Cesar Alierta President of Telefonica located in Spain but which serves 250 Million customers around the world has either completely lost his mind or is having some serious problems serving his customers.

Alierta is suggesting that the company will begin charging or … trying to charge Google, Bing, Yahoo and other portals for the use of their backbone.

From his own statements it is not just the bots that index websites but Content from sites like YouTube, Gmail and others provided by these outside businesses.

In a statement this week Alierta said “We deploy …

Facebook is about to release some Open Source code that may change the way we write PHP. The project is called HipHop PHP or HHPHP and is a converter and compiler of PHP Code into a static & C++ Runtime.

The project is said to be live on the Facebook site for about 8 months now but its development started over 2 years ago.

In a press release type meeting Facebook gave us some of the framework and also reasoning behind the project.

It seems that the Facebook site like many larger PHP sites …

Its pretty sad when a publisher can force the prices of books up the way Macmillan just did to Amazon.

Amazon is a discount broker and Macmillan does not need to use them for their primary releases if the publisher wants to keep the prices up for a short period of time but it seems that it has been in both Amazon and all other publishers benefits to release books at a economical price that will attract people using the Kindle platform.

Really these books should be released in an open pdf format …

Making posts on your site is hard work and if you want to display your post count to your visitors WordPress has an easy way built in for you to do it.

When placing this code on your site you should understand that each count and each page view that has a count will require another lookup in your database.

If you have a large number of posts on your site .. in the thousands or tens of thousands you may want to find another method that will make an initial count then …

Hulu is going ahead with it’s plans to provide a paid service.

The announcement of the proposal came last summer and it seems that an outcry from visitors of the site was not loud enough to stop the onset of the new payment scheme.

Although Hulu is a venture of a few different sources including News Corp which owns FOX it was not only Rupart Murdock’s decision to go pay.

Comcast the worlds largest cable tv provider has long made it clear that they are against any site that provides free content to their …

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We have seen a number of different businesses and even government & security websites that have been hacked over the years so… You have to realize that if someone wants in they are probably going to get in.

There are holes in every os, db, web daemon and script… and there are lots of people smart enough to find them.

But that is not the point here.

The idea of having passwords on your computers and accounts is to reduce the chance someone can get in by simply trying a common string.

When the site RockYou.com was hacked they brought in a …

Right now if you publish a book on amazon you have a few options.

You can take the 10% or less and publish to print or digital but often you don’t see any profits if you are an independent writer.

For instance you write a great book and sell it for $10 and get $1 as a royalty whenever someone buys it… actually its more like 40 cents.

If you sell 100 copies of your book you made a whopping $40 wow.

If you sell 10,000 copies of your book you just made $4,000 not …

Whether you are working on a Plugin or a Theme there are times when you need to see all the Errors in your PHP Code.

Well because WordPress is written in PHP and the wp-config.php file is loaded on every page view this is the appropriate place to enable your PHP Debugging settings.

Now nothing is perfect in PHP Debug information but sometimes you may get pointed to a simple mistake that you can quickly fix.

To Enable PHP Debugging you have two different settings

WordPress Debug
To enable debug in WordPress you can place the …

Like many newspapers the NY Times is not alone in losing revenue.

Many small papers already require registration but not payment to see current articles and others require payment if you want to see historic content…

But in 2011 the New York Times will begin Paid Content.

Some of their teaser content will still be available and there is no word if their excerpts will be published to sites like google news…

The thing is most newspapers even large ones like the times fill themselves with syndicated content and the wires have been online and …