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  Mobile apps can feature ready-to-use cloud services

  Cloud-based app features and services now can quickly be included in mobile apps, with an improved toolset from Appcelerator.

• New iPad complicates life for HTML 5 developers

  Apple’s new iPad, already a hit with consumers with its high-resolution display, is nonetheless underwhelming some HTML 5 developers. The tablet’s iOS 5.1 operating system complicates HTML 5 data storage, offers no expanded HTML 5 support, and the tablet’s Web performance is at best only at par with iPad 2.

• HTML5 specification needs to be simplified: Developer

  The HTML5 Web development specification needs to be simplified in order to foster adoption across the industry, a developer has warned.

• Facebook Places finally launches in Australia

  The long wait for Facebook Places is over, with the social networking site rolling out the location based social media platform in Australia.

• HTML5 may help Web pages talk, listen

  Sometime in the near future, users might not only read Web pages but hold conversations with them as well, at least if a new activity group in the W3C (World Wide Consortium) bears fruit.

• HTML5 raises new security issues

  When it comes to new security issues, the security team for the Firefox browser have the new version of the Web HyperText Markup Language, HTML5, foremost on the mind.

• This Week In GeekTech: Chips, Flash and HTML 5

  It's time for your weekly slice of geek. This week the team has news on what chips have been revealed at the recent Computex expo in Taiwan, how Apple is showing off the capabilities of Web technology HTML5, and details on how Flash is becoming a reality on the iPhone.

• JavaScript library lets iPad read Flash advertisements

  A mobile advertising company has written a JavaScript library that makes Flash advertisements viewable on devices such as the iPad, working around Apple's opposition to Adobe Systems' multimedia platform.

• The web will unify fragmented mobile OS world, says Opera

  Norwegian browser maker Opera has high hopes for the combination of mobile browsers and HTML 5, which will let web-based applications compete better with native applications, according to co-founder Jon von Tetzchner.

• Adobe escalates feud with Apple over Flash

  Adobe today countered recent attacks by Apple against its Flash technology with a Web-based ad campaign and an open letter written by the firm's co-founders.

• Mozilla sets Firefox 4 release for November

  Mozilla plans to ship a beta of Firefox 4 next month, and a final by the end of November, a company executive said yesterday.

• Mozilla wants to make Firefox a speedster

  Mozilla, with its planned Firefox 4 browser, intends to make the browser "super-duper fast" and enable use of standard Web technologies including HTML5 and beyond, a Mozilla official said in a blog entry this week.

• Microsoft gets some heat over HTML 5 plans

  Microsoft came under fire from some of its rivals on Wednesday for its decision not to offer Internet Explorer 9 -- and hence support for the upcoming HTML 5 standard -- to users of its older Windows XP operating system.

• Apple's behavior a throwback to 1984, Adobe CTO says

  Apple's refusal to allow Flash on the iPhone hurts innovation and is "like 1984 in a lot of ways," Adobe Systems' CTO said on Wednesday, implying that Apple has become the "Big Brother" it rebelled against in its iconic TV ad from that year.

• Need desktop access over the Web? Try some Guacamole

  A new open source project dubbed Guacamole allows users to access a desktop remotely through a Web browser, potentially streamlining the requirements for client support and administration.