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  • 'Lightning-fast' PHP 7 speeds to beta

    PHP 7.0.0, which has been billed as a lightning-fast upgrade to the popular server-side scripting language for Web development, has proceeded to a beta stage of release.

  • Google Wallet for Digital Goods API is folding

    Google is retiring its Google Wallet for Digital Goods API and is encouraging users to go find other solutions. It will be retired on March 2, 2015, and Google has said that there will be no replacement product.

  • Blow up your website and start over

    Design is not just how your product looks, it’s how it works and fits together. That’s a mantra espoused by everyone from Steve Jobs to Atlassian co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes. And it’s true.

  • Google JavaScript library offers access to APIs

    Google this week began offering an alpha version of Google APIs Client Library for JavaScript, which provides access to HTTP-based APIs on the Web, as well as to many of Google's public APIs.

  • Bankwest launches new website, iPhone app

    Bankwest's revamped website will take advantage of crowd-sourcing with user-generated comparisons and a range of new online-shopping inspired functions designed to reflect a more retail, customer-centric perspective.

  • Startup preps Web-based prototyping service

    A new service that allows drag-and-drop prototyping for Web applications is due for release next month and promises to streamline project management by displaying the desired result in real-time.

  • HTML 5: Less than it's cracked up to be

    The core idea behind HTML 5, the latest proposed version of the Web's foundation markup language, is to make all resources, not just text and links, widely and uniformly usable across all platforms. Well, that was the theory. In practice, things aren't going to change that much from today's Web, with its reliance on proprietary media formats and methods.

  • Google goes with HTML5 over Gears

    Google will end Gears, an open-source plug-in project it launched two years ago to allow Web applications to function even when a computer isn't connected to the Internet, according to a statement from the company.

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