January 31, 2012 — Web host and domain registrar Namesco announced on Monday that it will offer a free domain name with business formation packages provided by Companies Made Simple. Companies Made Simple helps its customers take care of all the steps related to starting a business, and with its Namesco partnership, it is clear that a domain name is an essential part of this process.
January 31, 2012 — Content delivery network Akamai Technologies announced on Tuesday it has appointed Kumud Kalia as chief information officer. This marks the second major appointment for Akamai in less than a week, following last week’s appointment of Mark J. Vargo to senior vice president and general manager of EMEA.
January 31, 2012 — As users scramble to recover their data from Megaupload servers before it is deleted by federal authorities, Carpathia Hosting and the Electronic Frontier Foundation have created a website to help lawful users retrieve legitimate files from Megaupload.
January 31, 2012 — Japanese telecommunications provider NTT Communications announced on Tuesday that it has completed the construction of its Singapore Serangoon Data Center. Designed to meet the needs of financial services industry and enterprises, the data center is in close proximity of the stock exchanges to provide low latency networks to the financial industry for electronic trading.
January 31, 2012 — The first federal chief technology officer, Aneesh Chopra, has resigned from his position, according to the White House on Friday. He becomes the second major federal technology executive to leave from the Obama administration, following last year’s departure of US chief information officer Vivek Kundra, who was recently Salesforce’s executive vice president of emerging markets.
