Mozilla has released the latest version of the Firefox Add-on SDK. For those unfamiliar with the Add-on SDK, it is a toolkit designed to make it easy to create Firefox add-ons using web development languages and tools, and features a simplified API.While earlier versions of the SDK were limited to developing add-ons for desktop versions of Firefox, this version of the Add-on SDK adds support for Firefox Mobile. However this support is only for creating add-ons targeting the new native version of Firefox for Mobile.Localization support has been added to the SDK as well, so developers need not rely on external tools for that. Although this is just the first step in that process and currently has some limitations. Also — while this may not exactly be a feature — this latest...

Amazon has launched yet another cloud service as part of Amazon Web Services. The new Amazon Simple Workflow Service (SWF) is designed to meet the needs of web applications that involve multiple components working in concordance. Today web applications need to be incredibly scalable to meet the demands of the internet’s populace. This means multiple servers which need to be load-balanced serving the same site; or in many cases running other differing tasks of different complexities and running times, all in parallel. All of these need to be able to communicate with each other and stay in sync. On a site such as YouTube for example, when someone uploads a video, it will likely be sent to another server where the video will be converted into the different formats and resolutions it...

It has been a long wait, but ReactOS has finally released a new version of the OS. While the update might seem minor considering it only went from 0.3.13 to 0.3.14 there are major new features in this update, numerous improvements, and hundreds of bugs have been fixed.ReactOS isn’t that well known, however it is an important open source project; an attempt to create a completely open-source operating system that is compatible with Microsoft Windows, and capable of running all Windows software. Unlike Wine, which is a compatibility layer for Linux that allows running Windows applications on Linux, ReactOS is an entire OS in itself, with a GUI, a shell, etc. It is not based on Linux, but has a kernel designed to be similar to Windows NT. Which means you have the tradition...