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Create your own domain extension

  • 30 June 2008
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Yesterday, in Paris, ICANN (the manager of Top Level domain names) has decided to facilitate the launch of new extensions. A domain name extension is for instance .be, .nl or...

COMBELL welcomes PINS’ Belgian customers

  • 27 June 2008
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COMBELL took over the Belgian customer base of PINS (Perfect InterNetworking Solutions), which is established in Amsterdam. In doing so, we reinforce our market position in Belgium. Through this takeover,...

Virtualisation: the future

  • 25 June 2008
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In May, Gartner (an American research firm) made a list of the top 10 technologies that will change the world during the coming four years. Multicore and hybrid processors were...

We will be out of IP addresses in 2010

  • 25 June 2008
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Last week, the telecom ministers of the OECD met in a general atmosphere of impending crisis in Seoul: what will happen to the Internet economy when we will have run...

The number of domain names keeps on rising

  • 25 June 2008
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According to numbers provided by VeriSign (the company that manages the top-level domains .com and .net), during the first quarter of 2008, over 14 million new domain names were registered...

.car domain names probably to be expected soon

  • 25 June 2008
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Now that several car constructors want to introduce full Internet access in cars, there’s much ado about creating a new domain: .car. This domain suffix would allow websites that are...

Over 80.000 .lt domain names

  • 20 June 2008
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The registry for .lt domains (Lithuania) announced that there are now 80,000 .lt domain names, which is very little compared to the 800,000 .be names and the almost 3 million...

Online sales in Belgium up by 46%

  • 20 June 2008
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Last year, 989 million euros’ worth of goods have been sold via the Internet, which represents an increase of no less than 46% compared to 2006. This information was communicated...

The new iPhone supports Hosted Exchange

  • 15 June 2008
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The new iPhone 2.0 also wants to reach businesses. Therefore, it e.g. supports wireless networks and features numerous new functionalities that we already know from Windows Mobile smartphones. It will...

E-readiness: the Netherlands move up to the 7th position and Belgium to the 20th

  • 15 June 2008
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Every year, the Economist Intelligence Unit publishes, in collaboration with the IBM Institute for Business Value, a ranking based on six categories of e-readiness: connectivity and technology infrastructure, business environment,...

.hk is among the most risky domains

  • 14 June 2008
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Internet too has its risky places that people shouldn't visit without taking the necessary precautions. McAfee has identified these places and apparently, among ccTLDs (country code top-level domains), domains from...

40% growth for online advertising in Europe

  • 14 June 2008
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Figures supplied by Interactive Advertising Bureau Europe indicate that online advertising is constantly growing, despite the fact that advertising via traditional media (radio, TV, etc.) has felt the impact of...