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New YouTube mobile site offers faster browsing, better quality videos and is built on HTML5. YouTube has launched a new mobile website, designed to make it easier to watch and share videos on the go Google has launched a new mobile version of its video-sharing site, YouTube. The refreshed site is designed to offer a better video experience across mobile devices, and deliver better quality videos to viewers, faster. The new site, which is built on the HTML5 standard and accessed through the phone’s web browser, will offer an even better user experience than native mobile applications, claims Google. There are also enhanced social networking features to make it easier to share video links on Twitter, Facebook and Google Buzz. Continue reading

A group of dancing policemen has become the latest pop sensation in Thailand with a YouTube video that shows them shimmying and swinging their hips as they impersonate a popular South Korean boy band. The video was posted Aug. 5 and had more than 280,000 views Tuesday when major newspaper front pages declared it "a major hit" and one tabloid exclaimed: "Police set the dance floor on fire." "We never thought it would become this big," said Lt. Col. Tanakorn Doltanakan, one of nine officers in the five-minute video spoof of "Sorry Sorry," a considerably bigger hit by Korean boy band Super Junior. "It's something we did just for fun." The policemen are part of the 4th Subdivision of Thailand's Tourist Police, set up for non-Thai speaking tourists who need police help, in the northern city of Chiang Mai. Ahead of a tourism-related police seminar earlier this month, attendees were asked to prepare for a police talent show. Continue r...