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Business hosting provider LeaseWeb, in collaboration with Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), has announced a new low-cost dedicated hosting service targeted at small and midsize businesses. LeaseWeb Dedicated Windows Express Server allows customers to be online within 24 hours with a proprietary start-up server and broadband package. Dedicated hosting -- as opposed to shared -- offers companies a complete system without the threat of negative performance caused by other users. The Windows platform guarantees continuity of the solution through upgrades. LeaseWeb's network has been shown to have a realized uptime of 99.99 percent, according to a WatchMouse study in 2006. LeaseWeb is based in the Netherlands with offices throughout Europe and in New York. « Back to Critical News « Get more advice every month.
Malware writers exploring Software as a Service model
The business of writing, buying, and selling malware has become increasingly commercial over the past few years, but a new report from online security firm Finjan sheds light on just how mainstream the crimeware business has gone. Earlier this month, the company discovered a small, standalone application gathering data on over 8,700 servers, including web sites from 2,500 North American companies and a handful of sites in Alexa's top 100 ranking. Potential buyers were able to log into the malicious server hosting the data-gathering service and evaluate any given web site's size and Google Page Rank to decide whether or not the site's FTP information was worth purchasing or not. The concept of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is nothing new, but this is the first time anyone has organized the purchase of FTP login credentials, with additional tools available to help a buyer confirm he's making a smart purchase.
'LINK World' to be a key attraction at Cairo ICT
From its expansive and impressive exhibition platform 'LINK World', LINKdotNET's various business units will be present in full force. This is the company's 12th successive appearance at the show where this year it is also an Official Sponsor and the Bandwidth /WiFi Provider. LINKdotNET is one of the region's largest integrated Internet solution providers, serving as a single link between users and the various aspects of the Internet world. It plays a key role in the development of localized online content and the establishment of specialized portals that cater to regional users. Visitors to LINK World will be able to see the company's offerings spanning Internet connectivity, online advertising, web design and hosting and software development. Karim Beshara, CEO of LINKdotNET says conversation is now turning towards user contribution and personalization of the web, with online advertising serving the dual role of entertainment and marketing.
MTA Urges Albany To Green Light Congestion Pricing
Legislature members have been anxiously waiting for details of the congestion pricing service upgrades. On Wednesday, a spokesman for assembly speaker Sheldon Silver said he still wasn't satisfied. (© MMVIII, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.) .
Protest of huge IT services contract upheld
Bjorklund added that the decision also could put Alliant Small Business at risk if the same selection process were used. Alliant is a $50 billion, 10-year governmentwide acquisition contract that federal agencies were supposed to begin using in 2007 to buy an array of IT services. Sixty-two companies submitted bids and 29 were selected as service providers on July 31. Following the contract award, eight companies filed protests arguing that the process used to evaluate them was arbitrary and contrary to the law. The protests were then combined under the protest filed by Serco Inc. in federal claims court. According to the ruling, GSA assigned adjectival (verbal) ratings to each bidder on the basis of numerous technical factors and then converted those descriptive evaluations into whole numbers (3, 4, 5 etc.) that were used to calculate a technical score for each bidder.
It’s time to integrate TB/HIV care on a national scale
However, in the last year or so, a few countries, such as Kenya and Rwanda among the PEPFAR-focus countries, have achieved dramatic breakthroughs in screening and other service delivery, demonstrating that where there is a will, integration of TB/HIV service delivery on a national scale is indeed achievable — and quite quickly at that. For instance, Kenya began provider-initiated testing and counselling (with opt out testing) for people in its TB programme in October 2005. By the fourth quarter of 2006, 67% of Kenyan TB patients were being tested for HIV — 85% of those testing positive are getting cotrimoxazole, though the programme is still struggling to get more than a third of the eligible people onto ART. Similarly, Rwanda recently began PITC in its TB patients and TB screening in people at risk of HIV.
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