http://news.softpedia.com Softpedia News - Web resources Softpedia News en-us 2001 - 2012 Softpedia. All rights reserved. Tue, 29 May 2012 05:36:57 GMT Tue, 29 May 2012 05:36:57 GMT News http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 10 http://news.softpedia.com/base_img/softpedia_logo.gif http://news.softpedia.com http://news.softpedia.com/news/WordPress-Still-Dominates-Open-Source-CMS-Market-in-2011-238192.shtml The water&stone Agency published its annual Open Source CMS Market Share Report, the most comprehensive study about open source CMS usage amongst web professionals.

The report comprises statistical usage data about the 20 most used CMSs around the web.

As in the previous years, the top three remained the same, with W... (read more)]]> Fri, 2 Dec 2011 16:21:00 GMT Softpedia News - Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/WordPress-Still-Dominates-Open-Source-CMS-Market-in-2011-238192.shtml Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/WordPress-Still-Dominates-Open-Source-CMS-Market-in-2011-238192.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Catalin Cimpanu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Mozilla-Operating-System-for-the-Open-Web-Boot-to-Gecko-B2G-213474.shtml Mozilla has started working on an open source operating system for the open web it labeled Boot to Gecko or B2G for short.

Unveiled to the public under the mantra “Booting to web” the B2G project is in embryonic stage at this point in time, but taking into consideration the strong support from its large communi... (read more)]]> Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:00:00 GMT Softpedia News - Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/Mozilla-Operating-System-for-the-Open-Web-Boot-to-Gecko-B2G-213474.shtml Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/Mozilla-Operating-System-for-the-Open-Web-Boot-to-Gecko-B2G-213474.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Oiaga) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Joomla-1-7-Development-Underway-Release-Coming-July-10-196146.shtml Mozilla is not the only one moving to a faster release cycle, the advantages of having fixed release dates and new versions coming out regularly and frequently haven't been lost on the Joomla community.

The popular content management system (CMS) is moving a six-month development schedule starting with the upcoming Joomla 1.7. read more)]]> Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:55:00 GMT Softpedia News - Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/Joomla-1-7-Development-Underway-Release-Coming-July-10-196146.shtml Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/Joomla-1-7-Development-Underway-Release-Coming-July-10-196146.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/W3C-Launches-WebID-Development-Group-for-Browser-Authentication-178496.shtml Considered the first step in supporting fully standard-based browser authentication, the WebID protocol was graced by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) with an official development group.

The WebID Incubator Group was announced January 14th 2011, and will be in charge with coordinating the efforts of several entities t... (read more)]]> Sat, 15 Jan 2011 13:23:00 GMT Softpedia News - Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/W3C-Launches-WebID-Development-Group-for-Browser-Authentication-178496.shtml Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/W3C-Launches-WebID-Development-Group-for-Browser-Authentication-178496.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Catalin Cimpanu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Joomla-1-6-Is-Now-Available-for-Download-177602.shtml Joomla 1.6 has been released after three years of the development. The latest release of the popular CMS comes with plenty of new features and changes, like better privilege control for users, better category structure and better international support. The new version also marks a change in the way Joomla is developed and released as new versions will be... (read more)]]> Tue, 11 Jan 2011 15:16:00 GMT Softpedia News - Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/Joomla-1-6-Is-Now-Available-for-Download-177602.shtml Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/Joomla-1-6-Is-Now-Available-for-Download-177602.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Drupal-7-0-Is-Coming-on-January-5-175813.shtml After almost three years of work, Drupal 7 is only days away from release. The latest version of the popular content management software platform is set to be made available on January 5, 2011. The focus with this release has been on usability and simplicity which is noticeable from the UI to the way new modules can be installed.

"Drupal 7 has been a... (read more)]]> Mon, 3 Jan 2011 14:26:00 GMT Softpedia News - Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/Drupal-7-0-Is-Coming-on-January-5-175813.shtml Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/Drupal-7-0-Is-Coming-on-January-5-175813.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Best-Open-Source-in-2010-167696.shtml Packt Publishing just finished announcing their last winner in their 2010 Open Source Awards festivity.

Each day in the last week, Packt recognized a project in one of their 2010 Best Open Source Awards categories.

Even if for some awards everybody  sensed and expected certain projects to win even before the votes were counted (jQuery and... (read more)]]> Fri, 19 Nov 2010 19:57:00 GMT Softpedia News - Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/Best-Open-Source-in-2010-167696.shtml Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/Best-Open-Source-in-2010-167696.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Catalin Cimpanu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Pimcore-CMS-Wins-Most-Promising-Open-Source-Project-Award-from-Packt-166431.shtml Pimcore, a Zend-based content management system won this year's Most Promising Open Source Project Award, in the annually competition organized by Packt Publishing.

“Winning this Award is a huge boost”, said Dietmar Rietsch, Pimcore founder. “It’s not simply about the money either, it’s... (read more)]]> Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:00:00 GMT Softpedia News - Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/Pimcore-CMS-Wins-Most-Promising-Open-Source-Project-Award-from-Packt-166431.shtml Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/Pimcore-CMS-Wins-Most-Promising-Open-Source-Project-Award-from-Packt-166431.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Catalin Cimpanu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Firefox-Add-On-Developers-Get-a-Debug-Tool-in-JetBug-161270.shtml The successful Firefox page debugging add-on FireBug was ported to Jetpack's level with the release of JetBug.

Jetpack, the Mozilla Labs project to ease the task of  building Firefox add-ons only using common web technologies like HTML, JavaScript, and CSS, has gotten a real bump in adoption after one of Firefox's most popular... (read more)]]> Fri, 15 Oct 2010 14:50:00 GMT Softpedia News - Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/Firefox-Add-On-Developers-Get-a-Debug-Tool-in-JetBug-161270.shtml Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/Firefox-Add-On-Developers-Get-a-Debug-Tool-in-JetBug-161270.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Catalin Cimpanu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Choose-the-Best-Open-Source-CMS-for-2010-158440.shtml The nominee list for the 2010 Open Source Awards from Packt Publishing is out and a few surprises are on it.

The awards, rebranded from Best Open Source CMSs to contain a few more categories alongside CMSs like e-commerce applications, JavaScript libraries and graphic software, follows the classical pattern seen in previous years.

read more)]]> Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:45:00 GMT Softpedia News - Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/Choose-the-Best-Open-Source-CMS-for-2010-158440.shtml Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/Choose-the-Best-Open-Source-CMS-for-2010-158440.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Catalin Cimpanu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Embed-Any-Font-on-a-Website-with-Fonts-com-Web-Fonts-156423.shtml The web typography party got a little bit bigger when Fonts.com released their free and commercial service for embedding non-standard fonts on websites.

Beaten to the punch by Typekit and Google which started offering the same kind of service since September 2009, respectively May 2010, Fonts.com's Web Fonts has a lot of catching u... (read more)]]> Wed, 15 Sep 2010 07:15:00 GMT Softpedia News - Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/Embed-Any-Font-on-a-Website-with-Fonts-com-Web-Fonts-156423.shtml Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/Embed-Any-Font-on-a-Website-with-Fonts-com-Web-Fonts-156423.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Catalin Cimpanu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/PHP-Still-the-Most-Profitable-Way-to-Earn-Money-Online-140632.shtml Since our last report on online work based on Elance statistics, a full financial quarter has passed. The result on Elance: $20 million more for freelancers. Boosting over $260 million since its birth, Elance has risen above any other online new-media-related marketplace, hovering around the #550 position in Alexa's global Internet traffic ... (read more)]]> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:37:00 GMT Softpedia News - Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/PHP-Still-the-Most-Profitable-Way-to-Earn-Money-Online-140632.shtml Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/PHP-Still-the-Most-Profitable-Way-to-Earn-Money-Online-140632.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Catalin Cimpanu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Chrome-vs-Chromium-Understanding-Stable-Beta-Dev-Releases-and-Version-No-140060.shtml Google Chrome is becoming more and more popular spurred by Google using more of its marketing muscle to promote it and the relatively recent release of stable beta builds for Mac OS and Linux. Chrome has only been around for a year and a half or so, but it has managed to gain a following, especially with the tech-sa... (read more)]]> Sat, 17 Apr 2010 12:18:00 GMT Softpedia News - Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Chrome-vs-Chromium-Understanding-Stable-Beta-Dev-Releases-and-Version-No-140060.shtml Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Chrome-vs-Chromium-Understanding-Stable-Beta-Dev-Releases-and-Version-No-140060.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Dribble-the-Web-Design-Community-Hall-of-Fame-139638.shtml The design community has seen a huge expansion in recent years with thousands of blogs or community sites trying to copy or imitate the success of more successful ventures like CSS Globe, Smashing Magazine, Wired, MIX Online, Tuts+, Designer Depot or Noupe.

Recent blog posts and articles show a trend in the web-design community, starte... (read more)]]> Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:06:00 GMT Softpedia News - Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/Dribble-the-Web-Design-Community-Hall-of-Fame-139638.shtml Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/Dribble-the-Web-Design-Community-Hall-of-Fame-139638.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Catalin Cimpanu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Adobe-Launches-Creative-Suite-5-139564.shtml Adobe has announced the launch of its Creative Suite 5, the latest release in the long line of products well known to graphic designers, web developers and anyone in the creative industries. It's a massive release, with all the 14 products in the suite being upgraded. Creative Suite 5 also adds Adobe Flash Catalyst to the lineup, a tool designed to allow users wi... (read more)]]> Mon, 12 Apr 2010 07:36:00 GMT Softpedia News - Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/Adobe-Launches-Creative-Suite-5-139564.shtml Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/Adobe-Launches-Creative-Suite-5-139564.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/uTorrent-16-Percent-Faster-Than-Vuze-Research-Shows-139498.shtml A joint study conducted by researchers at the University of California in Riverside, USA with help from the Telefonica Research company in Barcelona, Spain, has concluded that uTorrent provides 16% faster download speeds than its main competitor, Vuze.

The study was conducted in the month of August 2009 on more than 10 million BitTo... (read more)]]> Fri, 9 Apr 2010 13:59:00 GMT Softpedia News - Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/uTorrent-16-Percent-Faster-Than-Vuze-Research-Shows-139498.shtml Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/uTorrent-16-Percent-Faster-Than-Vuze-Research-Shows-139498.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Catalin Cimpanu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Template-Monster-Debuts-jQuery-Templates-139101.shtml With a more powerful graphics and animation engine, jQuery is slowly being chosen more and more over Flash to replace element dynamics and animation effects on websites. Following the trend set by the web community, Template Monster is getting on board the jQuery bandwagon and has recently announced they are launching a special category on their site for... (read more)]]> Fri, 2 Apr 2010 13:19:00 GMT Softpedia News - Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/Template-Monster-Debuts-jQuery-Templates-139101.shtml Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/Template-Monster-Debuts-jQuery-Templates-139101.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Catalin Cimpanu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/W3C-Starts-Work-on-Universal-Web-Font-Format-138548.shtml The World Wide Web Consortium's effort at regulating web space will be far from being final with the arrival of HTML5 and CSS3. While it will surely help make some sense from the multitude of standard variations, it will not put everyone at peace. W3C's most recent effort will be gearing toward standardizing a universal web font format for everyone t... (read more)]]> Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:32:00 GMT Softpedia News - Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/W3C-Starts-Work-on-Universal-Web-Font-Format-138548.shtml Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/W3C-Starts-Work-on-Universal-Web-Font-Format-138548.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Catalin Cimpanu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/New-Dev-Tool-from-Adobe-Brings-Support-for-Social-Network-Integration-138337.shtml Adobe has launched an upgrade for Flex Builder 3, and renamed the IDE as Flash Builder 4. At the same time, the Flash platform will provide an API for developers to integrate their projects with some of the major social networks on the web. Alongside Flash Builder, a new IDE has been rolled out for ColdFusion development with... (read more)]]> Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:03:00 GMT Softpedia News - Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/New-Dev-Tool-from-Adobe-Brings-Support-for-Social-Network-Integration-138337.shtml Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/New-Dev-Tool-from-Adobe-Brings-Support-for-Social-Network-Integration-138337.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Catalin Cimpanu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Complete-MySQL-port-with-MariaDB-138101.shtml In many past articles, we talked about the goods and bads of an Oracle - Sun merger and how that could affect MySQL's development. In the mean time, MySQL's original founder has gone forward with his personal projects and built upon a branch of MySQL a complete port of the database, based on the Maria storage engine.

After leaving Sun in February 2... (read more)]]> Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:27:00 GMT Softpedia News - Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/Complete-MySQL-port-with-MariaDB-138101.shtml Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/Complete-MySQL-port-with-MariaDB-138101.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Catalin Cimpanu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Acquia-Prepares-Hosted-Drupal-CMS-With-Drupal-Gardens-137956.shtml As WordPress extends its functionality more and more into the realm of CMSs, some of the former community favorites as Joomla and Drupal are losing users to WordPress, mainly due to its free WordPress hosting platform, WordPress.com.

In a move meant to keep Drupal users and developers interested in their open source CMS, Acquia, D... (read more)]]> Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:00:00 GMT Softpedia News - Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/Acquia-Prepares-Hosted-Drupal-CMS-With-Drupal-Gardens-137956.shtml Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/Acquia-Prepares-Hosted-Drupal-CMS-With-Drupal-Gardens-137956.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Catalin Cimpanu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/W3C-Releases-Important-Documents-Related-to-HTML5-136983.shtml Taking baby steps, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has constantly kept web developers very excited regarding the cutting edge new standards for HTML 5 and CSS 3. While drafts have been constantly pouring from the organization, they were never more than bite-size pieces of the standard. A few days ago, the W3C released seven documents, six of... (read more)]]> Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:53:00 GMT Softpedia News - Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/W3C-Releases-Important-Documents-Related-to-HTML5-136983.shtml Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/W3C-Releases-Important-Documents-Related-to-HTML5-136983.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Catalin Cimpanu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Silverlight-Now-Supports-Augmented-Reality-136362.shtml The hologram, technically known as augmented reality, has been nothing but a dream until a few years ago, when a group of developers led by Philip Lamb developed a C-powered library (ARToolKit) able to handle dynamic viewpoints and then redraw a 3D object accordingly. Less than a week ago, on February 24, German .NET developer Rene Schulte released the... (read more)]]> Tue, 2 Mar 2010 11:20:00 GMT Softpedia News - Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/Silverlight-Now-Supports-Augmented-Reality-136362.shtml Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/Silverlight-Now-Supports-Augmented-Reality-136362.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Catalin Cimpanu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Gandi-Offering-55-000-Free-Domain-Names-136262.shtml Celebrating the French registrar’s tenth anniversary, the company is giving away 55,000 promotional codes in the following ten days. These codes can be employed by old or new clients and will allow users to acquire domain names for free from Gandi and some of their partners.

Gandi will start offering codes at 14:00 GMT March 1, 2010, the ... (read more)]]> Mon, 1 Mar 2010 13:36:00 GMT Softpedia News - Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/Gandi-Offering-55-000-Free-Domain-Names-136262.shtml Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/Gandi-Offering-55-000-Free-Domain-Names-136262.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Catalin Cimpanu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/HBO-to-Launch-Video-Site-Only-for-Existing-Subscribers-135214.shtml read more)]]> Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:11:00 GMT Softpedia News - Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/HBO-to-Launch-Video-Site-Only-for-Existing-Subscribers-135214.shtml Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/HBO-to-Launch-Video-Site-Only-for-Existing-Subscribers-135214.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Build-a-Community-on-DeviantART-with-the-Groups-Feature-135030.shtml DeviantART itself is an online community, but the new Groups feature will enable users to build and manage their own smaller gatherings, with specific or more of a general theme. Launched as a Beta service, it has already recorded more than 25,000 group registrations in the first four days, with 800,000+ participants.

Users will... (read more)]]> Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:40:00 GMT Softpedia News - Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/Build-a-Community-on-DeviantART-with-the-Groups-Feature-135030.shtml Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/Build-a-Community-on-DeviantART-with-the-Groups-Feature-135030.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Catalin Cimpanu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/MailChimp-5-Raises-the-Bar-for-Email-Marketing-Providers-134476.shtml Email marketing giant MailChimp released at the start of February 2010 a revised version of their newsletter management service, named MailChimp v5. The service went live without any special fees for its 240,000 users.

During last year, MailChimps's competitors released many tools and add-ons for their services. The heat was es... (read more)]]> Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:10:00 GMT Softpedia News - Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/MailChimp-5-Raises-the-Bar-for-Email-Marketing-Providers-134476.shtml Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/MailChimp-5-Raises-the-Bar-for-Email-Marketing-Providers-134476.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Catalin Cimpanu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Build-Photo-Albums-Online-133449.shtml With 28 million photo albums published on the Internet, Jalbum should be a resonant name for any photo enthusiast that has assembled their work into a nice looking album and published it online. The number was given by Jalbum CEO Carl Manneh in a press release announcing the launch of the web-based version of the application.

The trend in the past years has ... (read more)]]> Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:11:00 GMT Softpedia News - Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/Build-Photo-Albums-Online-133449.shtml Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/Build-Photo-Albums-Online-133449.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Ionut Ilascu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Send-and-Receive-Tweets-via-IM-Clients-132289.shtml TweetSwitch has come up with a nice idea in re-routing and re-transmitting tweets to the user's desktop IM client. When direct access to Twitter is blocked or unavailable, the startup's newly launched service will help users send and receive status updates through a simple IM chat window.

Currently in alpha testing, the service seems to work f... (read more)]]> Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:54:00 GMT Softpedia News - Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/Send-and-Receive-Tweets-via-IM-Clients-132289.shtml Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/Send-and-Receive-Tweets-via-IM-Clients-132289.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Catalin Cimpanu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/New-Version-of-ECMAScript-Gets-Approved-129785.shtml Nine years after its previously launched version, ECMA International has announced the release of ECMAScript 5, which was approved as a web standard by the ECMA International's General Assembly at the start of December. This will bring many new features to ECMA-based languages like JScript (Microsoft) and JavaScript (Netscape).

The new version ... (read more)]]> Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:36:00 GMT Softpedia News - Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/New-Version-of-ECMAScript-Gets-Approved-129785.shtml Web resources http://news.softpedia.com/news/New-Version-of-ECMAScript-Gets-Approved-129785.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Catalin Cimpanu)