competition

Telehouse Continues Seminar Series

February 10, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Colocation and communications solutions provider TELEHOUSE America (telehouse.com) held its first Breakfast On Broadway seminar on January 26, 2005 at its Broadway Center facility. Executives from S-doc and TAMP DRS discussed government regulations’ impact on financial services and the enterprise.

Net Registrars Want Competition

February 2, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Market research firm Penn Schoen & Berland Associates said on Monday it has released an independent study that shows that current .net registrars prefer increased competition in the generic top level domain registry market. The survey’s results show nearly 9 out of 10 registrars agree that not one company should be allowed to monopolize the generic TLD registry market.

SBC in Acquisition Talks with AT&T

January 28, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Internet service and Web hosting provider SBC Communications (sbc.com) is in talks to acquire AT&T in a deal worth more than $15 billion, according to several media reports.

Voxtreme UK Reduces Reseller Pricing

January 7, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Voxtreme UK (voxtreme.co.uk) announced earlier this week that it has reduced the pricing of its UK-based reseller hosting plans and is offering prizes to new customers signing up for the service.

N3sport Picks Web Host Verio Europe

December 3, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Verio Europe (verio.co.uk) announced on Wednesday that it has added n3sports, a provider of collaborative planning solutions for sport organizations, as a new customer.

VitalStream Offers SDK for Flash Users

November 2, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Streaming media and Web hosting provider VitalStream (vitalstream.com) announced on Tuesday that it has made the new MediaOps Software Development Kit exclusively available to customers using its Flash video streaming services.

Monsterhosting Reaches 2000 Customers

October 26, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Monsterhosting.ca (monsterhosting.ca) announced on Monday that it has secured its 2000th customer in its first year of operation.

WebHosting.Info Covers Every Registrar

September 22, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting research and statistics portal WebHosting.Info (webhosting.info) announced on Tuesday that it is collaborating with Registrar solutions provider LogixBoxes (logicboxes.com) to publish statistical reports on the performance of all worldwide domain name registrars.

Outsourcing Giants Face Challenge

September 2, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — As the US domestic call center market rapidly shrinks, research calculated by independent market analyst Datamonitor (datamonitor.com) shows heavy competition among outsourcers scrambling for their share of the $600 billion global IT services market.

Red Hat Selling Java App Server Support

July 30, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Red Hat (redhat.com) plans to begin selling a subscription service supporting Jonas, an open source java application server built by France-based ObjectWeb, according to a report by Cnet. Jonas is based on the prevailing Java server standard, Java 2 Enterprise Edition. The report said Red Hat plans to charge $999 a year for the service.