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Enterprise Browsers Reignite the Browser Wars, But This Time for Businesses

Forrester IT

I’ve been in the IT industry long enough to remember the start of the Browser Wars when Internet Explorer took on Netscape in the late 1990s. Safari came along for Mac in 2003, […]. Product names like Mosaic, Netscape, “IE”, and Mozilla (and its next iteration with Firefox) were all part of the browser market development.

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Cisco’s acquisition history has shaped its evolution

Network World

Founded in 2003, Splunk’s software platform is known for its wide-reaching ability to search, monitor and analyze data from a variety of systems. Founded in 2010, the 400-employee ThousandEyes firm offers a cloud-based software package that analyzes performance of local and wide-area networks and the internet.

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Bezos’ Amazon: from bookstore to backbone of the internet

The Verge

to found an internet-based bookstore. In 1998, Amazon bought the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) for approximately $55 million, in the company’s first major acquisition. In 2003, Amazon, for the first time in its history, turned an annual profit of $75 million. Shaw & Co. Prime time.

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A Closer Look at Net Neutrality: What do you mean when you say it?

CTOvision

The principle is easy enough to understand; this blog recently defined net neutrality as the idea that no law-abiding company should face discrimination and all Internet users should have the same access to any online, legal content. Network neutrality is the sweetspot between overregulation and zero regulation. Has the FCC killed it?

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Old Windows Server machines can still fend off hacks. Here's how

Network World

If you're running a Windows Server 2003 machine, you have a problem. That's due to the internet release earlier this month of a batch of updates that paint a bulls-eye on computers running Windows Server 2003, according to security researchers. “I Your already-vulnerable computer is now at severe risk of being hacked.

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Amazon will have a new CEO as Jeff Bezos transitions to executive chair later this year

The Verge

He has led the Amazon Web Services team since it was founded in 2003 and was named the CEO of AWS in 2016. Amazon’s cloud business is a huge part of the company (and the internet at large, to the point where AWS outages can take down whole swaths of internet for hours), and its new leadership choice reflects that.

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Millions of websites affected by unpatched flaw in Microsoft IIS 6 web server

Network World

A proof-of-concept exploit has been published for an unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Information Services 6.0, Extended support for this version of IIS ended in July 2015 along with support for its parent product, Windows Server 2003. a version of the web server that's no longer supported but still widely used.