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Hijacking Brings Down eBay Germany - 📅 - Online auction Web site eBay Germany (http://www.ebay.de) and German domain registrar DeNIC (denic.de) are investigating a domain hijacking scam that went undetected for several hours, causing the ebay Germany Web site to go offline, according to a report by the Register.



The scam occurred last Saturday when visitors to eBay Germany were redirected to a scam site reportedly hosted by Intergenia AG (http://www.intergenia.de).
Intergenia, an Internet service and Web hosting provider, said in the ...
he.net logoHurricane Electric to Hold Unix Seminar - 📅 - Web hosting provider Hurricane Electric (he.net 👉 Total Reviews: 1
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) announced on Wednesday that it is hosting "SysAdmin 101," a Unix seminar geared toward intermediate and advanced users as well as beginning system administrators, on October 3, 2004.



The semiar will focus on teaching participants advanced command line interaction, shell scripting power techniques and the core concepts underlying system administration of a Unix or Linux system. Dave Taylor, an author, teacher and speaker with ...
IBM, Intel Opening Blade Server Specs - 📅 - According to a report by the Register, IBM (ibm.com) and Intel (http://www.intel.com) plan to announce on Thursday that they have opened up some of the specifications for their shared blade designs.



A statement posted on the IBM Web site read: "IBM and Intel have announced the public availability of the design specifications for switches, adapter cards, appliances and communication blades for the IBM eserver BladeCenter platform. Opening these specifications continues the companies' ...
Digital River Teams with Microsoft - 📅 - Digital River (http://www.digitalriver.com), a provider of e-commerce outsourcing, announced on Thursday that it is working with Microsoft (http://www.microsoft.com) to expand Microsoft's e-commerce software distribution efforts. Under the newly established relationship, Microsoft will offer its Plus! Digital Media Edition enhancement pack for Windows XP to more than 200 online retailers, including Best Buy, CompUSA, OfficeMax and Staples.



"Today's announcement is a great example of how the ...
Apache Continues Web Server Lead - 📅 - Apache maintained its lead in Web server market share, gaining 0.15 percent, according to Netcraft's (http://www.netcraft.com) September Web server survey. The market share gains represented a gain of approximately 800,000 hostnames.



Microsoft lost some ground again, dropping 0.07 market share, according to the survey. SunOne and Zeus also lost ground, losing 0.07 and 0.02 percent market share respectively.

According to Netcraft, Microsoft's share of the Web server market ...
Veritas Buys KVault for $225 Million - 📅 - Storage software company Veritas (http://www.veritas.com) announced on Tuesday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire email backup company Kvault Software for $225 million in cash, according to a report by Reuters.



Kvault helps companies store, manage, backup and archive email and data, a technology that analysts say is growing in importance as regulatory requirements become more stringent.

Veritas said it expects the deal to close by the end of the month. The ...
amenworld.comAmen Offers Discount Dedicated Server - 📅 - Web hosting provider Amen (amenworld.com 👉 Total Reviews: 5
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), a subsidiary of Via Net.Works (http://www.vianetworks.com), announced on Wednesday that it has introduced a dedicated server plan priced at £29 per month with no setup fee. The monthly fee is equivalent to just over $50 US.



The £29 per month price requires a six-month commitment. Customers can sign up for plans without commitment, but at the rate of £39 per month (approximately $60 US). Amen said the pricing puts dedicated hosting "within all ...
webhostingwholesale.com logoCostcohosting.com Name Sparks Dispute - 📅 - WebHostingWholesale.com (webhostingwholesale.com) confirmed late last week that legal representatives for the Costo Wholesale Group has been pushing the company to give up its ownership of the domain name costcohosting.com. WebHostingWholesale sells Web hosting services for $1 per month through the costcohosting.com domain.



Costco originally contacted WebHostingWholesale in March by email, demanding it terminate usage of the disputed domain. Costco claims it owns the rights ...
Comodo-Trustix Offers Hosting Package - 📅 - Comodo-Trustix (http://www.comodogroup.com), a provider of information security services, announced on Tuesday that it has released a consolidated Web hosting package that combines a fully supported distribution of the Linux-based Trustix (http://www.trustix.com) operating system ES with the cPanel (http://www.cpanel.net) server management tool.



As a result of the integration, customers will be able to identify and solve any problems with a single call to Trustix, instead of making overlapping calls to ...
godaddy.com logoGo Daddy Integrates Sender ID - 📅 - The Go Daddy Group Inc. (godaddy.com 👉 Total Reviews: 81
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), parent company of GoDaddy.com, the domain name registrar, announced on Tuesday that it will integrate the Sender ID Framework for email authentication into its email security system.



Co-developed by Microsoft and Meng Wong, CTO of pobox.com, this new initiative furthers Go Daddy's continuous fight against spam and online phishing scams. Currently, the Internet Engineering Task Force is reviewing this Sender ID system on a fast track. ...