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 ...

If your organisation is still getting to grips with smartphone apps it may be in for a shock - an even newer class of app is bearing down, one which promises to cut multi-platform development hassles ...

"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 ...

Ever since we got the green light to start an iPad application for FRONTLINE, the main question we’ve gotten from tech people is whether we’re going to have an app at all – or whether we’re going to ...

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

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 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 ...

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 ...

Hybrid apps are built using built using HTML 5, CSS, and JavaScript, and then put in wrappers that makes them run as native apps on different mobile platforms. They attempt to combine the best of ...

Sure, I'll give it a quick shot. As I said before: I think the model of "mostly free, with options to buy extra content" would work. For example, the publication could have an article about some ...