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By Sean Michael Kerner

If Mozilla, Opera and Apple’s Safari browser have their way, the HTML specification (define) could be getting its first major point update in a decade.

The three vendors have banded together in a proposal to the W3C for the HTML 5 specification, which includes Web Apps 1.0 and Web Forms 2.0 specifications and that it’s also backwards compatible with HTML 4.

“HTML5 is about preserving the information people have accumulated over the years,” Opera spokesperson Anne van Kesteren told internetnews.com. “By remaining backward and forwards compatible, we hope to ensure that people will be able to interpret HTML for decades if not centuries to come.”
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LinuxElectrons reports a new ABI Research study, “Mobile Linux”, forecasts that by 2012, more than 127 million devices will be enabled with a commercial Linux OS, up from 8.1 million in 2007. Additionally, device shipments that incorporate Linux as an RTOS replacement are set to grow to more than 76 million units in 2012, up from nearly zero in 2007.

ABIR research director Stuart Carlaw is quoted as saying, “Linux in the cellular phone is not a question of ‘if’, but ‘when’.”

The companies are working together to optimize Skype for Intel dual-core processor-based PCs and are planning to further enhance voice and video over the Internet so that it delivers the richest possible communications experience for personal and professional users.

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Skype Technologies and Intel are making good on a promise to work together to get people talking on their Intel-based computers.

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Skype’s new blue tooth VoIP handsets with a 100 meter distance!

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If you have been using Skype for a while, it is time to reach the next level and spice things up.

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Skype today announced that it will extend the maximum number of participants in VoIP conference calls. However, the feature will be limited to just those users who own a computer with an Intel dual-core processor.

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