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Microsoft IE9 preview released

Microsoft released what it's calling the Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview at its Mix conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday, a prototype that's designed to show off the company's effort to improve how the browser deals with the web as it exists today and support for new web technologies that are coming right now. Read more »

Internet Explorer gains modicum of HTML5

Internet Explorer fans can now get a taste of the video elements in HTML5 without having to switch browsers. Read more »

Mozilla takes on YouTube video choice

A disagreement between Google and Mozilla is making a once-obscure debate into a real issue for those who watch web video or host it on their own sites. Read more »

HTML 5 drops open-source video codec

HTML 5 will no longer specify Ogg Theora as its video codec, the Google employee who maintains the burgeoning web-coding standard has announced. Read more »

Linux Silverlight implementation goes live

Moonlight 1.0, the first open-source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight rich media technology, has gone live. Read more »

Trojan horses gallop onto Google Developer site

Google's free code-hosting website for developers is being used to distribute malware, a security researcher said on Friday. Read more »

Fedora 10's snapshot scramble begins

The Fedora Project has updated the 'beta' or testing edition of version 10 of its Linux distribution, which is scheduled to be completed and released to the public on 25 November. Read more »

New tool creates fake YouTube pages for spreading malware

Cybercriminals are getting more and more business-like. The latest examples involve a tool that automates the creation of fake YouTube Web sites that can be used to deliver malware and password cracking services for sale. Read more »

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Date set for Firefox 3.1 beta

Developers working on the next version of Firefox aim to release a beta or test version to the public in August. Read more »

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Java will be free this year, says Sun

The struggle to open up Java completely is finally coming to an end. Read more »

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Set up RPM Fusion with Fedora to shore up multimedia support

This article shows you how to get improved support for MP3s, videos and games in Fedora Core 10. Read more »

HTML 5 Editor Ian Hickson discusses features, pain points, adoption rate, and more

In this interview, HTML 5 Editor Ian Hickson discusses his favourite features, the features he thinks might be most contentious, the pain points he expects HTML 5 will address, and much more. He also talks about what he would change in the original HTML spec if he could go back in time. Read more »

Process multimedia with the Java Media Framework API

The Java Media Framework (JMF) API allows developers to process media in many different ways. It deals with real-time multimedia presentations and effects processing. Read more »

Mac OS X on x86 tested

Steve Jobs might not approve, but Apple's latest operating system can be installed on any x86 hardware. How well does it function? Read our preliminary labs test to find out. Read more »

Tech Guide: What's inside Apple's Mac OS X Tiger

How does Apple's latest version of Mac OS X, Tiger, look and feel on the desktop? Read more »

Creating pie charts with JSP is a breeze

Java Server Pages (JSP) makes it easy to read and summarise data from a database and then display the results in a pie chart. We'll show you what you need to do to tap into this functionality. Read more »

Create a reusable graph background in JSP

Displaying graphs on Java Server Pages is a fairly simple task, but you can make the process cleaner by creating reusable backgrounds. Learn this technique and see how to encode graph data. Read more »

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IE9's H.264 vote killed Ogg

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- In a split decision by the judges, the winner of the W3C/WHATWG video codec consensus is H.264, taking home the future of video playback on the internet while loser Ogg goes home with nothing but thoughts of what might have been. Read more »

Apple raises curtain on iPad

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Generating buzz this week is Apple's new tablet device -- iPad. Will Australia be getting the 3G version? Read more »

Theora, Firefox reach milestones

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- Milestones were reached with two open sources projects: Theora has hit version 1.0 and Firefox reaches 20% global marketshare. Read more »

Microsoft's PDC Potpourri

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- While not game-breaking in their own right, these little titbits complete the picture from Microsoft's recent PDC conference at Los Angeles. Read more »

Flash in the pan

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- So Silverlight will kill Flash, will it? Maybe it will. A lot of people have told me this and I began to wonder if the opinion had any validity. Read more »

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  • Chris Duckett IE9's H.264 vote killed Ogg

    In a split decision by the judges, the winner of the W3C/WHATWG video codec consensus is H.264, taking home the future of video playback on the internet while loser Ogg goes home with nothing but thoughts of what might have been. Read more »

    -- posted by Chris Duckett

  • Staff Google launches Apps Marketplace

    Google launches and app store, while Mozilla plans to re-write its open-source license. More of this week's news in the Roundup. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Staff Microsoft showcases new NUIs

    TechFest, Microsoft's internal even took place this week with researchers showcasing some new interfaces the company is working on. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

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