Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Boston – June 17, 2010 Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Hosting.com Launches Private Cloud Service News: SMBs Interested In, But Lack Understanding of Cloud Solutions: Verio Study News: Netmagic Plans to Build Three New Data Centers News: Russian Web Hosts Band Together to Tackle Child Porn, Hate Speech News: iWeb’s Mark Guindon Assumes More Strategic Role (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Helping businesses ensure strong Web response times, Gomez ( www.gomez.com ), the Web performance division of Compuware , has launched a free online test that instantly evaluates their website response times across multiple browsers and geographies. The diversity of web browsers creates major challenges for website teams because most of the interactions within today’s complex web and mobile sites are executed in the browser, where variations in browser performance and rendering have a major influence on end-user experience.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Boston – June 17, 2010 Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: iWeb’s Mark Guindon Assumes More Strategic Role News: Gomez Launches Free, Multi-Browser, Multi-Location Web Performance Test News: Digital Realty to Open $488M Dallas Data Center Campus News: Netcraft Provides Data on Hosting Provider Switching News: Q&A: Jonna Murnick, Consonus Technologies (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Helping businesses ensure strong Web response times, Gomez ( www.gomez.com ), the Web performance division of Compuware , has launched a free online test that instantly evaluates their website response times across multiple browsers and geographies. The diversity of web browsers creates major challenges for website teams because most of the interactions within today’s complex web and mobile sites are executed in the browser, where variations in browser performance and rendering have a major influence on end-user experience. According to Gomez’s announcement this week, the Gomez Multi-browser Website Performance Test identifies response time differences for any URL across Mozilla Firefox 3.5 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, and four geographic locations: New York City, Seattle, Los Angeles and Chicago

Attack Unmasks User Behind The Browser A group of researchers have discovered a simple way to reveal the identity of a user based on his interactions with social networks. The ‘deanonymization’ attack uses social network groups as well as some traditional browser history-stealing tactics to narrow down and find the user behind the browser. The researchers were able to deanonymize more than half of the users in their initial test using their attack method, which entailed their joining and crawling groups within social networks, such as Germany’s Xing business social network and Facebook, using a fake profile.