A stream of tweets tells us that the iPad app store is now live in certain European countries, namely UK and France , as well as in other parts of the world, such as Australia and New Zealand . Customers in Europe were able to pre-order the iPad on May 10 , and the device is slated to ship on May 28. Now, the folks that put in the time and effort to bring the iPad from the U.S

Opera is playing a somewhat odd game with Apple . Their Opera Mini and Opera Mobile browsers are great mobile browsers , but the iPhone already has a great mobile browser — Safari. This fact alone wouldn’t be that big of a problem if Apple’s rules weren’t prohibiting other apps to duplicate the functionality of their own apps.

There’s a very easy way to find out if someone is home or not: you phone their fixed phone number. If no one answers, chances are the house is empty. If you really want to make sure, you can simply check if the lights are on.

There’s a very easy way to find out if someone is home or not: you phone their fixed phone number. If no one answers, chances are the house is empty.

There’s an interesting post today at Facebook’s engineering blog , detailing how Facebook’s engineers managed to make the site two times faster in a six months period, from June of 2009 till the beginning of 2010. It’s an interesting (albeit somewhat technical) read