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As announced today, Google PageSpeed Service PSS (which has been in beta since July 2011) will be shut down forever on August 3, 2015. For every site currently using PageSpeed Service, you must change your DNS before 3rd August 2015 or your site(s) will become completely unavailable on that date. If you wish to continue enjoying many of the performance benefits of PageSpeed Service, the same Google PageSpeed technology is available in a number of alternative packagings which you may wish to consider using, including Apache mod_pagespeed, and nginx ngx_pagespeed. Other cloud-based solutions are available, too. Read more on Google PSS .

Now that's the iSlap to AT&T Apple (AAPL) To Join The Dow Jones Industrial Average March 18, Replacing AT&T (T). And that naturally caused the AT&T stock decline. Here are all 3 charted today #iBlueChip #iDow #iSlap According to Reuters, the decision to move AT&T aside shows how much communications and technology have evolved over the last several decades . You got that right indeed. Historic moment for Apple According to Dow Jones, "a stock typically is added only if the company has an excellent reputation, demonstrates sustained growth, and is of interest to a large number of investors," and so on some level, Dow Jones is reaffirming Apple's corporate reputation with this addition.

You should be FREAK ing out because of this encryption bug found in Windows and Internet Explorer. And if you are still the one using Windows XP, then most probably your PC is affected too, but don't wait Windows to send you any security updates on the way because  Windows XP support ended on April 8, 2014 . Windows 10 Tech Preview, Courtesy of Microsoft In a security advisory released Thursday, Microsoft has confirmed that Windows was and still is, in fact, vulnerable to FREAK (Factoring attack on RSA-EXPORT Keys). Earlier this week there were rumors that IE and Windows users were not affected by this bug. What is FREAK? It allows an attacker to intercept HTTPS connections between vulnerable clients and servers and force them to use weakened encryption, which the attacker can break to steal or manipulate sensitive data. FreakAttack.com is dedicated to tracking the impact of the attack and helping users test whether they’re vulnerable. Popular sites that are vulnerabl...

If you are an avid Shopify user, and have been undecided whether to get yourself a Shopify POS app, now its the perfect time to make up your mind, because today Shopify announces that selling in person just got a whole lot easier - their point of sale (POS) app, Shopify POS , is now available on the iPhone, and it's free for all Shopify merchants. With the new Shopify POS, you can now accept cash, credit, debit, and gift cards on your iPhone and iPad . Brick and mortar businesses can use our new Retail Package for more advanced features. Shopify POS seamlessly integrates with your online store so your products, orders and customers are always in sync. Bridging this gap between online and offline selling is an important step forward in our mission to make commerce better. Shopify POS is perfect for merchants that sell at farmers markets, pop-up stores, or even coffee shops on the weekend. Get your free Shopify POS (Point of Sale) app here . You will need Mobile Cred...

Priceline PCLN and Expedia EXPE  continue boycotting TripAdvisor's Mobile Booking Engine, while working with smaller MetaSearch players.  TripAdvisor rolled out it's mobile booking engine capabilities some time ago, claiming that their Mobile Booking Experience is far superior from other booking engines out there. Their Instant Booking feature (this is how they call it) is powered by Tingo and Getaroom. While the user experience may be questionable for many smaller and/or older online booking engines, this is not the case in 2014/2015 anymore - most bigger brands understand the increasing value of mobile visitor and have invested into their booking engines, some of them taking Mobile-First design approach. TripAdvisor's claims (who by the way has no real life experience in hotel eCommerce) do not apply bigger OTAs (and even bigger brands like Marriott). The question is not about the (mobile) user experience - it's about who owns the data. Every visitor to the...

Simplifying the EC2 Reserved Instance Model There is now a single type of Reserved Instance and it has three payment options. All of the options continue to provide capacity assurance and discounts that are typically around 63% for a three year term when compared to On-Demand prices. There are three payment options that so that you can decide how you would like to pay for your Reserved Instance throughout the term (in descending order of effective discount), and you can find these new options under the Offering  settings when purchasing Reserved Instances: All Upfront -  You pay for the entire Reserved Instance term (one or three years) with one upfront payment and get the best effective hourly price when compared to On-Demand. Partial Upfront -  You pay for a portion of the Reserved Instance upfront, and then pay for the remainder over the course of the one or three year term. This option balances the RI payments between upfront and hourly No Upfront -...

New, "Explosive" C4 instance type from AWS It has been a while since Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced new cloud hardware. For those unfamiliar with the cloud: yes, even cloud computing need actual hardware to run. The update will brings new, explosive c4 compute-optimized instance type on board, and while I still cannot see this type in my AWS console, I'm sure the promised architecture behind it will be good one. Apparently AWS has ordered the specific Haswell CPU from Intel, designed just for EC2: The new C4 instances are based on the Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 (code name Haswell ) processor. This custom processor, designed specifically for EC2 , runs at a base speed of 2.9 GHz, and can achieve clock speeds as high as 3.5 GHz with Turbo boost. These instances are designed to deliver the highest level of processor performance on EC2.  As said, there are no CPU benchmarks available yet, but I was quite surprised on their c3.large instance type performance and it h...