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Report: Web Host Shutters Controversial Band Site - 📅 - According to various reports, an Internet broadcast of a concert by the band Hell on Earth that was to feature a live suicide of a terminally ill man did not take place as planned Saturday.



The concert and suicide were to take place at two separate and undisclosed locations in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Candid Hosting (http://www.candidhosting.com), which provides Web hosting services for the Hell on Earth Web site, reportedly shut down the site before the concert was scheduled ...
geotrust.com logoEV1Servers to Offer GeoTrust Payment Service - 📅 - EV1Servers (http://www.ev1servers.net), the discount dedicated hosting firm formerly known as Rackshack, announced Monday that it has partnered with identity and trust services provider GeoTrust (geotrust.com) to offer QuickPayments, an online payment service.



The service, according to EV1Servers, includes real-time merchant account setup, immediate connectivity with all major payment processors, and easy integration with all major shopping carts.

"Given the rapid growth of ...
Excedent Launches Webmail.us, Domain Giveaway - 📅 - Excedent Technologies (http://www.excedent.com), a provider of e-mail hosting, anti-virus and spam filtering solutions, launched today Webmail.us, a hosted enterprise e-mail solution targeted at small and medium-sized businesses. In conjunction with the launch, Excedent announced it would give away free ?dot-US? domain names to new e-mail hosting customers for a limited time period.



"We created Webmail.us to offer small businesses a complete, yet affordable solution for providing ...
equinix.com logoEquinix Awarded U.S. Government Contractor Status - 📅 - Equinix, Inc. (equinix.com) announced today it has been awarded a U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Information Technology Schedule Contract to provide IT infrastructure services to the U.S. federal government.



GSA is an acquisition agency that assists federal agencies to buy equipment, telecommunications, IT and infrastructure services from contracted vendors. The awarding of the GSA certification places Equinix on the list of contracted vendors.

"Equinix ...
Globix Acquires Aptegrity - 📅 - Globix Corporation (http://www.globix.com) said today it has entered into an agreement to acquire Aptegrity (http://www.aptegrity.com), a managed services provider that focuses on Web-based applications. Under the terms of the agreement, Globix will acquire substantially all assets and assume specific liabilities of Aptegrity.



Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

The company said that adding Aptegrity's operations is a key component of its continued evolution into a full-service managed ...
Inflow Signs Vanderbilt University for IDC Services - 📅 - Inflow (http://www.inflow.com) announced today it has signed a seven-year contract with Vanderbilt University for business continuity and data center services. Under the terms of the agreement, Vanderbilt will occupy approximately 2,500 square feet of data center space, serving as a high availability business continuance site for the Vanderbilt University Media Center.



"Having completed a thorough evaluation process we selected Inflow. They were able to clearly demonstrate their ...
internap.com logoInternap Acquires netVmg, Sockeye Networks - 📅 - Internap Network Services Corporation (internap.com), a provider of performance-based routing services, announced today that is has completed the acquisition of netVmg (http://www.netvmg.com), a provider of equipment-based routing services. The acquisition is an all-stock transaction, with Internap issuing approximately 345,000 unregistered shares of its Series A convertible preferred stock to netVmg shareholders.



The definitive agreement to acquire netVmg was originally announced early ...
Intel Releases New Intel Xeon Processor - 📅 - Intel Corporation (http://www.intel.com) released today an enhanced 3.20 GHz Intel Xeon processor for dual processor servers and workstations.



The new processor features a 1MB cache and a 533 MHz system bus. It is designed for use in general-purpose servers for Web hosting, data caching, search engines, security, streaming media and high performance computing. In workstations, the new processor is designed for digital content creation, mechanical and electrical design, financial ...
ihostnetworks.comiHost Networks Releases E-commerce Solution - 📅 - iHost Networks (ihostnetworks.com), a Bellevue, Washington based hosting solutions provider, released today Web Easy Pro 5.0, a new shopping cart and order management system offered via iHost's iEasySite hosting service.



According to the company, the new system has a variety of eShop objects available to users that can be added to Web sites through a "drag and drop" process.

"Our customers have long asked for a high-performance shopping solution. Our new system, ...
HP Offers $25k in Services to Lure Sun Customers - 📅 - Hewlett-Packard (http://www.hp.com) unveiled today a migration program to help move customers move from Sun Solaris (http://www.sun.com) to HP platforms running on Linux (http://www.linux.org). According to HP, the new program offers a total of $25,000 worth of assessment, porting and migration services at no cost to customers who move applications from Sun Solaris to Linux.



"Customers are telling us it's time to take advantage of the economics of Linux while cutting their risk and architecting for the ...