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London, United Kingdom - (The Hosting News) - October 13, 2008 - British web hosting company, UK2.net, is celebrating its tenth year as a hosting provider, with a 10% off all purchases promotion, following its incorporation a decade ago, in 1998. Having been founded by Danish entrepreneur Bo Bendtsen, the service began as a provider of low cost Domain Names. Over the past decade UK2.net has grown into one of the UK's biggest and most successful hosting providers, now boasting an impressive portfolio of hosting services which now includes web hosting, E-commerce, Reseller Solutions and Dedicated Servers. Ditlev Bredahl, Managing Director / CEO of UK2 noted, ''Everyone at UK2.net is proud to be part of the company at such an exciting time, celebrating ten years of being in business. We have had a very successful 2008 so far, so seeing out the year with a birthday celebration and ten weeks of special offers is going to be incredible.'' The UK2 birthday cele

Jersey City, New Jersey - (The Hosting News) - October 13, 2008 - internet website security provider, Comodo, In the spirit of National Cyber Security Awareness Month, reminds concerned Wi-Fi users that its TrustConnect service allows laptop owners to enable individual network style security. Comodo reporst that according to a recent study from the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration, most wireless connections at hotels are still unsecure. Wi-Fi users at hotels are at risk of man-in-the-middle attacks that can mislead patrons into giving out sensitive information. In unsecured networks, users risk hacker tampering with unencrypted emails and web exchanges. TrustConnect, which works on Windows, Mac and even Linux OSes, uses an SSL certificate to create a Virtual Private Network (VPN). This VPN allows TrustConnect to essentially put a shield around the user's connection to the internet, preventing hackers from accessing the protected system

Cupertino, California - (The Hosting News) - October 13, 2008 - The VoIP-Data lifecycle management solution at Packet Island Inc., has been expanded with new functionality, to include video network assessments for HD telepresence deployments. Praveen Kumar, CEO and Founder of Packet Island noted, ''Given the rising cost of travel and the broad desire to fight global warming, telepresence has huge growth potential. The one problem that could slow the momentum of this new technology is the quality of the transport networks . especially when converged media networks are used for such deployments. We have introduced the video assessment functionality to support the pioneers in this market make telepresence a quick success.'' The video assessments are performed by small 4.x5. micro-appliances deployed in each conference room location and can generate HD video traffic ranging from 10 to 25Mbps. This functionality provides for an accurate assessment of the amount

San Francisco, California - (The Hosting News) - October 13, 2008 - Advanced Windows-based shared, virtual private server (VPS), dedicated and enterprise web hosting solutions firm, Server Intellect, has garnered a 2008 Dedicated Web Hosting Award. The Best Dedicated Web Server Provider award was given to Server Intellect, for excellence of its dedicated server offering. Top10DedicatedHosting.com takes into account the web hosting company's customer service, data security, pricing, technology, size and scalability, server and connection speeds, up-time, plan features and flexibility, reliability and overall performance. | Top10DedicatedHosting.com for Best Dedicated Web Server Provider was awarded to Server Intellect. The prize, awarded for the excellence of its dedicated server offering, takes into account the Web hosting company's customer service, data security, pricing, technology, size and scalability, server and connection speeds, up-time, plan