Monthly Archives: January 2014

Orange Business Services Buys Atheos in Bid to Strengthen Online Security Services

Orange Business Services, the B2B services branch of French telecom group Orange, has acquired IT identity and security management company Atheos in an effort to strengthen its cyber defense capabilities. Continue reading

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1&1 Internet Announces CloudFlare Partnership

CloudFlare has landed another major web hosting partnership, this time with 1&1 Internet. Through the partnership announced on Monday, 1&1 will offer extended CloudFlare features (including Mirage and Railgun) through several of its web hosting packages. Continue reading

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The Pirate Bay to Build New Browser That Uses P2P to Circumvent Site Blocks

As torrent index The Pirate Bay is being blocked by a growing number of ISPs (including five of the largest British ISPs), The Pirate Bay is planning on releasing a new web browser that circumvents domain and IP blocking by having users serve as the P2P hosts of blocked sites. Continue reading

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Otelco Acquires Maine Web Hosting Provider Reliable Networks to Grow VoIP, Managed Services

Telecommunications provider Otelco announced on Monday that it has acquired Maine web hosting provider Reliable Networks. Otelco paid $500,000 at the closing of the acquisition, according to the announcement. Continue reading

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Lengthy Outages for Hacker News, FastHosts

It was a rough weekend for uptime, with significant outages at UK hosting provider FastHosts and the startup news portal Hacker News. Continue reading

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