Category Archives: Internet Industry

Google Buys Postini for $625M in Cash

Google just announced that they are going to buy Postini, a spam and virus-filtering company for over $600 million USD. Delaware.Net uses/offers Postini services as a reseller, and the price is right – $1 per user. Postini catches almost all … Continue reading

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Google Becoming a Phone Company (cell, Internet, wireless, fiber)

Here is a VERY interesting article that talks about Google’s build-out of 40-70 (wow) data centers, dark fiber, and how this is the tip of the iceberg to them becoming an ISP and cell carrier, and it will eliminate their … Continue reading

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Local Marketing – Should you help non-profits?

I participate on an email mailing list where other Internet company owners discuss local and national marketing strategies. Sometimes there are great ideas, sometimes not so much. Recently there was a post from someone in the industry about how a … Continue reading

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Why you need a Blog

Blogs. Certainly you have heard of a blog, but many people still don’t know what they are and why they are useful. In this article, I am going to explain what a blog is, why you need one, and how … Continue reading

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Delaware.Net Creative Team Builds Web Site for MONSTER RACING and Rides in Real NASCAR Cars Around Dover Downs Speedway

Our new creative team celebrated the completion of the MonsterRacing.com web site by taking a ride in Monster’s NASCAR racing cars. Monster was very pleased with their new web site so they invited our team out for a day to … Continue reading

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Cisco to buy WebEx for $3.2B in cash

Cisco Systems Inc. said Thursday that it has agreed to acquire the online meeting company WebEx Communications Inc. for about $3.2 billion in cash. This is a really strong indication that Cisco is going to target medium sized businesses for … Continue reading

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Verizon Backbone Problems Affect Internet Traffic Today

Verizon had some serious network issues today, and it appears that interconnects from Cogent and other backbone providers also suffered today. When the latency was happening, major sections of the graph below were yellow and orange.

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World Organization of Webmasters (WOW) Interviewed Me

I recently joined this organization because they promote the education of future web professionals. This interests me because we occasionally hire new graduates and I think it would be helpful to the profession if companies like us that do this … Continue reading

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Free Search Engine Marketing Seminar March 7, 2007

I’m giving a free search engine seminar on March 7th at Dover Downs at the Delaware Expo Business-to-Business trade show in Dover, Delaware. And I’m giving away lots and lots of solid search engine marketing tips, with handouts. What’s the … Continue reading

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How I saved a customer from a $4000 Google scam this week

$3750 to be exact, is the amount of money I saved a customer this week because she almost got taken by an internet scam artist. It wasn’t Google (the company) that was scamming her, it was someone claiming they could … Continue reading

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