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Over the last few months, I have had a number of postings that have talked about security enhanced virtual machine images that we have made available on Amazon web services .

A traditional challenge for mobile game developers is figuring out how to get in front of users. Facebook's announcement today about Connect for Mobile Web points to how the company could help solve that problem. One way would be for Facebook to use its own mobile applications to advertise third-party applications that use Connect. By creating [...]

Anaheim, California - (The Hosting News) - September 3, 2009 - Web hosting firm specializing in business and dedicated server hosting, Lunarpages, is offering up to $100 of free Google AdWords credit for all new and existing customers. Amy Armitage, Director of Business Development at Lunarpages Web Hosting remarked, ''This incredible offer from Google will allow small and large businesses alike to gain greater exposure through their target markets. Search engine marketing is one of the best ways to increase business, because you are able to contact potential customers at the exact moment they are searching for your products and services. Google AdWords bridges the gap between the customers and the businesses that need them, through Pay-Per-Click sponsored results.'' Ms. Armitage went on to provide details of the offer for all Lunarpages customers, explaining, ''Customers who purchase our Basic, Windows, or LPQuicksite Hosting Plans will receive $25; Busines

After enraging social web luminaries Twitter and Digg, dissident marketing company uSocial has now set its sights on Facebook. It has launched a new service allowing Facebook friends and fans to be bought by the thousands. Facebook buddies are available in multiples of thousand, with the minimum being 1,000 friends and the maximum being 5,000. If it is fans that you are looking to buy, the company can provide up to 10,000 fans. uSocial is currently offering all the friends/fans packages at introductory prices. While 1,000 Facebook friends or fans can be bought for $177.30, the price for 5,000 friends is $654.30. The current cost of adding 10,000 fans is $1167.30. Although many doubt the worth of buying friends, uSocial founder Leon Hill claims his company delivers targeted friends. "We are getting, basically, targeted friends and fans who are saying, 'Yes, I want information on this," he told the Associated Press in a phone interview. He said that friends are added manually by acc

The most popular story on the New York Times Web site is about people who have said goodbye to Facebook.

Facebook has announced a new way for mobile developers to add its Connect identity-sharing service to mobile web sites and applications. As with Connect for the web, Connect for Mobile Web lets users authorize developers to access their personal data. This means users will be able to sign into mobile web sites and applications using [...]

A Palm City woman had a feeling she would get hooked on Facebook, but she says she wasn't prepared to get scammed on the social networking Web site.

San Francisco, California - (The Hosting News) - September 3, 2009 - Managed hosting, cloud hosting and colocation solutions provider, Hosting.com, has debuted its new VMware (NYSE: VMW) vCloud Express solution, offering instant provisioning, consumption-based pricing (pay by the hour) and unlimited, dynamic compute resources. Hosting.com will be among the first to offer this new class of VMware Virtualized service that that can be purchased, consumed and adjusted in a pay-as-you-go model. Hosting.com vCloud Express will be available as a beta service beginning September 1, 2009. Craig McLellan, CTO of Hosting.com noted, ''vCloud Express delivers control directly to customers. They can setup new accounts, adjust virtual machine resources, turn additional machines on or off and deploy and execute virtual machine commands with no human interaction - if so desired. We will continue to innovate to deliver on the promises of capacity and infrastructure on-demand, utility

Andover, Massachusetts - (The Hosting News) - September 3, 2009 - Cloud enabled enterprise hosting and application management services firm, NaviSite's VMware-based SaaS Hosting Solution is assisting insurance industry software company, Insurance ISV with application delivery. Founded in 1984, Input 1 provides business process outsourcing and software solutions for the insurance premium finance industry, offering both a complete outsourced model, as well as a licensed, on-premise version of its software. NaviSite's SaaS hosting, a multi-tenant solution that cost-effectively addresses requirements of small and medium-sized businesses, allows Input 1 to deliver its applications to a larger customer base. NaviSite's comprehensive solution includes several virtualized servers, shared high-availability load balancers, firewalls, and backup solutions. NaviSite's hosting platform is built on best-of-breed enterprise grade infrastructure, including HP blade technology and IBM storage a

Facebook announced today it has reached a milestone of 65 million people actively using Facebook from mobile devices. According to the company, that is an increase from just 20 million as recent as 8 months ago. "As we celebrate 65 million, we want you to be able to take Facebook with you wherever you go," says Facebook's Henri Moissinac. "That's why we are continuously making updates to our mobile products and working with some of the biggest names in mobile to make sure that Facebook is available on the latest devices and mobile operating systems." Moissinac outlines the various options users have for connecting with Facebook from their mobile devices: - Mobile web sites - Text messages - Facebook Mobile for Devices - Facebook Connect for Mobile Web Facebook has two mobile web sites: m.facebook.com and x.facebook.com, the latter specifically designed for touch screen phones. Each of these sites has been translated into over 60 languages. Facebook Mobile