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MPAA Crackdown Catches Web Hosts - 📅 - According to reports released Monday, two Web hosting companies based in Dallas, Texas were caught up in the Motion Picture Association of America's crackdown on Web site and server operators involved in the illegal online distribution of movies and television content.



Hosting providers The Planet Internet Services and Layered Technologies were host to sites and servers allegedly involved in the distribution of copyrighted content using the BitTorrent file distributing ...
Macminicolo Hosting New Mac Machines - 📅 - Internet service provider Underwriters Technologies announced on Tuesday that it had launched Macminicolo.net (http://www.macminicolo.net), a high-speed colocation service for the new Mac mini computer from Apple.



The company says the computers are mounted in custom racks with multiple high-speed connections to the Internet. Underwriters Technologies says it has been maintaining colocated Macs since the company was launched. All the infrastructure used in the Macminicolo.net project was ...
lunarpages.com logoLunarPages Offers Schools Free Hosting - 📅 - Web hosting provider LunarPages (lunarpages.com 👉 Total Reviews: 29
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) announced on Tuesday it will be offering free Web hosting to all K-12 public schools in the US, effective immediately.



Lunarpages will also be providing 1000 MB of storage, unlimited email addresses, 40 GB data transfer, and unlimited phone and email support for each new account.

While there is no restriction on the use of an account, says the company, it must be opened by a school official and used for educational ...
ISP Panix Domain Name Hijacked - 📅 - According to reports released Monday, New York-based Internet service provider Panix.com was working to recover its domain name, after what appeared to be a hijacking disrupted the company's email services.



Panix.com said the domain's ownership had been transferred Friday evening to a company in Australia, the domain name server records had been moved to the UK and its email had been redirected to a company in Canada.

The company warned customers that they would be ...
peak10.comWeb Host Peak 10 Teams With Telcove - 📅 - Data center operator and managed service provider Peak 10 (peak10.com 👉 Total Reviews: 2
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) announced on Tuesday it is collaborating with telecommunications services provider TelCove to provide connectivity, bandwidth and data center services to the American Tobacco Historic District's escalating tenant population in Durham, North Carolina.



TelCove has formed a diverse fiber ring connection between its Durham hub at American Tobacco to TelCove's most recent network location at Peak 10's data ...
WebSitePulse Adds Two Monitoring Sites - 📅 - WebSitePulse (http://www.websitepulse.com), a provider of independent and remote monitoring of Web-based systems and e-business transactions, announced on Tuesday it has added two US monitoring locations in Seattle and Chicago.



These additional locations, says the company, improve the reliability of the WebSitePulse false alarm prevention system, based on multiple tests from several locations before an alert is triggered.

The information from additional monitoring locations ...
geotrust.com logoGeoTrust, GMO Sign Distribution Deal - 📅 - Internet security solution provider GeoTrust (geotrust.com) announced on Tuesday that it has signed a multi-year distribution contract with Global Media Online division GMO, extending a partnership started in 2002.



According to the deal, GMO Group, GeoTrust Japan will continue to be the exclusive in-country distributor of GeoTrust identity verification and e-security solutions in Japan. The company markets the solutions under the GeoTrust Japan brand.

"Online security ...
aplus.net logoWeb Host Aplus.Net Adds Smart Console - 📅 - Web hosting provider Aplus.Net (aplus.net 👉 Total Reviews: 30
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) announced on Tuesday that it has released its Smart Console, a service that allows secure remote access to dedicated servers, as well as to servers that are not responding.



When presented with a server emergency, Smart Console enables immediate remote access and control over the core server functions, says Aplus.Net, saving IT administrators the time it usually takes to call and work with a tech support specialist at the server data ...
cihost.comC I Host Predicts E-Commerce Prosperity - 📅 - According to a recent client poll by Web host C I Host (cihost.com 👉 Total Reviews: 17
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), 2005 will see the expansion of more small-to-medium sized business, as well as an increase in hiring. The survey received 20,859 responses from the 120,000 e-commerce customers contacted.



"Businesses will pump up by increasing their Internet marketing and twenty-three percent also expect to hire new people," reported CI Host CEO Chris Faulkner. "Particularly interesting, 53 percent will increase overall IT ...
name.com logoDomainsite.com Offers Chinese Domains - 📅 - Domain registrar Domainsite.com (http://www.domainsite.com) announced on Monday that it will begin offering internationalized domain name registration for the .CN registry.



During the launch, the company is offering clients unlimited .CN domain names for $34 per year each. "We are excited to be able to allow customers to register .CN names in the Chinese language", says Domainsite.com CEO Bill Mushkin. "Historically, many Chinese sites have been accessed directly by their IP addresses. ...