Latest Web Hosting News by TopOfHosting.com http://www.topofhosting.com/news/ Copyright 2006-2008 TopOfHosting. All rights reserved. The European Court of Human Rights has rejected the appeal of British hacker Gary McKinnon, opening the door for him to be extradited to the United States within weeks.McKinnon is accused of carrying out "the biggest military hack of all time" and could face up to 70 years if convicted in the U.S. for hacking the computers of the Pentagon, U.S. army, navy and NASA which caused $700,000 worth of damages. McKinnon has said he was searching for evidence of U.F.O.'sread more http://www.topofhosting.com/news/british-hacker-loses-extradition-appeal.php Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:14:00 CDT A smart person might have the equivalent of six months' expenses saved up, just collecting interest and staving off panic attacks. Mozilla is even more set, as its search partnership with Google has been extended by three years.read more http://www.topofhosting.com/news/google-mozilla-renew-search-partnership.php Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:54:00 CDT Quebec's open source organization Facil is suing the province's government for spending millions of dollars on Microsoft software, and never entertaining the idea of using anything open source. 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Featuring two hard drives and two processors, the Dual Xeon 2.8-SCSI is now [...] http://www.topofhosting.com/news/discounted-celeron-xeon-servers-at-planet.php Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:18:00 CDT A Chinese factory worker has become an online celebrity after a picture of her smiling and giving a peace sign to a co-worker testing an Apple iPhone remained on the phone that was sold to a man in the UK.read more http://www.topofhosting.com/news/iphone-factory-worker-finds-online-fame.php Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:09:00 CDT If your name is Yoda, you may have trouble getting a Facebook account. At least one woman has had that problem. A Japanese woman named Hiroko Yoda tried multiple times to sign up for Facebook, but her requests were rejected. Why? According to Telegraph, Facebook says that the name "Yoda" is blacklisted to prevent users from pretending to be people they are not. In this case, it would obviously be Yoda of Star Wars fame. read more http://www.topofhosting.com/news/yoda-blocked-from-facebook.php Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:50:00 CDT Let’s assume we’re on the same page that says Twitter is good for something. Now let’s romanticize it and equate to a modern limerick; let’s make it vulgar and call it Limerick 2.0. (The number of characters bars it from Haiku status—keep all that meaning under 30 characters and that’s serious art.) What should your little poem—the professional tweeter’s poem—say to the world? read more http://www.topofhosting.com/news/poetics-professional-tweeting.php Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:49:00 CDT A Google Apps outage that occurred earlier this month concerned a lot of people. Users of the Premier Edition were paying for the service, and 15 hours of downtime and questionable communication is not good, regardless. So now Google's unveiling a free extension of service and the way in which it will handle any future problems.read more http://www.topofhosting.com/news/google-compensating-apps-outage.php Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:31:00 CDT iTunes vs. Kid Rock and The Music Industry The Wall Street Journal took a look at why some artists are keeping their music off iTunes. Because the store does not allow full album only downloads, Kid Rock, AC/DC and others have opted out. Some acts like Radiohead did it to protect the artistic integrity of their work while others are clear that their motivation is money. Single tracks don't net the same profits that albums do.read more http://www.topofhosting.com/news/apple-wrong-require-single-track-sales-on-itunes.php Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:16:00 CDT Regardless of what you may have read on Bloomberg, Steve Jobs is still very much alive. The newswire accidentally published his obituary yesterday for a brief amount of time.read more http://www.topofhosting.com/news/steve-jobs-obituary-just-journalistic-preparation.php Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:08:00 CDT Despite the fact that Axl Rose is the only original member left in Guns N' Roses, his (I say "his" because this is truly one man's project with the help of some hired hands) album Chinese Democracy is quite possibly the most anticipated album in history. At this point (and I can say this as a huge fan of the original band), it's not even that people expect it to be good.read more http://www.topofhosting.com/news/blogger-arrested-over-chinese-democracy.php Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:24:00 CDT Anyone not already using Adblock Plus may want to make the switch soon. Rumor has it that YouTube, Google's hard-to-monetize video site, is going to go after unprotected users by introducing some really big ads on its homepage.read more http://www.topofhosting.com/news/report-massive-ads-coming-youtube.php Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:50:00 CDT Aaron Sorkin is a television and film writer/producer. He also acts (roles include: Man in Bar, Man at Bar, Aide in Bar, and Man in Crowd). You're probably more familiar with his writer/producer status. He worked on The West Wing, Sports Night, and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. He also wrote Charlie Wilson's War and A Few Good Men.read more http://www.topofhosting.com/news/west-wing-writer-looks-into-facebook-movie.php Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:46:00 CDT A U.S. federal judge has dismissed a copyright infringement case against online television service Veoh.The copyright infringement suit was filed by adult entertainment company Io Group, and the complaint argued Veoh had not done enough to prevent users from uploading copyrighted clips of 10 Io adult sex films.read more http://www.topofhosting.com/news/veoh-cleared-copyright-porn-case.php Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:37:00 CDT Disabled? No Internet for You! read more http://www.topofhosting.com/news/disabled-no-internet-you.php Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:04:00 CDT At the beginning of this month, we had reported that, Google had blocked the widely used search engine rank checking tool 'WebPosition Gold'. read more http://www.topofhosting.com/news/google-blocking-scrapers.php Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:54:00 CDT I had the great pleasure and privilege of speaking at Search Engine Strategies 2008 in San Jose. The topic? Net neutrality. This is the point where your eyes glaze over and the inevitable question, “What is net neutrality?” comes forth. And that’s the point of this article.read more http://www.topofhosting.com/news/what-world-net-neutrality.php Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:31:00 CDT AMC (American Movie Classics) has a show called "Mad Men" about an ad agency in the 60s. Some people like this show so much that they create fictional profiles on Twitter and pretend to be characters. AMC caught wind of this and decided it wasn't too thrilled. read more http://www.topofhosting.com/news/amc-gets-mad-at-mad-men-tweets.php Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:19:00 CDT Offerings available through ControlScan provide the company's merchants with PCI compliance and E-Commerce security solutions. http://www.topofhosting.com/news/maine-hosting-solutions-partners-controlscan.php Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:50:00 CDT Company to utilize SingleHop's suite of server technologies and solutions. http://www.topofhosting.com/news/tmzhostingcom-partners-singlehop.php Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:50:00 CDT Newtek Technology Services' data center operator completes third-party evaluation of internal procedures, policies, and controls. http://www.topofhosting.com/news/i-o-data-centers-completes-sas-70-type-ii-audit.php Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:50:00 CDT Provides reliable, dedicated Internet access and transport with Transmode installation. http://www.topofhosting.com/news/layer42-enhances-californian-network-services.php Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:50:00 CDT Reduces pricing on its two server backup products; EVault Backup and Network Backup. http://www.topofhosting.com/news/planet-lowers-list-pricing-backups.php Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:50:00 CDT The Wall Street Journal posted a story today about investors Jeff Horing and Jerry Murdock from the firm Insight Venture Partners. It talks about how they went behind the backs of limited partners and personally invested in Photobucket back before News Corp. bought it and it really took off. The story seems to suggest some financial foul play, but not everybody views it this way. read more http://www.topofhosting.com/news/photobucket-investment-there-scandal-there.php Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:00:00 CDT Everyone wanting to believe the recession won't hurt online advertising's growth has been given something new to clutch. A report from Carat, a large media organization, claims spending in this area will actually be higher than it first predicted.read more http://www.topofhosting.com/news/carat-increases-online-ad-forecasts.php Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:29:00 CDT An estimated 63.1 million U.S. households are now doing their banking online according to a survey from CheckFree.Security concerns about online banking decreased from 17 percent in 2007 to 13 percent in the latest survey. Overall, online security was third among barriers to online banking this year compared to its number-one spot in 2007.read more http://www.topofhosting.com/news/more-americans-banking-online.php Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:20:00 CDT Lawsuits have long been the main way through which copyright owners have interacted with YouTube. It seems that the Video ID program has achieved a sort of miracle, though, and made some owners like YouTube after all.read more http://www.topofhosting.com/news/youtube-s-video-id-successful-so-far.php Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:02:00 CDT