Over the past two decades, the mobile industry has become increasingly stunted by fragmented protocols, standards, and regional differences. But a hot new technology called HTML5 promises to remedy ...

Will HTML5 or native apps lead the charge for the superphone platform? Or is the conflict between the two simply getting overblown? Today at VentureBeat’s Mobile Summit, we tried to suss out the many ...

The ongoing debate over how to best get applications onto mobile devices — either through native deployments or writing a mobile Web application — is going to remain a front-burner question for ...

"Financial Times Introduces Web App in Effort to Bypass Apple" I don't usually read the Financial Times, but seeing as how they figure their Web App is a good alternative to a native magazine app I ...

Business Insider believes HTML5 apps are primed to overtake native apps on smartphones in the coming years. Steve Jobs was also big on webapps when the iPhone first came out—sans native app ...

The fact that no two mobile devices have the same screen size is one of mobile’s big advantages — and one of its drawbacks. It’s an advantage for the user, who’s free to pick the device size that best ...

Following this week's demonstration of the Unreal engine running on Flash 11 and ongoing rumours about HTML5's performance on iOS 5, we returned to a current favourite, asking the Mavens: Is Unreal ...

The mobile development world is split into two camps. On the one hand, you have the purists who suggest that only native development can make the best use of platform-specific features. On the other ...

I deleted every major social app — Instagram, Facebook, X (you know, Twitter), Reddit, and TikTok — and replaced them with ...

Mozilla's WebAPI is an ambitious new project aimed at breaking down the proprietary app systems on today's mobile devices. Forget separate apps for iOS, Android, and other mobile platforms, just write ...