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Chinese Gov't Shuts Down Video Sites

October 31, 2008 — The regulating body of China’s Internet policy called for the shutdown of 10 online video websites on Tuesday, and warned 17 others, as it resumes its aggressive stance against such sites after a fairly relaxed summer.

UptimeSpy Offers Free Monitoring

October 30, 2008 — New test and measurement provider UptimeSpy has launched a free, full-featured, geographic website monitoring service, offering monitoring from eight node locations around the world, which it calls an industry first.

Verio Revamps ViaVerio Program

October 28, 2008 — Managed hosting provider Verio announced on Tuesday it has launched its newly revamped viaVerio channel partner program and partner website, ViaVerio.

Zimbra Adds Hosted College Mail

October 28, 2008 — Open source messaging and collaboration software developer Zimbra has announced educational institutions will now have access to its Zimbra Collaboration Suite without having to manage on-premise software and hardware.

CDNs Support Web TV Ventures

October 23, 2008 — In a rather higher-than-usual volume of content delivery network news, online service provider Internap Network Services was the latest CDN to announce its newest partnership with Beautiful Stranger.TV.

The Planet Warns of Security Breach

October 17, 2008 — Dedicated and managed hosting provider The Planet issued a notice to customers Thursday, informing them of a security breach the company had detected, and recommending certain steps customers could take to protect their accounts from further compromise.

OpenXchange Goes Massively Mobile

October 17, 2008 — A new collaboration has brought open-source, collaboration capability to more than 1.5 billion mobile handsets, providing push email and cloud-based mobile synchronization as a Software as a Service offering.

Q&A: Con Zwinkels, LeaseWeb

October 17, 2008 — In an email interview with the WHIR, LeaseWeb managing director Con Zwinkels discusses his company’s “green” practices through its EvoSwitch data center, as well as the environmentally friendly efforts of the hosting and data center industries at large.

US Govt. Looks At DNSSEC Proposals

October 15, 2008 — Likely spurred by domain name system flaws found earlier this year by security researcher Dan Kaminsky, the US government is taking on the task of securing DNS flaws and is calling on civilians for on DNSSEC implementation advice.

Ensim to Demo Unify 2.5 at Conference

October 8, 2008 — Hosting software provider Ensim announced on Wednesday it will be demonstrating its Ensim Unify Enterprise Edition, Version 2.5 platform at TechMentor Conference, held October 13 to 17 at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas.