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Noise Filter: Iranian Election Dispute

June 16, 2009 — Since the arrival of the hotly disputed results of Iran’s presidential election arrived on Friday – in which incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claimed to have defeated reform candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi – demonstrations, both pro-government and dissenting, and both peaceful and violent, have taken place across the country’s capital of Tehran and elsewhere, with that dissent being echoed online.

Flickr Expands Video Hosting to All

March 3, 2009 — Photo hosting website Flickr announced on Monday via its blog  that it is expanding its video hosting service to the entire Flickr community.

AtlantaNAP Doubles Cooling Capacity

October 29, 2008 — Atlanta colocation facility AtlantaNAP has doubled its cooling capacity from 1,000 tons to 2,000 tons with the addition of two new cooling towers, preparing it for its final phase of construction, adding 22,500 sq.ft of floor space.

HP Unveils Spooky Video Campaign

October 28, 2008 — IT manufacturer Hewlett-Packard unveiled on Monday a fairly unique video advertising campaign featuring its data center kit and services in a rather “ghoulish” light, just in time for the Halloween season.

BitGravity Delivers ASU HD Content

October 17, 2008 — BitGravity announced on Wednesday that Arizona State University has begun using BitGravity’s high-definition video delivery to help screen “realistic scenario modeling” projects enabled by the university’s Decision Theater

Q&A: Ravi Pimplaskar, Parallels

October 14, 2008 — In an email interview with the WHIR, Ravi Pimplaskar, product marketing manager at Parallels, discusses the company’s upcoming 2009 partner summit, which will take place this coming February in Las Vegas.

Terremark's NAP Backs WiMAX

October 8, 2008 — IT infrastructure services provider Terremark Worldwide has been selected to provide the core infrastructure for WiMAX, a fourth-generation network delivering high-speed wireless broadband Internet designed to replace Wi-Fi.

Google Data Centers Most Efficient

October 3, 2008 — In a posting to its blog made earlier this week, Google described some advances it has made in data center efficiency, calling its data centers “the most efficient in the world.”

1&1 Opens Lenexa Data Center

October 1, 2008 — Web hosting provider 1&1 has turned a former warehouse in Lenexa, a Kansas suburb, into a state-of-the-art data center able to withstand Kansas’s infamous tornadoes.

VISI Launches Web Hosting Game

October 1, 2008 — Data center services provider VISI launched a quirky online game called Interstellar Pizza Express to showcase VISI’s data center services by having customers try out being an IT manager for a hypothetical business.