Dell Buys EqualLogic

Dell (DELL - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr - Rating) agreed to buy EqualLogic, a maker of advanced storage-area network systems, for $1.4 billion in cash.

The deal will give Dell a presence in so-called iSCSI storage technology, which the PC giant said is the fastest-growing part of the storage business.

iSCSI allows for commands and storage traffic to occur over existing Internet protocol networks, leading to lower costs for multiple hardware and easier maintenance.

This past summer, Nashua, N.H.-based EqualLogic filed to go public following the hugely successful initial public offering of VMware (VMW - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr), which is also a player in the "virtualization" segment. EqualLogic hadn't set a date for its IPO.

The EqualLogic purchase is expected to close in the fourth quarter of Dell's fiscal year, which ends in early February, or early in the fiscal first quarter. Dell expects the deal to cut earnings by a total of 2 cents to 5 cents a share for fiscal 2009 and 2010.

AP Is Dead ... Killed By Blogs & Aggregation

Rich Ord | CEO of iEntry, Inc.

Old media is epitomized by no news source more than the Associated Press. Literally thousands of journalists are employed around the world to bring current event coverage to readers of thousands of newspapers and their online sites.

In the pre-Internet days the AP had little competition beyond a few other news syndicators like Reuters and UPI. The AP's world has now changed forever with the advent of blogs and news

aggregation sites.

Blogs are the new "AP" journalists and aggregation services which started with NewsLinx.com in 1996 (founded by me!) and which now include Google News, Topix, Techmeme, WebProWire and the new Blogrunner have made the AP much less relevant. There are now tens of thousands of bloggers around the world providing coverage and analysis of current events too! It comes down to why pay when you can get the news for free.

World most popular domains

The following chart represents current statistics for many of the worlds most popular domains.

Domain	Amount Registered	Country
.de	11.052.403	Germany
.uk	6.038.732	United Kingdom
.eu	2.463.114	European Union
.nl	2.455.568	Netherlands
.it	1.396.184	Italy
.ch	1.000.021	Switzerland
.be	682.591	Belgium
.dk	814.504	Denmark
.fr	855.980	France
.at	779.572	Austria
.pl	657.102	Poland
.se	634.181	Sweden
.es	606.689	Spain
.no	333.754	Norway
.cz	316.642	Czech
.fi	150.414	Finland
.pt	120.441	Portugal
.ie	72.387	Ireland
.cn	6.149.851	China
.us	1.258.955	United States
.br	1.135.114	Brazil
.jp	934.478	Japan

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Domains & Webhosting service

Website Address

You have probably heard of URL (Uniform Resource Locator). This is the web address that we keyed or typed into the navigation bar of the web browser. Internet Explorer or Fire Fox are web browsers. Example of a full address are described below:

http://www.sports.com/men/rugby/boots.html

http: protocol or https: ( +s for secured )
// separators
www.sports.com/ domain name
men/ subdomain name
rugby/ subdirectory name
boots.html document name (Web page)

From the the above it can be seen that the DOMAIN name is the one that gave the identity to a website.

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The domain must has a space to be located. The address goes to identify and locate the Domain. The Domain is accessible via the World Wide Web, www. A web hosting service is the company that provide the space to locate the domain.

The scope of service varied widely. The most basic is a small-scale file hosting, where web page or files can be uploaded.

The bigger provide a domain of the client's choice, a dedicated server, e-mails - management system and may create the website required.