New 3.1 Million New Websites Launched in April

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Netcraft announced that its April 2008 survey received responses from 165 milling and 719,150 websites? The metrics company reported that there is a growth of 3.1 million sites. Most of them are in United States. Only Google’s blog network Blogger has alone added 1.1 million new sites to the World Wide Web.

According to the analysts Lighttpd lost a small number of websites in April 2008, but still “maintains a significant foothold” in Netcraft’s survey with 1.5 million websites. Lighttpd serves some of the content for YouTube, Wikipedia and Meebo, and is open sourced under the revised BSD license.

Mainly because of the new 1.1 million Blogger websites, Google’s developer share on the web increased in April by 0.54% and reached 6.08%. Apache has fallen by 0.27% and Microsoft by 0.14%.

Apache however is still the web leader with more websites than Google. The #1 Search engines hosts 1.07 million websites, followed by Microsoft with 847,000 sites.

AMD Now Offers New Phenom Triple-Core Processors

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AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) introduced 3 triple-core Phenom desktop processors which will cost for less than $200. Phenom chips are aimed to be used on high-end computers for entertainment and games.

The 3 new models are the Phenom X3 8750 (2.4 GHz), 8650 (2.3 GHz) and 8450 (2.1 GHz). 8750 costs $195, 8650 - $165, and 8450 - $145.

AMD’s now offers a processor that’s faster than Dual-Core chips, but at the same time it is less expensive than the Quad-Core processors offered by Intel.

AMD introduced Phenom X3 8000 processor series in March 2008 with the 8600 and 8400 models. 8400 (2.1 GHz) is priced at $150. 8600 (2.3 GHz) is around $175.

Information Week reported that in pairing the 8000 series with its 780 chipsets, AMD is offering a platform that it claims provides smooth HD viewing of movies in Blu-ray format. “Supported video-related standards include H.264 for video compression, MPEG-2 for the generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information, and VC-1, a video codec standard initially developed by Microsoft” says the news edition.