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Alpine Electronics to Deploy IBM UNIX Servers - 📅 - IBM (ibm.com) announced today that Alpine Electronics of America, a mobile electronics supplier, has selected IBM eServer p360 and p670 UNIX servers to run its e-business operations. Alpine will consolidate its IT platform from Hewlett Packard UNIX servers running Oracle applications to an integrated infrastructure using four IBM eServer pSeries UNIX systems running applications from SAP.



The company said the new deployments will simplify Alpine Electornics? infrastructure ...
rackspace.com logoDell, Rackspace Power Trialthlon Broadcast - 📅 - Dell (http://www.dell.com) said today that more than 1.5 million visitors logged on to the ironmanalive.com Web site, hosted on Dell servers, during the Ironman Triathlon championships on the weekend of October 18 in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.



According to Dell, its PowerEdge servers streamed data on the ironwmanalive.com Web site via Texas-based Web hosting provider Rackspace Managed Hosting (rackspace.com 👉 Total Reviews: 16
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Dell also deployed its Precision M60 mobile workstations to allow video ...
Central Command Releases Virus List, Updates Solution - 📅 - Central Command (http://www.centralcommand.com), a developer of anti-virus software, released its monthly listing today of the top 12 viruses for the month of October. The report, according to the company, is based on the number of virus occurrences confirmed and reported though its Emergency Virus Response Team.



Worm/Gibe.C topped the list, accounting for 54.7 percent of all confirmed occurrences.

The Worm/Sobig.F virus, discovered in August, came in the sixth position ...
ICANN Board Organizational Meeting in Carthage, Tunisia - 📅 - Election of Board Chairman



Whereas the Board Governance Committee has unanimously

recommended that Vinton Cerf be elected as Chairman of the Board.

Resolved [03.175] that Vinton Cerf is elected as Chairman

of the Board, to serve at the pleasure of the Board and in accordance

with the Bylaws of the Corporation, and shall hold such office until

his ...
ICANN Board Resolutions in Carthage, Tunisia - 📅 - ICANN's Board of Directors met on 31 October 2003 in Carthage,

Tunisia.

The Board adopted the following resolutions:



Approval of .INFO Redemption Grace Period



Whereas, in resolution 02.83, the Board authorized the

President and General Counsel to conduct negotiations on behalf of ICANN

toward appropriate revisions to agreements between ICANN and the ...
ICANN Launches Broad Strategic Initiative for New Generic Top-Level Domains - 📅 - Carthage, Tunisia – ICANN announced
it will launch a broad strategic initiative to enable new generic top
level domains (gTLDs). The strategic initiative will include a two-stage
approach to move to the full globalization of the market for top-level
domains. ICANN concluded its week long meeting today which was held in
Tunisia, with ICANN’s Board making this historic announcement.
ICANN’s review ...
Digital River Signs Health Tech Firm for E-commerce - 📅 - Minnesota-based e-commerce outsourcing firm Digital River (http://www.digitalriver.com) said today it has signed a Web hosting and e-commerce agreement with HealtheTech, Inc., a developer of handheld medical devices and software for metabolism and nutrition monitoring.



Under the terms of the agreement, Digital River built and launched HealtheTech's new e-commerce site and in addition to hosting the site, is providing order management, digital software delivery, e-marketing and fraud ...
broadwing.comBroadwing Extends Optical Network in Florida - 📅 - Telecommunications carrier Broadwing Communications (broadwing.com), a subsidiary of Corvis Corporation (http://www.corvis.com), announced today that it has lit 1,200 additional all-optical route miles along the eastern coast of Florida, extending the company's nationwide all-optical core from Atlanta to Miami.



The Texas-based company said the expansion brings additional bandwidth and new route redundancy capabilities to enterprise and carrier customers in various cities in Florida, ...
Inflow Attains EBITDA Positive Status, Adds Customers - 📅 - Inflow (http://www.inflow.com), a provider of outsourced data center and managed hosting services, announced today the attainment of company EBITDA positive status for the third quarter of 2003.



The Colorado-based company said EBITDA positive status was reached due to increased revenue and continued cost controls.

"We are very excited to have reached this important step toward complete financial independence," said Mark Hughes, chief financial officer of Inflow. "Our ability ...
godaddy.com logoICANN Urged By Consumer Groups to Safeguard Privacy - 📅 - More than 50 consumer and civil liberty organizations urged ICANN (http://www.icann.org) president Paul Twomey to limit the use of the WHOIS database to its original purpose ? resolving technical network issues ? and to establish strong privacy protection standards, in a letter sent Tuesday.



The signatories said in the letter that the WHOIS database violates a domain name holder's right to privacy and freedom of expression by exposing personal information such as phone numbers, e-mail ...