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Windows 8 Release Preview

Windows 8 Release Preview includes the sixth release previewof Internet Explorer 10. After several years of beating the drum of standards compliance and freedom from plugins, Internet Explorer 10 has surprised many with the integration of Adobe Flash. That's not the only provocative change the new browser makes: it enables Do Not Track by default, too. Standards compliance has also been further improved, and there are one or two interesting new usability features.

As previously reported, Internet Explorer 10 will include a Flash component, on both x86/x64, and ARM. This will be usable in both the desktop front-end and the touch-friendly Metro one. Flash will work on any site in the desktop browser, and on a select set of whitelisted sites, including YouTube, Netflix, and CNN, in the Metro browser.

While the x86/x64 desktop browser will allow any plugins, the Metro browser will not; nor will either of the ARM browsers. This puts Flash in a very privileged position. Even Microsoft's own Flash-like Silverlight runtime isn't getting the same treatment.

Explaining the decision to incorporate Flash, Microsoft calls it a "practical matter," and that having more sites "just work" in the Metro browser is the most important concern: users shouldn't be forced to put down their tablets and use a PC just because they come across a site that uses Flash.

The Flash plugin-that-isn't-a-plugin is based on the regular, fully-featured desktop version of Flash, not Adobe's now-discontinued mobile effort. Microsoft and Adobe have worked together to improve the battery life and security of the Flash player, with Adobe supporting Windows platform features such as ASLR, and adopting and adapting Microsoft's Secure Development Lifecycle. Contrary to our previous report, however, Adobe says that it hasn't given Microsoft access to the source code; it merely hands over compiled binaries.

Being integrated into Internet Explorer, the Flash plugin will be updated by Microsoft, through Windows Update, just as is already done in Google Chrome. The whitelist, too, will be subject to periodic updates, so we might expect to see new sites added and others removed, according to user demand and migration to HTML5 technologies.

In practice, it works about as well as can be expected. It calls itself version 11.3 (compared to the current 11.2 for other platforms), and if you visit a whitelisted site, it fires up the Flash content without any fuss or indication that it's doing so.

Microsoft says that it has worked to make the Metro Flash (though not the desktop one) more amenable to touch content: it supports double-tap and pinch-to-zoom, for example, but doesn't support mouse hover effects. This may be true, but the broader problemplenty of Flash content just isn't designed for touchremains. YouTube, for example, all works, but certain features, such as the quality/resolution menu, are a little too dainty for convenient fingering.

In spite of concerns over security and battery life, having Flash is, at this stage in the Web's life, still better than not having Flash. One can, for example, just follow links to YouTube, without being taken out of the browser experience and into a separate YouTube application, and without having to worry about whether a given video supports HTML5 viewing (not all do). In a contradictory sense, the Metro browser manages to achieve a more Web-native experience (insofar as it doesn't depend on "there's an app for that," for rich content, letting you stay within the browser) by allowing the use of non-Web technology.

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Internet Explorer 10: embedded Flash, Do Not Track, and stable standards

As the Internet prepares to celebrate World IPv6 Day next week, law enforcement is worried the transition could hinder legitimate investigations. Some tech companies agree it's a concern.

The FBI tells CNET that the IPv6 transition may require it to develop "additional tools" for surveillance.

The FBI is worried that an explosion of new Internet numeric addresses scheduled to begin next week may hinder its ability to conduct electronic investigations.

A historic switchover that will give the Internet a nearly inexhaustible supply of network addresses -- up from the current nearly exhausted total of 4.3 billion -- is planned for next Wednesday. AT&T, Comcast, Facebook, Google, Cisco, and Microsoft are among the companies participating.

Side effects from the transition to Internet Protocol version 6, or IPv6, "could have a profound effect on law enforcement," an FBI spokesman told CNET. "Additional tools" may need to be developed to conduct Internet investigations in the future, the spokesman said.

That's one reason the FBI recently formed a new unit, the Domestic Communications Assistance Center in Quantico, Va., which is responsible for devising ways to keep up with "emerging" technologies. CNET was the first to report on the formation of the center in an article last week.

While Wednesday's World IPv6 Day is only one step in the transition to the next-generation system, it's expected to mark the beginning of a gradual decline in popularity of the outgoing IPv4 standard. The participating Internet providers will begin to switch over a fraction of their residential subscribers on Wednesday, and router makers will enable IPv6 by default for their products. (Here's an IPv6 FAQ.)

That's what worries the FBI, which has been meeting quietly with Internet companies to figure out how its agents can maintain their ability to obtain customer records in investigations.

"This is a very real concern," says Jason Fesler, Yahoo's IPv6 evangelist. It will "impact a service provider's ability to readily respond to legal requests from law enforcement agencies," according to the Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group, or BITAG, which counts AT&T, Cisco, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Google, and Microsoft as members.

D-Link, the Taiwan-based company that's one of the largest makers of routers and networking gear worldwide, agrees. "D-Link is aware of potential issues concerning IPv6 and law enforcement concerns that are currently being assessed," a company spokesman said. "D-Link is committed to IPv6 support and will comply with any future guidelines."

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ORLANDO, Fla., June 2, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via PRWEB - First it was The Panda that devastated many, then along came the penguin and it seemed to all but decimate the rest. Some have argued that that these two nefarious updates have killed SEO, the Micrositez Marketing Agency Orlando suggests otherwise. Micrositez Founder & CEO Scot Crone is reported as saying "Google does not hate SEO nor does it hate SEO Companies; what it has publicly said it cannot tolerate is bad practice SEO and Web SPAM."

To this end the Digital Marketing Agency announced this week that it has developed a cutting edge new line up of SEO Packages to meet the post Panda/Penguin needs of many webmasters at a cost that will not break the bank. Google has stated that it wants to deliver the very best and freshest search results to its search queries every time, this means that it has to root out low quality, low value websites and web content, so webmasters apparently need a new strategy which includes enriching their own web content and actually adding value to the web.

Micrositez CEO Scot Crone is quoted as saying "These new SEO Packages provide everything Google is looking for in the post Panda/Penguin search landscape; that is, rich content, the right social media signals, strong authoritative backlinks and a good user experience on the site for their searchers." The SEO Agency believes that many looking for SEO have become disheartened and jaded at the industry's lack of a robust response and answer to the apparent devastation on many a website's traffic figures and rankings after the latest round of algorithmic updates.

Micrositez new line of SEO Orlando Packages are designed to offer the very latest and most cutting edge performance available in an SEO package anywhere on the web. Cleverly named; Player, Contender, Champion and King of the Hill; it's clear that although the Search Engine Optimization company takes its clients results seriously, they do not take themselves too seriously. They believe that this, their most recent response to Google's 'savage' round of updates will help set the record straight for many webmasters looking for Orlando SEO in the USA and across the globe.

This article was originally distributed on PRWeb. For the original version including any supplementary images or video, visit http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/MM/prweb9569133.htm

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Orlando Internet Marketing Agency Micrositez Announces Changes to Line Up of SEO Packages

Every SEO specialist website owner is eager to implement simple yet powerful SEO ideas that will greatly improve their rankings, traffic and sales. We have included in our opinion 11 of the most powerful techniques for ecommerce websites that really work and can bring you significant ROI.

Usually the success of an ecommerce website in terms of SEO vary depending on the amount of items on sale. There could be thousands of searches for every product and if you have 100.000 items in stock you can be found by much more visitors than a small website with just a couple of products.

But its not enough just to have these product pages, you need to be proactive and optimize (US English) them properly. Here are the most important ideas you can implement:

Sometimes its possible to improve significantly rankings reconsidering project internal structure. Here are two basic tips:

Would you like to start selling new arrivals immediately? Its worth to implement these advices in order to improve new products indexation:

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11 Advanced eCommerce SEO Techniques That Work