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• NZ firm launches home-grown game engine

  Following twelve months of development, Kiwi.js, a open-source mobile-first HTML5 game engine from GameLab in Wellington has now been made available.

• Mobile app revolution rivals industrial revolution

  Mobile apps, mobile commerce, and the size and savviness of the mobile community are all growing up fast.

• Forrester Research calls mobile-device management 'heavy-handed approach'

  Forrester Research predicts that with the "bring your own device" (BYOD) trend expected to increasingly include laptops in addition to smartphones and tablets, the approach to managing those devices is in for some big changes.

• HTML5 is now feature-complete; here's what comes next

  The World Wide Web Consortium has a roster of proposed enhancements, including better forms, spell checking, and video captioning

• Facebook vs. Fastbook: Developers offended by Zuckerberg knock on HTML5 make clone app

  A team of mobile app developers offended by Facebook czar Mark Zuckerberg dissing HTML5 have created a Facebook app that they say works better than native versions because of the HTML5 coding.

• Microsoft ships Silverlight 5

  Even as questions remain about Microsoft's commitment to its Silverlight rich Internet plug-in platform, the company made available on Friday version 5 of the technology, featuring a variety of new capabilities.

• Touch-oriented apps: A developer's guide

  It's no secret that more and more people are opting for touch-based smartphones and tablets as their computers of choice: iPads, iPhones, Androids, now BlackBerrys, and soon <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobile-technology/watch-out-apple-windows-8-could-trump-the-ipad-172971">Windows 8 PCs and tablets</a>. For developers, touch-based systems means grasping a whole new set of guidelines, including understanding their audience's new context and careful interface design, say prominent developers in the touch space.

• What's still missing in the HTML5 spec

  Although the HTML5 spec won't be finalized until July 2014, the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), has <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/w3c-announces-html5-will-be-finished-in-2014-391">scheduled its "last call" for feature-completeness for this May</a>. So what's missing?

• HTML5 could kill the operating system

  For companies that compete with Microsoft, HTML5 is almost the Holy Grail, offering the ability to run applications regardless of the underlying operating system. While the browser isn't more important than operating system today, Google has firmly suggested it is only a matter of time.