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Microsoft bids $44.6 billion to buy Yahoo
2008-02-02 13:20:00
In a bid to halt Google's growing dominance online, Microsoft has offered to buy struggling Internet giant Yahoo for $44.6 billion, an acquisition that would unite the world's most influential software company with the Web's most-trafficked site.If approved by Yahoo's shareholders and by regulators, Microsoft's unsolicited offer would set up a titanic corporate struggle between Microsoft and Google for the patronage of millions of Internet users around the world.Microsoft sells the operating systems and Web browser used on the vast majority of the world's computers. It was once feared as a near-monopoly with unbounded power over personal computing. But the proposed deal tacitly acknowledges that the software giant has failed to reinvent itself as computing shifts more online; instead, it is trying to buy its way into a stronger position. The proposed acquisition would give Microsoft access to Yahoo's 137 million monthly visitors and long reach into the lives of consumers in the online ...
Microsoft  Yahoo 

PHPld latest version 3.3 - Directory Script
2008-01-21 19:07:00
PHPld, one of the most popular php link directory script was started by David in 2001 for just exchanging links for the website! But now its the mostly used advanced free script in the market!PHPld latest version 3.3, have tons of more features that are very helpful. Here are some of these:The ability to create pages. So now you can add content to your homepage as well as anywhere within the directory using a WYSIWYG editor. The pages can be manually sortedYou will notice there is a new section called Article Comments. phpLD now allows the admin to turn on article comments as well as require captcha to prevent spam, and we hope this will be a great way to keep your site active, and full of fresh content.Business Listings and Google Maps:You will now be able to run phpLD as a business directory of physical locations, not just a link directory. At this time, this feature is probably best used on a new directory. It is turned on in admin, and then the additional fields for business listin ...
Directory  Script 

DashCommerce - ASP.NET Open Source e-Commerce
2008-01-19 14:02:00
CSK, and has been renamed to dashCommerce, dashCommerce is an ASP.NET Open Source e-commerce application that is a very flexible and robust incorporating all three major components of an e-commerce application, namely, product catalog, shopping cart, and order fulfillment. This starter kit requires the .NET Framework 2.0 and SQL 2000 or SQL 2005 addon. This cart is nice example of Custom ASP.Net Programming as well as Open Source Projects!Here is features list of DashCommerce:Online StorefrontFast installation Installs within minutes. Administer from your web browser.Self managed product catalog Add your own products, images and pricing information.Shopping cart Includes a fully functioning shopping cart with built-in shipping and tax calculators.Capability Accept all major credit cards: Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, PayPal.Customer ServiceAnonymous/registered shopping Enable anonymous shopping or require user login.Nonpaypal account Customers are not required to have ...
Commerce  Open Source  Source 

WordPress version 2.3.2 - Major Bug Fixes and New Additions
2008-01-19 10:54:00
December 29, 2007, WordPress version 2.3.2 was released to the public, The latest stable release of WordPress (Version 2.3.2)...Information on the changes and improvements in this new versionThe latest WordPress 2.3.2 version fixes a bug that could be used to expose draft posts (http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5487)and information leaks in the XML-RPC and APP implementations. It is recommecded to update to 2.3.2 to protect your blog from these disclosures.Although it is mainly a bugfix release, it does add a feature which allow you to define a custom DB error page. This would allow your site to fail more gracefully if your database became unavailable for some reason. You simply place your custom template at wp-content/db-error.php. So now, if WordPress ever has a problem connecting to the database, this page will displayed rather than the default error message. Very handy! Version 2.3.2 will also no longer display any database details upon failure as this could be used to aid an atta ...
Bug  Wordpress 

WordPress History - A most popular blog
2008-01-19 10:48:00
WordPress is actually a folk of another blogging software called b2/cafelog which started back in 2001The first release of WordPress was version 0.7. It was released on May 27, 2003. It was the upgrade from b2 version 0.62 that a lot of people had waited for. It was XHTML 1.1 complaint, had new default templates and a new admin interface.On June 9, 2003 WordPress 0.71 was released. This was a pretty major update to the software with loads of bug and security fixes, as well as a 300% speed-up in performance! Also in this release there was the introduction of the post status (Publish, Draft and Private), as well as a much cleaner admin panel. Soon after version, 0.7.1.1 was released to fix a small bug.It wasn’t until the October 11, 2003 that version 0.72 was released which had a large list of upgrades. These updates included Blogger import, security and bug fixes and lots of improvements on original functions.On December 19, 2003 the WordPress Wiki was launched which held all the docu ...
Blog  History  Wordpress 

History of Zencart - Open Source Shop Script
2008-01-18 09:46:00
Even before the release of osCommerce MS2.2.2, in June 2003 the new domain name Zen-Cart.com had been registered. A team was put together comprised of Ian C Wilson, Kim Elliott, Steve Strassburg and Linda McGrath, and the first Zen-Cart.com Web site was posted in November 2003. Besides streamlining the programming and utilizing CSS (cascading stylesheets) rather than the evil and outdated font tags, the Zen Cart team's philosophy was to make it easy to upgrade the store, and to offer frequent, small updates. The Zen Cart team released its version 1.3.8 on November 30 of 2007. The group has announced that by February 5, 2008, the minimum supported PHP version will be the current version, PHP 5.2. Wilson says the group created an umbrella company in March, 2007 which is exploring the possibility of financing the Zen-Cart open source e-commerce system, called Zen Ventures LLC. If the group is successful at obtaining financing, some method of earning revenues would necessarily have to f ...
History  Open Source  Script  Shop  Source 

OScommerce Store Breaks with Mysql5 - MySQL 5.0 Compatibility
2008-01-18 09:09:00
Hello Members!I was trying to transfer Open Source Oscommerce from mysql 4 to mysql5 and came to know well known issue of Left Joints!If you face this type of issue while doing Oscommerce Customization with Mysql 5, you can use these steps to make it work with Mysql5, This type of problems can also come in Creloaded and OSCmax which produce error 1064Here are steps to fix the issue in PHP Files as well as some in mysql database!Problem: MySQL 5.0 introduces Server SQL modes as part of its SQL 2003 standards support, and uses a more stricter approach to executing SQL queries. This is performed by default with setting STRICT_TRANS_TABLES as a Server SQL mode. Due to this new setting, MySQL fails on certain SQL queries and produces error messages on the screen. Solution: Lines 213-223 in advanced_search_result.php must be changed from: $from_str = "from " . TABLE_PRODUCTS . " p left join " . TABLE_MANUFACTURERS . " m using(manufacturers_id) left join " . TABLE_SPECIALS . ...
Mysql  Store