Twitter Switching From MySQL to Cassandra (Database Journal)
Twitter is changing there database from MySQL to a NoSQL database in the form of Apache Software Foundations Cassandra project. Ryan King, an engineer at Twitter, told the blog MyNoSQL that the MySQL servers are "quickly becoming prohibitively c

Don Shelbys Shine Box: St. Pauls Rice Park (WCCO Minneapolis - St. Paul)
When you love charity and shoe shines, its only a matter of time before you find a way to make those passions meet. WCCOs Don Shelby has been shining shoes to raise money for the Ronald McDonald House, and to hear your stories. So he took his Shine B

1 man and a lot of volunteers work to save a treasure of junk (News 8 Austin)
The owner of the Cathedral of Junk says hes ready for a company to come and survey the property, so that an architect can do up a drawing for the permit application.

Top 10 best releases from Microsoft (V3.co.uk via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
This week Microsoft released the latest version of the Windows operating system.

Samsung Mobile Innovator Announces Availability of the Samsung Mobile Software Development Kit with BONDI Support (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
LAS VEGAS----Samsung Mobile Innovator today announced the availability of the mobile widget software developer kit which provides support for BONDI-capable Samsung devices. The Samsung Mobile Widget SDK with BONDI support will allow developers to bui