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Digital River Supplies Newegg Store - 📅 - E-commerce outsourcing provider Digital River Inc. (http://www.digitalriver.com) announced on Tuesday that it has developed an online retail agreement with Newegg.com (http://www.newegg.com), an online computer component and consumer electronic retailer.



Under the agreement terms Newegg.com will offer its customers Digital River's extensive catalogue of downloadable software alongside its existing line of hardware and software products.

Newegg.com provides its customers with one-stop online ...
China Sets Antispam Guidelines - 📅 - The Chinese government and many of China's top Internet companies joined various US online firms on Thursday in issuing antispam guidelines for China, the world's largest source of unwanted email.



During the third annual Internet Society of China conference last week, society members such as China's major telecom providers and the Ministry of Information Industry agreed to a five-point anti-spam plan with American Online Inc., eBay Inc., Microsoft Corp., and Yahoo! Inc. ...
C&W Sponsors Web Site Design Contest - 📅 - The Cable & Wireless Childnet Academy 2005 (http://www.childnetacademy.org) announced on Tuesday the launch of an international competition that will reward talented young UK Web designers, aged 18 and under, with an expenses paid trip to Jamaica.



The winners of the competition will attend the week-long Academy in Jamaica next Easter, where they will be provided with Web support, technical advice and leadership training from a team of Internet experts. The joint initiative, run by ...
Apache Portable Runtime 2.0 Released - 📅 - The Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org) released version 1.0 of Apache Portable Runtime on Thursday, according to a report by ZDNet UK.



APR is used primarily with the Apache 2.0 Web server, allowing developers to write applications to a single interface and run them on multiple platforms, including Linux, Unix, Windows and Mac. Written in C, APR allows developers to write their programs just once and then run them on whatever platform they choose by simply recompiling ...
broadwing.comBroadwing Acquires Focal Communications - 📅 - Broadwing Communications LLC (broadwing.com) announced on Friday it has acquired Focal Communications Corporation, a Chicago-based local exchange carrier.



Broadwing says the acquisition expands the company's customer base, network reach and portfolio of voice, data and video network services, and approximately 4,000 enterprise and wholesale customers in 23 Tier-One markets throughout the US. Focal provides Broadwing with a local access network with a state-of-the-art switching ...
name.com logoDomainsite.com Offers Free .info Deal - 📅 - Domain name registrar Domainsite.com (http://www.domainsite.com) announced on Thursday that it will offer free domain name registration for .info domain names from September 2nd through the 9th.



Each registrant can register up to 25 domain names for free during this promotion. Clients that want to register more than 25 .info names will be charged $3.99 per year per domain for additional .info domains.

Domainsite offers domain name registration for many top level and country code ...
IBM Invests in Partner Services - 📅 - IBM Canada Ltd. (ibm.com), announced on Friday that it will invest $35 million Cdn over the next five years to support a business partner services strategy that includes new centers and services to better serve the technology needs of small and mid-sized businesses, a market IBM research says is worth up to $5.6 billion in Canada.



Working with over 70 business partners, IBM Canada has announced 15 focused service offerings and has opened four new centers in London, Ontario; ...
Sun to Ship New Networking Devices - 📅 - According to a report by ZDNet, Sun Microsystems (http://www.sun.com) will begin shipping new networking devices this month. The devices are based on technology acquired early this year from data center switch manufacturer Nauticus Networks (http://www.nauticusnet.com).



The products will be officially announced at Sun's quarterly product announcement event on September 21, 2004, the report said.

Nauticus technology balances loads among multiple servers and includes custom processors that ...
The webhost industry: week review - 📅 - While the Web hosting industry had its fair share of significant news announcements, the stories that seem most significant looking back are usually those that most clearly illustrate a specific point. In the case of this week's news, those points include the continuing vulnerability of even the most established Web sites to attack, as well as the growing significance of the reseller channel and efforts by Web hosts to connect with prospective customers on a deeper level than simply ...
Microsoft Releases SP1 for Sharepoint - 📅 - Microsoft (http://www.microsoft.com) said on Thursday that it has made two Service Pack 1 downloads available for customers using Microsoft Sharepoint products and technologies. The company said the service packs provide performance improvements for Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services. Microsoft's Sharepoint technologies help customers to build collaborative work spaces for intranet and extranet communities.



According to Microsoft, ...