Beyond Caching: Google engineers reveal secrets to faster Web sites
In the fiercely competitive world of Internet services, Google constantly seeks ways to speed up the delivery of content to its hundreds of millions of users. At the O'Reilly Velocity conference this week in New York, two Google engineers presented some of their favorite tips and research for expediting delivery of Web pages and applications. Such knowledge could be handy for other Web developers looking to make their products more responsive.
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SoftBank to take over mobile distributor Brightstar for $1.26 billion
Fresh from its acquisition of Sprint, Japan's SoftBank plans to take control of Brightstar, the dominant distributor of mobile devices in the U.S. and a global player serving more than 200 carriers. SoftBank has reached a definitive agreement to invest $1.26 billion in Brightstar and immediately gain a 57 percent stake in the company. It will have the option later to raise its ownership to 70 percent. The cash transaction, which SoftBank announced on Friday, will be carried out through a U.S. subsidiary.
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Why Intel's more-of-the-same processors aren't enough
Despite Intel announcing flat earnings earlier in the week, the venerable chipmaker is pinning its clie
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Apple warns of SSD failures in MacBook Air, offers free replacements
Apple is warning customers that solid-state drives in some MacBook Airs are failing and is offering free replacements. The company said that 64GB and 128GB SSDs were failing in MacBook Air laptops sold between June 2012 and June 2013. The drives will be replaced free, the company said in webpage about the SSD recall.
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China's Huawei turns the table on security after Snowden NSA leaks
One year after U.S. politicians labeled it an espionage threat, China's Huawei Technologies continues to face security concerns -- but this time, those might not be a factor as the company sells to a market rattled by the Edward Snowden leaks of U.S. classified surveillance programs. On Friday, the Chinese networking equipment supplier said in a report that Huawei had been free of influence from government groups wanting access to its technology.
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Facebook 'stalker' tool uses Graph Search for powerful data mining
When a high-profile public figure living in Hong Kong hired the security company Trustwave to test if its experts could get his passwords, they turned to Facebook. While the dangers of sharing too much data on Facebook are well-known, it is surprising how little data can give hackers a foothold. The man gave Trustwave's team no-holds barred permission to try and snatch his data, a so-called "Red Team" test.
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AMD reports Q3 profit after reducing reliance on PCs
Reduced reliance on the PC market helped Advanced Micro Devices turn a profit in the third quarter, with the company looking for faster growth in the quarters ahead. AMD reported net income of US$48 million for the quarter ended Sept. 28, better than its loss of $157 million in the same quarter last year.
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Programmers at Juniper -- not Google or Facebook -- rake in the most dough
What a lucrative profession coding can be -- the best paid software engineers have an average base salary of nearly $160,000, and they work at Juniper Networks, according to a recent survey. Juniper, a network equipment maker that competes with Cisco Systems, placed first in a ranking of the 25 highest paying companies for software engineers, compiled by the employee reviews site Glassdoor.
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Resurrected KB 951847 'zombie' patch fixed -- but now has new problem
Sometimes Microsoft's Black Tuesday flubs make me feel like I'm riding tech bumper cars: One patch bumps into another, then another, which ricochets off into left field and comes back to smack me in a head-on collision.
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Trade secrets protection set to get tougher
Momentum is building for federal legislation protecting trade secrets, an intellectual property attorney said at a Silicon Valley seminar on Thursday.
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Users hit by Blue Screen, 0xC1900101 - 0x40017 error with Windows 8.1 update
The Microsoft Answers forum is abuzz with a problem that seems to affect many people trying to update from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1.
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Google flies high -- but Motorola sinks further
The good news about Google in its third-quarter results aren't hard to find: The company beat analyst estimates for revenue and earnings per share.
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Silicon Valley: Top salaries for many, greater inequality for all
Credit: Ireneusz Skorupa
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