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It didn't take long. As soon as swine flu hit the headlines, enterprising scammers began setting up Web sites hoping to make a buck from frightened consumers.

BOSTON (Reuters) - Oracle Corp, the world's No. 2 business software maker, plans to expand its small line of programs that companies access via the Web, said a person familiar with the strategy.

As you may know, Yahoo has cut over 600 jobs. The company's popular photo sharing service Flickr looks to be among the Yahoo properties directly affected by this. Om Malik at GigaOm is pointing to a number of Tweets from Flickr engineers who claim to be among the layoffs. Names include Reverend Dan Catt, Ashot Petrosian and Neil Kandalgaonkar. "I can now officially say that after nearly 4 years I’m no longer working at Flickr, today was my last day, and I think it’s fair to say I’ll miss it terribly," says Catt on his blog. "There’s no other job quite like it. I’ll miss the people, I’ll miss the coding and I’ll miss the blogging. And besides, where else can you get to build rainbow vomiting pandas?" Some ex-Flickrers may look to Google for future opportunities. Catt certainly seems open to the idea. "Of course if you want to employ someone who’s worked at one of the top photo sharing web sites called Flickr in t

A Merrill Lynch financial adviser has launched a Web site to offer Valley residents free financial advice as they face tough economic questions. Justin Patellaro, who joined the struggling financial ...

CAMARILLO, CA--(Marketwire - April 30, 2009) - OmniUpdate, Inc., the leading provider of web content management software (CMS) for higher education, announced today the availability of a website con...

Fayetteville, North Carolina - (The Hosting News) - April 30, 2009 - Web hosting company, AIT, has launched its Enterprise Dedicated Server Hosting Plan at extremely cost effective prices, to assist businesses in a challenging economy. Sean McCoy, SVP-Sales and Marketing for AIT remarked, ''It is the best deal in the industry boasting state-of-the-art features and service and coupled with thousands of dollars in savings.'' The current recession requires creative marketing solutions and a reality check on the core costs incurred in operating a business. From now until May 15, 2009 AIT is cuttings its price by $1,400.00 annually for a 60% reduction over its monthly Enterprise I Hosting payment plan. Clients receive a Production Class Server that uses 50% less power than most dedicated servers and it comes with a 250GB Hard Drive, 2 GB of Ram, and a 2.4 GHz Processor. Customers must call 1-800-878-4084 to take advantage of this special offer located at AIT-Pro

San Diego, California - (The Hosting News) - April 30, 2009 - Regional datacenter operator and global provider of Internet-based hosting services, CariNet, has released its new 'Virtual Private Datacenter,' or 'VPD,' line of services, powered by the award-winning 3Tera AppLogic cloud computing platform. Mark Ortenzi, President, CariNet, Inc. noted, ''As an Internet-based services company, we strive to ensure we're utilizing the latest technologies for manageability, high availability, and scalability to remain competitive and meet our rapidly growing customer demand. The AppLogic platform enables CariNet to cut application development time, lower server and administration costs, improve service reliability via its high-availability architecture, as well as improve the performance and growth potential of the CariNet network. In the end, our customers are the true beneficiaries of our system, which is always our primary goal.'' Leveraging the power of grid te

Alberta, Canada - (The Hosting News) - April 30, 2009 - Web hosting solutions provider, SkGold Hosting, has transitioned its advanced hosting plan to its new Unlimited Plan, offering unlimited disk space, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited web sites. The name of the Unlimited Hosting Plan speaks for itself. With this service, users receive unlimited: disk space, bandwidth, MySQL databases, FTP accounts, e-mail accounts, mailing lists, auto responders and much more. Users can host unlimited domains, sub-domains, addon and parked domains, all in one account. In addition, the Unlimited Plan supports many other useful Web hosting features including PHP-5, FrontPage, streaming audio and video, shared and private SSL, and others. SkGold's Unlimited Plan also includes various industry recognized Web site and Ftp statistic programs such as AWStats, Webalizer, Error Logs, Latest Visitors and more. Sergey Krongold, CEO and founder of SkGold Hosting remarked, ''Our goal

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - April 30, 2009 - Provider of IP communications and data center solutions for enterprise organizations, INX Inc., has received a $330,000 contract to deliver its Virtual Infrastructure Recovery Service for the IT environment of Heat and Control. Wen Chang, CIO of Heat and Control remarked, ''After analyzing the cost involved in providing an internal DR solution, it was quickly evident that the economics of INX's hosted service were far more favorable. In fact, we saved enough money by virtualizing our production environment to much more than offset INX monthly fees for hosting our DR service, and INX handles all of the disaster recovery management on a 24 X 7 basis. An additional advantage of a hosted solution is that we further help reduce carbon emissions by not having equipment dedicated to disaster recovery that does nothing but consume power unless we are testing or in use in the unlikely event of a disaster.'' Heat

Hulu now boasts long-form content from three major movie studios. One analyst says Hulu could solve the cable industry's Web problem.