| 2008 News Archive |
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EBay Is Ordered to Pay $63 Million in LVMH Lawsuit
EBay Inc. was ordered by a French court to pay LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA almost 40 million euros ($63 million) over claims the Internet auctioneer didn't do enough to stop the sale of counterfeit goods.
Bloomberg.com - June 30, 2008 |
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Rhapsody takes on iTunes
RealNetworks' Rhapsody music service is launching a full-scale assault on iTunes. In a dramatic strategy shift, on June 30 the company announced the opening of its MP3 store.
CNNMoney.com - June 30, 2008 |
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Post-Gates: How Apple and OSS Are Making For a Better Microsoft
With the departure of Bill Gates, columnist Rob Enderle looks at where Microsoft is headed. Competitors - most notably Apple and the open source movement - have influenced Microsoft's corporate direction in positive ways, he notes.
technewsworld.com - June 30, 2008 |
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Stack 'Em Up: IBM Demos New Way to Cool Chips
Now that's a cool idea. IBM (NYSE:IBM) demonstrated a prototype that shows how rivers of water can cool computer chips that have circuits and components stacked on top of each other instead of the traditional method of having them sit side-by-side on silicon wafer.
ChannelWeb - June 6, 2008 |
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Who Will Rule The New Internet?
Take what man makes and use it, But do not worship it, For it shall pass. An anonymous wit scratched those lines on the side of a junked car door and lugged it to a trail near my home in Northern California.
Time.com - June 6, 2008 |
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Hackers Throw Comcast into Disarray
Cable and Internet giant Comcast Corporation found itself on the receiving end of a concentrated online attack late last week when disgruntled teenage hackers claiming to be from the group ‘Kryogeniks’ hijacked the Comcast Web mail portal and caused user chaos for the Philadelphia-based business. Effects of the attack lasted for more than five hours on Wednesday evening, breaching around 200 domain names, crippling the service, redirecting site traffic, and preventing users from accessing their personal e-mail accounts.
TheTechHerald.com - June 2, 2008 |
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Hackers Throw Comcast into Disarray
Cable and Internet giant Comcast Corporation found itself on the receiving end of a concentrated online attack late last week when disgruntled teenage hackers claiming to be from the group ‘Kryogeniks’ hijacked the Comcast Web mail portal and caused user chaos for the Philadelphia-based business. Effects of the attack lasted for more than five hours on Wednesday evening, breaching around 200 domain names, crippling the service, redirecting site traffic, and preventing users from accessing their personal e-mail accounts.
TheTechHerald.com - June 2, 2008 |
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Why Microsoft isn't Buying Facebook
The popular social networking service is tempting to Microsoft in the wake of its failed Yahoo assault, but there's no urgency to do a deal now.
Money.CNN.com - May 9, 2008 |
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14 Classic Tech Rivalries
Nintendo or Sega? Intel or AMD? Laptop eraserhead or touchpad? We present 14 timeless tech face-offs, and your votes decide the winners.
PCWorld.com - May 28, 2008 |
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Will Open-Source Facebook Accomplish Anything?
The rumor mill is swirling that Facebook is set to announce the open sourcing of its application platform. While presumably a response to Google-led OpenSocial, the larger question is whether it will matter.
News.CNet.com - May 27, 2008 |
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Chip Company Unveils Open Source PC Design
Call it the Tom Sawyer approach to selling CPUs. VIA Technologies, the self-proclaimed No. 3 maker of Intel-compatible processors, has unveiled a new "reference design" for ultra-portable computers based on the company's own low-power chips.
Wired.com - May 27, 2008 |
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More Low-Cost CDNs Popping Up
We recently covered the announcement of Velocix Accelerator, the world’s first free content delivery network aimed towards new digital media businesses. Just a few weeks later, another low-cost CDN aimed at the start up market has surfaced. This time, the company entering the CDN ring is Softlayer, a datacenter out of Dallas, Texas.
CMSWire.com - May 22, 2008 |
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Microsoft's Latest Yahoo Gambit: Why This, Why Now?
Make no mistake, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)'s newest grab for a piece of Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is all about Google (NSDQ: GOOG), and little else. And it may be a coincidence, but its announcement seems perfectly timed with Microsoft's annual ad conference, this week.
InformationWeek.com - May 19, 2008 |
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Study Shows Comcast and Cox Slow P2P Traffic
U.S. cable broadband providers Comcast and Cox Communications are slowing BitTorrent traffic at all times of the day, not just during peak traffic, according to a new study by a German computer research group.
NYTimes.com - May 15, 2008 |
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The Most Affordable Data Center Markets, 2008
Iowa and North Carolina are emerging as affordable markets for data center development, according to The Boyd Company of Princeton, N.J., which has issued its 2008 ranking of the most affordable sites to operate a data center in the U.S. The new data updates an initial data center affordability study last year by Boyd, which has since been widely cited by regional economic development agencies seeking to attract data center projects.
DataCenterKnowledge.com - May 12, 2008 |
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7.9 Quake Stuns Chinese Tech Region
A massive earthquake struck Western China on Monday, killing more than 8,500 people and trapping more than 900 students in a high school, according to press reports. The quake, which had a 7.9 magnitude, was centered in a mountainous region of the country in the Sichuan Province, according to The New York Times.
News.com - May 12, 2008 |
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AMD Unveils Five Energy-Efficient Server Processors
Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) on Monday introduced five quad-core Opteron processors that the chipmaker described as energy-efficient. The chips include three additions to AMD's 2300 series and two to the 8300 series.
InformationWeek.com - May 12, 2008 |
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Data Recovered from Columbia Disaster
(AP) -- Jon Edwards often manages what appears impossible. He has recovered precious data from computers wrecked in floods and fires and dumped in lakes. Now Edwards may have set a new standard: He found information on a melted disk drive that fell from the sky when space shuttle Columbia disintegrated in 2003.
CNN.com - May 9, 2008 |
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Judge Slaps TorrentSpy With $111M Damages
A U.S. judge has ruled on a nearly US$111 million copyright-infringement decision against TorrentSpy.com, the BitTorrent peer-to-peer search site. Judge Florence-Marie Cooper, of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California in Los Angeles awarded the judgment to the Motion Picture Association of America, the MPAA announced late Wednesday.
PCWorld.com - May 8, 2008 |
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FBI Rescinds Secret Order for Internet Archive Records
The FBI has backed down on a secret request for information about a user of the Internet Archive digital library, thanks to a legal challenge from two prominent advocacy groups. The case, which was brought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of the archive, dates to last year but only became public on Wednesday.
News.com - May 8, 2008 |
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Parallels Acquires ModernGigabyte
Parallels today announced it has acquired ModernGigabyte, LLC, maker of ModernBill automated billing system and other hosting automation solutions. ModernBill customers will benefit from Parallels Open Platform initiatives such as the Application Packaging Standard (APS), which will help them drive more revenue from their existing clients.
Parallels.com - March 27, 2008 |
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ViaWest Announces Acquisition of Dataside
ViaWest, a leading provider of adaptable colocation and managed hosting solutions, today announced it acquired Dataside, a Dallas, Texas-based provider of customized data center infrastructure space and managed network services.
Yahoo Finance - March 18, 2008 |
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SoftLayer Opens 2nd Dallas Facility
Internap Network Services announced that it has signed a 5-year $40 million contract under which it would deliver data center colocation, route-optimized IP networking and content delivery network services.
WHIR News - March 10, 2008 |
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SoftLayer Technologies Expands Dallas Data Center
SoftLayer Technologies Inc. has expanded its Dallas data center facilities, adding a second data center in Dallas with space for 10,000 servers and investing more than $5 million to upgrade its core networking infrastructure.
Dallas Morning News - March 7, 2008 |
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SoftLayer Expands in Virginia with Internap; $40 Million, 375-cabinet Deal
T1R mentioned in our last report on SoftLayer that it would be looking to expand somewhere on the East Coast come Q208 – adding a third location to its existing Dallas and Seattle facilities. Those plans have now been confirmed, with SoftLayer just signing a deal to move into an Internap facility in a 365 Main datacenter in Chantilly, Virginia.
TradingMarkets.com - March 6, 2008 |
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