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📅 - Sphera Builds R&D Center in India - Web hosting automation software developer Sphera (sphera.com) is building a research and development center in Pune, India, the company said today. According to Sphera, the center is being built in partnership with In-Reality Software (in-reality.com), an Indian software services firm headed by Shirish Deodhar, former president of VERITAS Software Corporation's India operations. Sphera said the center is designed to augment the company's core center for hosting automation development and research in Tel Aviv, Israel and accelerate product development in the face of growing market demand. "The formation of this relationship is in response to our success in the ...
📅 - MyDoom Email Virus Spreading Rapidly - The MyDoom email virus, spreading quickly around the world has already caused $850 million worth of business productivity losses, according to estimates by the mi2g Intelligence Unit (mi2g.net). The virus, which began spreading yesterday at about 9 pm. GMT. is also known as W32.Novarg.A@mm or WORM_MIMAIL.R. The virus disguises itself as a returned email and contains an executable attachment that is meant to look like a text-file attachment. "Although it is too early to say how much cumulative damage is likely, it would seem that MyDoom's purpose is to carry out mass identity theft and clog networks," said DK Matai, executive chairman of mi2g. "There is a ...
📅 - ValueWeb Adds Bandwidth for Dedicated Servers - Web hosting provider Affinity Internet (affinity.com 👉 Total Reviews: 1
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👈 Official Responses: 0) dedicated servers to one terabyte per server. The company said the offering allows users to significantly increase their traffic without having to worry about penalties incurred from over-use of bandwidth. Affinity said the new bandwidth allocation will be of particular interest to customers running bandwidth-heavy applications on their dedicated servers. "Increasing customers' bandwidth while maintaining the lowest price point in the industry provides our customers with the resources needed to grow ...
🙌 Average Rating: 1 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 0
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👈 Official Responses: 0) announced on Tuesday that it has increased the bandwidth allotments for its ValueWeb (valueweb.com 👉 Total Reviews: 3
🙌 Average Rating: 1 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 0
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👈 Official Responses: 0) dedicated servers to one terabyte per server. The company said the offering allows users to significantly increase their traffic without having to worry about penalties incurred from over-use of bandwidth. Affinity said the new bandwidth allocation will be of particular interest to customers running bandwidth-heavy applications on their dedicated servers. "Increasing customers' bandwidth while maintaining the lowest price point in the industry provides our customers with the resources needed to grow ...
📅 - Register.com Wins Verio Injunction - Register.com (register.com 👉 Total Reviews: 5
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👈 Official Responses: 0) granted by the United States District Court, Southern District of New York. The injunction bars Verio from using Register.com's Whois database to target customers with unsolicited commercial email, direct mail and telemarketing activity. Verio is also prohibited from any activity that attempts to mislead Register.com customers into believing that Register.com is affiliated with Verio or its services in any way. ...
🙌 Average Rating: 3 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 1
👎 Bad Reviews: 4
👈 Official Responses: 0), a provider of domain name registration and Internet services, announced on Wednesday that the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld a preliminary injunction against Web host Verio (verio.com 👉 Total Reviews: 28
🙌 Average Rating: 2.2 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 4
👎 Bad Reviews: 24
👈 Official Responses: 0) granted by the United States District Court, Southern District of New York. The injunction bars Verio from using Register.com's Whois database to target customers with unsolicited commercial email, direct mail and telemarketing activity. Verio is also prohibited from any activity that attempts to mislead Register.com customers into believing that Register.com is affiliated with Verio or its services in any way. ...
📅 - Springboard Gives to Children's Hospital - Managed Web hosting and data center services provider Springboard Managed Hosting (springboardhosting.com) said on Wednesday that it is continuing its corporate philanthropy program with Duke University Children's Hospital and Health Center for the second straight year. According to the company, it will be donating its luxury skybox at the RBC center for three events and giving away 50 tickets to a Carolina Hurricanes hockey game to patients of the hospital and their families. Springboard said the program demonstrates its commitment to corporate responsibility and citizenship. "Corporate responsibility through giving something back to the Triangle ...
📅 - Speedera Helps NASA Serve 4 Billion Hits - Content delivery service provider Speedera Networks (speedera.com) announced yesterday that the Mars Exploration Rover content it is delivering for NASA's Web site is setting records as the most widely-viewed scientific event ever broadcast on the Internet. Speedera announced earlier this month that it is delivering the Mars exploration Web content for NASA's Web sites over its globally distributed on-demand network. According to Speedera, the NASA site has received in excess of four billion hits in January, with traffic continuing to grow as the more images are transmitted from the Mars mission. Speedera says its network has handled peak loads of nearly seven ...