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Combell provides the technical infrastructure of “Help Haïti – 1212” live TV and radio show

  • 21 January 2010
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Everyone has now become aware that Haiti is in need of financial help. On Thursday 21 January, VTM and Eén will broadcast a live benefit show, hosted by Martine Tanghe...

Paid clicks are increasingly popular

  • 16 January 2010
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A recent American study revealed that in recent months, an increasing number of web shoppers clicked on paid search results (such as Google Adwords). According to the study conducted by...

Dutch hero lost his domain name

  • 11 January 2010
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On the Internet, everything goes fast. Only one hour after it was publicly announced that the Dutch Jasper Schuringa avoided an attack on a plane in the US, an American...

Cameroon has the most dangerous domain

  • 7 December 2009
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According to a report published by McAfee, domain names from Cameroon (.cm) are the most dangerous. This is due to the fact that, most of the time, the extension is...

CIO and ICT Manager of the year 2009 revealed

  • 5 December 2009
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Recently, the yearly election of the CIO and ICT Manager of the Year took place. For a couple of years, Combell has been sponsoring this event, organised by the trade...

Combell case at Microsoft TechEd 2009 in Berlin

  • 26 November 2009
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This month, a bunch of our system managers visited TechEd 2009 in Berlin in order to expand their knowledge, which they succeeded in doing. The commemoration of the fall of...

Dancing for the climate together with Combell

  • 26 November 2009
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Maybe you already read it in the media. Film producer and TV animator Nic Balthazar presented the video clip “The Big Ask Again - Dance for the climate”. In August,...

For mobile websites, fast loading is more important than looks

  • 26 November 2009
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Recently, the marketing research company InsightExpress Research conducted a poll to identify the reasons why mobile users come back to a website that they already visited. The poll revealed that...

GaultMillau gives Combell 20/20 too

  • 26 November 2009
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GaultMillau gives, in addition to starred chef Sergio Herman, Combell 20/20 too. Obviously, not for our culinary talent, but for our hosting. We are delighted to welcome them among our...

Coming soon: web addresses in Arabic, Chinese and Cyrillic

  • 26 November 2009
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The die is cast: starting from the first semester of 2010, ICANN will also allow domain names containing non-Latin characters. Those domain names, known as IDNs or Internationalized Domain Names,...

Café.eu, garçon.eu and tête-à-tête.eu, available soon

  • 31 October 2009
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On December 10 2009, the landrush for .eu domain names with international characters such as é, ^, ç, etc. will start. These domains, referred to as IDNs (Internationalized Domain Names)...

Founder of the Internet is sorry for http://

  • 31 October 2009
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Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who created the Internet in 1990 together with the Belgian Robert Cailliau, is sorry for the http:// that is mentioned before every domain name. According to him,...