Vancouver, WA (PRWEB) November 23, 2010 Domain.com, a leading domain name registrar and web hosting company, today rolled out a helpful new feature for everyone who regularly searches for domain names. With this addition, Domain.com becomes the first domain registrar to fully integrate domain search into popular web browsers. Now anyone can quickly search for domain names straight from their browser’s search bar without having to visit Domain.com when they think of a great domain name

Firefox 4 regains speed mojo With the release of Firefox 4 Beta 7, Mozilla returned to near the top spot in browser performance rankings. According to tests run by Computerworld, the new browser is about three times faster than the current production version of Firefox in rendering JavaScript, and lags behind only Opera among the top five browser makers. On Wednesday Mozilla launched Firefox 4 Beta 7, a preview that includes all the features slated to make it into the final, polished version next year.

Web Hosting News – WALTHAM, MA – 123Together.com – a mindSHIFT Technologies company with 10 years’ experience in delivering business class email solutions – announced today that it is the first provider of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Hosted Edition.  This most recent release of Microsoft’s Exchange Server technology is specifically designed with a multi-tenant architecture to enable hosting providers to offer enterprise-class messaging to multiple organizations on a shared server.  It is the only version of Exchange Server 2010 to be fully supported by Microsoft as a web-based email service.

Just a year after the massively popular web host GeoCities was shut down, a team of hardy archivists are planning on re-releasing the service, in its entirety, as a single, giant torrent file. This time last year, GeoCities was in its final death throes as Yahoo , which bought the site in 1999 for $3.57 billion, announced that it would be closing down the much-loved service. Not content with just freezing accounts and bouncing back new registrations, Yahoo planned to forcibly toss hosted content off the web.

LinkedIn spam emails distributed malware to enterprise users, where it gathered credentials for commercial bank accounts and other sensitive information. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Secure browsing provider Trusteer ( www.trusteer.com ) announced Tuesday its researchers have found a new version of the relatively obscure financial malware known as “Bugat”

Gomez First Mile performance monitoring features expanded visibility deeper into the data center. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — As part of its vision of delivering the industry’s most comprehensive application performance management solution, technology performance firm Compuware ( www.compuware.com ) has released Gomez First Mile, a Software-as-a-Service solution that provides outside-in visibility into Web application performance management problems, starting from the end-user and extending all the way to the back of the data center. According to Compuware’s Wednesday announcement, Gomez First Mile provides deeper visibility into the data center than any other single, SaaS-based solution, and helps businesses to find and fix Web performance problems faster – on both sides of the firewall.

Gomez First Mile performance monitoring features expanded visibility deeper into the data center. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — As part of its vision of delivering the industry’s most comprehensive application performance management solution, technology performance firm Compuware ( www.compuware.com ) has released Gomez First Mile, a Software-as-a-Service solution that provides outside-in visibility into Web application performance management problems, starting from the end-user and extending all the way to the back of the data center. According to Compuware’s Wednesday announcement, Gomez First Mile provides deeper visibility into the data center than any other single, SaaS-based solution, and helps businesses to find and fix Web performance problems faster – on both sides of the firewall

Part of a diagram from the Selenium website illustrating the testing environment (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — With more people accessing and relying on Web applications every day, their smooth and efficient operation is no longer just an advantage – it’s a necessity. Designed specifically for testing web applications, Selenium ( www.seleniumhq.org ) provides a suite of tools that can be used via a Firefox add-on that records clicks, typing, and other actions to make a test that can be played back in the browser, which can help find bottlenecks and other problems.

IE users most at risk from DLL hijacking attacks Users of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) are more vulnerable to rogue DLL attacks than people who use rival browsers such as Mozilla’s Firefox or Google’s Chrome, a security researcher said today. When running on Windows XP, Internet Explorer 6 (IE6), IE7 and IE8 do not warn users when they click on a malicious link that automatically downloads a malicious dynamic link library, or DLL, to the PC, said Mitja Kolsek, the CEO of Slovenian security company Acros Security. …

ZNet – Web Hosting (PRWEB) September 20, 2010 ZNet , a leading Web hosting and IT infrastructure company, is proud to announce that it has renewed its partnership with software developer SmarterTools Inc. to provide world-class tools at the lowest cost to customers. Under the terms of the partnership, ZNet will continue to offer leased SmarterTools software to customers.