iWeb Communities: Blog

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news and is published at 8.00am EST. For March 5th, here are the highlights:

• A detailed article on how netlog (a social networking european website) does sharding with MySQL. Netlog has 50 millions unique visitors per month, and up to 3000 database queries per second
• AT&T is planning to sell subsidized netbooks, with 2 year contract, with a $60/month unmetered plan, with prices for the netbook below $100
• Nokia has announced they will be developing and launching LTE devices for 2010. LTE is a 4th Generation network, competing with Wimax to deliver broadband Internet to mobile devices
• Facebook has announced a new redesign for its homepages, profile and pages, with a focus on streams, and taking inspiration from Twitter’s success