Technology

A new install of Google Chrome browser is pushing the apps store on the start page with the text "New! Discover a world of apps & games". [Read On]

With more than 300,000 different apps available on Apple’s App Store, it may seem like an unforgiving task to market a mobile app these days. However, with a successful marketing campaign that focuses on both online and offline materials, an app can get the spotlight it deserves. [Read On]

HTML5, the name that served to assist Web standards advocacy, has been scrapped only two days after the logo was published. WHATWG decided to implement the name change because of the arising confusion after the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) released their logo. [Read On]

A senior technology consultant at an online security company has criticized Facebook’s applications (apps) system. Graham Cluley, who works at Sophos, said Facebook needed to take more responsibility for the way applications are approved, as there were currently too many instances of spam apps: “Rogue applications, clickjacking, survey scams – all unheard of just a couple of years ago – are now popping up on a daily basis on social networks such as Facebook,” he said. [Read On]

Google’s hotly anticipated laptop, powered by its Chrome OS technology, has had its launch delayed. At a December San Francisco press conference to make the announcement Google’s Sundar Pichai put the delay down to the usual delays that accompanied software development of this complexity, namely bugs and unfinished features. [Read On]

Google is making a second attempt to swipe a share of the mobile phone market with the UK and US launch of its second smartphone. The Nexus S, built by Samsung, will be available from the end of the month and will feature Google’s latest Android operating system, Gingerbread, and cutting edge technology in the form of Near Field Communications (NFC). NFC will allow the phone to interact with the world around it. The device scans chips imprinted in NFC-compliant objects and then pulls up relevant further information on your phone. For example, scanning a film poster would give you the trailer; scanning a music advert would bring up some song samples. [Read On]

It’s been a big week for digital publishing, with the internet allowing Wikileaks to be disseminated quickly and concisely across the globe. The true impact of this case has yet to be seen, on digital publishing, freedom of speech, and of course the global political scene; however, what this week has shown us is that web design and digital publishing is moving the way we digest and react to news forward faster than ever before. Of course, the Wikileak information online was published in tandem with more traditional press methods around the globe. In five different countries major newspapers were responsible for printing the story, including The Guardian in England and Le Monde in France. [Read On]

This year’s must-have technological gift is undoubtedly the Kinect console for X-Box 360. It builds on the interactive approach developed by Nintendo with their highly popular Wii system, encouraging player interaction with the on-screen display. The technology behind the gaming has the potential to revolutionise the way users’ experience the internet and opens up a wealth of opportunities for the way we approach web design and content. What sets Kinect apart is that it is the first console not to require any form of controller. The Kinect technology effectively makes you the controller, whether you are playing games, watching films or chatting to friends. [Read On]

Following last week’s blog on Google TV, another milestone in internet TV was hurdled this week as Ofcom announced it would not be launching an investigation into the UK’s equivalent YouView, following complaints by non-associated broadcasters. This could offer them enough breathing space to herald in a new era of web design. [Read On]

Apps are becoming big in the mobile internet market, really big. This fact was underlined recently as behemoth Amazon threw their hat into the ring with a, necessarily vague, announcement that they intend to set up a mobile apps service. [Read On]