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📅 - ASPHostCentral.com launches SQL Server 2008 Beta Hosting Plan - Innovative windows hosting leader, ASPHostCentral.com, announces the launch of a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 hosting beta program available to all ASPHostCentral.com customers at no additional cost. Customers can enable their free SQL 2008 hosting beta account through their control panel.
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 is a major update to its enterprise database product and is currently in RC0 release. Although no launch date has been officially stated, the final release of SQL Server 2008 is said to be slated for Q3 2008.
For developers, some of the new SQL 2008 features include new data types, such as date/time data types and geospatial data types. In addition, ...
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 is a major update to its enterprise database product and is currently in RC0 release. Although no launch date has been officially stated, the final release of SQL Server 2008 is said to be slated for Q3 2008.
For developers, some of the new SQL 2008 features include new data types, such as date/time data types and geospatial data types. In addition, ...
📅 - ICANN Concludes Successful 32nd Meeting in Paris - PARIS, FRANCE: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) concluded its 32nd International Public Meeting in Paris today after four days of discussions that will shape the future of the Internet. The conclusion of the meeting saw the approval of a proposal to expand the world's Domain Name System and to work on adapting it to accommodate top level domain names in scripts such as Arabic, Cyrillic or other non-Latin scripts. "This was an extremely successful meeting that will be remembered as a milestone in the development of the Internet," said Peter Dengate Thrush, ICANN's Board Chairman. "New generic Top Level ...
📅 - Biggest Expansion to Internet in Forty Years Approved for Implementation - Paris, France: The Board of ICANN today approved a recommendation that could see a whole range of new names introduced to the Internet's addressing system. "The Board today accepted a recommendation from its global stakeholders that it is possible to implement many new names to the Internet, paving the way for an expansion of domain name choice and opportunity" said Dr Paul Twomey, President and CEO of ICANN. A final version of the implementation plan must be approved by the ICANN Board before the new process is launched. It is intended that the final version will be published in early 2009. "The potential here is huge. It ...
📅 - Keynote Introduces Monitoring Software - On-demand, website test and measurement firm Keynote Systems (http://www.keynote.com) has announced KITE 2.0, a new, web application performance testing environment that includes testing of web 2.0 and cloud applications to be released in August. "As cloud computing grows dramatically, a new age of products for testing and validating application performance in real time across the Internet cloud is required," said Vik Chaudhary, vice president of product management and corporate development at Keynote. "We've built KITE to address this need as a product for anyone wanting to understand and improve the performance of their Web applications from the end user ...
📅 - IE Feature Causing Malware - An online security researcher has found a drive-by malware download that exploits an Internet Explorer feature to launch cross-site scripting attacks, according to a report by ZDNet (http://www.blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1361). Roel Schouwenberg, an analyst at Kaspersky Lab (http://www.kaspersky.com), detected the attack at a compromised legitimate site, is using a modified GIF file to exploit the cross-site scripting feature/vulnerability.Schouwenberg said he notified Microsoft of the flaw when a similar attack occurred a while ago on a lower traffic site. He told Microsoft that the JavaScript embedded into GIF files can be executed under certain circumstances. ...
📅 - PacHosting Hosts BlackBerry Email - Hong Kong-based web host PacHosting (pachosting.com 👉 Total Reviews: 13
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👈 Official Responses: 0) that offer support for BlackBerry, PacHosting announced late last week that it is the latest entrant into the market.In March, Microsoft (http://www.microsoft.com) announced that plans were underway for Microsoft hosted Exchange and SharePoint services scheduled for launch in October. While some hosts were startled by Microsoft's active and direct stance, in what could be viewed as placing themselves in direct ...
🙌 Average Rating: 2 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 2
👎 Bad Reviews: 11
👈 Official Responses: 0) has launched a BlackBerry email hosting service, allowing a BlackBerry (http://www.blackberry.com) to stay synchronized with via Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. Joining other email hosts like MailStreet (mailstreet.com 👉 Total Reviews: 1
🙌 Average Rating: 1 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 0
👎 Bad Reviews: 1
👈 Official Responses: 0) that offer support for BlackBerry, PacHosting announced late last week that it is the latest entrant into the market.In March, Microsoft (http://www.microsoft.com) announced that plans were underway for Microsoft hosted Exchange and SharePoint services scheduled for launch in October. While some hosts were startled by Microsoft's active and direct stance, in what could be viewed as placing themselves in direct ...