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June 30, 2004
Cisco acquires Actona Technologies
Cisco Systems agrees to pay $ 82 million in cash to acquire Actona Technologies, a small start-up that manages data across geographically separate offices. The networking giant announced Tuesday that it will integrate Actona's technology into its branch office product that currently combines a WAN (wide area network) connection with network security, IP voice communications, business applications and video services. Actona's technology will enhance that offering by expanding the functions of Cisco's branch office access routers.

June 29, 2004
Some security experts advise Web surfers to dump IE
A major security hole discovered in Microsoft's Internet Explorer last week has become a golden marketing opportunity for alternative browsers such as Mozilla and Opera that are unaffected by the flaw. To avoid falling prey to a concerted attack aiming to steal log-on information and passwords, some security experts advised to switch to another browser as the best immediate fix.

June 25, 2004
European online sales up across the whole continent
A new report from VISA shows widespread and growing adoption of online shopping throughout Europe. "These are the healthiest post-Christmas online sales figures for several years," said Bernard Ovink, Vice President of Visa EU, with a smile on his face. "Across Europe, and across sectors, growth is very healthy," he continued. "More and more people are beginning to shop online and loyalty to online brands is increasing. Retailers are becoming smarter at gaining share of wallet, and making it easier for the consumer to buy.

June 23, 2004
LCWHG interviews Mark Rosenstein of Link Rent.com
Link Rent.com serves the Web community in leasing quality, relevant links to corporate Web sites. Today more than ever, businesses need to be found in the search engines, when people type in certain keywords related to their industry. If your website isn't on the first page of Google, Yahoo, MSN, AltaVista or any of today's most important search properties, you will lose important, valuable traffic. When people type a keyword or a keyword phrase in a search engine, they expect to find results that will satisfy their query.

June 18, 2004
Plesk now supports ModernBill 4.1
Web hosting automation software developer SWsoft and ModernGigaByte, a developer of billing solutions for hosting providers, announced on Thursday that versions 7.0 and 6.5 of Plesk now support ModernGigaByte's ModernBill version 4.1. ModernBill is an automated billing solution for Web hosting providers. In addition to its billing capabilities, ModernBill includes built-in domain registration automation capabilities.

June 17, 2004
City of Munich adopting Linux open source
The city of Munich has confirmed that its year-long trial is a success and that it will adopt Linux and the open source model for its PCs. The change will officially take place on July 1, and 14,000 desktops will permanently migrate to the open-source platform. The pilot was run using Novell's SuSE Linux and IBM products. But the eventual contract--which could be worth tens of millions of euros--will be put out to tender.

June 17, 2004
New security vulnarabilities in CVS open source tool
An in-depth evaluation of CVS, a common open source tool, has uncovered more critical security holes in software used by developers to track and manage important changes in computer programming code. Not less than six vulnerabilities were discovered in the Concurrent Versions System (CVS), which is used to track and manage code on a number of leading open source software development projects.

June 16, 2004
Rise in hostnames, IP's & Web servers
The latest hosting provider server count shows that numbers of web facing computers found by the Web Server report have increased by 12% in the past 6 months. The chart below shows that since March 2001, the numbers of IP addresses have increased by only 11%, while computers have broadly sustained an increasing trend, rising by 106% in the same period.

June 16, 2004
Verio adds IPv6 managed services
US Web hosting provider Verio announced on Tuesday that it has expanded the functionality of its Internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) commercial offering in North America, adding a full suite of IPv6 managed services. New IPv6 applications include a managed router service, NxT1 support, a shadow service backup solution and frame relay support.

June 16, 2004
AT&T runs disaster recovery exercise (DRE)
AT&T announces it will conduct a two-day network disaster recovery exercise (DRE) starting Tuesday in Long Beach, California. The state is well-known for its earthquakes and its wild forest fires. This DRE exercise is conducted to test and evaluate the company's efficiency and speed in responding to a stimulated disaster that 'destroys' a Southern California area data-routing and voice-switching center.

June 15, 2004
Akamai disruption affected Google, Yahoo and Microsoft
A DNS service outage at Akamai Technologies prevented access to some of the Internet's major Web sites Tuesday, including Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, according to the SANS Institute's Internet Storm Center.

June 14, 2004
SCO licensing revenues drop significantly
According to reports, the SCO Group said last week that its SCO Source division, a unit formed to protect the company's intellectual copyrights, suffered a drastic 99 percent severe drop in Unix licensing revenues for the second quarter of 2004 compared to the same period last year.

June 14, 2004
Texas Instruments to adopt a unified DSL standard
Texas Instruments (TI) is talking to telecommunications equipment manufacturers and network operators about adopting a unified DSL standard called Uni-DSL (UDSL), which incorporates all the DSL types - ADSL, ADSL2, ADSL2+, VDSL, VDSL2 and UHDSL (ultra high-speed DSL).

June 9, 2004
Sun Hosting launches new data center
Sun Hosting, one of Canada's oldest and largest Web hosting provider (www.sunhosting.ca) announces today it has successfully launched a new 8,500-square-foot data center in Hoboken, NJ. The new Sun Hosting data center includes (UPS) uninterruptible power supplies, two diesel power generators, 24/7 'round the clock human surveillance, including a closed-circuit TV-camera system, and a state-of-the-art climate-control system for the best hosting environment.

June 9, 2004
Domain name registrations hit new record
According to a report released by VeriSign, more than 4.7 million new domain names were registered during the first quarter of 2004. That's the highest quarterly figure for new domain registrations in the history of the Internet. In total, more than 63 million domain names are now been registered, approximately one for every 100 people in the world today. Internet domain name registration is the highest it's ever been at any time in the Internet's history, surpassing even the heights that were seen during the Internet "bubble."

June 9, 2004
Apache holds Web server lead over others
According to research and analysis firm Netcraft's June Web Server Survey, Apache once again came out way on top, holding 67.22 percent of the Web server market, up from last month's 67.05 percent. The gains represented an increase in aggregate totals from 33,892,817 to 34,710,235.

June 9, 2004
IBM secures IT services contracts
IBM announces that it has secured IT services contracts with financial institutions HSH Nordbank, Plus Bank, BankBoston and Venezolano de Crédito. HSH Nordbank and its subsidiary Plus Bank signed a five-year IT service agreement with IBM worth one million Euros.

June 8, 2004
Enterasys appoints VP sales Americas
Network security solution provider Enterasys Networks announced on Monday that it has appointed Jeffrey Gheraldi as vice president of sales for the Americas. Gheraldi will report to Michael Rivers, executive vice president of worldwide sales and service, leading Enterasys’s direct sales efforts in the United States, Canada, and Central and Latin America.

June 3, 2004
MCI and Qwest sign wholesale pricing deal
Telecommunications and Web hosting providers MCI (mci.com) and Qwest (qwest.com) announced this week that they have concluded a commercial agreement for wholesale network access services. The agreement, which came just three months after the Federal Communications Commission vacated wholesale pricing rules, provides MCI with availability and wholesale pricing continuity.

June 3, 2004
RegistryPro launches .pro domain
Domain registrar RegistryPro, a subsidiary of Web hosting provider Hostway and operator of the .pro top-level domain, announced on Tuesday the launch of the .pro domain, the Internet's first top-level domain since 2002. The .pro extension is only available to licensed doctors, lawyers and accountants who must first submit verification of their professional status before being able to register a .pro domain.