Opinion divided on usefulness
An interpreter for the dynamic programming language Ruby has been ported to run on Google’s Native Client (NaCl) platform
Floxx CTO gives us the low-down
As Facebook goes public, Floxx is turning the App Store itself into a stock market, giving anyone with an iPhone the chance to invest
Tonight there's going to be a j*******k!
In a blow for fans of Irish hard rockers Thin Lizzy, Apple has begun to replace the word “Jailbreak” with “J*******k” in all of its online marketplaces in the US
Close but no cigar
Google has released version 19 of its popular Chrome browser, featuring new tab-syncing functionality
Simple VoIP for mobile developers
Almost ten months after the launch of its wildly popular iOS client, San Francisco-based Voice-over-IP (VoIP) firm Twilio is dipping its toe in the Android water
JavaScript works its magic
Romanian developer Mihai Bazon has added another tool to the in-browser development toolbox, releasing a pure JavaScript implementation of Lisp
Zee Kane issues a half-apology
Web developer Joshua Gross has hit out at The Next Web after the blog plagiarised one of his posts, raising concerns about quality and standards in tech journalism
Irish regulators look askance at policy updates
Facebook will hold a live question-and-answer session on proposals for a new data use policy at 12:00 EDT (17:00 BST) today
Major update to switch statement
The Dart team published version 0.09 of the young language’s specification last week, featuring a number of new rules
App transmits messages in plain text
Less than a week after hitting the top spot on Apple’s UK paid-for apps chart, WhatsApp has had its lack of encryption exposed by a packet-sniffing tool
Based on software from C3 Technologies
Apple is preparing to sever its long-standing relationship with Google’s Maps service, debuting a completely new, in-house maps app in the next version of iOS
Tabs-on-demand, the cycle collection and start-up
Writing in a post on the foundation’s ‘hacks’ blog, Firefox program manager Lawrence Mandel goes through some of the new features currently being trialled in FF13 beta
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