Exciting news for users of the online video community Vimeo who recently added HTML5 support to it’s video embeds. This means content can be viewed on devices like the iPad and iPhone.

The main Vimeo website is HTML5 but it’s embed codes have been Flash only, a frustration for content creators who want to be visible on as many devices as possible.

Vimeo’s main competition YouTube has offered iPhone and iPad support for its embedded content for quite some time, and recently rolled out an HTML5-friendly experimental new embed code for desktop browsers and mobile devices.

In addition to gaining HTML5 embed support; Vimeo will also be available to Roku customers. The most popular Vimeo HD content, chosen by Vimeo staff, will be viewable in the channel. Vimeo users can also link their accounts to view their own videos and their personalized inbox selections.

Vimeo’s commitment to non-commercial content has made it a favorite service for users and content creators alike and these additional services are sure to keep them popular.

This week saw Google debut yet another Gmail feature, this time adding a voice calling service. Google Voice will be free for at least the end of year within the U.S. and Canada and calls to other countries will be billed at very low rates starting at $0.02 per minute.

Google tweeted that they reached 1 million calls within the first 24 hours of making the service available, a number they seem to be proud of. Time will tell if customers continue to use the service or if they find other web-based phone services such as Skype more appealing.

To increase exposure of the new feature Google has placed big red phone booths into airports and on college campuses across the U.S. The booths are equipped with Google Voice technology and give users a chance to try the service.

To explain how the service works, Google put together this fun video.

For more information you can visit the Google blog.

Hewlett-Packard has trumped rival Dell’s bid for data storage company 3PAR, despite firing its chief executive Mark Hurd a fortnight ago amid sexual harassment allegations.

HP, which is being led by chief financial officer turned interim chief executive Cathie Lesjak, said its bid is “substantially superior” to its rival, and said it is ready to seal a deal once 3PAR’s board ends its takeover agreement with Dell.

The data storage company is so attractive to both computer manufacturers as it will allow the victor to expand their ‘cloud computing’ offerings, which involves providing remote storage in a virtual ‘cloud.’

Shane Robison, HP’s Executive VP and Chief Strategy and Technology Officer said in a letter that the new offer forces 3PAR’s board of directors to reconsider its previous merger agreement with Dell.

This week Twitter announced it’s own “tweet button”. What does that mean to all of us? It means a standardized button for re-tweeting content you want to share. Similar to the Facebook “Recommend” button they allow you to send links with one-click to your friends and followers.

Currently the common button is from TweetMeme, a third party website which helps publishers. Twitter acknowledged the company on their blog, saying “We’re pleased to be working closely with the good folks at TweetMeme and, from here on out, they will be pointing to the Twitter Tweet Button.”

It appears that TweetMeme is not completely out of the game, their blog had this statement, “We will be assisting Twitter with the technical challenges involved with the button and secondly we will be working even more closely in the future on delivering real-time curation of the Twitter Firehose. This will manifest itself in the launch of a number of new products and the first of these is being unveiled today.”

Twitter has pointed out that the main reason to use this type of button on your website is to allow me to share and to drive traffic back to your site. They also promise more accurate statistics as the data would go through their own servers instead of a third party.