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HTML 5: Could it kill Flash and Silverlight?

HTML 5, a groundbreaking upgrade to the prominent Web presentation specification, could become a game-changer in Web application development, one that might even make obsolete such plug-in-based rich Internet application technologies as Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, and Sun JavaFX.

| Feature | Development | Internet | 06/16/09 at 8:37 am |


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Convert Html to PDF files online for free

You can find many suggestions about how to convert Html to PDF files on Google. It is really confusing to choose a right tool to do this job efficiently. 3 FREE Html to PDF converters are reviewed in this article. All tools I introduced here do conversions online. No installation, no add-ins, no spyware or virus.

| How-to | Internet | Software | 05/21/09 at 4:02 am |


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OOXML projects bolster Microsoft's interoperability efforts

Microsoft on Monday unveiled projects to improve data portability between Office 2007 and other document file formats as part of an interoperability promise.

| News | Open Source | Software | 06/30/08 at 4:20 pm |


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Curious Histories of Generic Domain Names

It's easy to forget the first Internet gold rush of the mid-to-late '90s, when dot-com domain names based on ordinary (and, investors hoped, marketable) nouns and verbs were snapped up by hopeful companies. Here are five of those generic domain names, and a look at their history.

| Feature | Networking | 01/23/08 at 9:56 am |


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