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YouTube backs Adobe Flash over HTML5

Google has weighed in heavily in favor of HTML5, but engineers at Google-owned YouTube maintain Flash is still the best platform for video distribution

Gosling: Oracle gets server-side Java, but confused about desktops, cell phones

Java founder offers mixed outlook for Oracle's handling of the technology

Gosling: Oracle gets server-side Java, but confused about desktops, cell phones

Java founder offers mixed outlook for Oracle's handling of the technology

Hadoop gets closer to being enterprise-ready

SOX compliance is in development for distributed computing platform, Yahoo says

Apache upgrades Tomcat Web server

Version 7.0 boasts Java specification compliance, memory leak detection

Google launches HTML5 developer site

Company offering resources in one place for the emerging Web multimedia spec

How HTML5 will change the Web

HTML5 will spawn richer, more sophisticated Websites while also easing development. Here are nine ways the impact of HTML5 will be felt

Eclipse Helios technologies arrive on the release train

This year's train is the largest ever, featuring a Linux IDE package and improved support for JavaScript and Java Enterprise Edition 6

In the clouds with Amazon’s SimpleDB

Update: Sencha launches HTML5 framework for mobile apps

Sencha Touch leverages the WebKit browser engine and is optimized for building applications for touch-based devices