Archive for December, 2009
Web Hosting Year in Review: Spam, Scams and Malware
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Last year’s take down of notorious spam host McColo was arguably the defining moment in online justice for the year. Heartening for the online community and those fighting malware and the proliferation of spam, McColo’s …
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2009 in review: Brazoria County timeline
1 – Kami Ann-Alyse Wilson becomes the first baby born in Brazoria County in 2009. Mom Jaci Wilson, who shares her birthday, was the first baby born in Wilson County in 1983. 6 – LyondellBassell officials say a bankruptcy filing will have no effect on …
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e-pao.net is 10 yrs old today
According to the webmaster of the site, the top three countries from where the highest viewerships are drawn are: India, UK and USA. The site receives hits from several other countries around the globe. According to the website traffic information …
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Apple Tablet Rumour Frenzy After iSlate Discovery
The rumour mill surrounding Apple’s tablet device has gone into overdrive after reports suggested that Apple now owns the islate.com domain name Reports have emerged on a number of Apple-focused blogs that Apple is the owner of the iSlate.com domain …
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FP Tech Desk: Top five Canadian tech stories of the year
With the holidays behind us and the champagne on ice, it’s time to bid adieu to 2009 and prepare for a new year and a new decade. But not without one final look back at the year it was on the technology beat in Canada. Because if nothing else, it …
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Edward Heath planned to go to IMF in 1974 economic crisis
Edward Heath’s Conservative Government was preparing to take ‘unpleasant measures’ and apply for an International Monetary Fund loan in 1974, documents unearthed from the National Archive show. The disclosure will help to blunt one of the …
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Kenya’s registry manager answers cost concerns
In January 2009, the Kenyan government enacted the Communications Amendment Act, which identified the Kenya Network Information Center (Kenic) as the registry for the .ke top level domain. It also, however, introduced a new licensing regime for …
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Censoring the internet’¦ will NZ follow Oz?
Previous Labour Comms Minister David Cunliffe stated at the time that NZ had no intention of following Australia’s legislation of mandatory filtering … au was taken down by the Australian Domain Name Administrator (auDA) sparking outrage and …
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Stormy Times for Global Warmists
… name was global warming.’ So wrote environmental activist Ross Gelbspan in a New York Times op-ed that one commentator aptly described as ‘almost giddy.’ The green group Friends of the Earth linked Katrina to global warming, as did Germany …
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DNS Made Easy Continues to Redefine DNS Services
Dec 31, 2009 (PRWeb.com via COMTEX) — DNS Made Easy (dnsmadeeasy.com (http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com)), the world leading IP anycast (http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/s0306/res/ipanycast.html) managed DNS (http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com) service provider, has …
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