May 6, 2011 — YouTube announced on Friday via its blog that last week’s live stream of the Royal Wedding generated 72 million live streams around the world to 188 countries.
August 30, 2010 — Personal computer software pioneer Paul Allen, one of the founders of technology giant Microsoft, is suing nearly a dozen major technology companies that have allegedly infringed on patents held by his company Interval Licensing.
October 29, 2008 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Colombian-born, former web-hosting executive Alvaro Albarracin is setting his sights on creating a new entertainment video site after acquiring the domain name “E.tv,” which Albarracin hopes to rival YouTube.
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.
October 20, 2008 — An 18-year-old New Jersey hacker has plead guilty to federal charges Friday, facing a maximum sentence of 10 years for flooding Scientology.org in January with a distributed denial-of-service attack.
October 15, 2008 — Diversified development company Rancho Santa Monica Developments has reached a tentative agreement to acquire social media host AptHost.com Communications USA.
September 10, 2008 — Technology and engineering firm Emerson has broken ground on a new, energy efficient data center at its St. Louis headquarters, showcasing many cutting-edge, energy saving features including some created inhouse by Emerson Network Power.
September 8, 2008 — According to several reports on Monday, search engine giant Google has filed a patent for what the company calls a “water-based data center,” which will use waves from the ocean to provide power and cooling to portable facilities.
September 5, 2008 — High-capacity launches, DNS server failures, cloud infrastructure failure and buggy third-parties were some of the reasons servers went offline in the first half of 2008 according to the Royal Pingdom blog.
