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Archive | December, 2009

TJX Hacker Admits to Other Crimes

Thursday, December 31, 2009

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December 30, 2009 — According to a report posted to the Register on Wednesday, the hacker responsible for the notorious TJX hacks of several years ago pleaded guilty to other attacks this week, and faces a minimum sentence of 17 years.

Streaming Services Prepare for New Year’s Eve Coverage

Thursday, December 31, 2009

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December 30, 2009 — In partnership with The Times Square Alliance and Countdown Entertainment, Livestream will be streaming a six-and-a-half hour feed of the traditional ball drop in New York City’s Times Square for free around the world.

Web Hosting Year in Review: Investment and Finance

Thursday, December 31, 2009

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December 30, 2009 — For businesses in just about every industry, 2009 was marked more by the state of the economy than by any other individual factor. The recession from which we may or may not have now emerged wreaked wide and well-reported havoc on the automotive, banking and insurance industries, and did varying degrees [...]

Web Host Opus Begins Construction on Data Center

Thursday, December 31, 2009

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December 30, 2009 — Managed hosting provider Opus Interactive announced on Tuesday it has begun construction on a new data center in Portland.

DDoS Attack Targets DNS Provider for Amazon, Expedia

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

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December 29, 2009 — An attack directed at Neustar, the domain name system services provider for Amazon, Wal-Mart, and Expedia, and other large e-commerce companies, took several Internet shopping sites offline the night before Christmas Eve, taking out sites completely or rendering them sluggish for about an hour, and leaving some last-minute shoppers in a [...]

Web Hosting Year in Review: Data Center Construction

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

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December 29, 2009 — There were many high-profile data center builds announced this year, but five data center projects in particular stood out, both in size and financial investment.

Court Orders Websites Suspended In Libel Case

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

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December 29, 2009 — As part of its response to a libel lawsuit filed by IT consulting company Apex Technology Group, a New Jersey judge ordered hosting and domain providers to take down three websites opposing the H-1B work visa last week, according to a lengthy article published in Computerworld on Monday. [...]

Terremark to Open Second Virginia Data Center

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

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December 29, 2009 — Managed infrastructure services provider Terremark is set to open its new “ultra secure” data center in northern Virginia in the first quarter of 2009, according to a report by InformationWeek.com.

Web Hosting Year in Review: Hosting Software and Technology

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

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December 28, 2009 — The original promise of cloud computing – computing served as a limitlessly scalable, always accessible, dependable utility – is finally being realized by both consumers and businesses thanks to advances in hosting software and technology, and 2009 has been a crucial year to that effect. [...]

Web Hosting Year in Review: Mergers and Acquisitions

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

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December 28, 2009 — Despite the recession weighing down on just about every industry this year, the IT industry saw a fair share of significant acquisitions made throughout 2009.

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