Thanks to its chattiness, the traditional communications protocol for shuttling data around the World Wide Web is not very efficient. Now an HTML5-related standard called WebSocket could cut some of ...

Kaazing, a provider of live Web and mobile communication and the developer of HTML5 WebSocket, has raised $15 million in funding, bringing the company’s total financing to $39 million. New investors ...

The HTML5-related WebSocket standard could enable a new generation of real-time, 'zero-latency' Web apps, asserts Kaazing's CTO Thanks to its chattiness, the traditional communications protocol for ...

Okay, it is an experiment, but you have to give credit where it’s due to the developer crowd at Google, which last week introduced World Wide Maze. In case you missed the introduction, World Wide Maze ...

Under the original HTTP protocol, a client, such as a Web browser, must open a connection to a server, make a request, wait for a response, and then close the connection. If the client needs more data ...

WebSockets is a network communication protocol that enables two-way client-server communication. WebSockets are often used for applications that require instantaneous updates, using a persistent ...

Firefox and Opera have both disabled support for HTML5 WebSockets in the latest builds of their respective browsers. The move comes on the heels of a protocol vulnerability that could leave thousands ...