Yahoo plans to implement a new homepage this afternoon that gives customers more customization options as well as refreshing a very outdated and out of style homepage that Yahoo has had for years.
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In a challenge to Adobe Flash, Microsoft has released its new web multimedia player Silverlight 3, a browser plug-in enabling audio, vector graphics and animation.
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TG Daily posted an article about a massive DoS attack on major government sites and the Washington Post.
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Google has just announced it’s plans to release it’s own operating system. This new OS will be web-centric, based on the Linux Kernel with it’s own windowed design. Application development for the OS will be web based and work with any existing web technologies. This will also allow to applications to be compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems.
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Pundits are roasting Apple over a scuffle raised by Mozilla and Opera to define the free Ogg Theora video codec as the official way to present video on the web in the new HTML 5 specification. The problem: HTML isn’t supposed to define content codecs, and even if it were, Ogg Theora, commercially abandoned nearly a decade ago, doesn’t have what it takes to deliver video on the increasingly mobile web.
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