Finnish cellular manufacturing giant Nokia has been experimenting internally with a cell phone based port of the popular Apache open source web server. Being both a technologist and a gadget buff, this naturally piqued my curiosity. However, this is a road frought with challenges. Of course, it sounds like really cool stuff, and I suppose from a purely hackeristic standpoint, it is. But I don’t think it will prove to be a viable solution for a wealth of reasons.

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The global Internet is truly a fantastic tool - an ever-changing amalgam of people and ideas. Unfortunately, not all of the information out there in cyberspace is worthy of the screen space it takes up. I recently came across the personal blog of Marcelo Calbucci, the CEO of Sampa Corp, a startup company focusing on providing web/blog tools for beginners. A recent article, entitled “Web Developers: Speed up your pages!” struck my interest. I am always on the lookout for ways to introduce efficiencies, and I figured if I could pick up a tip or two to add to my arsenal, then it was worth my time to read the piece. Boy was I wrong.

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