NewsHosting news - 08 Nov 2001 - Listing Page: 3577

Choice One to Acquire Assets from FairPoint - 📅 Nov 8, 2001 - Choice One Communications (choiceonecom.com), an integrated
communications provider, yesterday announced the company has signed a
definitive agreement to acquire certain assets from FairPoint Communications
Solutions Corp (fairpoint.com). FairPoint Solutions was created in 1998 to pursue new market opportunities created by the deregulation of the local exchange markets.



The company offers a full suite of voice telecommunications services to
small and medium sized ...

Tucows Inc. pre-registering .NAME domains - 📅 Nov 8, 2001 - Tucows Inc. (tucows.com), a leading provider of wholesale domain name registrations, announced that it will begin taking pre-registrations on Wednesday, November 7, 2001, for .NAME, the world's only global generic top-level domain (gTLD) exclusively for personal name registrations.



The registry is offering both personal domain name registrations and
personalized e-mail forwarding. This should significantly increase the
accessibility of personal names for registration by ...

Worldport Hires Former Exodus Communications Exec - 📅 Nov 8, 2001 - Web hosting firm Worldport Communications (wrdp.com) said today it had appointed former Exodus Communications executive Darren Metherell to head its new business sales channel in the UK.



Metherell, who has over six years of sales experience in the Internet industry, becomes Worldport's new sales manager.

Meterell was previously sales director at Exodus, which recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. At Exodus, Metherell led the company's regional sales ...

Optiglobe Expands into Mexico - 📅 Nov 8, 2001 - OptiGlobe (optiglobe.com), a Latin American provider of web-enabled IT outsourcing and data center services, announced today that it is expanding operations into Mexico City, rounding out its pan-regional presence.



OptiGlobe will offer the Mexican market a comprehensive portfolio of
infrastructure, connectivity, professional, support and managed services.
These services will enable Mexican and multi-national companies to rollout
and operate mission-critical IT systems ...

Loudcloud Launches Performance Testing Service - 📅 Nov 8, 2001 - Loudcloud, Inc. (loudcloud.com -> hostinger.com) announced yesterday the launch of its Performance Testing service targeted at helping companies
prepare for sudden increases in Web site traffic due to seasonality or other
events.



According to Nielsen/NetRatings nearly $10 billion will be spent online this
December as more than 100 million consumers are projected to shop over the
Web. The new Loudcloud Performance Testing service can help enable retailers
to be ready to handle the ...

XACCT Real-Time N2B Platform Selected for Bell Canada Web Hosting and Internet Services - 📅 Nov 8, 2001 - XACCT Technologies (xacct.com), a leading business intelligence infrastructure platform for IP networks, announced that Bell Canada (bell.ca), Canada's national leader for communications in the Internet world, has selected XACCT's "Network-to-Business" (N2B) platform for its Web hosting and IP infrastructure service management.

After a year of exhaustive testing, Bell Canada found XACCT's platform to be
the most robust, scalable and reliable solution for capturing web hosting
and ...

Ross Stores Chooses NaviSite to Support Web Initiatives - 📅 Nov 8, 2001 - On the heels of its recently-announced financing transaction, NaviSite, Inc. (navisite.com 👉 Total Reviews: 1
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After nearly ...

Coradiant Launches Seminar Series on Web Security - 📅 Nov 8, 2001 - Coradiant Inc. (coradiant.com) and Internap Network Services Inc. (internap.com -> inap.com), announced today their joint participation in Coradiant's Strategic Security Seminar Series entitled "How Secure is Your Web Site Operation - Emerging Security Threats; How to Take Control to Protect Your Site."



The first series of these educational seminars will take place on Nov. 28 in
Boston and Nov. 29 in New York. The upcoming seminars will specifically
address firewall vulnerabilities, ...

Sophos releases SMTP virus monitor - 📅 Nov 8, 2001 - Sophos (sophos.com), a world leader in corporate anti-virus protection, announced the availability of Sophos MailMonitor for SMTP to detect, report and disinfect viruses in email sent via the Internet's standard protocol for e-mail communication.



MailMonitor for SMTP scans all e-mail before it reaches the SMTP server.
If the e-mail is virus free, it is passed to the server. If virus infection
is detected, the e-mail can be quarantined, deleted or disinfected.
MailMonitor ...

Sprint E|Solutions Opens Colorado Internet Center - 📅 Nov 8, 2001 - Sprint Corp. announced yesterday that it is strengthening its services to customers in the Rocky Mountain and Northwest regions by opening a Sprint E|Solutions (sprintesolutions.com) Internet Center in the DenverMetro politan area. Pre-selling for the Colorado facility has already begun and is available for customer occupancy today. A grand opening event is scheduled for Dec. 12, 2001.



For locating its new Metro Denver Internet Center in Adams County, Sprint
E|Solutions ...