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Weekend must-read articles #8 – SPDY

This week we bring you a collection of articles focusing on SPDY. ...

Tips To Maintain Security With SSH

Secure Shell (SSH) has been constructed with regards to security. Previously, customers often accessed Telnet in order to gain connection to their servers;...

KEMP Makes First Server Load Balancing Appliance Public for Exchange 2010

Load balancing technology designer KEMP Technologies ( www.kemptechnologies.com ) stated on Tuesday that its latest LoadMaster Exchange invention is the first server load...

Twitter once again proves its worth in Japan earthquake aftermath

During and after the earthquake and tsunami disaster in Japan this Friday, local phone networks became overloaded. Not just because of damage to...

Google’s clever choice of words during the Gmail incident (why 0.02% matters)

Site issues come in all shapes and forms, and no one seems immune. Google’s Gmail problems the last couple of days, where a...

A Review of Pligg

Pligg is an open-source social publishing content management system that can be downloaded and utilized for free. ...

Understanding MySQL Databases

Everyday millions of people surf the web without knowing what goes on behind the scenes in the web server they’re interacting with. However,...

Why email won’t die anytime soon

If you follow the tech media, you’ll know that every few months, some journalist or blogger will start speculating about the imminent demise...

Email vs. snail mail (infographic)

Enormous amounts of email circulate the Internet every day, there can be no doubt about that. But how does the amount of email...

How much we will be tweeting by January 2011 (chart)

Twitter processed 1.76 billion tweets in April. ...

DNS TTL Bypass By Neustar and OpenDNS

One speed bane of the Internet is the TTL (Time To Live) of the Domain Name System (DNS).  As most Internet service and...