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Seeking
that heavenly host
A weak Web presence is not an
option
By RYAN DORAN and ALEXANDER
SOULE
It was a headline in May straight out
of the “cybersquatter” days of yore – the domain name
America.com was on the market for an asking price of
$1 million, with the final sticker to be set at auction.
If $5,000 is more in line
with your business budget, the America.mobi domain name
can be had.
As the Internet completes
a “Web 2.0” upgrade – while adding new top-level domains
like the .mobi suffix targeting Web-enabled mobile devices
– Web hosting remains an industry that mirrors Corporate
America, with mom-and-pop vendors hunkered down alongside
titans like Texas-based AT&T Inc., New York City-based
Verizon Communications Inc., and IBM Corp. of Armonk.
IBM dominates the industry,
according to IDC Corp., a Framingham, Mass.-based market
research company, with a 25 percent market share in the
United States. As might be expected, Big Blue excels
at large, complex, hosting scenarios where application
support and integration services are important, according
to Lydia Leong, an analyst with Gartner Inc. of Stamford,
Conn.
If there are any chinks
in the company’s armor, she added, it is in complex contract
terms that can shift risk onto the client, and in its
use of corporate partners on smaller projects, which
can impact communication. read
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Recent Tech:
Venture
capital hitting new highs
By ALEXANDER SOULE
Even as Hudson Valley entrepreneurs
dangled newfangled technologies and services for regional
venture capitalists last week in Stamford, Conn., a new
report showed that venture investment during the first
quarter in New York was among the highest since the collapse
of the dot-com bubble.
Seeking the 100 mpg
grail
By ALEXANDER SOULE
There are no small number of technical
speed bumps between the New York International Auto Show,
which concluded last week, and the inaugural Automotive
X Prize race 18 months from now.
Fuel-cell momentum builds
in Hudson Valley
But state lags Connecticut in tech
efforts, initiatives
By ALEXANDER SOULE
Despite tangible evidence on local
roads of New York’s prowess in fuel cells, the technology
merited only scant mention in a new “roadmap” recommending
a $400 million increase in state funding for “clean”
energy technologies.
TechCity struggles with
toxic legacy
By LYNN WOODS
With
its 2.5 million square feet of office, warehouse and
manufacturing space, more than half of it empty, TechCity,
the former IBM manufacturing facility located in the
town of Ulster, is considered the most significant economic
development site in Ulster County. However, a big stumbling
block to redevelopment has been its designation as an
Environmental Protection Agency-designated Superfund
site, stemming from the spillage of toxic solvents into
the groundwater decades ago. In the late 1980s the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency issued a permit under
the Resources Conservation and Recovery Act, which is
administered by the state Department of Environmental
Conservation (DEC), to IBM to monitor, contain and ultimately
clean up the site.
On
call, 24/7
Latest tech puts host of systems, features
at cell-phone users' fingertips
By ALEXANDER SOULE
The use of mobile telephones at retail checkout
counters will be one of the five innovations with
the potential to change the way people live over
the next half-decade, according to Armonk, N.Y.-based
IBM.
Radio
to the Web and back
By KATHY KAHN
Eric Straus pulls no punches. He's sitting
in his Poughkeepsie Civic Center office with a
radio logo behind him, wearing a “No Daily Newspaper”
button on his shirt.
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