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Mozilla had to restart an effort to overhaul Firefox’s extension technology, but the Jetpack reboot is steadily coming together. Mozilla has released five beta versions of the Jetpack Software Developer Kit, a package that puts a friendly face on Firefox’s inner workings so that extensions can do things such as open new tabs, add menu [...]

If you’re Skype, there’s no such thing as being too ubiquitous. On Wednesday, the VoIP calling company will start making its new SkypeKit software developer kit (SDK) available for download. SkypeKit will give programmers tools (APIs, specifically) for placing Skype modules like voice and video calling, and instant messaging, into any desktop app or compatible [...]

Google, trying step by step to rebuild everything in the computing industry from Internet protocols to cloud-computing services, began a new project called WebM on Wednesday that seeks to begin a new chapter in Web video. Even after Google’s high-profile WebM announcement at its Google I/O conference, there’s plenty of confusion, and some questions concerning [...]

Google unveiled an open-source, royalty-free video format called WebM on Wednesday, lining up commitments from Mozilla and Opera to support the encoding technology in their browsers and pledging to support it on its YouTube site. “The WebM project is dedicated to developing a high-quality, open video format for the Web that is freely available to [...]

What a difference two weeks and a few words of legalese can make to the future of a widely used programming technology. In that span of time, Adobe Systems has gone from touting its technology for building Flash applications that run on the iPhone to canceling future development of that technology. When Apple changed the [...]

Microsoft is putting some meat on the bones of its plan to make information that’s stuck in databases reachable with the same standards used to retrieve Web pages. At its Mix conference this week, Microsoft touted an interface called the Open Data Protocol, or OData. Specifically, the company announced an OData software developer kit to [...]