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Flash vs HTML 5 in a virtual war (ping pong)

Steve Jobs might feel flash is past, but then for rest of us Flash is more relevant for many more years to come. A group of developers at codecomputerlove.com have come up with a ping pong game with one side of the board coded with Flash and other side with HTML5.

The interactive game shows a example of coexistance both the technologies, most technologists agree that though HTML 5 in the future can replace flash, but at present HTML 5 doesnt have the capability to replace Flash.

Enjoy the game here -http://labs.codecomputerlove.com/flashvshtml5/

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Microsoft to launch IE 9 in September 2010

Microsoft is preparing for its next big launch party, the next generation of its famous Web Browser Internet Explorer, Since the launch of IE 7 Microsoft has steadily rised in the Browser Games, with IE 8  MS started following the open standards in rendering moving away from its own implemenation.

With IE 9 Microsoft tries to beat Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome in terms of performance and native hardware rendered support for HTML 5. MS boasts of considerable performance improvement in Javascript implementation (Sunspider tests) , ACID tests (95%), CSS3 and HTML 5 rendering.

Microsoft has been target of  security critics prior to IE 7, but the criticisms have reduced and general stability and image of IE platform has generally been positive in the last few years.

Considering that IE is the only browser with a 64 bit version and Most of the new windows purchases are in 64 bit version, IE 9 can be expected to create considerable buzz.

You can test drive IE 9  here – http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/

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Access free Facebook for 2 months says Airtel

Telecom service operator Bharti Airtel have said that they have provided free Facebook access for about 130 million subcribers.

This offer is said to last for only two months till August 31.

The social networking site Facebook will be available in English, Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam.

Airtel statement says “For the two-month period, the partnership enables Airtel customers to access Facebook’s full mobile site faster and at no data cost from their Airtel mobiles via m.facebook.com.”

If you an Airtel subscriber and accessing mobile Internet for the first time, you need to SMS ‘FACEBOOK’ to 54321 to take advantage of this offer.