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RSS widgetBlackBerry Storm2: RIM's second touchscreen - this time with wi-fi
News We announced recently availability of our widget-based SDK. BlackBerry-maker RIM has unveiled its second touchscreen device, the Storm2. The Storm2, announced in May this year, will be released exclusively on Vodafone's... [15 Oct 2009]
Google Wave greets conferencing with help from Ribbit
News The Ribbit team recently showed off their prototype widget, which lets Wave users quickly set up a conference room inside a "wave" message on the service. Once you add the Ribbit conference widget to a... [30 Sep 2009]
Adobe's Flash turns into a telly addict
News is also offering widget technology for TVs, which it co-developed with Intel. Widget Channel provides access to Flickr, Yahoo! is doing with its Widget Channel. As part of the... [20 Apr 2009]
What's in store for the home of mobile apps?
News Still, the burning question is whether the carriers and handset makers will permit software companies to do what they do best, or whether they will continue to try to put their stamp on mobile application development in order to avoid... [06 Apr 2009]
'If you look at iPlayer from a distance, it's still very web 1.0'
Comment For example] you've seen us do some efforts with the embedded media player which is frankly a Flash-based widget, you've seen us deploy the Adobe Air-based iPlayer desktop. Erik Huggers became director of the BBC's... [18 Feb 2009]
Sub-$200 netbooks on the cards from Freescale
News Freescale has done group studies on the way people use the internet, Cammal said, and those studies suggested younger users were more keen on an "always-on, widget approach" than on using Windows. We believe our... [06 Jan 2009]
The Google Web Toolkit's AJAX Recipe: Less JavaScript, More Speed
White Paper GWT is composed of two components: an AJAX widget library and a cross-browser compiler that converts Java code into AJAX. How popular is the Google Web Toolkit (GWT)? Google claims their Java web development framework... [24 Dec 2008]
Open source, Facebook smuggled into work by Generation Y
News They also regularly download non-standard technology from free public websites such as open source communities, "mashup" and "widget" providers, with three-quarters of 18 to 27-year-olds accessing online collaborative... [06 Nov 2008]
Opera mobile gets Symbian support
News Selecting the widget will download it over the air. The new Opera Mobile beta also hands independent widget developers a goody bag in the form of the updated Widgets SDK. This version of the SDK bundles... [20 Oct 2008]
Yahoo! previews iPhone social-networking app
News Previously, Blueprint could only be used to develop "widget" applications that would run within the Yahoo! Yahoo! on Wednesday released a preview version of a free new iPhone application called OneConnect that can... [11 Sep 2008]
BBC iPlayer gets smart on N96
News The N96 uses a widget - which can be downloaded from bbc.co.uk/mobile or come preloaded with the device - to allow both 3G and wireless access to the service. The BBC iPlayer will be available on Nokia's flagship N96... [08 Sep 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.07.08
Round-Up Still, the Round-Up usually finds playing a tape of any software CEO talking about their latest widget is enough to help it nod off… And so, the Round-Up empties its rucksack of festival tat and puts away the tie-dyed... [04 Jul 2008]
Ballmer: Microsoft says the future's green
News Yello Strom's managing director Martin Vesper demonstrated a "Yello-saving counter" - a Vista widget that lets consumers monitor their home power via a PC. Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has claimed that more... [06 Mar 2008]
MSDN Webcast: Using Web Services in Your Gadget or Widget on Windows Live (Level 200)
White Paper Gadget and widget platforms, such as Windows Live, have a natural integration with sites, such as eBay, through Web services. Gadgets are great for monitoring the status of ever-changing data; the eBay marketplace is... [28 Feb 2008]
Photos: Accenture waves goodbye to the wallet
Photo Here Accenture is showing off a widget system for mobile phones that could provide access to corporate information such as ERP data. The SMS is on the wall for crumpled notes and battered leather wallets as Accenture... [31 Jan 2008]
