London, UK – May 30, 2007 – Businesses that rely on payment by credit cards are required to comply with the PCI security standards by September 2007. Non compliance could result in loss of merchant account, severe fines and lawsuits….
I upgraded last week to Cpanel 11 which will be available as stable by June 13, and one of the new features that I just noticed is the integration of the PEAR installer. After login to Cpanel11, under the software box choose “PHP PEAR Package” and it will lead you to the PHP PEAR installer. The installer will first check the config automatically and update PEAR channel, then you will get the installer interface as you see it in the screenshot below : The news with Cpanel11 is that system packages are separated from user packages which will be installed under /home/username/php, this will give users more freedom to search for the package that they are looking for and install it directly from the official PEAR repository, without having to ask the hosting provider to support a package or another. You can find over the hosting magazine 10 steps to upgrade to Cpanel 11 if you can’t wait for the stable release.
Today AOL announced the acquisition of Third Screen Media , Mobile Advertising company, for an undisclosed price to expand Advertising.com’s mobile services for both advertisers and publishers. According to the press release the US mobile advertising market is expected to grow from $421 million in 2006 to $4.7 billion by 2011, while globally the market is expected to increase to $11.3 billion by the same year, according to eMarketer. I don’t know the potential of AOL in mobile content, because if Advertising.com will focus mainly on publisher’s content AOL won’t profit much from the deal. Below the press release : DULLES, VA – May 15, 2007 – AOL announced today that it has acquired Third Screen Media, the leading mobile advertising network and mobile ad-serving and management platform provider. Third Screen Media will operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary of AOL’s Advertising.com division. “AOL is one of only four at-scale advertising businesses on the Internet, and the acquisition of Third Screen Media gives us a very strong position in the fast-growing mobile space,” said Randy Falco, Chairman and CEO of AOL
Chris Jones and Alison Holloway released today version 1.4 of The Underground PHP and Oracle Manual [PDF]. An excellent reference for the PHP Oracle developper in 17 chapters and 195 pages. The e-Book cover different issues for installing PHP, Oracle with the different extensions available and connecting them to each other. You can find also how to tune connections by changing OCI8 calls, the network configuration and by tuning the database. More advanced topics are covered such using PL/SQL with OCI8, using large objects in OCI8, using XML, globalization, and a very short chapter but consistent about tracing OCI8 internals. Lots of changes have been made in this release including : Updated the versions of software in the install steps. Show how to use the Windows MSI installer
You certainly heard about the latest CPanel 11, automated updates are not yet available on the stable branch and many was asking me how to upgrade their servers to this new release. Notice that to use Cpanel 11 you will…
LifeType team just released a new Ads Plugin highly requested by blog communities to create custom blocks for all blogs. Very useful plugin to add for example a top banner to all blogs with ads, subscription link or other. You can make your service similar to Blogger and get some support clicks to your main blogging platform. To release this new plugin, LifeType team decided to make it a little fun with a ” plugin ransom “, users interested to the plugin donate money until donation reach 100 Euro. I’m very sorry Oscar to broke the game 
If you bid higher it might happen ! So now the plugin have just been released under the GPL like all other components of LifeType.
There are some great wordpress plugins that can definitely boost your blogging and make your blog more fun. Recently I was testing Postalicious , a Wordpress plugin that let you create posts from your delicious bookmarks. You may probably noticed many bloggers posting speedlinks with their latest bookmarks, this not only make your blog more active, but also help you share your favorite bookmarks with your readers. Usage is pretty simply, all you need is a delicious account. I used to create a new delicious account for a new wordpress blog that I created for testing, but you can use your existent one. Then after installing the plugin you will have to configure it once with your delicious account setting and how you want post to be integrated in your blog.
Chitika announced in their recent newsletter an amazing new e-Book titled ” Deep Secrets of Successful Blogging ” (PDF) and including selection of 30 experts worldwide in the first 2007 Blog Bash event. An amazing reading for the weekend ! The list include : B5media, Gizmodo, problogger, emoms at home, daily blog tips, Tech buzz, seobook, pronet advertising, Bumpzee, LiewCF, and much more ! Definitely loved the articles and the presentation of every expert, and of course you’ll discover lots of tips to make money with your blog and Chitika. Click the image below to download the PDF e-Book. Enjoy !
PHILADELPHIA April 2007 – Finally, we have complete control over our calendars. MobileGCAL.com has developed a free service to allow Google Calendar users to access their calendars from their mobile device. Prior to the development of mobileGCAL, Google Calendar was accessible in limited form via text messaging.
The PEAR election is over, PEAR Group team, which will be the governing body of the project, now officially include 8 members : Martin Jansen, Arnaud Limbourg, Joshua Eichorn, Christian Weiske, Helgi Thormar, Paul M. Jones, Justin Patrin, and David Coallier. The elected group will be able to decide about the future of the project according to the new constitution . Notice that this is more about the organisations of the group, and who is able to take major decisions, but will not affect a lot the PEAR project as coding or as project itself