Domain & Hosting News
August 8, 2011 — Jeff Hardy of SmarterTools delivered a session this morning he called “The Lesson of The Ten,” in which he made a case around the enormous significance of email in modern communications. In order to illustrate that, he examined how, in signing up for or purchasing any service online.
April 22, 2011 by Darren Allan Yesterday, a number of sites went down as something at Amazon’s cloud computing centre in North Virginia went pop. The BBC reports that the major outage left a large number of major websites unavailable for considerable chunks of yesterday
Tumblr.com Down Again Friday, December 17, 2010, 9:38:21 AM Not to be outdone by the recent half hour closure of Facebook.com, Tumblr had a temporary shut down this morning that lasted roughly an hour. The site was completely inaccessible and while Tumblr was down, Twitter.com, whose status blog is hosted on Tumblr, also faced a period on inactivity. Although both sites are running normally now, it is the second time in a week that Tumblr has experienced down time.
Wikileaks.org Latest – Assange Denied Bail Tuesday, December 07, 2010, 12:19:59 PM After voluntarily handing himself in to a London police station this morning to face his rape and molestation charges, Wikileaks.org founder Julian Assange has been denied bail. He will remain in prison until December 14th when a second hearing will discuss the charges as well as a possible extradition to Sweden. Despite Assange’s detainment, Wikileaks spokeswoman Kristinn Hrafnsson remains adamant that the organisation is still operational and will continue to release information over the coming days
Europe says ‘No’ again to ACTA secrecy This morning from Brussels, the European Parliament issued a formal declaration – its second official legal statement of the season – calling upon participants in negotiations for the global Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement to share the status of their proceedings with the public at large. At issue is whether governments can decree that Internet Service Providers (most of which are private businesses) keep track of IP addresses that copyright holders believe are involved in infringement and unauthorized distribution, without officially notifying their citizens they’re about to do so. In fact, the very secrecy of the negotiations themselves could be in violation of an essential tenet of European law, called the principal of subsidiarity.
Employee monitoring: When IT is asked to spy t’s 9:00 in the morning, or 3:00 in the afternoon, or even 10:00 at night. Do you know what your users are up to
