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Twitter turns to Protocol Buffers for back-end data storage

Top micro blogging site Twitter has eschewed popular technologies such as XML, CSV and JSON for its back-end data storage needs. For the average of 12TB data that it stores each day, Twitter is

DNSSEC is fully deployed on DNS root servers

The 13 name servers operating the root zone of the Internet's Domain Name Servers (DNS) are now digitally signed with DNSSEC, or the Domain Name Server Security Extensions protocol. This will help

New parallel programming support added to Visual Studio 2008

Microsoft has updated its popular programming suite, Visual Studio 2008, to incorporate better support for parallel programming. Among other capabilities, it will now include support for debugging

Google releases plug-in for Microsoft Outlook

Google fired another shot into the enterprise space earlier this week by its release of the Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook . The plug-in for Microsoft Outlook basically works with the Premier

Comcast testing new methods of throttling bandwidth

In the wake of the furor over the way Comcast uses TCP reset flags to throttle BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic, the company is testing out a trio of protocol agnostic methods of

Cisco leans towards open source

Cisco Systems has announced a new messaging protocol called Etch. Etch is designed to allow developers to integrate client/server applications without the overhead common to traditional protocols