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== '''Market Insights from the Product Marketing Strategy Team''' == | == '''Market Insights from the Product Marketing Strategy Team''' == | ||
=== Desktop / Platform === | |||
==== Adobe ==== | |||
* Adobe posted a [http://blogs.adobe.com/webplatform/2013/01/24/introduction-to-the-performance-tests-in-webkit/ nice overview of the performance and memory testing suite in WebKit] | |||
==== Blackberry ==== | |||
* Apart from launching their new Blackberry 10 operating system, handsets, and renaming the company from Research In Motion to "Blackberry", the company made a number of blog posts and announcements regarding the application developer interest in [http://devblog.blackberry.com/2013/01/apac-port-a-thon-recap/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blackberry%2FCAxx+%28BlackBerry+Developer+Blog%29 porting apps] to the new platform. | |||
==== Google ==== | |||
* Google announced the outlines of their [http://blog.chromium.org/2013/01/show-off-your-security-skills-pwn2own.html Pwnium competion], awarding up to $3.14159m for demonstrated vulnerabilities to their ChromeOS platform, not Chrome browser. Individual prizes of up to $150K will be awarded. | |||
* Google released [http://www.findyourwaytooz.com/ "Find Your Way to Oz"], another web technologies demo that makes use of WebGL, the Web Audio API, and other recent web advances. As is usually the case with these efforts, it works only in Google Chrome. | |||
* A Canadian market research firm surveyed consumers in Canada, the USA, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, UK, France, Germany, and China, and found that [http://www.ipsos-na.com/news-polls/pressrelease.aspx?id=5983 Google was the world's most influential brand]. | |||
* Google's online presentation builder now supports [http://googleenterprise.blogspot.ca/2013/01/create-edit-and-present-with-google.html offline editing and display], but only if users are using the Chrome browser. | |||
==== HTML5 Apps ==== | |||
* Beachfront Builder [http://blog.mefeedia.com/html5-video-apps now supports the creation of HTML5 video apps] | |||
==== Microsoft ==== | |||
* Microsoft released [http://blogs.windows.com/ie/b/ie/archive/2013/01/31/introducing-modern-ie-testing-sites-for-internet-explorer-made-easier.aspx modern.ie], a set of tools and information resources for developers to make sure their websites work in Internet Explorer and "other modern browsers". It offers a review of the CSS and HTML in a site as well as free BrowserStack comparison testing, as well as VirtualBox VMs for testing the browser on other platforms. | |||
==== Sencha ==== | |||
* Sencha released [http://www.sencha.com/blog/introducing-blackberry-10-support-to-sencha-touch/#date:16:20 support for Blackberry OS 10] in their Touch application. | |||
== Marketing, Press & Public Reaction == | == Marketing, Press & Public Reaction == |