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📅 - Allegiance Telecom Files for Chapter 11 - Allegiance Telecom, Inc. (algx.com) announced today that it is pursuing financial restructuring plans under Chapter 11 of the U.S. bankruptcy code. According to the company, it believes that the bankruptcy filing will facilitate Allegiance's ongoing discussions with its senior creditors and other stakeholders and enable it to conduct business as usual. "Although we have not yet secured the agreement of our senior creditors, we believe we have a sound plan to restructure our balance sheet in line with current business realities," said Royce J. Holland, chairman and chief executive officer of Allegiance Telecom. "With approximately a quarter billion dollars of cash,
📅 - 'Buffalo Spammer' Arrested in New York - Howard Carmack, aka the ?Buffalo Spammer? was arrested and arraigned yesterday in New York on four felony and two misdemeanor counts. The arrest stems from charges that the accused fraudulently obtained Internet access accounts from Internet service provider EarthLink (earthlink.com), and has used those accounts to send out nearly 825 million unsolicited, commercial e-mails since March 2002. "This defendant stole the identities of innocent New Yorkers to spam millions of consumers throughout New York and the nations," Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said in a news release. "Prosecutions like this are designed to teach spammers that cyber-crime does not pay."
📅 - CrownPeak Deploys Web Site Navigation System - CrownPeak Technology (crownpeak.com) announced today that it has deployed its Web site navigation system, Advantage CMS, for two new clients ? Meharry Medical College of Nashville, Tennessee and Heifer International of Little Rock, Arkansas. CrownPeak provided the two organizations with two completely custom-designed Web sites equipped with a fully operational content management tool. ?Typically, a content management system is used to manage an existing Web site,? said Jim Howard, CEO, CrownPeak Technology. ?Both of these engagements go above and beyond that mandate, empowering these two non-profits to get a handle on dynamic, complex content requirements and su
📅 - Atomz, WebSideStory Announce Services Alliance - WebSideStory, Inc. (websidestory.com), the creators of HitBox Web stats and analytics services, and Atomz (atomz.com), a provider of enterprise Web site software, today announced an alliance to provide an end-to-end solution incorporating Web site search, content management and Web analytics. Under the agreement, the companies, which both provide ASP services, will integrate numerous products and work on several joint marketing projects. According to the companies, the services offered as a result of the collaboration will help businesses improve online customer satisfaction, generate more sales leads and better monetize content. "Increasingly, our customers are as
📅 - ILON Hosting Chooses Virtuozzo VPS Solution - SWsoft (sw-soft.com) announced today that Internet Labs of Nevada (ILON) has chosen to replace its existing VPS solution with Virtuozzo VPS. ILON Hosting (ilonhosting.com) recently acquired Remarkable Hosting, a provider of reseller solutions to Internet professionals. "We carefully examined the market before deciding to go with Virtuozzo. It clearly outperforms the competition and it is designed to make it possible for each virtual private server to run its own instance of memory where none of the ?systems? interfere with the others - allowing them to be completely dedicated," said Matthew Fineberg, Remarkable's founder, ILON's vice president of operations, and
📅 - Feature Price for Sale, Possibly Sold: Reports - The fate of Florida-based Web hosting firm Feature Price took a confusing turn Monday when DotRegistrar, apparently one of several firms that provide domain name registration services to Feature Price clients, said the company had been sold to an undisclosed party for an undisclosed sum. 'We were not told the identity of the purchaser, his or her (or its) location, how to communicate with the new owner, or what the status of domain names hosted by Feature Price might be," a notice on DotRegistrar's site read. The company said that Feature Price's attorney had further informed the company that DotRegistrar no longer had the authority to renew expired and existing do