Metallica may not be the house band for PHP programmers, but it comes close. The heavy metal rockers are the group that most PHP coders like to listen to while they work. This according to a survey of more than 3,000 PHP programmers surveyed by Zend. The runners-up for most-popular bands were Pink Floyd...
Digital marketing company Vistaprint is acquiring Webs, a popular DIY website creation service, for $117.5 million in cash and stock ($100 million in cash and $17.5 million in stock). Webs, which has raised $23 million in funding from Novak Biddle Venture Partners and Columbia Capital, allows businesses to create simple websites, Facebook pages and...
Google has just announced a number of new features and improvements for Google+, its social network, which will be rolling out over the next couple of days. The most interesting change is new controls that let users optimize the way they get updates from circles and friends in their update streams. Google has added...
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Due to the increase in the amount of streaming video content on the Internet, many ISPs are faced with either investing in backbone hardware or trying to add intelligence into the network. It’s an even bigger problem as cable and telecom operators add TV Everywhere services, which expand the amount of streaming content that...
The story sounds almost like a Hollywood plot, except it is true: A young starlet doing nude scenes as a teenager who goes on to invent a critical wartime technology that is ignored by the US Navy but ultimately forms the basis of WiFi and cell phones that we use today. Of course, I...
The latest in the strange tale of RIM: someone stole a truckload of 5,000 BlackBerry Playbooks worth $1.7 million, reports The Verge. The legitimate truck driver was away from the vehicle for a moment to eat at an Indiana rest stop and that was all the opportunity the thief needed to drive away with...
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The British Heart Foundation (BHF) has launched a rather sardonic online tool aimed at helping marketers successfully target junk food at kids. Five Steps to Junk Food Marketing Success was rolled out on the back of its recent report which sought to expose how junk food manufacturers are ‘preying’ on children online. Released yesterday...
Mobile music discovery service Shazam is continuing to build on its partnership with Twentieth Century Fox by today announcing the first Shazam-enabled Blu-ray and DVD release of Glee: The Concert Movie, which is available tomorrow. Today, users of the application will be able to view “new exciting never-before-seen and extended performances, clips of fans’...