YouTube has introduced a variable speed control button for HTML5 videos, which lets users to control the video play speed.

July Systems has announced to power mobile version of official website of IPL, the Indian Premier League. The site can be accessed at m.iplt20.com using any mobile phone browser to get live updates of the IPL matches.

Jolicloud, the Linux based operating system optimized for netbooks, has announced to adopt Google Chrome technology to power the rendering of web apps.

Google has acquired DocVerse, a Microsoft Office plug-in for real time sharing and simultaneous group-editing.

Olive Telecommunications, an Indian mobile phone manufacturing company, has launched a new type of handset in Indian market. This phone, Olive FrvrOn V-G2300, also supports ordinary AAA dry-cell batteries.

Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has announced partnership with Google India to provide information on train routes, station locations, train frequencies and schedules on Google Transit.

The latest Dev Channel of Google Chrome has a new feature: Geolocation, which enables location-aware browsing. This allows websites to identify user’s geographical location and serve content accordingly.

Micro-blogging and lifestreaming service, Storytlr.com, has stopped hosting websites for users. Storytlr has been released as Open Source project, which permits users to download and install Storytlr on their own servers.

Much awaited feature multi-process for plug-ins is now live in developer preview release of Mozilla Firefox. This will make Mozilla browsers safe from annoying plug-in crash, which results into browser crash.

G.ho.st, the popular cloud-based operating system, has announced to shout down its free services to individual users from March 15.

India’s leading SMS based social networking site, SMS Gupshup, has launched an app store for promotion and distribution of SMS based applications.

Biz Stone, the co-founder of Twitter, has shared some interesting stats. Number of Twitter accounts has grown more than 1,500% in past one year.

Ning has announced integration with Facebook Connect, which will make it easier to share content and status updates on the both social networking sites.

Twitter is going to replace MySQL database system with Cassandra, the Open Source distributed database management system started by Facebook. The top reasons to go with Cassandra include highly scalable writes and a healthy open source community behind the project.