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The elusive Apple iPhone will hit US retail stores within a month, but manufacturing contracts have already been signed for iPhone 2. Its reported that a Taiwanese manufacturer, Quanta, had secured contracts to start producing the iPhone’s successor from September. Quanta – the world’s largest laptop PC manufacturer – already produces MacBook laptops and iPods for Apple, in addition to a range of laptops for both Dell and HP. And the Treo smartphone maker, Palm, said today it would unveil its own answer to iPhone – “a new category of mobile device”. More scoop on this buzz.

When Intel asked designers to build a better laptop, its instructions were simple. The machine has to be fashionable, able to connect to all manner of wireless networks, and full of the latest, fastest computing capabilities.

The result, code-named Intel mobile Metro notebook, is less than 0.7 inches thick — about one-quarter of an inch thicker than Motorola’s iconic cell phone, Moto Razr, making it the world’s thinnest notebook. And at 2.25 pounds, it’s also one of the lightest small-sized portable computers. More about the world’s thinnest and lightest laptop.

Since I’ve been doing some LAMP development lately, I thought this article might be interesting to share. Applications using the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl) architecture are constantly being developed and deployed. Everyone from Google to Facebook is using LAMP as part of their system architecture. But often the server administrator has little control over the application itself because it’s written by someone else. This articles discusses many of the server configuration items that can make or break an application’s performance. It focuses on steps you can take to optimize Apache and PHP. Read on: Tuning LAMP systems, Part 2: Optimizing Apache and PHP

One of the best solutions to spam is to get a temporary or disposable e-mail inbox which automatically expires after a certain time period. Checkout the Top 20 Temporary and Disposable Email Services. My personal choice is Jetable – its simple to use and does what its meant to do.

While Windows Vista no longer has the Windows File System (WinFS) feature and its core has been built starting from the Windows Server 2003 kernel, the Joejoe group have gone back to the pre-release Build 4074 of Longhorn and took it from there. Microsoft has so far failed to react to the project officially, but the Redmond Company did state that the end users license agreement for the beta build of Longhorn does not allow users to modify and redistribute the code. More details …