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The latest nightly build of Firefox 3.1 (Shiretoko) has native Theora and Vorbis codecs support. The man behind this implementation is developer Chris Double. This has been in the works for over a year and was considered necessary due to the <audio> and <video> tags of the new HTML5 specification, which are also supported by Firefox 3.1.
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Paris was the first European location chosen by Google to be part of the Street View project and Tour de France was a great opportunity for a July launch of the new online service coming from the search giant. However, now Street View is going to Australia and Japan, despite the fact that nothing happening there at the moment is of global interest, although the fact that were talking about two of the most developed countries on Earth and that up to now Street View covered only America and Europ...
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Adobe will make available some of its high-end technologies, such as Flash and Flex, to offer a full Internet coverage of the Olympics in China and Macau. The company has partnered with CCTV.com, the enterprise that has the online video rights to the Beijing Olympic Games. While the Chinese company will allow users to see the games on traditional TV sets, with help from Adobe, people will also be able to watch their favorite sports on the CCTV website.
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Many people, supporters and relatives of the competitors, want to get a front seat at the Olympics. Since tickets are almost sold out, some resort to anonymous websites that promise unbelievably small prices for the best seats in the house. Beijingticketing.com is one of these sites that scammed many people, one of them paying over $55,000 (in Australian dollars) for tickets for a family of seven.
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The Google Page Creator service won't have the chance to make it to the Google Apps, because the company is planning to completely replace it with its new Google Sites. In preparation for this, sign-up for the Google Page Creator has already been closed, while an announcement on the home page of the project notifies users that "Google Page Creator is no longer accepting new sign-ups."
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Reigh Rockeffeler, also known as Snooks, is a 7-year-old girl who was kidnapped by her father, right during his visitation hours, as he shared custody rights with the mother. After the FBI reported that the man kidnapped his daughter and made a clean escape in an SUV, injuring in the process a social worker whose role was to supervise the visitation, Clark Rockeffeler became Most Wanted in the U.S.
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Del.icio.us users now have the possibility to access the new version of the site, as the developer team promised it would happen in the near future. "The new Delicious is just like the old del.icio.us, only faster, easier to learn, and hopefully more delightful to use and to look at." it is said about the new website, quite in an optimistic manner.
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Yahoo! announced that it would enable as default some SearchMonkey applications into its search results. Earlier this year the Sunnyvale company launched SearchMonkey, an open platform that enables web developers to enhance the Yahoo! Search experience for end-users by creating applications that use structured data to change the visual appearance of search results and modify them to be more relevant or attract more traffic to their own services.
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