Don't expect the Apple Worldwide Developer's Conference in San Francisco to bring Twitter to a screeching halt this time. Twitter founder Biz Stone says the microblogging application is backed up and ready for a pounding.
"We've moved much of the load off our database by utilizing more memcache,"
If that doesn't work, Stone says his team is prepared to shut off features like stats and pagination to clear some necessary paths. Last January, when Jobs somewhat anticlimactically unveiled the MacBook Air, Twitter melted into a puddle of zeroes and ones.
Speculation about what Jobs will announce at 10 a.m. San Francisco time has been mounting all weekend. The most popular fabrication is that Apple will unveil the new iPhone, dubbed by some as iPhone 3G or iPhone 2. Of course, the hype around Jobs's "one more thing" announcements often outweighs the reality.
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the Omnia – which will debut in Asian markets only, unfortunately. But with a 5 megapixel camera on board and a full Microsoft suite of programming—Blackberry users who couldn't justify the iPhone switch may perk their ears up on that one—a US launch in time for Christmas could be music to a lot of ears.
There may be hope yet for those certain about a new iPhone. An hour before the keynote the
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