Author: Sean Michael Kerner (Internet News)
Even with all the drama surrounding Oracle’s pending acquisition of Sun and critics’ concerns about its impact on Oracle’s open source database competition, Sun developers are still hard at work on MySQL. One of the fruits of their labors is the recent MySQL 5.5 milestone 2 development release, which introduces [...]
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MySQL 5.5 Comes with Surprise Features
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009Cyber Monday – 50% off all Web Hosting Accounts!
Monday, November 30th, 2009Cyber Monday is here, and we have something to offer. Today offers a 1-day-only sell on all of our Web Hosting accounts! You get 50% off of any account level when you choose a yearly subscription. This lasts for the life of the account (discount continues on each renewal).
On top of that, you still get [...]
New Exploit Targets Old Versions of IE (Why you should upgrade)
Monday, November 23rd, 2009Yet another attack has been released that focuses on older versions of Internet Explorer. This is why everyone should always make certain that they keep their browsers updated at all times.
This doesn’t mean you have to upgrade to the latest IE though. You can always switch to an alternative browser like Mozilla Firefox or Google [...]
Google Also Signs on With Twitter and Microsoft with Facebook for Bing
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009Author: Ryan Sanders
In our recent blog post we spoke about Twitter’s recent inclusion into Bing’s search results, but we didn’t even cover half of it.
Not only will tweets from Twitter be displayed on Microsoft’s Bing in search results, but Google has also signed on to offer the same. Now both of the net’s currently most [...]
Microsoft Bing and Twitter Get Friendly With Each Other
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009Author: Ryan Sanders (Poc Network)
Well, if you don’t already know, Twitter is one of the greatest micro-blog websites known to the net. It not only brings many personal users together with their daily activities (can you say…stalker central?), but it is also known for it’s massive assistance in delivering up-to-date news and announcements for everything [...]
Poc Network’s twitter should be coming back shortly
Monday, October 19th, 2009Author: James Hrenak (Poc Network)
For those that have been following us on Twitter, you probably noticed that a week or so ago our twitter account was temporarily suspended. We haven’t been able to determine yet why this happened as we do not, nor do we support any form of spam. We have only been able [...]
Google Sets the Standard for Crawling AJAX-based Sites
Thursday, October 8th, 2009Author: Michelle Megna (Internet News)
Google’s proposing a new standard for making AJAX-based Web sites search-engine friendly. If adopted, the standard could mean developers no longer have to choose between site optimization and dynamic pages.
It’s been common knowledge for years that Web sites created using Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (define) would not be crawled and indexed [...]
W3C’s New SKOS Standard Advances Linked Data
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009Author: David Needle (Internet News)
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) today unveiled a new framework designed to bridge the gap between classifications, subject headings and taxonomies and so-called linked data.
The idea is to create broader and simpler data exchange and access to information as part of the broader Semantic Web initiative.
The term “linked data” describes [...]
Study Touts Internet Explorer 8 As Most Secure Browser
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009Source: Yahoo! Tech
Editor: Ryan Sanders
According to a recent independent study, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 has been found to be the most secure browser currently available.
The study was conducted by US based security research company NSS Labs, and included testing for Google’s Chrome, Firefox 3, the beta of Opera 10, Safari 4, and Internet Explorer 8.
Microsoft [...]
