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The Whir Temporarily falls to Hackers
When will it end? Even secure and notable websites such as thewhir.com can be vulnerable to hackers nowadays. As of 3:30 PM Central Time, clicking any link at the popular web resource site, will get you a quick redirect to www.jukez.com and lots of headaches for visitors.
The Planet Completes SAS 70 Type II Audit
The Planet, the world’s largest privately held dedicated hosting company, today announced it has successfully completed the Statement on Auditing Standards No. 70 (SAS 70) Type II audit. ...
ICANN and IANA Sites Hacked, Redirected
"You think that you control the domains but you don't! Everybody knows wrong. We control the domains including ICANN! Don't you believe us?"...NetSuite Appoints New Chief Marketing Officer
NetSuite Inc. announces that David Downing, a global technology marketing executive with more than 25 years of experience, has been named NetSuite's new Chief Marketing Officer. Enterprise Software Marketing Executive David Downing to Lead Global Up-Market Expansion of NetSuite's On-Demand Business Management Software. ...
Facebook Outage Affects Multiple Countries
The social networking site Facebook suffered a period of short outages yesterday. ...
Sitemasher Launches Comic, Illustrates Website Pains
Sitemasher's "Web of Pain" addresses struggles with traditional website design and content management systems. ...Host.net to Acquire WV Fiber
Host.net, a leading provider of colocation, network transport and transit services, announced today that it has agreed to acquire WV Fiber, a global IP transit and MPLS transport company based in Nashville, Tennessee. ...eBridge to exhibit and participate in marketing panel at HostingCon 2008
After sponsoring HostingCon for the past three shows, eBridge Marketing Solutions will have an exhibit in this year’s show....The Planet Begins Construction on Dallas Data Center Expansion
Features Energy-Efficient Design to Accommodate Up to 10,000 Servers ...WebaZilla Opens Web Hosting and Collocation Dallas Datacenter
WebaZilla announces the opening of its Dallas, Texas, datacenter. The Web hosting company opened its third location to ensure that customers worldwide have access to high quality hosting and collocation services. ...DiscountASP.NET Launches SQL 2008 Hosting Beta Program
Innovative windows hosting leader, DiscountASP.NET announces launching a free SQL Server 2008 hosting beta program available to all their customers....
Apple, Dell and Others in Infringement Suit
Apple Inc. and 9 Others Added to Greatly Expanded Dell, Inc. Patent Infringement Suit Brought by Typhoon Touch Technologies, Inc. ...Verio Forms New Marketing & Communications Team
Announces Additions of Senior Director of Marketing and Communications and Director of Marketing Senior Talent to Aid in Addressing Evolving SMB Solutions Marketplace...Lunarpages Offers $775 in Bonus Rewards
Lunarpages Web Hosting adds Parallels Workstation, RatePoint, The Logo Creator, Visitorville, Photo TurboBackup, WinSettings, Gafana, BidVertiser, DMXReady, SiteScout, and LinkWorth FREE to their award-winning web hosting plans....ServerBeach YouTube Farewell
When you have a slow news day, you always fall back to the archives for juciy items. This video was produced Jan 2008 after YouTube was aquired by Google and pulled their accounts from ServerBeach. Tough a little redundant, it has some entertaing moments....FreeBSD Technologies in New Firefox 3 Browser
Mozilla this week released the highly anticipated Firefox 3 browser. The FreeBSD Project congratulates the Mozilla project on a multi-year effort that culminated in a product that is both faster and more secure than its predecessors, with innovative new features. ...
New ShoePhone, the Walk of the Town
While other spies hide their cameras and surveillance devices in pens, cigarette cases and lighters, Maxwell Smart cleverly hides a telephone in his shoe. Soon, the most famous prop in television history will come to life if Matt Potts, founder and president of ArchPortTM Shoes, has his way. ...
SecureMac Security Advisory for Apple OS X
New OS X Trojan Horse Found in the Wild AppleScript.THT Trojan Horse ...CloudCamp San Francisco to Forecast Future of Cloud Computing
Agenda and Sponsor List Announced for Community-Driven "Unconference" and Party ...HostingCon 2008 Features Microsoft Keynote Speaker
Web hosting industry event to include keynote from Mark Rogers, one of Microsoft’s cloud services experts on the evolution of this new market and the latest technologies. ...
SPAM Costs Colorado Man $6 Million
MySpace.com proves that spam does not pay, unless it is for damages to thousands of MySpace users....EvoSwitch Announces Opening of Newly Expanded Green Data Center
High Density Hosting: Power Capacity 5 to 20 kW per 19-inch Rack...
Deluxe to Acquire Hostopia.com
Acquisition Provides Web-Hosting Capabilities for Small Businesses...NetDepot Deploys Top Layer Networks IPS 5500
NetDepot Deploys Top Layer Networks IPS 5500 to Extend Intrusion Prevention to its Data Center Customers...ViUX Systems Features SmarterMail for its Customers
ViUX Systems, Inc. announced today the complete adoption of SmarterMail 5.x Enterprise Edition across its line of dedicated, virtual, and shared hosting services....China Antitrust Investigation Targets Microsoft
Under a new law coming into effect in China, their government is considering suing Microsoft over the cost of their software products....groupSPARK Named 2008 Microsoft Partner of the Year
groupSPARK Named 2008 Microsoft Partner of the Year for Advanced Infrastructure Solutions, Hosting Solutions. Leading Private Label Hosted Exchange Provider Selected from Among an International Group of Microsoft Partners as Partner of the Year and Proudly Accepts Award As Premier Provider of Hosted SaaS Solutions. ...
Secure, High-Tech Data Center Coming to Columbus
Operating under the company name of Data Cave, Inc., the company will invest more than $7 million to construct a two-story 78,000-square-foot high-security data center adjacent to Analytical Engineering's facility in southern Columbus....Pinnacle Cart Releases New Software − Pinnacle Cart 360
Pinnacle Cart announces the release of their latest ecommerce software solution, Pinnacle Cart 360. Designed from a marketing perspective, this tremendously successful shopping cart application is designed to increase website sales, average sales amount and organic traffic. ...Microsoft Announces Acquisition of Navic Networks
Navic enables Microsoft to work with industry partners to optimize the delivery and placement of television advertising....Exabytes Partners with SmarterTools
Exabytes Network Pvt Ltd, the top web hosting company in Malaysia announced that they have recently become official partners with SmarterTools, the IT management software company that offers solution to everyday business operations....Time Warner Telecom to Present at Investor Conference
Time Warner Telecom Inc., a leading provider of managed voice, Internet and data networking solutions for businesses, will present at the Wachovia 18th Annual Equity Conference ...HostMySite.com Data Center Awarded Strategic Grant
Governor Ruth Ann Minner and HostMySite.com Founder and Chief Strategy Officer Lou Honick announced today that the Internet technology company will continue to expand its operations in Delaware, creating 75 new high-wage jobs over the next three years. ...
Yahoo! Announces Microsoft Talks Have Concluded
Microsoft representatives stated unequivocally that Microsoft is not interested in pursuing an acquisition of all of Yahoo!, even at the price range it had previously suggested. ...SnapNames Live Auction at Domainer Meeting Paris June 20
Premium Eurocentric Domain Names – European.com, Hotels.eu, RockMusik.de – Available at SnapNames Live Auction at Domainer Meeting Paris June 20...
SSL Vulnerable to OpenSSL Flaw on Debian
Netcraft's June SSL Survey has found that a significant number of SSL certificates are affected by the Debian OpenSSL vulnerability, including Extended Validation SSL certificates and certificates belonging to banks. ...First Australian Web Site to Auction ".au" Domain Names
After the recent auDA (au Domain Administration) decision to allow the sale, purchase and trade of ".au" domain names, the anticipated .au property boom has begun. The need for a well structured, affordable venue, advertising domain names for sale in Australia, has been realised by the creation of the Domain Shed Web site Domainshed ...Jivox Closes $10.7 Million Series A Financing
New investor Helion Venture Partners joins Opus Capital and other investors to fund fast-growing online video ad start-up; company reports strong advertiser and publisher growth since March launch ...
Canada's Going Green "Big Time"
Canada's Largest Green Data Center Being Built by gigaCENTER With Help of IBM...360 Enterprises INC. Acquires HybridSEM.COM
The acquisition reinforces 360 Enterprises' rapidly growing leadership in the Internet Marketing space and strengthens 360's brands as the industry's leading organic marketing companies. ...Opening Keynote at HostingCon 2008 by Serguei Beloussov
Parallels CEO, Serguei Beloussov, to deliver opening Kaynote and HostingCon Leader of automation and virtualization company will discuss the future of hosted services....DiscountASP.NET Adopts SmarterStats for its Customer Base
SmarterStats provides an in-depth understanding of keywords and visitor navigation trends with on-demand Website statistics, custom reports, data mining, geographic mapping, and much more....
Microsoft Goes After Software Pirates
Microsoft Helps Protect Consumers by Addressing Repeat Offender Software Pirates Company calls attention to tools to help consumers receive genuine software. ...
The Planet Appoints Walters as GM, Storage & Backup
The Planet announced the appointment of Robert Walters as General Manager to lead its newly formed storage and backup business unit. ...Hosting.Com Becomes Green Energy Champion
More Than 1,500 Tons of Carbon Emissions Will Be Offset Annually...SmarterTrack Software Integrated into Parallels APS
SmarterTrack Customer Service Software Integrated into Parallels APS...Global Collection Of Premium Domain Name Auction Goes Live
Celebrity photographer Fernando Escovar auction to benefit Make-a-Wish Foundation®. Online at http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220244298945. ...
Level 3 Advertising Distribution Sells for $129 Million
Level 3 Completes Sale of Advertising Distribution Business for Approximately $129 Million in Cash ...Comodo Firewall Pro Named in Top 10 Free Security Programs
For the second year in a row, ComputerWorld recognizes Comodo Firewall Pro as a top performing firewall with sophisticated technology and features. ...Register.com and Snapnames.com Renew Exclusive Agreement
Industry-leading registrar Register.com will list its expiring domain name inventory exclusively with SnapNames...Search Engine Industry Leaders Sponsor Pay Per Click Summit
Pay Per Click (PPC) Summit San Francisco, the premier internet marketing workshop would like to thank search engine marketing industry leaders for sponsoring the two day educational event connecting more than 150 business and marketing professionals with online sales success strategies. ...IHOST, LLC to Sponsor OpenForce '08 Connect in Orlando
DotNetNuke hosting provider will present benefits of the open-source platform to community members DNN allows sites to be future-proof ...Railo Goes Open Source on JBoss.org
Swiss software company Railo announced today plans to release an open source version of the Railo CFML engine hosted at JBoss.org, the website of the leading provider of open source Java middleware. ...John J. Swift Joins Webnames.ca Inc. Board of Directors
Webnames.ca® Inc. today announced that Vancouver Lawyer John J. Swift has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Webnames.ca. ...EstHost, Inc: Telepat Electronic Wallet Management Applied
EstHost, Inc., a US-based hosting provider enables Telepat electronic wallet as a new management option for WebMoney payment system. Telepat is a widely known electronic money transfer system which is popular for its instant and reliable payments transferring services. From now on EstHost, Inc customers can manage their virtual payment operations simply with mobile or desk phone. ...
Yidio.com Launches Online Video Search Engine
With online video growing exponentially, a new service from 2ten Media LLC has launched that allows users to search for any video on the internet from a single location. ...Yahoo Responds to Employee Threats
Yahoo! Inc. Responds to Carl Icahn’s Letter of June 4, 2008 ...VIZIO Comments on MPEG-2 Lawsuit By Electronics Competitors
A group of electronics brand competitors contend that VIZIO has infringed on their patents for MPEG-2 video compression VIZIO is confident that the lawsuit will not materially impact its business ...Wachovia Capital Partners Acquires HostMySite, Inc.
Wachovia Capital Partners partnered with experienced industry executives Art Zeile and Joel Daly earlier this year with a goal of acquiring and building a leading managed hosting company. With this acquisition, the executives will assume the roles of CEO and COO of the company. ...
