NewsHosting news - 29 Mar 2002 - Listing Page: 3501

The webhost industry: week review - 📅 Mar 29, 2002 - Three major service providers either filed for bankruptcy protection or ceased operations this week, a clear indicator that the financial problems the communications sector have been facing the past few months are far from over.

Scalable Ethernet services provider Yipes Communications Inc. filed for Chapter 11 Monday, citing issues in meeting fixed financial obligations like fiber infrastructure and real estate.

"This proposed restructuring is unavoidable given the ...

Rieman, Gyani Join Keynote Board of Directors - 📅 Mar 28, 2002 - Keynote Systems (keynote.com), a leader in Internet performance monitoring, announced on Thursday Mohan Gyani, president and CEO of AT&T Wireless Mobility Services and former CEO of Check Point Software Technologies Inc. Dr. Deborah Rieman have joined the company's board of directors.





Gyani and Rieman, says Keynote, will replace Leo Hindery, Jr. and Mark Leslie, who will both retire from the company's board of directors before the upcoming annual stockholders? meeting, ...

Jumpline Successfully Completes Migration to Sphera's HostingDirector Platform - 📅 Mar 28, 2002 - Web hosting firm Jumpline.com (jumpline.com 👉 Total Reviews: 32
🙌 Average Rating: 1.8 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 3
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Jumpline said the move, which was first announced in January, involved the transfer of 16,000 customer Web sites from machines located a data center maintained by Alabanza, which had been providing platform services for the company until mid-March, to servers in Columbus, Ohio. Jumpline's servers are now located in a Columbus data center operated by ...

Interland Reports 76 Percent Year-End Growth - 📅 Mar 28, 2002 - Interland, Inc., a Web hosting services provider, today announced financial results for its second fiscal quarter, ended February 28, 2002. The company reported revenues of $25.5 million for the quarter, an increase of 76.6 percent over the 12-month period. Gross margins continued to improve, reaching 46 percent for the quarter, compared with 43.2 percent for the prior quarter. Adjusted EBITDA loss was $6.4 million, meeting analyst expectations, compared with $8.5 million for the prior ...

Host Europe Announces Significant Growth in Preliminary Annual Report - 📅 Mar 28, 2002 - European hosting provider Host Europe PLC (hosteurope.com) announced significant company growth today in its annual performance report, including a 65% increase in pro forma revenues.



The company, which provides a complete range of Web hosting services throughout Europe, reported an inflow of £822,000 for the second half of the year and "significant improvement" in a number of important operating metrics between 2000 and 2001. Domains under management increased from 76,000 to ...

GeoTrust Unveils Franchise Distribution Program for SSL Certificates - 📅 Mar 28, 2002 - Digital certificate firm GeoTrust, Inc. (Geotrust.com), today announced the GeoTrust Franchise Program for distributing QuickSSL, its near-instant delivery system of 128-bitSSL digital certificates.



Under the new program, anyone can act as a GeoTrust marketing agent by promoting and selling QuickSSL on their own Web site. In return, customers receive a commission fee for each certificates sold. GeoTrust said more than 50 companies have joined the company's new franchise ...

EDS And UK Post Office Sign Multi-Million Dollar Contract - 📅 Mar 28, 2002 - EDS today announced Post Office Ltd has signed and eight-year, multi-million dollar contract to provide the UK government an outsourcing solution to handle benefit payments processes.




Under the agreement, EDS (eds.com) will provide electronic benefits transfer (EBT), customer relationship management (CRM) and application processing services to the Post Office to enable the UK government to issue benefit payments to citizens electronically rather than via ...

Register.com Announces Closing of Offer to Acquire Virtual Internet - 📅 Mar 28, 2002 - Domain name registration and Internet services firm Register.com (register.com 👉 Total Reviews: 5
🙌 Average Rating: 3 / 10
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Register.com also acquired Virtual Internet's equity stake in RegistryPro, a
joint venture between the two companies to create a .pro domain registry for
professionals, as part of the purchase.

Register.com's offer values Virtual Internet at ...

Mirror Image Expands Content Delivery Service - 📅 Mar 28, 2002 - Mirror Image Internet (mirror-image.com), a provider of distributed Web and content delivery services and subsidiary of Xcelera Inc. (xcelera.com), announced an expansion of its content delivery network solution set.



Designed to address the very specific needs demonstrated by customers of the company's content distribution, the new services include instaContent Download, instaContent Server and instaContent Guardian.



The ability to quickly adapt its services is a ...

Nauticus Networks Announces Launch, New Data Center Architecture - 📅 Mar 27, 2002 - Framingham, Mass.-based Nauticus Networks (nauticusnet.com) announced its company launch this week and unveiled its new data center architecture designed to drive new efficiency in the delivery of data center application services.

Created in October 2000, VP of Marketing Douglas Barta said Nauticus was a "post-bubble" tech firm with a realistic approach to business principles and strong financial backing. To that end, the company also announced a second round of VC funding from ...