Web security is a very important part of Web development. We have software and hardware security solutions that cover everything from email to servers, databases, policy changes, and more. But is everything covered?
Do we have a womb to tomb product line for every part of a Web site? Prior to yesterday I could say yes, [...]

UK based Internet services company Netcraft has named its most reliable website hosting companies for the month of May. Netcraft uses a series of monitoring servers from separate points around the Internet to log performance measurements made at fifteen minute intervals for a broad list of web hosting providers. The averages are calculated over the [...]

It’s official. WebhostingDay 2009 has completely sold out its remaining available spots. The fifth annual version of Europe’s premier web hosting event and conference was running at pre-registration levels far above last year, and a sell out looked likely. According to show creator and organizer, Thomas Strohe, the limit of 2,500 attendees has been reached [...]

As anyone who regularly uses Google’s Gmail service probably now knows, Gmail suffered a 4 hour outage yesterday. Now it goes without saying that it is by no means easy to maintain email communications for the estimated 113 million worldwide Gmail users - but this is Google we’re talking about. Among the first to realize [...]

University of Michigan and ForeSee’s annual e-commerce satisfaction report detailed consumer’s declining satisfaction with the shopping experience provided by online e-commerce sites.
From 2007 to 2008 the total satisfaction dropped by 2% to a grand total of 80% for average e-commerce vendors. Researchers believe this drop has little to do with overall satisfaction and more to [...]

According to WebHosting.Info’s domain rankings Web hosting company 1&1 surpassed Yahoo as the fourth largest US web host based. 1&1 has labeled it an important milestone, after five years of business in the US.
Since their US inception 1&1, has been called one of the most aggressive web hosts, dramatically dropping standard industry prices. 1&1 was [...]

A new study has come out on the popularity of social networks. Not surprisingly, social network users are becoming more prevalent. The study found that 35% of all Internet users use social networks and the bulk of those users have multiple social networking accounts.
All though the main reason people use social networks is still to [...]

According to Net Applications, rivals Firefox and Safari continue to eat at Microsoft IE’s market share. Microsoft lost another 1.6% points in December giving Internet Explorer a total decline of 10.4% since December of 2007. Mozilla’s Firefox in contrast gained 4.5% in 2008 and Apple’s Safari ends the year with 7.93% of browser market share.
Researchers [...]

In an open letter to the public, Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, discussed his continued health problems, Macworld, and his duty as CEO.
Jobs cites a hormone imbalance for “robbing” him of proteins and thus causing him to lose weight. The drastic loss in weight has made many question if Jobs is still healthy enough to be [...]

Several Twitter accounts have been hacked including Barack Obama, CNN’s Rick Sanchez, Britney Spears, and others. Hackers used these accounts to send fake messages. Twitter locked down the affected accounts and has since given control back to the original users.
“I am high on crack right now might not be coming into work today,” from Rick [...]