For the longest time, web-based gaming meant that you had to install (often dubious) plugins to make games run smoothly in your browser. WebGL and other technologies changed that a bit in recent years ...

With its asm.js project, Mozilla is promoting a subset of JavaScript intended to improve Web application performance and extend C and C++ applications to the Web. Asm.js can be used as a low-level, ...

Samsung looks to leverage JavaScript as a mechanism for IoT (Internet of things) development with its IoT.js project. The recently unveiled IoT.js serves as a lightweight version of Node.js. “IoT.js ...

Two new browsers have followed Firefox with support for the Web-based 3D gaming engine. But Chrome and Opera don't use Firefox's asm.js technology approach. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...

With the ascendance of JavaScript as a first-class dev approach, Microsoft has embraced the open source Node.js technology in its tooling and services, even reaching out to the community for help in ...

Mozilla has shipped a new pre-release build of Firefox 4 with its latest JavaScript technology, JaegerMonkey, baked in. To try it out, you'll need to install one of Mozilla's nightly JS Engine Preview ...

When the scale of your application is “everyone on the Internet,” you have to think a bit differently about adopting new technologies. At the Node Summit today, a bevy of “big boy” company executives ...

Hiring the software development talent pool for an innovative IT project has been a challenge for big companies and start-ups. They have to explore the subject and deeply study IT companies’ cases, ...

This morning, LinkedIn launched its gorgeously overhauled mobile app. We’ve already told you all about the new features, but for developers, the most exciting part is what’s going on under the hood.