Google, Intel and Cable Companies Ponder Nationwide
(April 3, 2008)
Three cable companies, as well as Google and Intel, are in talks with
Sprint and Clearwire, the only two companies in the US committed to
large-scale WiMAX rollouts, aiming at a new joint venture
that would use WiMAX spectrum owned by Sprint and Clearwire
for a nationwide network. The new project is funded by contributions from Google, Intel, Comcast, Bright House, and
Time Warner. 
Secrets of JavaScript Libraries
(March 20, 2008)
Ajaxian notified that Andrew Dupont, Thomas Fuchs, John Resig, Alex Russell, Sam Stephenson gathered at SXSW to talk about the “Secrets of JavaScript Libraries”.
"I hosted a panel discussion on the "Secrets of
JavaScript Libraries." We set out to discuss the behind-the-scenes
nitty-gritty code that powers the universal features of the most
popular JavaScript libraries... I think the presentation went quite well," says John Resig in his Blog.
Yahoo! Search Open Ecosystem and Semantic Web
(March 20, 2008)
Yahoo! announced a concerted effort around their upcoming open search platform to push open web standards including microformats and semantic web formats like RDF and XFN.
By supporting semantic web standards, Yahoo! Search and site owners believe they can bring a far richer and more useful search experience to consumers.
Json.NET 2.0 Beta 2 launched
(March 6, 2008)
A new version of Json.NET has been launched. This release offers big improvements both in the syntax for writing JSON and querying JSON. ECMAScript 4 Milestone 2 Released
(February 28, 2008)
ECMAScript 4 M2 has been released and Francis Cheng has posted about the new version. The new build, M2 (for Milestone 2), replaces the M1 build that was posted back in November 2007. Ext with Adobe AIR Support
(February 28, 2008)
To coincide with the release of Adobe's AIR v1.0, the Ext team released v2.0.2 of the Ext framework with enhanced support for the new AIR runtime. Ext for Air and Vista
(February 21, 2008)
Jack Slocum, the creator of ExtJS, posted а Forum Gadget for Vista
and Ext JS 2.0 API documentation application for AIR, pretty soon after
the release of GWT-Ext 2.0.
Ext
is a cross-browser JavaScript library for web pages. You can use it to
achieve Web 2.0 effects without writing too much JavaScript code.
Yahoo! Maps for ActionScript 3.0 Released
(February 21, 2008)
Yahoo released a new Yahoo! Maps API which is entirely built in
ActionScript 3.0. This API now integrates a complex set of services and
controls that you can leverage in your applications to create custom
components, overlays and markers while consuming different webservices
provided by Yahoo!, or your own. Cobra coding language goals
(February 14, 2008)
Cobra, a .Net-based programming language, is being prepared for open source release as an all-in-one solution to address multiple needs in software development.
Cobra is intended as a general-purpose language for building any type of application.
jQuery UI and jQuery Enchant Released
(February 13, 2008)
The jQuery UI team released alpha versions of jQuery UI 1.5a and jQuery
Enchant 1.0a! Both projects aim to address the need for a strong set of
UI controls and effects to complement the jQuery JavaScript library. 
