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Windows 7 upgrade paralyzes some PCs with endless reboots
Some users trying to upgrade from Windows Vista to Windows 7 have seen their PCs crippled by an endless series of reboots, according to reports on Microsoft’s support forum. A Microsoft engineer writing on the same forum said the company was investigating users’ problems, but downplayed them as “isolated issues.” More: continued here
Microsoft to let third-party apps work with Outlook’s PST files
Microsoft Monday said it will provide patent- and license-free use rights to the format behind its Outlook Personal Folders (known as PST files), opening e-mail, calendar, contacts, and other information to a host of applications such as antimalware or cloud-based services. More: continued here
Windows Mobile worries mount as competition heats up
When Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer admitted publicly in September that the company did “screw up with Windows Mobile,” many experts were left wondering how the mobile operating system can be fixed with the arrival of version 7 next year — and beyond. More: continued here
Universal phone charger OK’d
The Universal Charging Solution will enable the creation of one-size-fits-all chargers that can be used on any future phone, according to the International Telecommunication Union, a branch of the United Nations. A standard for a universal phone charger was approved this week by the International… More: continued here
EU Strategist Claims an Oracle-owned MySQL Cannot Be Competitive
UPDATED: Former MySQL business adviser Florian Mueller and members of the EC believe that Oracle owning MySQL through its acquisition of Sun is a colossal conflict of interest, since Oracle would suddenly become the new owner of its biggest open-source competitor — one that has 6 million installations and is gaining thousands more each month. [...]
IBM showcases new analytics capabilities
IBM will announce a range of additions to its already-burgeoning portfolio of BI (business intelligence) tools on Monday during its annual IOD (Information on Demand) conference in Las Vegas. New software for content analysis will help users mine unstructured data, such as a raft of customer e-mails, for insights, said Rob Ashe, general manager of [...]
Is the cloud a better place for our data?
As consumers, we have two options of storing our digital data: locally or elsewhere in the cloud. IntraLinks’ Mushegh Hakhinian says it’s like storing your savings in a mattress or a bank. Commentary- Data loss is an all too common a theme in the news these days. The recent… More: continued here
Apple’s ‘missing’ netbooks: Smart or stupid?
Apple may have missed the netbook boat by not producing a low-priced notebook to compete with the ultra-cheap portables that have cornered a significant portion of the PC market, a survey published today said. But an Apple analsts suggests the “miss” was intentional, as Apple avoids a market that has eroded its competitors’ profits while [...]
Salesforce-Adobe deal could boost Force.com profile
Salesforce.com’s deal with Adobe Systems linking Adobe Flash to the Salesforce.com Force.com cloud application platform could help better establish Force.com as an entity separate from the company’s core online CRM platform. More: continued here
Amazon Launches Relational Database for the Cloud
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), a new web service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale relational databases in the cloud. The database is based on the MySQL platform, the company said. – Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the Amazon Relational Database Service [...]
$180 BlackBerry Storm2 goes on sale Wednesday
The BlackBerry Storm2 is slated to go on sale at Verizon Wireless stores and online Wednesday for $180 after a rebate and with a new two year voice and data plan, Verizon and Research in Motion announced today. More: continued here
Qualcomm opens focuses on open source with new subsidiary
Qualcomm has built a new subsidiary to better integrate its products with mobile open-source software, in hopes of capitalizing on the trend toward open platforms in the mobile industry. The wholly owned subsidiary, called Qualcomm Innovation Center, currently consists of software engineers who work on hardware-optimizing, open-source mobile operating systems and applications, the company said. [...]
Why Google is Crawling very high from last few days
Why Google is Crawling very high from last few days I recently noticed that last few days my companies  site is crawling very high by Google. This lead to a failure of our systems in the week end for few minutes.  The increase of Google crawl traffic was unprecedent and went up to 4 times of the normall rate. Before it [...]
How can you controll Google Bot for better SEO
Some times if you do customized crawl rate in webmaster tools as high , your site may experience very high load of Traffic. And also you can see that some of the httpd threads are taking 90%  of CPU utilization. This happens because Google is trying to crawl more pages from your site. It may also lead to [...]
How to assign memory to memcached
memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load. # ./memcached -d -m 2048 -l 10.0.0.40 -p 11211 This starts memcached up as a daemon, using 1GB of memory, and listening on IP 10.0.0.40, port 11211. Because a 32-bit [...]