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Site Performance Optimization
Search Engine Land reported that Google measures the speed of a page rendering for the customer in two ways:
How a page responds to Googlebot
Load time as measured by the Google Toolbar
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How to open a .zipx file (unzip zipx files)
Since WinZip is the one that created .zipx, this new compression format, the best solution is to get a copy of WinZip and use it to open and extract the contents of the zipx file. To open/extract a zipx file:
Download and install the latest version of WinZip or Bitzipper
Once you have WinZip (or Bitzipper) installed open it and go to File->Open
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Apple says it sold more than 300,000 iPad
Apple says it sold more than 300,000 of its latest product, the iPad tablet computer, on its launch day in the US.
The figures for Saturday included pre-orders of the device, as well as sales at Apple stores across the country.
The news sent Apple Inc shares up 1.1% to a record closing high of $238.49 on Monday.
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Google’s week in review: Google TV, Pac-Man, Android and more acquisitions
Where to start? Google aired new initiatives left and right at its Google I/O developer conference, such as Google TV and the Android 2.2 OS, but also made plenty of other headlines good and bad.
Let’s be charitable and start with the good, since it outweighed the bad.
Android on a roll
Google continued to ride the Android wave by previewing Android 2.2 OS, which boasts enterprise-oriented features including integration with Microsoft Exchange. The software, which had gone by the code name Froyo, will also be faster and support Flash, Google said.
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Google: Fake antivirus makes up 15 percent of all malware
A rise in fake antivirus offerings on Web sites around the globe shows that scammers are increasingly turning to social engineering to get malware on computers rather than exploiting holes in software, a Google study to be released on Tuesday indicates.
Fake antivirus–false pop-up warnings designed to scare money out of computer users–represents 15 percent of all malware that Google detects on Web sites, according to 13-month analysis the company conducted between January 2009 and February 2010.
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SDXC card
Memory cards may not be the flashiest electronics (snort!) but they are pretty amazing when you watch them evolve. Case in point, the upcoming SDXC card.
The XC’s short for “eXtended Capacity” as in 2 TERABYTES of storage.
What is Web 3.0?
What Is the Difference Between Web 3.0 and Web 2.0?
While O’Reilly believes that Web 3.0 is an extension of Web 2.0, Spivak – regarded as a champion of the term Web 3.0 – believes it will be a third generation web approximately between 2010 and 2020. In order to understand Web 3.0, we must balance it against the existing Web 2.0. In the Web 2.0 universe, searching Google for “Gary Price” will yield a plethora of unrelated hits. Web 3.0 solves this problem by providing context to searching for online information.
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Three tight races in regional vote
Rome, March 29 – Projections from Sunday’s and Monday’s vote in 13 Italian regions see three neck-and-neck races while the center right appears to be the clear winner in four regions and the center left in six.
The tightest race is in Lazio where center-right candidate Renata Polverini and center-left candidate Emma Bonino are both projected with 48.9% of the vote.
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China’s Google users see little change after move
Google’s decision to redirect its China-based website to Hong Kong could have major consequences – but not yet for Google users in China.
The US firm is now offering unfiltered services through this website, but search results are still being censored in mainland China.
Sensitive information that was not accessible before is still being blocked by the Chinese government.
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Morfeus F****ng Scanner
If you read in your server log a strange user agent: “Morfeus Fucking Scanner” you have to know that it’s a bot who scan PHP server application to find some vulnerability.
At the moment, the relative IP scanned this server is located in Spain, but reading old logs, it means many connection has been provide from USA.
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