Oracle raises cost of low-end MySQL support Oracle has apparently raised the price of an entry-level MySQL subscription significantly. Sun Microsystems, which Oracle bought this year, had offered subscription pricing for the open-source database starting at $599 per server per year

Page Speed Automatic is a complementary optimization service to Cotendo’s existing Dynamic Site Acceleration service (shown above). (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Content delivery network and value-added site acceleration services provider Cotendo ( www.cotendo.com ) has deployed Page Speed Automatic, a new code optimization service which uses the the open-source project mod_pagespeed optimization engine developed at Google ( www.google.com ). According to Cotendo’s Wednesday announcement, the new service implements a comprehensive set of best practices designed to automatically minimize page load time and enhance the performance of code passing through a CDN.

Study: Android Apps Sending Private Data To Advertisers Some applications based on the open-source Android operating system are secretly opening up too much to advertisers. That’s the word from a new study conducted by a research team from Duke University, Penn State University, and Intel Labs. The study was conducted using the team’s new, real-time privacy monitoring tool, TaintDroid

Get started in minutes with WordPress hosting Thursday 2nd September 2010 WordPress hosting takes just minutes to deploy, meaning users can be adding content to their new websites within the first hour, it has been reported. Writing for Network World, Frank Ohlhorst explained that the open-source custom web hosting platform allows businesses to create static content to be published online.

Network Solutions reported today that a mass compromise of parked domains belonging to their customers affected significantly less domains than previously thought.

Mozilla designer touts tricks to give Firefox the illusion of speed An interface designer interning at Mozilla has suggested that the company mimic gimmicks in Google’s Chrome to make users think Firefox starts up faster.

Hackers Channeling R&D Into Better Malware IT companies spend billions on R&D to improve their products and take advantage of the latest technologies. But as it turns out, so do cybercriminals, and that strategy seems to be working pretty well