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Mamma.com Acquires Copernic

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Mamma and Copernic finalized their acquisition deal…

Acquires the search and information management solutions provider for $15.9 million & 2.38 million common shares.
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Another Lengthy Blogosphere Service Outage

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Web Hosting problems for Del.Icio.Us …

Shared bookmarking service del.icio.us was offline for most of Monday due to lingering problems from a data center power outage.
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Netcraft: Exploit Targets New phpBB Security Hole

phpBB is giving more headaches to web hosting providers. Read the latest Netcraft article about a new Exploit : Exploit Targets New phpBB Security Hole

New look for Web Host Dir

Web Hosting Directory and Resource Web Host Dir has had a major overhaul this week with a complete re-design and new search engine feature.

An Interview With Tucows CEO Elliot Noss

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Interesting interview with Tucows CEO…

At October’s ISPCON event, service provider solutions developer Tucows hosted a customer event, at which CEO Elliot Noss promised big things from the company’s Blogware and Platypus brands.
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Apple, Google, and Amazon Were Fastest Growing Websites in 2005

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Fastest Growing Websites for 2005…

Apple, Google and Amazon were the fastest growing websites among the top 10 web brands for November 2005 - according to research conducted by Nielsen//NetRatings.
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Podcast 42 - Yahoo and MovableType Deal | Hosting Adoptions?

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Do not miss this week’s Web Hosting Show !
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Network Solutions Buys MonsterCommerce

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Network Solutions goes further into ecommerce…

Rather than continue its own e-commerce outsourcing arrangement, Web host Network Solutions exercised its financial clout on Friday with an agreement to acquire e-commerce solutions provider MonsterCommerce.
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On Dasher! New malware targets Microsoft users

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Infoworld reports a new worm attacking Windows systems…

Just in time for the holidays, a worm called Dasher has hit the Internet. The malicious software, which primarily targets Windows 2000 systems, is one of three new attacks targeting Microsoft Corp.’s software that has emerged in the last 24 hours. Two other recently posted attacks can crash or gum up the Internet Explorer (IE) browser.
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Tucows to Acquire Critical Path’s Hosted Messaging Assets

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Tucows serious about Hosted Messaging…

Acquisition will include their customer base, hosted messaging communications infrastructure and other related assets.
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Biometric Readers Fooled With Fake Fingerprints

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Datacenter security matters….

Researchers at Clarkson University fooled biometric systems with fake fingerprints made out of Play-Doh nine out of ten times, demonstrating a weakness of some computer security systems.
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Downtime for RIAA Web Site

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Downtime also affect the big ones….

The web site for the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) was offline for more than five hours yesterday
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Tip of the day :: Quick programming projects with Scriptlance.

Web Hosting Tips, Tools and Resources of the Day

Try Scriptlance to realize all the projects you have in mind. If you are a programmer, Scriptlance can help you find contracts. If you are a Web Hosting Specialist that do not want to lose time programming, you can find a good programmer to complete your projects. Take your time to select the best bid and do not choose the cheapest programmer. Prepare a complete document with I had very good results with the programmers I tried. Use the escrow payment system of Scriptlance and only release your payment once the project is complete.

Six Million Reserved .travel Place Names to Expire

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Thiking of getting a .travel name?

NamesBeyond.ca provides registration process to reserve these place names before December 31, 2005.
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Web Host Yahoo Integrates Movable Type

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Thinking of offering blog hosting? Yahoo! has chosen to integrate Movable Type into its Web Hosting Services.

Yahoo! will integrate Six Apart’s popular Movable Type blogging software into its Web hosting services, the companies announced on Monday.
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Microsoft, MCI join forces to tackle SkypeOut

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Microsoft making moves to compete with Skype?

Microsoft and telecommunications provider MCI announced Tuesday a multiyear partnership to offer software and services that will allow users to call from a PC to almost any phone in the world.
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Meet WebHostingTalk’s New Moderators

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WebHostingTalk is the biggest Web Hosting Industry meeting place. Last month, it changed ownership for the third time in three years. theWHIR has a good article on the subject.

With the November sale of iNET Interactive to private equity firm Stoddard Hill, WebHosting Talk, the Web hosting business’s liveliest community online or otherwise, came under new management for the third time in three years.
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Podcast 41 - Hyphenated Domains | .htaccess Hosting Help

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Do not miss this week’s Web Hosting Show with Mitch!
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Do Hackers Look Before They Leap?

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Port scanning, not really leading to attacks, but watch our for vulnerability scans …

University of Maryland researchers find that port scanning isn’t necessarily a harbinger of an attack.
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Sober Worm Has Nazi Connection

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Sober’s last attack has not yet finished to cause problems for some web hosting providers … but they need to get ready for the next one.

The worm’s deadly campaign is expected to resume Jan. 5, 2006, the anniversary of the Nazi party.

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