Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

San Jose based company Pramati announced Dekoh today and gave me a look around the application. Dekoh's goal is to bring the web and the desktop together and to give developers the ability to create ...

Event handling: Wisej.NET retains the event-driven programming model used in desktop applications. Button clicks, UI updates, ...

TURKU, Finland, Feb. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Vaadin, the leading provider of Java web application frameworks, today announced the general availability of Swing Modernization Toolkit, a solution that ...

Web-based computer programs, unlike their desktop counterparts, are always up to date and are instantly available, no matter where the user is or what operating system she’s running. That’s why cloud ...

A huge chasm divides the application development world, one that dozens of vendors are rushing to fill. On one side are desktop applications, on the other are Web applications. In between are rich ...

As you may have noticed, we do most of our computing through web browsers now. Websites and web apps can take care of everything from watching movies to building spreadsheets to checking emails. If ...

Everyone (probably including you) expects applications to become less identifiable as “Web” applications vs. desktop or mobile apps, especially as Internet access becomes ubiquitous. “In one sense,” ...

Office today has a whole bunch of versions—the traditional, fully featured Win32 desktop applications and their near counterparts on the Mac, along with various simpler versions for the Web, mobile, ...

WhatsApp appears to be preparing a major upgrade for its web platform, with new features aimed at bringing it closer to the experience offered on mobile and desktop apps. According to a recent report, ...

NEW YORK--IBM on Monday announced new software intended to take on Microsoft in the market for desktop business applications. The new software, part of IBM's Lotus Workplace strategy, is a bundle that ...