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Center 7 Acquires Colo Firm Tier Four
January 6, 2009 -- Colocation, virtualization and disaster recovery solutions provider Center 7 has completed its acquisition of colocation services provider Tier Four, giving it the floor space needed to meet market demand in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area.
Google Moves Up Spam-Friendly Host List
January 6, 2009 -- According to the most recent list published by security researcher Spamhaus, Google now ranks third (as of Tuesday morning) among the networks most actively used by spammers.
Twitter Hack Hits Obama, Others
January 6, 2009 -- Social networking site Twitter warned users Monday that phishers are directing users to fake Twitter login pages in an effort to dupe them into handing over their user names and password credentials.
USA.NET Leads Business Email Market Share
January 6, 2009 -- Delivering 38 million messages per day and managing 80 terabytes of data and more than a million business mailboxes in 120 countries, USA.NET has been named a "Top Player" in an analyst firm's report on the business email market, finishing the year closely ahead of sector giant Google.
NetBenefit Moves into Lumison Facility
January 6, 2009 -- UK based ISP Lumison announced on Monday that UK managed hosting provider NetBenefit has chosen Lumison as its new data center partner.
RegisterNuke Adds TippingPoint Security
January 6, 2009 -- Hosting software and service developer RegisterNuke.com has added TippingPoint's intrusion prevention systems as another layer of security to its dedicated and virtual dedicated hosting clients at no extra cost.
DemoDemo Launches Monthly Subscriptions
January 6, 2009 -- In a major change to its fee structure, flash-based web hosting tutorial provider DemoDemo.com has announced its tutorials are now available for a monthly subscription.
Northern Ireland Gets New Submarine Cable
January 6, 2009 -- Submarine transport cable provider Hibernia Atlantic announced on Tuesday it will build a new cable network for the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment for Northern Ireland and the Department Communications, Energy and Natural Resources for the Republic of Ireland.
Netcraft Offers Prizes for Phishing Reports
January 6, 2009 -- Having blocked 1.9 million phishing attacks by the close of 2008, the Netcraft Toolbar community is bolstering its efforts to rid the Interent of scams by giving away prizes for members who send web analytics firm Netcraft reports of phishing sites they encounter.
KY ISP WinNet Files for Bankruptcy
January 6, 2009 -- WinNet Communications, parent company of Louisville, Kentucky Internet service provider Win.Net, filed for bankruptcy protection last Thursday.
Internap Hosts Sharedband Highspeed Service
January 5, 2009 -- Online service provider Internap Network Services announced on Monday that it is providing IP network and data center colocation services to UK-based Sharedband to expand its operations and offer its network solution in the US, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Sharedband Technologies.
Survey: Facility Budgets Same in '09
January 5, 2009 -- AFCOM, a leading association for data center professionals, released a survey last month that shows that nearly two-thirds of large data centers operators will maintain or increase their budgets in 2009, despite the current economic downturn.
WHIR Blogs
Features
Noise Filter: Hackers Forge SSL Cert
January 5, 2009
Last week we reported that security researchers had published a report outlining the process they had used to create a forged SSL certificate by cracking the MD5 algorithm using the processing power from 200 PS3 game systems.
Q&A: Steve Eschweiler, Hivelocity
December 10, 2008
In an email interview with the WHIR, Hivelocity general manager Steve Eschweiler discusses his company's recent ad campaigns that have been creating a stir, featuring a spoof of male enhancement ads and Wilson from the Tom Hanks movie "Cast Away."
Q&A: Mike Smith, Report-Gisol.com
December 9, 2008
In an email interview with the WHIR, Mike Smith, the founder of Report-Gisol.com, discusses his motivations for setting up a consumer complaint forum against web hosting provider Global Internet Solutions and why he's even gotten the authorities involved in the issue.
Q&A: Jim Lewandowski, Rackspace
November 26, 2008
In an email interview with the WHIR, Rackspace's newly appointed senior VP of worldwide sales, Jim Lewandowski, discusses his new role and his strategies for expanding the company's worldwide revenue growth.
November 24, 2008
Web hosting provider Brinkster recently began offering the beta release of its new File Manager, which was developed using Adobe's open source Flex Framework.
New Features in Parallels Plesk 9
November 24, 2008
Last week, Parallels released version 9 of its Parallels Plesk Panel control panel software to partners, the first major upgrade of the most popular web hosting control panel since the release of Plesk 8 in September of 2006.
November 20, 2008
In an email conversation with the WHIR, Apptix's director of engineering James Bond, who discusses his notion of "hostophobia," and how hosting companies might counter reluctance toward outsourcing among IT guys.
