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Hosted Solutions Hosts CNS Site
October 23, 2008 -- Data center and managed services provider Hosted Solutions announced on Wednesday it has signed an agreement to host the website of Comprehensive NeuroScience, a disease management and behavioral health care research firm.
FTC Shuts Down Giant Spam Network
October 15, 2008 -- The Federal Trade Commission announced it has shut down what it says is one of the world's largest spam operations, which includes a network of spammers from the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, China, India and Russia.
UK2.net Turns 10, Offers 10% Discount
October 9, 2008 -- Friday will mark UK2.net's first decade as a hosting provider. It will be celebrating with a 10 percent discount on all purchases promotion for the duration of the birthday weekend.
Q&A: Nick Nelson, UK-2/Dotable
October 7, 2008 -- In an email interview with the WHIR, UK-2's US director of sales and marketing Nick Nelson discusses the company's recent acquisition of Dotable, and the role the new company will play in the larger organization's plans.
FiberMedia Names New CIO
August 8, 2008 -- Data center and managed hosting provider FiberMedia announced on Tuesday it has named Christopher Heim as chief information officer.
midPhase Relaunches Company, Site
July 16, 2008 -- Shared hosting provider midPhase announced on Wednesday it has officially relaunched following its acquisition in December 2007 by UK2.
ICANN Allows New Top-Level Domains
June 26, 2008 -- International internet regulation body ICANN has given approval for new top-level domain names including multilingual ones following a unanimous vote in Paris.
UK2 Launches New Domain Tool
May 28, 2008 -- Web hosting provider UK2 recently announced on Tuesday it has launched a newly enhanced, instant domain look up tool.
Coast Guard to Operate Data Center
May 1, 2008 -- The Coast Guard has signed an agreement with the International Maritime Organization to open a new international data exchange center to track the positions at sea of about 3,000 ships per day.
Spammers Hit Social Networking Sites
April 3, 2008 -- After years of flooding email inboxes with solicited junk mail, spammers have recently turned to social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace as yet another vehicle to post deceptive messages.
Cybersquatting at a Record High
March 27, 2008 -- The number of cases of "cybersquatting," the act of registering trademarks on the Internet for financial gain -- has risen considerably in the past three years, said the World Intellectual Property Organisation on Thursday.
Web Host UK-2 Acquires midPhase
December 21, 2007 -- UK Web hosting provider UK-2 Group announced on Friday it has acquired US Web hosting provider midPhase Services' shared and virtual private server businesses.
Servers Hacked to Boost Google Rank
December 20, 2007 -- Attackers have hacked the servers of MD Web Hosting, embedding malicious code to spawn "link farms" on its customers' sites, according to news site, Australian IT.
Atlantic Metro Launches Services
November 8, 2007 -- Managed Internet services provider Atlantic Metro Communications announced on Wednesday it has launched its services.
Miva Merchant Offers In-house Support
September 6, 2007 -- E-commerce solution provider Miva Merchant announced on Thursday that its technical support department is now staffed and managed in-house at its San Diego, Califonia office.
EMS-Cortex Revamps Web Site
July 19, 2007 -- Web hosting software provider EMS-Cortex announced on Thursday that it has launched a new Web site.
EMS-Cortex Selected by UTICA
March 19, 2007 -- Web hosting software provider EMS-Cortex announced on Monday that it has been selected by Web hosting provider UTICA Managed Solutions to provision a full range of hosted Microsoft services.
Sonasoft Enables HIPAA Compliance
December 20, 2006 -- Backup and recovery process solution provider Sonasoft reported Wednesday that several of its healthcare customers have had success using its new SonaSafe Point-Click Recovery software for Microsoft Servers.
BladeLogic Wins MAED Award
November 27, 2006 -- Data center automation software provider BladeLogic announced last week it has received the Economic Impact Award from the Massachusetts Alliance for Economic Development.
SWsoft Announces SiteBuilder Winners
August 21, 2006 -- Web hosting software provider SWsoft announced on Monday that it had determined the winners of its SiteBuilder for Windows Contest.
LINX Lends Help to Anti-Spam Campaign
March 11, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- The London Internet Exchange (linx.net) has announced that it has been helping government agencies worldwide in their efforts to decrease spam.
Business Process Outsourcing Challenges Web Hosting
August 20, 2004 -- Business process outsourcing, the delegation business processes to an external service provider, has emerged as a challenge to the traditional Web hosting paradigm.
Spam Now Makes Up Two-Thirds of Email
May 26, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Spam continues to saturate the market with the increase in junk mail. Last month, spam made up for more than two-thirds of the 840 million emails scanned by filtering firm MessageLabs (messagelabs.com), according to UK site The Register.
InteleNet Picks RouteScience for Optimization
"Applications availability and performance are critical issues for our customers like GameSpy Industries, one of the largest Internet gaming sites as well as our other corporate customers in manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, financial services, and other markets," said Mark Towfiq, president and CEO of InteleNet. "We have seen firsthand the benefits of using RouteScience to manage the complex task of routing multiple Gbps of traffic to several diverse national backbone providers and network peers. With RouteScience, we have been able to provide the best network performance and availability to our customers while reducing our overall cost for bandwidth."
Excedent Technologies Appoints New VP
December 8, 2003 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Excedent Technologies (excedent.com), a provider of managed email hosting and security threat prevention for service providers, announced today that it has appointed Kevin Minnick as vice president of product development.
BlueStar Gets Carton Service Contract
April 23, 2003 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- BlueStar Solutions (bluestarsolutions.com) announced on Tuesday that it has been selected by Carton Service, Inc. (cartonservice.com) to manage its SAP applications.
Keynote Debuts Vertical Performance Indices
March 12, 2003 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Internet performance specialist Keynote Systems Inc. (Keynote.com) announced on Wednesday that it has launched eight new vertical market Web performance indices, providing industry-specific competitive intelligence and allowing site operators to compare and improve their performance relative to their industry.
Digex Executive Named to IT Leaders List
January 7, 2003 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Managed Web and application hosting service provider Digex Inc. (Digex.com) announced on Monday that its vice president of enterprise IT services, Scott Carcillo, has been recognized by IDG's Computerworld newspaper as one of its Premier 100 IT Leaders.
LFC Hosting Offers 'High-Risk' Merchant Accounts
September 25, 2002 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Regina, Saskatchewan-based Web hosting firm LFC Hosting (LFCHosting.com) announced on Monday that it has launched a new service, offering merchant accounts to international customers and high-risk businesses.
LFC Hosting Offers 'High-Risk' Merchant Accounts
September 25, 2002 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Regina, Saskatchewan-based Web hosting firm LFC Hosting (LFCHosting.com) announced on Monday that it has launched a new service, offering merchant accounts to international customers and high-risk businesses.
SAP America Signs Enterprise Hosting Contracts
May 7, 2002 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- E-business platform provider and SAP AG subsidiary, SAP America Inc. (SAP.com) announced on Tuesday that Day & Zimmerman, Hendrickson International and West Pharmaceutical services Inc. have all chose SAP Hosting for application software and services.
IBM Provides eServer p690 Services To Giant Pharmaceutical Company
April 5, 2002 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- IBM today announced that Merck & Co. Inc., a pharmaceutical products and services company, will use IBM eServer p690 systems to help develop a new generation of drugs.
