"3C" news, interviews, and features

News about 3C

• Microsoft open-sources JavaScript tools

  ManifoldJS turns Web experiences into native mobile apps, while Vorlon.JS offers remote JavaScript debugging

• Developer: Dump JavaScript for faster Web loading

  Offered as part of a theoretical HTML6, the plan for single-page Web apps could leverage JSON, XML, new data structure technology

• Sprint, DISH plan high-speed, wireless broadband trial for Corpus Christi

  System to work with Sprint's 4G TDD-LTE signal and DISH routers, starting in mid-2014

• Windows XP infection rate may jump 66% after patches end in April

  Microsoft again puts the scare into XP laggards, this time using stats

• HP sues seven optical drive makers over price-fixing

  They used CES as cover to coordinate on prices, HP claims

• Critics slam World Wide Web Consortium over inclusion of DRM in HTML5

Features about 3C

• Web Real Time Communication (WebRTC) applications emerge as the tech stabilizes

  Work remains to be done, but WebRTC is being put to use in a range of vertical markets

• Could Facebook be your next phone company?

  Yes, thanks to WebRTC. This open-source project aims to transform the humble Web browser into a full-featured unified communications portal