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Startup Uses New Technology to Out-Akamai Akamai

Instart Logic is taking on the likes of Akamai and Amazon Cloudfront with a Web app-streaming service it says can cut in half the time it takes to load pages and applications to wireless devices. Full Story »
How To

With WebRTC, Real-Time Communications Come to the Browser

The WebRTC standard aims to make peer-to-peer communication over the Web as easy as picking up a phone. Here's what developers need to know about WebRTC, including how to set it up and what limitations the protocol currently faces.

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Looks Like Feedly Wins the Google Reader Expat Crown

Feedly, the free RSS service that has been the safe harbor for millions of Internet refugees fleeing the soon-to-be-defunct Google Reader, announced Monday that several popular RSS apps will access its API free of charge.

Editor's Letter

No More Adobe Dreamweaver, So How About Xara Web Designer?

If you're doing serious Web content engineering you might well choose an all-singing, all-dancing product such as Adobe's Dreamweaver. The latest version of Dreamweaver in Adobe's Creative Suite 6 (released just over a year ago) was really impressive with new features such as an improved user interface, support for jQuery UI widgets, better cascading style sheet Version 3 support and support for PhoneGap. All in all, a very cool and comprehensive Web development platform.

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SAP Updates Line-of-Business Cloud Apps

Selling SaaS (software as a service) applications aimed at specific lines of business is one way that SAP has tried to stake a claim in the world of cloud computing and during the Sapphire conference it unveiled a broad series of updates to the portfolio.

How To

ESB Persists As Application Integration Tool

The tried-and-true enterprise service bus--long the foundation of now-dated service oriented architecture deployments--is back in style thanks to the increasing need to integrate disparate applications. The secret to ESB's future success, some say, is a close tie to API management tools.

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Microsoft Sends Gamblin' Pete Rose to the Plate in Swing at Google Docs

Microsoft today took another shot at rival Google, calling its rival's online application suite, Google Docs, "too big a gamble."

How To

How to Change Software Testing for New Cloud Configurations

If DevOps means infrastructure as code,' then that code very well could have bugs. DevOps also means you may not see those bugs in a test environment because, well, there is no test environment. Here's what you can do to manage this risk.

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Digg's Replacement for Google Reader Due in June; Might Cost Money

With the clock ticking down to the demise of Google Reader, Digg promises a beta version of its Reader alternative will launch just in time.

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Pinterest Responds to Feedback with Design Tweaks

When a popular site introduces a new design, complaints are inevitable. But designers don't often make changes or bring back old features just to satisfy users.

How To

6 Big Data Analytics Use Cases for Healthcare IT

Making use of the petabytes of patient data that healthcare organizations possess requires extracting it from legacy systems, normalizing it and then building applications that can make sense of it. That's a tall order, but the facilities that pull it off can learn a lot.

Advice & Opinion

10 'B' Movies to Stream This Month

Here's a selection of so-called 'B movies' to catch on Netflix this month.

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Twitter Unveils New #music App and Service

Twitter today is releasing a service that the social network hopes will change how people find music and artists.

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Google Apps, Gmail Services Disrupted This Morning

Google Apps, including Gmail and Google Documents, suffered a disruption this morning.

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Netflix to Dump Silverlight, Microsoft's Stalled Technology

Netflix on Monday said it would abandon Microsoft's Silverlight media player plug-in for Windows and OS X in-browser video streaming, and replace it with a trio of HTML5 extensions.