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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 07:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[SPDY takes a step beyond Google's walls]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 07:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[SPDY, a would-be standard with which Google hopes to speed up the Web, has taken a baby step outside its founding company's walls.Strangeloop Networks, a Vancouver company that sells technology and services for hosting content on the Web, now includes SPDY in its products, the company announced yesterday.SPDY is basically a new and improved HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol), the standard that Web browsers and Web servers use to communicate. To develop and test such a technology, a company needs to control both ends of a communication channel, and that's just what Google has done. Google's Chrome browser and some Google Web sites have SPDY built in.According to Google's white paper on SPDY, the protocol can cut load times for the top 25 Web sites by between 28 percent and 43 percent over a 2Mbps DSL line and 44 percent to 55 percent over a 4Mbps cable broadband connection. The variation depends on the number of SPDY features enabled and changes such as whether SSL encryption is used.For its part, Strangeloop said SPDY cuts page-load times by at least half. With Web developers striving to shave every millisecond off that lag, that's a pretty substantial boast--at least for those on the Web using Chrome.Google announced SPDY in November 2009. It plans to make the technology open-source software.People tend to spend more time on faster-loading pages, and less directly, Google gives fast-loading pages an edge when determining what ads to show next to search results.Among SPDY's standard features: the ability to request multiple Web page elements over a single network connection, to assign priorities to Web page elements to make sure the most important ones arrive first' and to compress &quot;header&quot; data that accompanies the actual Web page information and browser-server interactions. There also are optional ones such as server push, in which the server can send information the browser will need before the browser asks for it, and server hints, a gentler suggestion approach to the same idea.An indirect benefit of SPDY is that it fares better over Internet connections that lose a lot of data packets or that suffer from long round-trip times--the communication wait for a message to go from one machine to the other and back, Google said.One of the Google programmers working on the technology, Mike Belshe, said in May he's working on finalizing the SPDY specification. The technology would be overseen by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), which is in charge of the HTTP standard. The work caught the attention of Roy T. Fielding, an influential computer scientist who helped write HTTP and the Apache Web server software that's very widely used to host Web sites.Belshe said Strangeloop has been helpful in developing the technology. &quot;Strangeloop engineers embraced SPDY from the beginning and provided key data and feedback about their experience,&quot; he said in a statement.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Apple criticized for approving 'gay cure' app]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 07:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[(Credit:Change.org)Apple is facing criticism from a gay rights group after the company approved aniPhone app from a religious ministry that encourages people to &quot;cure&quot; themselves of homosexuality.Advocating &quot;freedom from homosexuality through the power of Jesus,&quot; Exodus International launched its app last month to spread the word about its cause. The app connects users to the ministry's Web site and offers links to its latest news and blog posts.But Exodus' message and its app have triggered complaints from Truth Wins Out, a nonprofit group whose stated goal is to fight anti-gay religious extremism. Launching a petition on Change.org to persuade Apple to remove the app, TWO says this type of so-called &quot;reparative therapy&quot; to change one's sexual orientation has been rejected by all the major medical associations.Calling Exodus' message &quot;hateful and bigoted,&quot; TWO claims the ministry uses scare tactics and misinformation to recruit people. Of particular concern, says TWO, is the way Exodus has been targeting young people in the wake of several recent suicides by LGBT teenagers.In its petition, which as of now has already received more than 99,000 signatures, TWO is calling on Apple CEO Steve Jobs and other key executives to remove the app based on the company's own guidelines, which say that &quot;any app that is defamatory, offensive, mean-spirited, or likely to place the targeted individual or group in harms way will be rejected.&quot;Apple has not responded to a request for comment.The app itself has received more than 600 one-star reviews in the App Store, with a large number of people condemning its message.&quot;Apple doesn't allow racist or anti-Semitic apps in its app store, yet it is giving the green light to an app targeting vulnerable LGBT youth with the message that their sexual orientation is a 'sin that will make your heart sick' and a 'counterfeit,'&quot; said TWO in its petition. &quot;This is a double standard that has the potential for devastating consequences.&quot;Apple faced a similar conflict late last year over an app from the Manhattan Declaration, a group whose members speak out against such issues as gay marriage. Following a petition against this app on Change.org, Apple eventually removed it from the App Store explaining that it &quot;violates our developer guidelines by being offensive to large groups of people.&quot;<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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