A computer generated image of UOL’s flagship data center (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Brazilian Web hosting provider Universo Online ( www.uol.com.br ) announced on Wednesday that it has completed the acquisition of US-based IT services firm Diveo Broadband Networks ( www.diveo.net ) for about $413 million. UOL said that it will merge Diveo’s operations with its subsidiary DH&C Outsourcing. “The amount paid to the (Diveo) shareholders was BRL693.5 million, and an additional amount of BRL19.4 million was deposited in an escrow account for future adjustments,” UOL said.

A computer generated image of UOL’s flagship data center (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Brazilian Web hosting provider Universo Online ( www.uol.com.br ) announced on Wednesday that it has completed the acquisition of US-based IT services firm Diveo Broadband Networks ( www.diveo.net ) for about $413 million. UOL said that it will merge Diveo’s operations with its subsidiary DH&C Outsourcing. “The amount paid to the (Diveo) shareholders was BRL693.5 million, and an additional amount of BRL19.4 million was deposited in an escrow account for future adjustments,” UOL said.

ICANN’s Nominating Committee (Nom Com) invites Statements of Interest and candidate recommendations from the Internet community for key leadership positions to fulfill ICANN’s technical and policy coordination role. Interested individuals are invited to submit a Statement of Interest to the 2010 Nom Com for the following positions: Two members of the Board of Directors of ICANN Three At Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) representatives (one each from the Africa, Asia/Australia/Pacific and Latin America/Caribbean regions) Two members of the Council of the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) One member of the Council of the Country-Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO) The Nominating Committee (Nom Com) is an independent committee tasked with selecting a majority of the members of the Board of Directors and other key positions within ICANN’s structure

A pie graph shows over half of respondents have deployed or plan to deploy cloud (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cisco ( www.cisco.com ) announced on Wednesday that it has released the final part of its Cisco Connected World Report that finds cloud computing and virtualization will see widespread adoption over the next three years. The study, commissioned by Cisco and conducted by market research company InsightExpress ( www.insightexpress.com ), analyzes global trends in cloud computing, virtualization and data centers as well as the future of IT roles.

A map of countries included in HostDime’s Latin America division (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider HostDime ( www.hostdime.com ) announced on Wednesday it has launched HostDime Latin America ( www.hostdime.la ), the company’s eighth international division and third in South America. The move follows cPanel’s recent announcement that it will expand its services into the South-American region via its Fast Update service hosted at HostDime data center in Brazil.

A global map of Terremark’s data center locations (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — IT infrastructure provider Terremark Worldwide ( www.terremark.com ) announced on Tuesday it has priced $75 million of 9.5 percent senior secured second lien notes due 2013 at an issue price of 99 percent. The company expects the offering to close on November 16

Eleven charts showing spam volume and top countries of origin (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Four out of five malware-infected emails contained variants of the Koobface Trojan (known also as TR.Crypt.ZPACK.Gen) in the past month, according to the latest email-security report from German e-mail security specialist eleven ( www.eleven.de ), which also reported a rise in malware using JavaScript. According to the E-mail Security Report October 2010 from eleven, Koobface first appeared on the social network Facebook, and has now not only spread to other platforms, but has evolved into one of the most widespread email worms

Last Saturday, 2 October, NIC Brasil, the registry for .BR (Brazil) domain names, released 199,379 domain names that were not renewed by their owners. The full list of domain names that were released can be seen at: https://www.nameaction.com/Brasil_Listados/brasil_nuevo.html For more information in Portuguese see registro.br/info/proclib.html . To register your .BR domain name, check out America Registry here

The My Opera free Web hosting service is hosting malicious code, just the latest prominent hosting service to be gamed by malware distributors. Less than a month after Google’s Code hosting service was found to be hosting and serving malicious executables, a search of Opera Software’s My Opera free hosting service has also turned up malicious programs, according to a researcher at Kaspersky Lab.  My Opera, a free online hosting service for users of the Opera Web browser, played host to a PHP based IRC botnet, according to a post by Dmitry Bestuzhev, a researcher at Kaspersky Lab. The bot appears to have originated in Brazil, based on an analysis of the code, though its not clear who posted it to the My Opera  hosting service or when, Bestuzhev said

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