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According to Wikipedia, ‘The last mile (or last kilometer) is the final leg of delivering connectivity from a communications provider to a customer. Usually referred to by the telecommunications and cable television industries, it is typically seen as an expensive challenge because ‘fanning out’ wires and cables is a considerable physical undertaking.’ The significant complexity, cost, and risk associated with this situation delayed many broadband rollouts until new technology became available that could realize the ‘last mile.’

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Egenera announced the opening of its new West Coast operations in Santa Clara, Calif. The Santa Clara headquarters will provide Egenera customers and partners with increased access to company resources, including sales and marketing, and business development.

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Optaros introduced “The 2009 Social Ecommerce Planning Guide” that details 32 social ecommerce options to consider, with specific deployment examples and adoption rates, to assist retailers as they plan for 2009. Social ecommerce is a top agenda item for retailers in 2009, but there is sufficient lack of clarity about what exactly to do beyond ratings and reviews.

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In this Exclusive Q&A with SYS-CON’s Jeremy Geelan, Rajeev Kutty of Keynote Systems speaks of the factors currently driving companies to increase their effort in monitoring the performance of their Web and mobile applications, and about how Keynote foresees an enormous increase in the number of Web applications being built in the cloud and programmers using cloud computing platforms like Apps Engine, Force.com., Microsoft Mesh, Bungee Connect – all Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) providers.

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As many e-commerce sites celebrate their 10th birthday, web stores are facing the reality that the Internet is changing and current sites need to be refurbished. From left-hand navigation and search to product catalog and product detail, from the cart and check out to the general design and format – most sites are in desperate need of a makeover.

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Keeping your brand alive and well on the Web isn’t as easy as it looks. There are few things as important as your reputation, and in the Web 2.0 economy, your reputation is increasingly tied to your web presence. So keeping the website up, available, and responding quickly is critical not only for success, but also for survival. If you think about it, a website’s reputation on the Internet can be boiled down to two questions: ‘Is it up?’ and ‘Is it fast?’

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“We have anticipated these flaws in DNS for many years and we have basically engineered around them,” Ken Silva, chief technology officer at Verisign, told a reporter as Dan Kaminsky, the man who discovered a loophole in the DNS system that allows web users to be redirected to fake sites even when they have typed in the correct URL, spoke out yesterday publicly for the first time about his discovery at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.

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