Adobe's PDF format was officially adopted as an open standard this week. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) announced that PDF is now accessible as ISO 32000-1. The announcement follows Adobe's decision to relinquish control of the proprietary format first introduced in 1993. "By releasing the full PDF specification for ISO standardization, we are reinforcing our [...]...

Google has pushed out a special version of its chat application optimized for iPhone and iPod Touch users. Point your iPhone's browser to google.com/talk to access it. The new interface lets you initiate chats and switch between active chats just like you would in Gmail. The only catch is that you have to have the app [...]...

Mozilla announced downloads of Firefox 3 were enough to secure the world record for the most instances of software downloaded in one day. The announcement Wednesday arrived roughly two weeks after the record was attempted while Guinness officials counted downloads and eliminated duplicates. According to Mozilla's marketing site SpreadFirefox.com, 8,002,530 people downloaded Firefox 3 in a 24 [...]...

Wednesday is Wordpress' five year anniversary since its original 0.7 release, and the online content management system prepared for it by going "turbo." The online version of WordPress added a link which turns on Gears and makes your administrative dashboard faster. Google's recently open-sourced Gears is an add-on for Firefox 2 and 3 and Internet Explorer [...]...

Several mobile operators, including AT&T and T-Mobile, announced an open platform yesterday. Their promise is to make life easier by standardizing the mobile web experience. Currently an application written for one device will often need to be rewritten to work on another. Standardization would relieve developers of the burden of writing multiple versions. The initiative, known [...]...