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HP Targets SMB Market with Low-Cost Server - 📅 - Computer systems developer HP (http://www.hp.com) announced on Monday that it has introduced a new low-cost server offering it calls "an ideal server for budget-conscious businesses requiring dependable performance," targeting small to medium-sized businesses with the HP Server tc2120.



The HP Server tc2120, says the company, simplifies management tasks and adapts to changing computing demands, also serving as an ideal platform for VARs, allowing them to extend the service offerings ...
Harte-Hanks Debuts Service Provider Database - 📅 - Customer relations management firm Harte-Hanks Inc. (http://www.harte-hanks.com) announced on Monday that it has launched a specialized database, known as the Harte-Hanks Service Provider Database, profiling 1,300 ISPs and ASPs.



Harte-Hanks says the database was developed by the company's market intelligence team, and tracks contact names, business demographics, technology infrastructure and contact information on 1,300 North American Internet service providers (ISPs) and applications ...
Ensim Granted VPS Technology Patent - 📅 - Web hosting industry software provider Ensim Corporation (http://www.ensim.com) announced on Thursday that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted the company a patent for its Virtual Private Server (VPS) technology.



The patent, says Ensim, covers the interception of system calls, a critical technique for building virtual private servers on top of an underlying operating system. Without the technology, modification of the system itself would be required to create the ...
Boston Communications Buys Data Center - 📅 - Transaction processing solution provider Boston Communications Group Inc. (http://www.bcgi.net) announced on Friday that it has purchased a 93,000 square foot building in Bedford Massachusetts to serve as the company's redundant data center site.



The company says the building, purchased for $9.1 million from a bankrupt company, is designed and outfitted with high-end telecommunications, electrical and mechanical equipment to support bcgi's expected future growth and infrastructure.
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Blue Cross Blue Shield Picks Sprint Services - 📅 - Communications carrier Sprint (http://www.sprint.com) announced this week that it has signed a multimillion-dollar communications services agreement with Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) allowing the association and its 42 independent, locally operated plans discount pricing on Sprint products and services.



Sprint says it will provide Blue Cross Blue Shield Plans and their affiliates a range of communications technologies, including domestic Sprint IP, Sprint DSL, Web hosting ...
Loudeye Stockholders Approve Reverse Split - 📅 - Webcasting and digital media solutions provider Loudeye Corp. (http://www.loudeye.com) announced on Thursday that it received approval at a meeting of stockholders, permitting the company's board to effect a reverse stock split at a ration of one for ten, one for fifteen, or one for twenty at any time prior to December 31, 2003.



Should a reverse split be effected, says Loudeye, the company's board of directors will set the ratio at one of the stockholder-approved levels in an effort to ...
Microsoft bCentral Lacks .Net Support - 📅 - According to reports released this week, some small hosting customers have expressed discontent at the fact that Microsoft's bCentral, which provides Web hosting and site services to small operators, does not include support for the .Net software development package.



Microsoft says it is testing compatibility between bCentral and the .Net Framework tools, but the process is not yet finished, and bCentral is not yet able to host Web sites created with Microsoft's latest .Net ...
Submarine Cable Boom Over: TeleGeography - 📅 - According to a report released on Wednesday by research and consulting firm TeleGeography (http://www.telegeography.com), the undersea cable building boom has come to a halt, with the completion of projects by Tyco Telecom and Cable & Wireless, two years after the telecom industry first began its collapse.



Information from the report, entitled "International Bandwidth 2003 Volume 1: Submarine Networks" indicates that the construction craze increased communications capacity across the ...
Sun, Topspin Partner in InfiniBand Effort - 📅 - Computer systems developer Sun Microsystems (http://www.sun.com) announced on Friday that it has entered into a joint technology development and software licensing agreement with systems company Topspin Communications (http://www.topspin.com).



Sun has chosen Topspin to provide the Fiber Channel and Gigabit Ethernet I/O modules for its next-generation InfiniBand-based server platforms that help deliver improved application scalability, performance and resource use.

According to Sun, the ...
directnic.com logoThe webhost industry: week review - 📅 - This week saw a considerable amount of news come out of the domain name business, driven most notably by the introduction of new country code TLDs in markets outside North America. At the same time, the Web hosting industry saw a number of new executive appointments, as well as a significant acquisition.

On Monday, online software service provider DataWeb announced that it had acquired the Web-based rapid application development business from application infrastructure firm BEA ...