10 1 tip for optimizing website for speed (or how to keep yo

10+1 tip for optimizing website for speed (or how to keep your visitors from hating you)

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Does Ballmer Need To Go?

Milan Vrekic:Microsoft’s dramatic decision this weekend to withdraw its offer for Yahoo and not pursue a hostile bid raises a whole host of questions. What happens to Yahoo now? What happens to Microsoft? Or is this just a tactic to drive down the price of Yahoo’s shares so that Microsoft can go hostile with a lower offer? does ballmer need to go?

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Google Video Gets a Makeover

Milan Vrekic:Google Video has given itself a redesign, adding some nice search tweaks and a fresh new look. Now when you search for a video, results can be viewed through a regular list, a grid, or a TV view that lets you watch a video while you scan through other results.

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From Win32 to Cocoa: a Windows user's conversion to Mac OS X

A hardcore PC user finally jumps ship and discusses how Windows lost its "wow" and Apple gained a customer.

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Milan Vrekic:Google talks up Android: open ecosystems lead to innovation

At LugRadio Live in San Francisco, Google developer Robert Love gave a presentation about the Android mobile platform and described some of the ways that it will empower users and developers. Google still has some work ahead of it before Android is ready for prime time, however.

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224 Mbps for $1.58 a Month!

“This project will offer 60 million users unlimited high speed Internet connection of 224Mbps (megabits per second) at a cost of only around RM5 (US$1.58) per user per month, which is the fastest and cheapest in the world,” he said. BPL modems use existing electrical power lines to deliver high speed Internet access and data transmission.

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Why I Let My 9-Year-Old Ride the Subway Alone

For weeks my boy had been begging for me to please leave him somewhere, anywhere, and let him try to figure out how to get home on his own. So on that sunny Sunday I gave him a subway map, a MetroCard, a $20 bill, and several quarters, just in case he had to make a call.

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