Business Insider believes HTML5 apps are primed to overtake native apps on smartphones in the coming years. Steve Jobs was also big on webapps when the iPhone first came out—sans native app ...

Sencha has introduced Space, aiming to make it easier for IT departments to manage HTML5 apps running on Android, iOS or BlackBerry devices. Sencha is best known for its cross-platform development ...

Box.net plans to develop “semi-local” apps for various mobile operating systems using a common HTML5 codebase, in a bid to keep up with the proliferation of smartphone and tablet platforms. Box.net ...

Cloud-based HR software company Workday has launched the latest version of its suite with an emphasis on mobile access through HTML5 web apps, the company announced today. Workday competes with SAP ...

The ongoing debate over how to best get applications onto mobile devices — either through native deployments or writing a mobile Web application — is going to remain a front-burner question for ...

A new report claims social network Facebook is partnering with roughly 80 developers on a secretive "Project Spartan" HTML5-based application platform that would circumvent Apple's App Store on iOS ...

Last week we turned to Comcast for the answer the question or whether content creators should use HTML5 or apps to deliver their content to TVs and mobile devices. Both, said Comcast. That ...

The mobile development world is split into two camps. On the one hand, you have the purists who suggest that only native development can make the best use of platform-specific features. On the other ...

Amazon has announced a major change to its Appstore that allows developers to set a list price for HTML5 web apps. This update comes almost half a year after Amazon opened its Appstore up to HTML5 ...

The general consensus when it comes to HTML5 apps is that their dominance is a question of when rather than if. According to IDC, the standard's big day will come at some point over the course of the ...

Sencha began offering on Monday Sencha Touch, an HTML5-based mobile application development framework for touch-based devices. The company also detailed plans for an upgrade to its Ext JS JavaScript ...

Will the future of streaming entertainment rely on apps or HTML5 websites? Or is there much of a distinction between the two? After he delivered the second day keynote for the recent Streaming Media ...