Recently, the World Association of Domain Name Developers pronounced that the CEO of Forbes magazine will deliver the keynote address at the upcoming T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East 2007 (targetedtraffic.com/ miami_show.html) show in Hollywood, Florida, which is set to take place from October 9 to 13.
Steve Forbes, who is also the editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine and a former presidential candidate, will...
Web hosting provider Host.net (host.net) has newly acquired WebUnited (webunited.com), one of its biggest competitors. WebUnited had been part of Landmark Communications' Continental Broadband family of commercial Internet data providers, which also owns the Weather Channel, CBS stations in Los Angeles, California and Nashville, Tennessee and nearly 100 newspapers, including the Virginian Pilot...
Web hosting provider Top Hosting Center (tophostingcenter.com) announced on September 21, 2007, it is offering new hosting plans and a new pricing policy where the company said it will match any competitor's pricing on any Web hosting plan or dedicated server package.
The Top Host Special plan, which THC calls its most interesting, is priced at $4.95 per month and includes 250GB disk space and...
Not long ago, web hosting provider AIT (ait.com) filed a temporary restraining order against Fayetteville Publishing Company, requesting the court to intervene and expressing concerns that the company may have spoiled or destroyed evidence on the servers despite AIT's ongoing litigation against FPC.
The motion alleges the concern arose because FPC said it was not obligated to preserve the...
On September 20, 2007, managed hosting provider Verio (verio.com) commenced its viaVerio Partner Summit in Las Vegas, immediately following Tier 1 Research's (tier1research.com) third annual Hosting Transformation Summit (hsvsummit.com). The event remained at The Venetian Hotel and Casino.
The two-day conference, themed "Welcome to the Services Evolution," kicked off with a brief...
Web hosting provider SuperbHosting (superbhosting.net) publicized on September 19, 2007 it is offering two separate promotional online advertising credits to new and existing SuperbHosting customers redeemable for pay-per-click search engine advertisements.
Superb has partnered with some of the leading online advertising companies on the Internet to offer coupons for free online advertising....
On September 19, 2007, IT security and management solutions provider Comodo (comodo.com) pronounced that it is offering a set of free diagnostic tests that will help users understand how vulnerable their computers are to buffer overflow attacks, which are emerging as one of the Internet's most dangerous devices for uploading malware onto a user's computer.
The three kinds of buffer overflow...
Application management solutions provider Zeus Technology (zeus.com) has appointed Kieron Thorpe to the position of director of systems engineering on September 19, 2007.
Reporting to the CEO, Kieron is responsible for key technology strategies, product support, maintenance and operations policies and partner and customer training programs. He directs the technical support and pre-sales teams...
Web hosting provider HostPC Internet Services (hostpc.com) has recently partnered with EasyAntiSpam (easyantispam.com) to offer an effective service designed to combat spam. EasyAntiSpam is compatible with most email systems and requires no additional hardware installation. Instead of scoring and applying points to spam email, EAS uses human SPAM editors who review spam around the clock and...
On September 17, 2007, managed hosting provider Layered Technologies' (layeredtech.com) support database was hit the evening with a malicious attack that may have resulted in the illegal downloading of information, including the names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and server login information for five to 6,000 of customers.
The company responded immediately to the incident by...