Yesterday (on January 17, 2011), CloudFlare, one of the leading providers of Content Delivery Networks and web security features, announced the launch of its tool, a Stop Censorship bookmarklet, which can be used by various website owners irrespective of their being a CloudFlare customer or not to protest against SOPA.
The House of Representatives are currently considering the SOPA or Stop Online Piracy Act, and various websites including Reddit, Boing Boing and Wikipedia amongst others are planning to black out their websites today, i.e. January 18, 2012. To support the cause, CloudFlare’s Stop Censorship App will allow site owners to protest against the law by blacking out all words longer than five characters on their website and adding a “Censored” corner badge on the top of the web-pages. This will be visible to visitors only on their first visit, thus it will not hamper the productivity while allowing owners to show disapproval.
For CloudFlare customers, the app can be enabled from their apps panel, and the others can grab an embed code from http://mikesofaer.github.com/stop_censorship. CloudFlare mentioned that its app was written in a way that it would not hamper the Search Engine rankings of the websites and the Company will support its application for a month.
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Created at January 18th, 2012 in Tools |
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This Wednesday (on December 14, 2011), Level 3 Communications, the leading international provider of fiber-based communication services, announced that it had extended its MyLevel3 customer portal to include self-generating service quotes thus allowing its resellers and wholesale customers the capabilities to obtain quotes by mixing and matching various Level 3 offerings.
Till now, while the portal provided a central view of how the services were performing, the customers still needed to get back to Level 3 in case they wanted quotes by combining multiple offerings and thus account management was not stream-lined. The addition of the enhanced quoting functionality will now allow customers to automatically create both pricing information and invoices for a variety of services at runtime, and the customers can also tag and save the quotes in various ways to easily automate the complete billing process.
Level 3 mentioned that its portal was an integral component of its customer satisfaction and the Company would thus keep improving the portal to make it more user-friendly and intuitive to empower their customers and continuously improve their experience.
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Created at December 18th, 2011 in Tools |
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This Thursday (on December 15, 2011), TeliaSonera, one of the leading providers of telecommunications and other network services and Content Delivery Network offerings in Sweden, announced that it is working with Swedish Police and has created a technical solution called Child Safeguard, which allows telecom operators and ISPs to block pages with child abuse images.
Teliasonera mentioned that fighting against sources that try to profit from spreading images and content related to child abuse is an important aspect of its Corporate Social responsibility and with its technical knowhow and global IP network; the Company is in a position to combat this menace in a significant way. The solution makes use of inputs from the UK-based Internet Watch Foundation, which continuously monitors and identifies online child pornography, and then Teliasonera blocks the access from such pages.
The Company mentioned that it was trying to make the Internet a better place by effective blockage of child abuse, and apart from Child Safeguard this November, Teliasonera is also working with European Commission and other organizations to make the Internet a safer place for the kids.
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Created at December 17th, 2011 in Agreements and Collaborations, Tools |
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Last Thursday (on October 13, 2011), Akamai Technologies, the global leader in web optimization and Content Delivery Network services, announced that for reducing the downtime and compliance related issues for its customers, it had added two offerings, the Akamai DDoS Defender and Akamai Compliance Management Modules to its Akamai Intelligent Platform.
To protect the customer websites from various security threats like the distributed denial of service (DDoS), Akamai created the multilayered security offering, the DDoS Defender. This solution allows Akamai to meet the assaults closer to their origin and block the malicious attacks from impacting the website performance. Apart from this, for meeting various compliance standards, Akamai not only added its Akamai Compliance Management Modules, but also entered in a partnership with Evidon to streamline information security reporting and auditing requirements.
At its end, Akamai mentioned that with more than 30% web traffic going through Akamai’s network, it wanted to provide a more secure and compliant world-wide-web, which is why it would continue to add new offering and initiatives to its Intelligent Platform.
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Created at October 19th, 2011 in New Technology Announcements, Tools |
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Today (on October 5, 2011), Highwinds, one of the leading providers of content delivery networks and other cloud-based IP services, announced that it would be expanding its managed services portfolio by adding a Licensed CDN offering. This new solution will enable telecom companies and ISPs to create their own advanced CDN solutions by leveraging their own networks.
This new solution supports the Federated CDN model and allows various providers to rapidly and seamlessly transition between their own network and Highwinds’ multiple tier CDN solutions. The advanced platform from Highwinds includes a CDN Reseller option, the support for CDN managed hosting, various Licensed CDN operations and the capabilities to support content across various CDN partners, thus providing an extremely scalable and cost-effective CDN federation, where different providers can buy and sell network services.
Highwinds mentioned that it had always been among the leading innovators for CDN technologies and was the first to support a CDN reseller model. With the Licensed CDN offering, it can now offer true last mile services to the telecom and ISP Companies.
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Created at October 5th, 2011 in New Technology Announcements, Tools |
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Concurrent, the global leader in innovative solutions for seamless management, delivery and monetization of video on all devices, i.e. PCs, tablet devices, television sets and smart phones, announced that it will unveil its new Unified Video Delivery Solution. This new platform will be able to stream media on all devices, and provide analytics to extract and interpret information of the number of users using a specific screen for seeing their media.
These modular components will be able to integrate with Concurrent’s media data and advertising solutions (MDAS), while providing support to a variety of media requirements like Web and Mobile TV, 3-D VoD and network DVR from the same toolkit. The convergence of all devices in the same umbrella and the analytics information, coupled with the MDAS technology, can also help the customers decide on which devices they are performing better and make monetizing decisions.
Overall, while the aggression and correlation of all the different screens, which can be used to stream media look to be highly attractive, more information about this unified platform will be available once Concurrent unveils it at the 2010 IBC.
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Created at September 1st, 2010 in Tools, Uncategorized |
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Most website owners are concerned about the stability and the uptime of their websites. While the hosting services say there is almost no downtime, the website owners need some tools to check the uptime of their sites and Pingdom is one such tool, which periodically checks the website status and updates the owners if the site goes down or there is some issue.
Since July 2009, Pingdom also started the Pingdom Free Service, which is aimed at providing the checks to hobbyists or blog-owners to validate the status of their pages and servers. The following are the features of Pingdom Free.
- One website/server can be added for monitoring.
- Variable frequency of checking whether the site is up. Options include different frequencies from once every minute to once every hour.
- Various customizable uptime statistics and reports.
- Unlimited number of emails to warn the owners when the site goes down.
- Apart from this, the Pingdom Free service also gives the owners a onetime free 20 SMS alerts, which send text messages to the provided cell phone when the website goes down. Once the 20 are expired, the users can opt to buy more sms if needed.
- The uptime reports also show the site performance in different parts of the world and this feature is useful for hosting services which use CDN for improved performance. It also helps CDN companies to keep track of, and optimize their networks based on load.
All in all, with various useful services and absolutely no cost involved, the Pingdom Free is positively recommended for hobbyist web-owners or bloggers.
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Created at June 7th, 2010 in Tools |
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