YouTube and Vimeo is kicking Adobe’s Flash to the curb in favor of the sharp new HTML5.
Both YouTube and Vimeo have announced that they are launching HTML5-based players on their video streaming
sites, thus booting out the long-standing champ of multimedia delivery, Adobe Flash. With recent security issues plaguing Adobe products, it’s no surprise that media giants such as YouTube are jumping ship. What makes HTML5 special is that the new Web standard doesn’t require Adobe’s software to stream content to viewers.
London firms act as fronts for drug-dealing and money-laundering and provide hideouts for fugitive gunmen, says anti-mafia investigator
The tentacles of the mafia are spreading to the UK, as British cities become key locations in the mob’s vital money-laundering operations, according to Italy’s leading expert in organised crime, Francesco Forgione.
Last week Britain’s Gambling Commission suspended the licence of Paradise Bet Ltd, a company based in the west London suburb of Hounslow that operates paradisebet.com. The company was shut down when its assets were frozen by Italian police as part of their operation to break up the criminal Parisi clan from the southern Puglia region, whose members are accused of attempted murder, drug smuggling and money-laundering.
Savino Parisi, the 48-year-old head of the clan, as well as politicians and businessmen, were believed to be among 74 people arrested this month by Italian officials in the city of Bari, where Paradise Bet has an operating office. Police raids in Italy, aided by Britain’s Serious and Organised Crime Agency, seized 227 properties, 680 bank accounts, 61 luxury cars, nine stables, 71 horses and 35 businesses said to be worth £200m in an operation code-named “Domino”.
Specsavers is commemorating 25 years in the eye business with its latest ’should have gone to Specsavers’ TV advert.
Dubbed ‘Spermsavers’, the ad features a short-sighted sperm swimming past the egg it’s supposed to fertilise, before trying to impregnate the company logo.
Microsoft will release Office 2010 in June but until then there are some great alternatives.
In June Microsoft will release a final version of its Office 2010 productivity suite. Naturally many users will upgrade, at substantial cost, to the latest version of the popular Office suite, but for those not so eager to hand over their money to Microsoft there are still many great alternatives. And they are free.
This has to be the number one alternative to Microsoft Office. The open source productivity tool includes all of the features offered by MS Office but for free. Version 3.0 of OpenOffice.org (OOo) was released in late 2008 and since then a number of update releases have been issued to fine tune its features.
A former prison inmate has been ordered to serve 18 months for hacking the facility’s computer network, stealing personal details of more than 1,100 of its employees and making them available to other inmates.
In 2006, Janosko hacked a thin client that was connected to a prison server to access the employee database for the Plymouth County Correctional Facility in Massachusetts, prosecutors alleged. After obtaining the names, addresses, dates of birth, social security numbers and telephone numbers of the employees, he made them accessible to other inmates.
Both YouTube and Vimeo have announced that they are launching HTML5-based players on their video streaming
