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At the Up North Web global press day on Thursday the Norwegian company Opera announced that it would soon release its alpha preview of Opera 11. The latest version of the popular browser will feature a set of extensions with official support for the experience-enhancing plugins.

Opera is adding plugin support to its standard-based toolset which a sign that Opera wants to walk in pace with the rest of the industry. Previously it was Firefox that promoted browser extensions with Chrome and Safari following its steps.

As it became known YouTube is now planning to boost the maximum upload length to 15 minutes, giving the site’s millions of amateur directors a bit more leg room. 

It’s well known, for years YouTube has enabled its users to upload as many videos as they wanted, but no more than 10 minutes in length, unless user was not part of one of YouTube’s special partner programs.

Since Google showed off its new Android Cloud to Device Messaging service that’s a part of Android 2.2 at Google I/O , everyone has been talking about the ability to push Android to their devices.

Actually, the service let owners of the Android devices automatically send links from the computer to the handset.

 Citigroup unveiled its intention to focus its marketing efforts on six cities, New York, Washington, Miami, Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, according to Thursday’s Wall Street Journal report. 

Thus, Citi, encouraging its retail banking business development, plans to extend branch hours and refurbish branches in chosen cities.