The second most popular web server on the planet no longer comes from Microsoft. It comes from NGINX. And now, the tiny Russian outfit wants to actually make some money from its widely popular open source server software. This week, the company announced that it’s now officially offering technical support and consulting services to businesses everywhere. In others words, if you sign a three- to twelve-month contract, the company will help you install and configure the NGINX web server — a means of hosting web sites — and when things go wrong, it help with that too.

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Continue reading Samsung outs revamped Galaxy Ace Plus: bigger screen, worse resolution

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Samsung’s new Bada flagship has just docked into our illustrative French port. Announced back in the summer, the Wave 3 arrives on the refreshed Bada 2.0 OS, powered by a 1.4GHz processor and packing a four-inch 800 x 480 Super AMOLED display. Storage matches the watery iteration, with 3GB of memory baked-in, with expansion possible through microSD. Meanwhile, an auto-focus five megapixel shooter will do its best to fill all that space. Not content with France (where Bada-powered handsets have established a niche fanbase), the HSPA-connected smartphone is also penned to hit Germany, Russia and Italy before the end of the year.

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Spying for Russia can be a hard life. The feds are on your trail, always trying to find out who you’re meeting with and talking to. That’s why it’s best to make sure your secret agent gear is top quality and working properly. Otherwise, the FBI’s IT department may end up “fixing” it for you.

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Breaking a early promise, Russia won’t sell its advanced anti-aircraft missiles to Iran after all. What’s a mad Mullah to do but threaten to take the Russians to court?

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No one knows why a shortwave radio station somewhere in Russia broadcasts mysterious beeps, buzzes, and hums. But thousands listen in.

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