July 6, 2011 — Web hosting provider ViaWest announced on Wednesday it will hold its grand opening of its new data center, Synergy Park, located in Richardson, Texas on July 19th through 20th. The move comes just weeks after ViaWest held a grand opening ceremony for its latest Portland data center. With the addition of Synergy Park, ViaWest owns and operates 22 data centers.

Mozilla patches 9 Firefox bugs, adds plug-in crash protection Delayed Firefox 3.6.4 ships with new feature that keeps Windows and Linux browsers running when Flash, QuickTime, or Silverlight go south Mozilla on Tuesday patched nine vulnerabilities, six of them critical, in Firefox 3.6 and Firefox 3.5. But rather than highlighting the security fixes in Firefox 3.6.4, the company instead emphasized the addition of crash protection, a move meant to keep the browser alive when popular plug-ins drop dead

Ipswitch Acquires MessageWay In Merger Of Managed File Transfer Vendors Ipswitch, a maker of secure, managed file transfer products and services, on Tuesday will announce it has acquired MessageWay Solutions, a provider of managed file transfer and business integration solutions. Terms of the deal were not disclosed