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This was announced nearly 3 months old now, somehow it passed me by, but Microsoft are going to start automatically updating Internet Explorer to the latest version. This is really big news. People running Windows XP will ...Read More

I heard a great quote a year or two ago about how software developers always want to reinvent the wheel. Most other scientific disciplines require you to learn from others before building upon what they have done. Sir ...Read More

Mobile services is one of the hottest places in the single-dealer platform arena right now as tier 1 investment banks chase the retail banks and online brokerages by providing corporate and institutional mobile offerings. JP Morgan kicked off ...Read More

It is a badly kept secret that my favourite business book is Clayton M. Christensen's seminal Innovator's Dilemma. Even though it is more than a decade old, its ...Read More

At our HTML5 HackDay a few weeks ago some of my colleagues tried using web workers to enhance our existing applications. The multi-threading supports provided a significant performance boost to our application.However, does this mean that web workers are the future of web-app ...Read More

I blogged about whether IE9 will save us from IE6 when the IE9 beta was released. I just read a blog by Alex Russell - IE 8 is the new IE6 which echoes some of the same points that ...Read More

Yesterday an official from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was quoted in an article on InfoWorld titled "W3C: Hold off on deploying HTML5 in websites" as saying: "The problem we're facing right now ...Read More

Where is Microsoft going with Silverlight? There is no ambiguity in Microsoft’s intentions to contend with AJAX and Adobe Flash in the RIA space; Friday's Silverlight 4 release includes me-too features such as enhanced video streaming capabilities aimed at internet broadcasters, ...Read More

This week's first CaplinTech blog post: From @martintyler - Why we don't need HTML5 WebSocket: http://bit.ly/OgvD5 Excellent post! #CaplinTech blog post by @patrickmyles - The banking exodus from IE6 begins? ...Read More

I was going to blog about HTML5 WebSocket last week, but got side tracked. In the meantime, Greg Wilkins wrote an excellent piece covering some of what I wanted to say: http://blogs.webtide.com/gregw/entry/websocket_chat The idea of WebSocket is sound ...Read More