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BBC News - HTML5: the language aiming to to make the web wider

Just 20 years after it took its first tentative steps into the world, the web has become a revolutionary phenomenon. Almost 2 billion people are now online globally, and internet connections are now a vital part of international trade, communication and even politics.

Flash in the pan: Apple changing web video

Give Steve Jobs his due. Apple's charismatic boss is, without question, the most strategic thinker in the business. He appreciates better than anyone that computing is in transition.

Camcorders get flashier with flash memory

Some of them are hybrids and some are GPS-enabled. They're not cars, they're digital camcorders and the recent generation of them have almost as many options as automobiles have.

Google Introduces Flash Competitor

Google's release of its Gmail Video service is noteworthy for several reasons. It is integrated into the Gmail console, adding voice and video services to the realtime console that is being built out around XMPP.

Online Video: NBC dumps Microsoft Silverlight after Olympics

Why? Because, as SAI notes, while 40 million US visitors to NBCOlympics.com didn't have Silverlight installed, Adobe Flash is already installed on some 98 percent of Internet-connected computers. NBC's move didn't pay off last night.