W3C has formed W3C HTML working group in 2007 to develop HTML 5 with extensive features as the specifications of older version HTML 4.0.1 are inadequate for today’s requirements of web development.

HTML 5 will provide a number of new elements and attributes that reflect typical usage on modern Web sites. In older version, div elements are not used more specifically. HTML 5 addresses this issue by introducing new elements like <header>, <nav>, <footer> etc for representing each of these different sections. Such tags would facilitate indexing by search engines and handling by small-screen devices or voice readers for the visually impaired.

The video and audio on the web has become increasingly viable, and Flash is currently the only widely deployed plug-in that provides a cross-browser compatible solution with the desired APIs for developers. The plan is to provide player functionalities like play, pause, stop etc in browsers by adding native support for embedding video and audio and providing DOM APIs for scripts to control the playback. The new video and audio elements make this really easy.

Other notable elements are:

Section – It represents a generic document or application section. It can be used together with h1-h6 to indicate the document structure.

Article – It represents an independent piece of content of a document, such as a blog entry or newspaper article.

Canvas – It is used for rendering dynamic bitmap graphics on the fly, such as graphs, games, et cetera.

Command – It represents a command the user can invoke.

Datagrid – It represents an interactive representation of a tree list or tabular data.

Details – It represents additional information or controls which the user can obtain on demand. D

W3C have planned to release the proposed specifications in 2012, but that doesn’t mean you have to wait that long. You can start using some of the new things in HTML 5 as a lot of modern browsers have already implemented the <canvas> element like Mozilla Firefox which has partially implemented it since version 1.5.

In Washington, 17/12/2008, Yahoo announced that it will cut to three months the time it stores personal data gathered from Web surfing, making its retention policy the shortest among peers. Due to the pressure from European and other data protection officials to do more to protect the privacy of users, Google halved the amount of time it stores personal data to nine months. The European Union has recommended that Internet search companies keep data no more than six months and urged the sector to adopt an industry-wide standard.

Million’s of Facebook users are in danger zone. Koopface is a new computer virus spread through Facebook message system. It will send the message from the infected person’s profile to his friends, the subject line is like “you look just awesome in this new movie” it will open into another website to watch the movie after clicking the website it shows a message to need an updated Adobe Flash Player. But the virus will download while updating Flash Player. Infected systems have the possibilities of stolen Credit card numbers. “Only a very small percentage of Facebook users have been affected, and we’re working quickly to update our security systems to minimize any further impact,” - Barry Schnitt, the Facebook spokesman in Palo Alto.

Power.com is a social networking site for new generation. Through power.com we can access other popular communities like Facebook, Myspace, Orkut, Hi5, know our friends updates and use the power.com feature on other network. “It forms a node for all the social networks”. They have planned to add instant messengers services like Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail, Spark, AOL and access to other social networks like Twitter, Flickr, linkedin also. The new version is design to mainly target U.S users.

Motion sensitive games enables users to play without touching any controls.
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Google added audio and video chat into it’s free email services on Tuesday. Microsoft and Yahoo are joined with Google to make a better communication on web. “I think it’s a nice addition and some people will use it, but I don’t think it will drive huge adoption of Gmail,” said Greg Sterling, of Sterling Market Intelligence, referring to Google’s free e-mail service.

Sony Corp said five PC makers including HP, Toshipa will recall 1,00,000 batteries made by Japanese for fire hazard. Already 35,000 batteries were colleted by Sony and Tokyo-based company. Further it would recall 65,000 batteries from worldwide customers soon.

The world is vast: that is the fact. That is the reason why there are so many new technical discoveries, around the world, in any topic, during any day. And that is also why, before internet, it was impossible to keep an eye on every technical discovery, to be aware of any progress of science or of knowledge.

Everything is now different with the internet: knowledge is shared all over the world, and even the little news, like the rumors can quickly be spread on every continent.

Even if internet was the ultimate tool for discovering new technologies, this tool was not complete: something was missing. In fact, internet needed a unifying site, a virtual place where all the innovations could gather, and where internet users could easily discover new technologies.

This place is not a dream: it is real, and can be found at http://techdiscovery.net/. In this site, you can find news about various topics: the Nobel price winners, the new I-phone updates, the big-bang, business, the release of new software and much more. The search for new tech, for newly released products is becoming easier!

The topics here are really numerous and varied: the ambition of this site is to list every single newly updated products, newly released product or new technological discovery. Every innovation that is released for customers, every single new technique in market is described and explained in this site. At first sight, web-users can eventually be surprised by the variety and by the miscellaneousity of the topics on this site: what can “new cell phones”, “animation films” or the “release of new software” have in common? It quickly appears that the reason of this gathering is that all those subjects are about new techniques, or new technologies.

If you want to know more about a specific topic, if you are eager to learn about technical innovations, you can follow the link to the articles that helped writing the news. It can give you a different feedback, more advices and more information about new techniques.

Nowadays, we are flooded, overwhelmed by the increasing number of technical discoveries. We sometimes fail to understand it, and, thus, we fail to understand the world that surrounds us. The world is constantly evolving and, by a lack of knowledge about science discoveries, we have not got the “tools” that can help us to know about the constant changes of the world.

In fact, here is the real aim of this site: understanding the world. By increasing our knowledge about new techniques, recent discoveries or new products that are released in the market, we increase our knowledge about world.