The mobile technology landscape is incredibly confusing. There are numerous choices, ranging from new HTML5 technologies, native app development methods, and all sorts of content management systems.

As GigaOM reports, Pandora’s new Web app doesn’t preclude native TV apps down the road. But at most, these native apps will be wrappers for the core HTML5 experience.

HTML5, unlike other codes used for the development of apps, is a Web-based standard, so sophisticated programs can be run using a browser, rather than as a native program on the phone.

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But despite this advantage, some HTML5 apps are not yet as effective as their Flash or Java counterparts. Here are five HTML5-based Internet speed test apps, some that perform, and some that do not.

Twitter is releasing a new TweetDeck app that puts the Adobe Air version out to pasture in favor of HTML5-based apps on Mac, Windows, and the browser that remove all social networks other than ...