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July 9, 2007
Green internet hub to be built in Manchester
Link: Green internet hub to be built in Manchester
Filed under: Webhosting News, Internet News
The world's first large scale green hosting facility and Internet hub is to be built in Manchester, in a partnership involving property developer Ask:Goodman, Internet hosting specialist UKFast.Net and Manchester City Council.
The Internet exchange and hosting facility, which will be ...
April 16, 2007
.eu domain is third in Europe
Link: .eu domain is third in Europe
Filed under: Web Development News, Webhosting News, Webmaster News, Internet News
The .eu domain celebrated its first birthday by notching up over 2.5 million registrations, a large majority of them from businesses.
According to the European Registry of Internet Domain Names (EURid), the not-for-profit organisation which controls the domain, .eu is now Europe's ...
March 23, 2007
Dell develops virtualisation-capable server
Link: Dell develops virtualisation-capable server
Filed under: Server News, Dell News, Hardware News, Webhosting News, Webmaster News, Technology News
Dell's PowerEdge division is developing a server optimised to run virtualisation software.
Virtualisation allows a single computer to run multiple operating systems in compartments called virtual machines. This both increases efficiency and reduces costs.
The technology can be combined with multicore processors ...
March 14, 2007
Intel announces NAND flash drive
Link: Intel announces NAND flash drive
Filed under: Intel News, Server News, Hardware News, Webhosting News, Technology News
Intel has launched the Intel Z-U130 Value Solid-State Drive – a NAND flash drive which it plans to deliver to PC and server companies as either replacement hard drives or performance enhancers.
NAND flash memory is more commonly used in mobile phones.
Intel’s new ...
February 14, 2007
Greenzap claims it’s not a scam
Link: Greenzap claims it’s not a scam
Filed under: Legal News, Webhosting News, Webmaster News, Security News, Internet News
Greenzap has unleashed a $57 million lawsuit against webhosting company LiquidWeb, claiming that it is hosting defamatory content.
Greenzap is a company that claimed itself to be a Paypal killer - offering incentives of $25 per sign-up - apparently for payment processing. ...
January 26, 2007
Concerns over Google & Mozilla anti-phishing
Link: Concerns over Google & Mozilla anti-phishing
Filed under: Web Development News, Browsers, Phishing News, Webhosting News, Google News, Security News, Webmaster News, Internet News
Concerns have been raised about the Google & Firefox anti-phishing drive, after it was revealed that the publishing of raw data online contained usernames and passwords of phishing victims.
Reports that personal data was being published was raised as far back as September ...
January 19, 2007
1and1 suffers technical failures
Link: 1and1 suffers technical failures
Filed under: Web Development News, Webhosting News, Webmaster News, Internet News
Webhosting company 1and1 suffered a series of technical problems this week that has left customers unable to receive emails.
The problems began on Monday, and although 1and1 claimed to have fixed the original issue, serious problems are still ongoing.
Customers of the webhosting company have ...
December 12, 2006
US uni hacked for a year
Link: US uni hacked for a year
Filed under: Webhosting News, Security News, Internet News
The University of California, Los Angeles, has sent out warnings to nearly 1 million students and staff that their personal details may be in the hands of criminal gangs.
It comes after the discovery that the UCLA's central database had been hacked into since ...
October 16, 2006
Help for small business continues as Platinax celebrates 2 years online
Link: Help for small business continues as Platinax celebrates 2 years online
Filed under: Webhosting News, Web Development News, Ecommerce News, Marketing News, Internet News, Webmaster News, Business News
Platinax is a free business resource and mentoring service that celebrates 2 years helping SME's this month.
Based in the Highlands of Scotland, Platinax is run by a volunteer staff of company directors from across the UK.
The key aim of Platinax is ...
September 27, 2006
The Intel strikes back
Link: The Intel strikes back
Filed under: Hardware News, Companies News, Webhosting News, Technology News, Internet News
SPECIAL REPORT
In the face of encroachment by AMD into traditional chip markets, Intel is powering to strike back with a recently announced series of releases.
Key to this is the coming launch of its quad core chip family for x86 servers - Core 2 ...
September 26, 2006
Net delivers mobile domains
Link: Net delivers mobile domains
Filed under: Mobile News, Browsers, Web Development News, Webhosting News, Internet News
Public registrations of .mobi - the newly accredited domain name extension - has opened up today.
The aim of .mobi domain names is to cater specifically for mobile device users.
The domain registration body overseeing the project - Mobile Top Level Domain (MTLD) - insists ...
June 29, 2006
Webhost sees Paypal accounts closed
Link: Webhost sees Paypal accounts closed
Filed under: Webhosting News, Ecommerce News, Webmaster News
Major webhosting provider Sprintserve.net announced in an emergency bulletin today that Paypal has closed its Paypal accounts.
Using different Paypal accounts for different subsidiaries, Paypal stated this represented "excessive risk" because of possible links between the accounts.
The Paypal accounts were first "limited" ...
May 26, 2006
Nominet register 5 million domains
Link: Nominet register 5 million domains
Filed under: Webhosting News, Webmaster News, Internet News
Nominet - the domain registry that controls .uk domains - is celebrating reaching 5 million registered domains since the company was first formed, in 1996.
According to their records, Nominet registered 2000 .uk domains in their first month of operations.
However, the ...
April 28, 2006
AMD: Opteron chipsets on high
Link: AMD: Opteron chipsets on high
Filed under: Companies News, Hardware News, IBM News, Webhosting News, Technology News, Internet News
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) continues to increase its market share of the server processor market, now accounting for over 20% of x86 server processors in Q1 of this year, according to Mercury Research.
The company looks so inviting that IBM, who has ...
Internet vulerable to serious attack
Link: Internet vulerable to serious attack
Filed under: Webhosting News, Ecommerce News, Internet News
As much as 85% of the internet could be wiped out by a simple combination of attacks - according to the latest research from Cornell University.
The problem is due to the way that website addresses work, which relies on a small ...
March 29, 2006
Huge numbers of websites attacked
Link: Huge numbers of websites attacked
Filed under: Software News, Webhosting News, Webmaster News, Technology News, Internet News
Huge numbers of websites are being indirectly attacked, as the nameservers that tell the internet where to find them are directly targeted.
Using Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, the servers are flooded with useless information that can cause them to crash.
Individual servers ...
March 4, 2006
Google opts for Opteron
Link: Google opts for Opteron
Filed under: Hardware News, Webhosting News, Google News
Google is tipped to rebuild its huge server farm with AMD Opteron machines.
The news can only come as a double blow to Intel: not only does Intel CEO Paul Otellini sit on the board at Google, but Otellini has also seen Intel's profits ...
February 22, 2006
Nominet faces rebellion on changes
Link: Nominet faces rebellion on changes
Filed under: Web Development News, Webhosting News, Webmaster News
Nominet, the governing body in charge of overseeing UK domains, is facing rebellion over plans to overhaul the company.
Advocates say that Nominet needs to change because it wasn't structured to cope with the vast market in UK domain names that ...
February 1, 2006
ICANN and Verisign moving to deal on .com
Link: ICANN and Verisign moving to deal on .com
Filed under: Webhosting News, Webmaster News, Internet News
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and Verisign have come to a tentative agreement on handling .com domain names - after years of ugly legal wrangling.
ICANN is responsible for regulating the use of domain names, while Verisign is the world's largest ...
September 21, 2005
Akimbi claim server snap-shot software
Link: Akimbi claim server snap-shot software
Filed under: Webhosting News
Start-up company Akimbi Systems, has revealed Slingshot – software that can take a snap shot of a server environment, store hardware and software configurations. It is claimed it can also automatically roll back the configurations to a pool of machines for testing with specific ...
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