoft Offers HTML5 Version of Popular Cut-the-Rope Game A new HTML5 version of Microsoft’s Cut-the-Rope game was announced on January 9, 2011 at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas ... (more)

Schmidt to Testify

Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt has been delegated to go and testify before the US Senate's antitrust subcommittee in September. Google has been reluctant to send any of its managers but then the Senate reminded Google that it had subpoena powers. Google had offered its chief legal officer David Drummond but the subcommittee wanted either Schmidt or new CEO Larry Page. The Federal Trade Commission started a formal antitrust investigation of Google last month and the European Commission is already doing the same thing. The Justice Department is also investigating Google for... (more)

AjaxWord: An Open Source Web Word Processor

AjaxWord (www.ajaxword.com) is an open source Web-based word processor. It closely mimics Microsoft Word in both look-and-feel and functionality. The application was initially written between 1997 and 1999 using JavaScript/DHTML on the client side with ASP on the server side. It was released on the Web in 2000. In 2005, the application's server-side logic was migrated to Java and released as open source code. On the client side, the application looks and feels like a typical desktop application, e.g., Microsoft Word. The design features the kind of rich graphical user interface ... (more)

A Performance Comparison of Popular Open Source Web Services Engines

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) stands on the twin pillars of reusability and interoperability. Any business function that can be reused is an ideal candidate to be exposed as a service. A reusable service, until and unless implemented in an interoperable manner, isn't much use. Web Services standards provide standards-based interfaces for service description, discovery, and message definitions to invoke such services. Web Service technology has come a long way to reach enterprise-grade adoption of the core standards. Nonetheless, the process has been facilitated by Web Serv... (more)

Bad File Descriptor Error in Linux

In a Linux system, files, blocks, directories, sockets and other items are referred by corresponding file descriptors. If your system is reporting errors that the file descriptor is bad, one of possible causes is that file system is corrupt and thus, you require restoring from backup. But if backup is not valid enough to restore complete information, you need to use advanced Linux Data Recovery applications. As an instance, you might encounter the below error message with your Linux based system: “Bad file descriptor” You might receive this error while trying to access a file or... (more)