Tech News Flash: Tuesday -- January 17, 2012
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Website Scaling, Part 1: What It Means and How to Get There
Galaxy Nexus: A Dazzling Phone With an Enormous Appetite
US Cautions on 'Boot Up' Cyberthreat
Nightmare Hackers Take Swipe at Israeli Stock Exchange, Airline
Google's Nettlesome Search Gambit
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Today's Story Highlights
Website Scaling, Part 1: What It Means and How to Get There
The stories of websites that fell over and died when they got unexpected
traffic are legion. A recent example of what not to do would be Target's
introduction of a low-priced Missoni collection. The site attracted so
much traffic that Target.com was swamped for several hours on Sept. 13,
2011, leading would-be shoppers to face a cute but frustrating site-down
page.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74197.html
Galaxy Nexus: A Dazzling Phone With an Enormous Appetite
OK, Greenpeace, arrest me now as an eco-criminal. I must have single-
handedly deforested a good tract of the Amazon rain forest over the last
few days. In mitigation, I plead that this was because of the
requirements of my job. I was testing the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. The
device is sleek and sexy, has a great UI and nice features, but its
appetite for power is incredible.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74195.html
US Cautions on 'Boot Up' Cyberthreat
The routine is almost universal. Every day, millions of workers turn on
their computers, take a second or two for a sip of coffee as their
desktop or laptop "boots up," and then get to work. In those few
seconds, the basic input-output system, or BIOS, of the computer loads
the protocols that actually run the PC -- in effect, acting the same as
the worker's shot of coffee.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74190.html
Nightmare Hackers Take Swipe at Israeli Stock Exchange, Airline
Hackers believed to belong to the pro-Palestinian group "Nightmare"
struck at the websites of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and Israeli
airline El Al on Monday in what appears to be an escalation of
cyberbattles between Israelis and pro-Palestinian hackers. Three Israeli
banks were also attacked.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74193.html
Google's Nettlesome Search Gambit
Google has tuned up its search engine once again, but this time instead
of shaving a couple of precious microseconds off its response time, it's
decided to adjust some back-end systems in a way that changes the kinds
of results people get, depending on who they are.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74180.html
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