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EURid to Manage .eu Domain Names - 📅 - The European Commission announced yesterday that it has chosen the EURid consortium (http://www.eurid.org) to run the .eu top-level domain.



EURid's head office will be located in Brussles and will house the main development and operational teams. Its support organization will oversee the central region of Europe while regional offices overlooking the northern and southern regions will be established in Sweden and Italy.

EURid says that it will promote competition by working ...
HP Linux Server Achieves Oracle Benchmark - 📅 - Hewlett-Packard (http://www.hp.com) announced yesterday that HP ProLiant servers running SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 (http://www.hp.com/linux) have achieved the industry's first clustered Oracle (http://www.oracle.com) Applications Standard Benchmark (OASB) on Linux.



The company says that the benchmark showcases HP's ability to delivering highly scalable Oracle9i Database with Real Application Clusters based solutions in Linux environments, and demonstrates the advantage of running applications on HP ...
geotrust.com logoGeoTrust to Resell QuickPayments Services - 📅 - GeoTrust, Inc. (geotrust.com) yesterday introduced its reseller program for QuickPayments Services, a payment solution for customers of QuickPayments resellers. The service offers a merchant account set-up that enables connectivity to payment processing networks upon completion of a Web-based enrollment form. QuickPayments supports multiple payment methods and is integrated with all major shopping cart applications.



Under the QuickPayments Reseller program, resellers earn a ...
Limelight Doubles Traffic on Global Crossing Backbone - 📅 - Global Crossing (http://www.globalcrossing.com) announced today that Limelight Networks (http://www.limelightnetworks.com) doubled the amount of traffic it runs over Global Crossing's backbone during the first quarter of 2003. This company reports that this level of growth is continuing during the second quarter.



Global Crossing has been supporting Limelight's content delivery, streaming media and enterprise transit customers since 2001. It currently provides it with an IP Transit capacity of ...
Additional Details on June 2003 ICANN Meeting to Be Held in Montréal, Canada - 📅 - ICANN's next round of meetings will be held in 22-26 June 2003 in Montréal,
Canada. The meetings are free to attend and open to any interested person.
ICANN encourages broad participation in its bottom-up consensus-development
process.

Hotel Accommodations
Those seeking hotel accommodations in Montréal are strongly urged
to make reservations as ...
Digital River Enhances E-commerce Platform - 📅 - Digital River (http://www.digitalriver.com) announced today that it has launched significant enhancements to the reporting and analytical features of its e-commerce platform. The enhancements include a newly designed user-friendly menu, refined e-commerce reports, and improved reporting controls and searching capabilities.



"Strong reporting and analytical tools are a critical element in any successful e-commerce operation because they can help companies gain real-time insight into ...
Digex Named as Leader in Gartner Study - 📅 - Digex, Inc. (http://www.digex.com) announced yesterday it has been listed in the ?Leaders? quadrant in Gartner, Inc's (http://www.gartner.com) 2003 North American Web Hosting Magic Quadrant.



The Gartner Magic Quadrant is Gartner's analytical portrayal of the hosting marketplace. This year's report evaluated 14 vendors against various predetermined criteria for a specific time frame. According to Gartner, a company must demonstrate high levels of performance, a clear vision of market direction and ...
C&W to Pull Out of US Hosting Market: Report - 📅 - Newly appointed Cable & Wireless (http://www.cw.com) CEO Francisco Caio is prepared to announce a radical restructuring plan on June 4, according to a report published by The Times, a British paper. It is believed that Caio will announce plans to dispose of C&W's struggling U.S. business and look into the possibility of selling its Japanese operations. The potential restructuring would leave C&W to focus on its UK and Caribbean holdings, which are currently generating a profit of about £300 million ...
broadspire.comBroadSpire Enters Marketing Alliance with Intuit - 📅 - BroadSpire (broadspire.com) announced yesterday that it has entered into a marketing alliance with Intuit (http://www.intuit.com), the developer of QuickBooks accounting software, to sell BroadSpire's products and services through Intuit's QuickBooks ValueCenter (http://www.valuecenter-quickbooks.com) Web site.



Under the alliance, QuickBooks ValueCenter will be offering a broad range of BroadSpire's offerings. Site visitors can choose from deals offered on BroadSpire's complete Web presence ...
atlantic.net logoAtlantic.Net Buys Feature Price Assets - 📅 - Florida-based ISP and Web hosting firm Atlantic.Net (atlantic.net 👉 Total Reviews: 18
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) said yesterday it had purchased the assets of Feature Price, a Ft. Meyers, Fl.-based Web host that had recently experienced customer service issues and is currently under investigation by the Florida Attorney General's Office.

The company said it had acquired a customer base of 40,000 from Feature Price. Financial details of the purchase were not disclosed.

The status of Feature Price's business operations had ...