If you’ve used Google Maps, Gmail or Microsoft’s Outlook Web Access, you’re familiar with the power of AJAX, which gives Web applications the responsiveness that users associate with desktop ...

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 ...

The danger to IT organizations is that Ajax technology is being perceived as a direct pipeline into corporate data. That's pushing developers to inadvertently expose more data and server logic than ...

Companies deploy Web-based enterprise applications because they’re easy to support and deliver to a broad range of devices. In the 1990s, browsers became the platform for critical applications such as ...

JackBe next Monday is releasing an upgrade to its JackBe NQ (Nimble and Quick) Suite development environment for building AJAX-based rich Web client applications. Version 4.0 of NQ Suite adds drag-and ...

Parasoft is adding AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) testing capabilities to its WebKing testing tool. WebKing 6.0, which is available on Monday, tests Web applications and Web sites to ensure ...

Back when the iPhone was first released, there was no native SDK for apps. Steve Jobs promoted AJAX websites as the applications for the iPhone. Early 2008, Steve changes his mind and released an SDK ...

Most power users are disappointed with the performance of Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) based on Asynchronous JavaScript with XML, or AJAX, according to a new research report from Forrester ...

A correction was made to this story. Read below for details. Slicker development techniques like Ajax, a way of building interactive browser-based applications, are fueling a surge in consumer Web ...