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In: The IT Crowd
30 Jan 2010Late Wednesday evening, Google employees posted an “Internet-Draft” outlining proposed changes to the DNS protocol that allow authoritative DNS servers to see the addresses of clients. This way, geographically distributed content delivery networks can tailor their answers to a specific client’s network location. So a client from California would talk to a server in California, [...]
In: The IT Crowd
29 Jan 2010Several of the concerns about Oracle’s acquisition of Sun have revolved around how Unix technologies led by Sun would continue under the new ownership. As it turns out, Solaris users might not have much to worry about, as Oracle executives on Wednesday affirmed their commitment to preserving the efforts.
In the case of Solaris, Oracle (NASDAQ: [...]
In: The IT Crowd
27 Jan 2010Mozilla makes a good chunk of its revenues from a search deal with Google. So for all of you reading this blog on a Firefox web browser, Mozilla staffers that worked on this, were in part paid (indirectly) from that deal.
If you happen to be running Firefox on Ubuntu, that’s going to change.
You see, Canonical [...]
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