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7 Ways to Determine the Merits of Responsive Web Design
In a world with so many device types, responsive design can be a godsend, but it also takes more time, money and effort. A new report from Forrester Research offers a tool for determining when responsive design for web sites is a good idea.
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Yahoo Acquires Lexity For Small-Biz Ecommerce Tools
Yahoo's wallet remains firmly open as it picks up yet another company (at least its third this month), this time focusing on the small business offerings of Lexity to expand its ecommerce range.
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Five Cool Things From Microsoft's Build Keynote #bldwin
While the release of Windows 8.1 was the biggie at Microsoft's first keynote, there was lots of other smart, useful or fun features, either as part of Windows or from other areas, that are coming developers and users way as part of Microsoft's future plans.
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Watch Microsoft's Build 2013 Keynote To See Windows 8.1 In Action #bldwin
Microsoft has another stab at a second coming today with the unveiling of Windows 8.1, along with a host of developer-related products, news and events at this year's Build conference. Watch the keynote today to see if there's any big surprises.
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SiteSpect Debuts Testing Tool for How a Site Works, not Just Looks
Testing a website for varying designs and layouts is a key way to figure out what is most enticing to visitors, but optimization vendor SiteSpect has decided that is no longer enough, and has debuted a tool to test how a site works as well.
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Webpop: A Simple CMS Built for Designers
We came across another simple web content management system you might be interested in. Let's have a look at Webpop. Who Are Webpop? Founded in 2010, Webpop is a cloud-based web content management platform.
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Facebook Invests in Mobile App Development With Parse Acquisition
With plenty of revenue from all those desktop web games, how will Facebook translate that as users access social media and games increasingly from their mobile? The acquisition of Parse whose mobile app development SDK for iOS and Android and other platforms powers thousands of apps seems to be one
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IBM Snaps Up UrbanCode for Mobile, Cloud Based Software Development
Nobody wants to spend days or even weeks on app development, but for the biggest companies, this is often the reality. IBM is looking to speed up that timeline with the purchase of UrbanCode, a company that automates software development.
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Dying to Know More About APIs and Platformification?
I was super happy to see my article from last week, on the crossover between UX and APIs, get such a good response (including tweets from Alan Cooper and Jared Spool).
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BaseKit Introduces a Mobile Website Builder
Website building, software as a service, company Basekit, has added a mobile site builder to its website design platform, which will give both large and SMB’s the tools to create a fully functional mobile website. These days just about everyone has a smartphone or tablet.
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Forrester Report Makes Case for a Single Standardized Browser
Analysts at reputed Forrester Research have released a study on making the business case for standardizing on a single browser. The report was commissioned by Microsoft, however, so it takes a bit of a limited approach to the browser question.
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Microsoft Axes Silverlight.net Site, Is Silverlight itself Next?
Microsoft has dropped the Silverlight.net website and put up a developer's network page instead. Although there's been no official decision announced as to the company's plans on future releases, this is a sure sign there will be none. Silverlight will still be supported, but new versions won't likely come out.
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Acquia Snags US$ 30 Million Financing Round, Directs Focus on Europe, APAC
Acquia, which provides products and services in support of the open source web experience management platform Drupal, has completed a US$ 30 million financing round. The company said the financing will be used to push sales and marketing -- particularly in Europe and Asia Pacific.
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Decibel Launches Open API for 'Hybrid' Web Content Management System
London-based Decibel Technology is launching an Open Application Programming Interface (API) for its enterprise web content management system, that, according to the company, allows its proprietary CMS to be customized in ways that offer many benefits beyond open source. The London-based company said the new Decibel API extends the
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