Category Archives: Industry Trends

Positive Takeaways from Parallels Summit 2010

By Peter Matulka | Published: March 2, 2010
Miami, Florida was the venue of this year’s conference and it did not disappoint. The following are responses to the question, “What is your largest takeaway from Parallel’s Summit 2010?” To make this more interesting, see if you can match the response to the appropriate person/organization. The respondents are: A. Taylor Giddens, Codero B. Andy Mahler, Applicure C. [...]
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Big Brother is Watching

By Ryan Elledge | Published: February 15, 2010
One of the newer features in Mozilla Firefox is called private browsing.  The intent of private browsing is to prevent others who access your computer from knowing what sites you have been to.  While on the surface this may work to keep your boss, co-workers, wife and kids from knowing what sites on the Internet [...]
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Cyber, Green, or Brown Monday? Why Not Cyber Month?

By Dave Macaulay | Published: December 16, 2009
Tis the season for online shopping. According to CNNMoney.com, Cyber Monday (the Monday after the Thanksgiving holiday) was big this year for online retailers, with more than 4 million shoppers per minute visiting sites early that morning (November 30), all in search of bargains via their laptops and desktop computers.  By day’s end, Coremetrics estimated [...]
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Cloud Computing: Behind every cloud is another cloud.

By Sara Newkirk | Published: November 30, 2009
In January of this year cloud computing was predicted as a web hosting trend for 2009. While a growing trend, confusion exists in the marketplace as to what exactly cloud computing is, so I sought out a quick and simple explanation for cloud computing, and how it affects the everyday person. Some of the sites/online [...]
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Remember a Time B.C. (Before Craigslist)?

By Dave Macaulay | Published: November 18, 2009
The Webby Awards just came out with their “Ten Most Influential Internet Moments of the Decade” – beginning with “Craigslist expands outside San Francisco” in 2000. That same year Google AdWords launched, followed by Wikipedia in 2001. Google’s IPO, the rise of YouTube, Facebook and Twitter and the debut of the iPhone in 2007 also [...]
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Cloud Computing vs. Dedicated and Managed Hosting: Our Take

By Dave Macaulay | Published: November 5, 2009
How does cloud computing stack up against dedicated or managed hosting? Codero’s CEO, Phil Spencer, believes it all comes down to developing right solutions at the right time for growing online businesses – cloud or not. His thoughts at an investors conference last month at The University Club in New York. What’s your opinion? Will cloud [...]
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