Ever wonder how websites protect themselves from a denial of service attack?

Gigenet provides real time Denial of Service prevention and mitigation services for your website, your servers and your IP network. 

Their product ProxyShield DDoS Protection provides the benefit of not having to change hosts or servers.  A company simply reroutes their DNS to through Gigenet’s Proxyshield, which proceeds to screen out potential traffic resulting from a DoS and allowing normal traffic into your system so that your company and website can continue to function.

Preventing DoS downtime is a very important.  A company with $25 million in revenues stands to lose $68,493 a day in lost sales and productivity if a Denial of Service is not prevented.

They have stopped some famous attacks on Joker.com and MillionDollarHomepage.com and can provide you similar protection.  They guarantee it or provide the service free.

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The Forrester Group has brought out the Grinch for Apple this Christmas.  New studies by Forrester indicate that monthly iTunes purchases have declined by 58% and that the average checkout purchase size has dropped by 17%.

Forrester pondered with Reuters whether or not this was a seasonal decline or possibly the result of consumers who were starting to reach the saturation point.  No comparisons were made to the decline in overall record sales by the music industry throughout the year by Forrester who apparently missed that potential correllation.  Plus, the data may be hindered by historicals not reflecting future performance as the previous period measured had registered a sevenfold increase in sales.

• So Apple could be in decline as iTunes are concerned, or
• iTunes sales could be levelling out off their high as they define a new normal, or
• iTunes may be suffering from a poor year for Records and Record sales, or
• maybe Forrester is onto something and this decline may mark the beginning of a slow long-tail styled end reminiscent of the Sony Walkman.

With a half dozen major manufacturing players debuting products like the Microsoft Zune over the next 2 months, Apple may need to get on the iHorn and see if they can re-energize their sales efforts to maintain market dominance.

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EverythingFitness.com is offering a great deal on specialty exercise equipment.  They have a wide selection of Heart Rate Monitors that can come in the strapped or strapless variety.

Everything recently released the news that today (December 13th!) will be the last day to receive free holiday delivery on all orders of $19 or more.  They  even have a Reebok strapless heart monitor built into a watch that is ECG accurate for less than fifty dollars.

Heart rate monitors are excellent to insure that you are training your heart and burning calories.  The heart rate monitor can help you make sure that you are in the right heart rate zone. 

So check in with EverythingFitness.com and don’t delay to get a great deal.

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Skype has been hunting for the right application to run on Windows Mobile smart phones and has now developed it themselves in Skype 2.2.  The new client will enable Skype calls to be made over 120 different Smart Phones in existence already through Wi-Fi networks using Skype’s VoiP service.

Under a beta plan users will be able to make free calls to other Skype users.  Users can also utilize their Skype in and Skype out accounts to make and receive calls to landline phones as is available with normal skype products that are not resident on cellular devices.

Skype was previously available on Pocket PC devices.  Over 5 million Pocket PC device downloads have occurred under that service plan.

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For the last couple of months my inbox has been plagued with with these annoying faux stock alert image spam emails. They are these annoying emails that are text based on the surface but come with an image that shows up when the email is previewed and they are Spam!

In looking for a solution to the problem, I came across a service that specializes in fighting this specific type of spam. Borderware provides MXtreme anti image spam software to help combat this spam.

Spammers alter the images slightly so that the spam and the image will pass through normal filters more readily. Their solution reviews over 30 different attributes of the image and compares those attributes against similar attributes in multiple other messages that have been indexed to detect the spam and filter it out before it litters up your inbox.

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The Free Skype Ride will be ending at the end of the year.  Since May Skype has offered customers free VOIP service for all calls made withing the United States and Canada in an attempt to attract and hold new potential customers.

Skype will now charge $29.95 (the industry standard rate) for a years worth of unlimited calling service.

Customers that sign up for a yearly plan prior to January 31, 2007 will receive a half price discount.

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