Results for ‘Facebook’

Open Source Data Centers? Facebook’s Open Compute Project Grows
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011THN News  
NEWS (The Hosting News) – Concerning the data center industry, openness isn’t always guaranteed. Take for example competing designs that don’t necessarily emphasize the prospect of sharing. Could some type of design confidentiality actually be hurting the advancement of data center...

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Data Centers: Facebook Looks to the Arctic
Thursday, October 27th, 2011THN News  
NEWS (The Hosting News) – Social networking giant Facebook is set to expand its presence via the data center. While the company already has facilities in the U.S. states of Oregon and North Carolina, construction of a new site is expected...

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Expansion: Facebook Set for Second NC Data Center
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011THN News  
NEWS (The Hosting News) – For social networking giant Facebook, expanding its data center facility property in North Carolina couldn’t come soon enough. Recently, the state’s Governor’s office brought news that Facebook is already prepping a second facility in the area,...

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Technical Blunders in Ecommerce Hosting
Friday, August 5th, 2011Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE Your business is your livelihood, and if that business is online, your web presence must be strong and reflect the image you want for it.  Therefore, it is always bad news when an ecommerce website suffers from technical glitches or...

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Time to Expand, Facebook Plans Data Center Add-On
Wednesday, July 27th, 2011THN News  
NEWS (The Hosting News) – Social networking site Facebook is planning an expansion of its data center site in Prineville, Oregon. The news came after the company’s data center manager Ken Patchett discussed the plan with the Prineville City Council. A...

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TeamSupport.com Integrates with Facebook
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011THN News  
NEWS (The Hosting News) – TeamSupport.com, an emerging leader in SaaS-based customer service and help desk tools – today announced an integration of the company’s flagship TeamSupport product with social networking phenomenon Facebook. “With some 150 million users in the United States...

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Facebook Partners with Global Power
Tuesday, June 21st, 2011THN News  
NEWS (The Hosting News) – Global Power Supply, provider of critical power equipment and fully integrated power services for emergency back-up and primary power applications, was recently chosen by Facebook to meet the critical power needs of their new data center in...

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Survey Examines Social Site Use
Friday, June 17th, 2011THN News  
NEWS (The Hosting News) – A new survey released by the Pew Research Center shows some interesting results about users of online social site networking sites. To get their results, Pew surveyed over 2,000 adult participants. Overall, Pew found that 32%...

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Facebook Facial Recognition Receives Criticism
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011THN News  
NEWS (The Hosting News) – Facebook’s new facial recognition tagging feature in prompting privacy concerns among some users and tech analysts. The feature, called “Tag Suggestions” suggests friends tag users based upon facial analysis. Yesterday, online security company Sophos warned that...

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Web Leaders Push for Free Internet at G8
Thursday, May 26th, 2011THN News  
NEWS (The Hosting News) – On Thursday, web leaders discussed the internet at the G8 summit, warning that too much regulation could limit free access. The summit included such high profile executives as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Google chairman Eric...

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