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nginx Continues Market Share Momentum in Netcraft February Web Server Survey

February 9, 2012 — Web analytics firm Netcraft released the results of its February 2012 web server survey this week, and while Apache has gained the most hostnames, nginx was the only server to experience a non-negligible market share increase this month.

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Google to Launch Cloud Storage Service in Coming Weeks: Reports

February 9, 2012 — Google is set to launch its cloud storage service in the next few weeks or months, according to several reports on Thursday. While Google currently offers several storage products such as Picasa and Docs, this will be the its first unified cloud storage solution.

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Google Plans to Disable Online Revocation Checks in Future Chrome Versions

February 9, 2012 — Google will disable online revocation checks in future versions of Chrome, and will reuse its existing update mechanism to maintain a list of revoked SSL certificates instead, according to a blog post on Sunday by Google researcher Adam Langley. There are many problems with online revocation checks including soft-fails and compromised security if an attacker intercepts HTTPS connections and bypasses the revocation checks.

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Google Tops Greenpeace ‘Cool IT Leaderboard’ for Clean Energy Advocacy

February 8, 2012 — Non-profit environmental organization Greenpeace released the results of its fifth Cool IT leaderboard, a list that ranks 21 IT companies on clean energy use and green policy advocacy. Its latest report finds Google to be the top green IT leader.

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Nebraska Seeks to Win Massive $1.2 Billion Data Center Contract

February 6, 2012 — Nebraska data center development officials are making a move to pass economic incentives to win a massive data center build contract dubbed “Project Edge”, according to a report by Data Center Knowledge. The company looking to build the $1.2 billion data center campus hopes to break ground in May, with an initial first phase investment of $500 million.

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Google Offers Free Web Hosting to South African Small Businesses

January 23, 2012 — Google announced on Thursday that it will launch a program in South Africa to help small businesses build a website. The program, Woza Online, will also provide free web hosting. The program was launched in partnership with the South African’s government department of trade and industry, Vodacom and the Human Resources Development Council.

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Thousands of Sites Mislabeled Phishers After OpenDNS Blocks Google Hosted Scripts

January 6, 2011 — Hundreds of thousands of sites were mislabeled as phishing sites on Wednesday after OpenDNS blocked googleapis.com, a developer resource site for scripts and apps, according to several reports. Visitors to websites that used Google-hosted jQuery or MooTools saw either a “phishing site blocked” message or a 404 error.

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Cloud Host Atlantic Metro Communications Joins Google Apps Reseller Program

December 20, 2011 — Infrastructure as a service cloud provider and web hosting operator Atlantic Metro Communications posted a press release to its blog on Tuesday announcing that it has become an authorized reseller of the Google Apps suite of communication and collaborations tools.

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Google Clean Energy Guru Weihl Joining Facebook

December 20, 2011 — According to several reports, including this one, published by Rich Miller at Data Center Knowledge on Tuesday, Bill Weihl, the former “green energy czar” at Google will join Facebook in a similar role, starting next month.

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Cloud Firm PersonalWeb Files Patent Infringment Lawsuit Against Google, Amazon

December 12, 2011 — Cloud platform and social media developer PersonalWeb is suing industry giants including Google, Amazon, VMware, and Dropbox, for cloud patent infringement, according to a report by the Sydney Morning Herald. The cases allege the companies infringe eight PersonalWeb patents in their cloud products including content addressable storage and/or distributed search engine technologies.