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Our browsers are getting faster and so are our Internet connections, but in parallel to this, the web pages we access are actually getting bigger, too. According to uptime monitoring service Pingdom, the average website grew an astonishing 25% over the last year. The main culprits here are images and
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Amazon launched Cloud Reader today, a browser-based eReading application that allows it to work around Apple’s rules for in-app purchases and subscriptions. Apple has set strict rules for how vendors can use its platform to enable in-app sales and subscriptions. To work around these rules, Amazon and many other
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While Twitter has been continually updating its desktop apps and desktop browser experience, its mobile site has been sorely lacking – both with regards to design and functionality. Today, however, Twitter announced that it is launching a new HTML5-based version of its mobile site for smartphones and tablets. This new design
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Google will now encode all new YouTube videos in the WebM format, but will still support H.264, too. Google today announced that it will begin to transcode all new videos into the WebM format. According to the company, those videos that make up 99% of views on YouTube (or
Very few developments in the tech world this week got as much attention as Google’s announcement that it would slowly drop support for the H.264 video codec from its Chrome browser. Given how ubiquitous H.264 is on the Web today – though it is also encumbered by patent
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According to a cryptic message on the even more cryptic demoslam.com, a site that looks to be a Google property, "technology is awesome. Learning about it isn’t. Until now." Starting on Wednesday, the text on this teaser site reads, you can come to the site to