Matias Vangsnes

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Java-Based Web Server Resin Claims it Outperforms NGINX Web Server in Benchmark Tests

Wednesday, August 15th, 2012

Software firm Caucho says its Resin Java-based web server outperformed NGINX in tests conducted by the company Application server developer Caucho Technology, developer of the Resin Java-based web server issued an announcement on Tuesday suggesting that Resin outperformed the extremely popular NGINX C-based web server in tests of speed and throughput. NGINX, though a fairly [...]

Saudi royals seek ban on .virgin, .sex, .catholic, .wtf and 159 MORE

Tuesday, August 14th, 2012

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has objected to the proposed new top-level internet domains .virgin and .baby – applied for by Virgin Group and Johnson Johnson respectively – on the grounds that they will encourage pornography. The bizarre claims are among 163 complaints about new dot-word gTLD applications that the Saudi Communication and Information Technology [...]

Steam on Ubuntu could hurt gaming on Linux

Tuesday, August 14th, 2012

I love video games. And Valve makes some pretty doggone phenomenal ones. So when we got the official word that Valve’s Steam (their software/game store), along with one of their games – Left 4 Dead 2 – was coming to Linux… let’s just say I was “pleased.” But then I thought about it some more, [...]

Types Of Websites You Can Create With WordPress

Wednesday, August 1st, 2012

Many people who have heard of WordPress think that it’s just a publishing platform for blogs. In truth, WordPress is an extremely powerful and versatile publishing solution, and can be used to create many different types of websites. Magazine Style Websites WordPress can also be used to create magazine style websites. These websites don’t have [...]

Video: Michele Neylon Shows The Difficulty in Submitting gTLD Comments

Wednesday, August 1st, 2012

I want to share a video with you that was posted by Michele Neylon, CEO of Blacknight, a domain registrar and hosting company. In the video, Michele walks people through the process of posting a comment on ICANN’s gTLD website for the the gTLD applications Based on Michele’s experience, and as you can see, it [...]

WordPress Development: An Effective Tool To Create Intricate Website

Wednesday, August 1st, 2012

PRLog (Press Release) – Aug 01, 2012 – Website development needs hard work and skills. This is not as effortless as it seems; one need to have the ardor and the art of designing a website which is inclusive of proficient information, skills, techniques and the quality of information. Every website reveals the desired company [...]

Apple-Samsung patent trial starts with fireworks

Wednesday, August 1st, 2012

It’s been a long time coming but on Tuesday Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics finally opened their billion-dollar patent fight in a California court. Both companies claim the other infringed their intellectual property. According to this report from CIO.com, Apple painted itself as a trailblazing company that has seen its inventions stolen by a latecomer. Samsung claimed [...]

myhosting.com Updates Debian and CentOS Linux VPS Offering, Launches … – Virtual

Tuesday, July 31st, 2012

myhosting.com, a leading provider of Linux VPS Hosting and Windows Hyper-V VPS Hosting, Shared Hosting and Hosted Exchange Email services has announced improvements to its existing Linux VPS product line to offer CentOS 6 and Debian 6 to customers, as well as the launch of Ubuntu 12 based VPS Hosting plans. Toronto, ON (PRWEB) July [...]

Memolane: Highlight Social Content With New Embed Features And WordPress Plugin

Thursday, July 26th, 2012

Memolane, a startup that helps users archive and explore their content across social networks, has been working to make it easier to share that content, for example by allowing users to share “lanes” with their Facebook friends. Now, founder Eric Lagier says publishers, brands, and anyone else should have an easy time featuring that content [...]

Namebench helps you find the fastest DNS

Thursday, July 26th, 2012

How good is your Domain Name System provider? A newly-released utility, called Namebench, is designed to help users answer that specific question and optimize their DNS experience. Troubleshoot your DNS The DNS vulnerability: What you should know and do How to transfer your domain name between hosts More ways to protect yourself from phishing scams [...]

Best WordPress Developer Company – PR

Thursday, July 26th, 2012

Dobri’s Ratings The real credit ratings… Uncensored analysis commentary… Article source: http://pr-usa.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1230516&Itemid=32

Two lessons cloud providers must take from Zerigo’s DNS outage

Wednesday, July 25th, 2012

When any business’s IT goes down, users will ask questions of those who provide their IT services – but in a cloudy world, a lax response to those questions can add up to major frustration. It’s a situation thrown sharply into relief by this week’s outage of cloud DNS service Zerigo, which fell over after [...]

Why the Dot Com Kingdom Will Continue to Rule Post New gTLDs

Wednesday, July 25th, 2012

At the start of the Internet and the first ever internet domain name boom, why has ‘dot com’ became the king and not ‘dot net’? This is a serious naming question and demands authoritative clarity to the answers. Form a nomenclature point of view; the global audience felt more comfortable with .com. It sounded better [...]

The Dot Com Kingdom Rules

Wednesday, July 25th, 2012

At the start of the Internet and the first ever internet domain name boom, why has ‘dot com’ became the king and not ‘dot net’? This is a serious naming question and demands authoritative clarity to the answers. Form a nomenclature point of view; the global audience felt more comfortable with Com. It sounded better [...]

Social Gallery WordPress Premium Plugin Launched

Tuesday, July 24th, 2012

PRLog (Press Release) – Jul 24, 2012 – This week Social Gallery – a new premium plugin for WordPress was released by StormGate, a web development company in England. Social Gallery is “the product of one of our internal projects” – a social take on the often under-leveraged way of viewing images in WordPress blog [...]

Dell Offers New Laptops with Red Hat Enterprise Linux Loaded

Tuesday, July 24th, 2012

Dell Offers New Laptops with Red Hat Enterprise Linux Loaded by Sam Dean – Jul. 24, 2012Comments (0) Dell Computer is continuing to exapnd its support for Linux and open source platforms. We’ve reported on the company’s work with Canonical to bring Ubuntu-based systems to both India and China, including an expansion of this effort. And, [...]

Dell Launching Ubuntu Linux Developer Laptop After Successful Pilot Program …

Monday, July 23rd, 2012

Dell will launch a developer version of the XPS 13 that runs Ubuntu 12.04. (Photo: flickr.com / Affiliate) After running a successful pilot program, Dell will be releasing an Ubuntu developer laptop codenamed Project Sputnik later this year. The project will essentially be an XPS13 Ultrabook with an Ubuntu 12.04 build that runs several developer [...]

Two Years In, Sedo Domain Market Report Examines Performance of .CO …

Monday, July 23rd, 2012

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sedo, the world’s largest domain marketplace and monetization provider, today unveiled a report that highlights the success of the .co extension since its introduction two years ago today, on July 20, 2010. “Sedo has done an excellent job of helping to establish and develop the secondary market for premium .CO domain names, as it [...]

Dell Ubuntu Linux Developer Laptop Launches this Fall: Project Sputnik FTW

Friday, July 20th, 2012

XPS13 Ultrabook(Photo: Dell | Mobile Apps) Dell announced on Wednesday, July 18, that it is officially back into the Linux laptop market. Project sputnik, which was first announced back in May, will now move out of Dell’s internal incubator program and graduate into a real product. Starting this fall, Dell will be selling a special [...]

Who Will Buy an Ubuntu Ultrabook?

Friday, July 20th, 2012

Jamie Condliffe View Profile Email Facebook Twitter RSS Dell has announced that it’s planning to bring Ubuntu to the masses. In the fall of 2012, Dell’s XPS 13 will be available with an install of Ubuntu direct from the company. But who’s going to buy one? I should point out that, until recently, I was [...]

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