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About 99main and What We Offer
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99main Internet Services is a Norwich, Connecticut based Internet Service Provider, established in 1996. It is our mission to provide fast, reliable and affordable Internet access and technical support to home and business users across Connecticut. If you need more from your ISP, call us today - we do it all! Internet Access, Domain Hosting, E-mail Services, Spam Filtering, Business Class Connections (T1's / Fiber) and Technical Support. We continue to grow by offering solid local service and tech support with no gimmicks, no hidden requirements and no long term contracts. 99main does not "re-sell" services from another provider - we are a local company and the network and bandwidth are our own. We support all operating systems (Windows, Mac, Unix) and any browser or SMTP/POP3 E-mail program you choose. We have dedicated servers for WWW (domain hosting), DNS, E-mail & Spam Filtering, FTP and Usenet News. What does all this mean for your home or business? Better throughput, faster speeds, fewer dropped connections and the best tech support in the area! To find out more about our services, see our Account Options.
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2009 Monday, June 15 - New "Hunch" Web Site Will Make Decisions for You
Hunch, a site that launches for the public Monday from its base in New York City, will consider your quandary by getting to know you, asking you a series of questions and then spitting out three decisions. Caterina Fake, co-founder of the photo-sharing community Flickr, says she created Hunch not because people need help with emotional decisions but because it's too tough to find smart information online. You often have to replicate someone else's research, which is a waste, she said. In 10 questions or less, Hunch will offer you a solution to your problem, concern or dilemma, on hundreds of topics. Hunch's answers are based on the collective knowledge of the entire Hunch community. Hunch is designed so that every time it's used, it learns something new. You can give Hunch a try by visiting the web site here.
2009 Monday, June 1 - Microsoft Unveils its New Search Engine: Bing
Microsoft is offering a preview of its new search engine, which has been named "Bing". The name, along with some new features, opens the latest chapter in Microsoft’s quest to best Google in the search engine wars. You can read more about this new search engine at the TechCrunch website here. And if you feel like taking this new search engine for a test drive, you can go directly to the Bing website here.
2009 Friday, May 29 - Mozilla Executives Discuss Firefox at Conference
At the "D: All Things Digital" conference held this past week in Carlsbad, California, Mozilla executives (makers of Firefox, the popular browser that is an alternative to Microsoft's Internet Explorer) talked about the challenges facing the company as they attempt to compete against Microsoft, Apple, and Google all at the same time. There are some interesting comments regarding the future of Firefox, and you can read the entire article at CNET's website
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2009 Monday, May 4 - Wolfram Alpha - An Invention that Could Change the Internet Forever
Dr. Stephen Wolfram, an award-winning British physicist who teaches in the United States, is building a completely new and different kind of search engine for release in late May, called "Wolfram Alpha" — and rumor has it that it will be really impressive and significant. In fact some are saying that it may be as important for the Web (and the world) as Google, but for a different purpose. Dr. Wolfram has not released many details of his project publicly yet, but, in a nutshell, Wolfram and his team have built what he calls a “computational knowledge engine” for the Web. Basically that means that you can ask it factual questions and it computes answers for you. It doesn’t simply return documents that (might) contain the answers, like Google does, and it isn’t just a giant database of knowledge, like the Wikipedia. It doesn’t simply parse natural language and then use that to retrieve documents, like Powerset, for example. Instead, Wolfram Alpha actually computes the answers to a wide range of questions - questions that have factual answers such as “What country is Timbuktu in?” or “How many protons are in a hydrogen atom?” or “What is the average rainfall in Seattle?” This search engine can actually compute the answers to questions posed by the user. Wolfram Alpha doesn’t simply contain huge amounts of manually entered pairs of questions and answers, nor does it search for answers in a database of facts. Instead, it understands and then computes answers to certain kinds of questions. For those of us who are tired of hundreds of pages of results that do not really have a lot to do the information we are seeking, Wolfram Alpha may be what a lot of people have been waiting for. You can read more about this at the Techcrunch website here.
2009 Thursday, April 23 - MAC Computers May Become More Susceptible to Malware and Virus Attacks
Blogs are buzzing this week about what two Symantec researchers have called the first harmful computer program to strike specifically at Macs. Although the "iBotnet" infects a small number of Mac users through pirated software, the researchers say it is a step in the evolution of harmful computer programs that are targeted specifically to Macs, long thought to be "immune" to malicious computer programs that plague PCs. You can read more about this at CNN's website here.
2009 Monday, March 30 - Watch out for the Conficker Worm!
There are many reports out this week indicating a widespread infection of the Conficker worm, which can infect a Microsoft Windows system from a thumb drive, a network share, or directly across a network. The presence of a Conficker infection may be detected if a user is unable to surf to either the Symantec or McAfee websites. If a user is unable to reach either of these websites, a Conficker infection may be indicated (the most current variant of Conficker interferes with queries for these sites, preventing a user from visiting them). Major anti-virus vendors and Microsoft have released several free tools that can verify the presence of a Conficker infection and remove the worm. Instructions for manually removing a Conficker infection from a system have been published by Microsoft. To protect yourself from this dangerous worm, users are encouraged to ensure that their Windows operating systems and anti-virus software programs are functioning properly and are up to date. You can read more about the Conficker worm at MSNBC's website here.
2009 Wednesday, March 25 - Google's Gmail Initiates "Undo Send" or the "Five-Second Rule"
Remember the "beer goggles" feature that Gmail added last fall, to prevent users from sending drunken rants in the middle of the night? The experimental "goggles" feature requires users to prove their coherence by doing a simple math test before the mail sends. Now Google has activated a similar tool this week, and this one is a lot more useful. It will also work all the time after its been activated (not just in the middle of the night, like the Goggles' default setting). Gmail calls it "undo send" because it gives you five seconds to halt an outgoing mail after you've pressed send. It only works if you've gone to Gmail Labs and activated the feature in settings. "Undo Send" does for E-mail what the "five-second" rule does for food that falls to the ground: Longer than five seconds, and out it goes. Less than five seconds, and it's back into the mouth. You can read more about this new tool from Gmail on the CNN web site here.
2009 Tuesday, March 10 - Microsoft Releases Patches Today to Plug Holes in Windows
Microsoft issued patches today for critical holes in all supported versions of Windows that could allow an attacker to take over a system by executing code remotely. The patch, for Windows 2000, XP, Vista and Server 2003 and 2008, plugs a vulnerability that could allow a remote attacker to run code remotely, according to Microsoft's advisory. Also patched today were two holes rated "important" that affected the same systems and which could be used by an attacker to masquerade as someone else in a spoofing attack. To keep yourself protected, please check Windows Update for the appropriate patches and updates for your operating system. If you are unfamiliar with Windows Update, please contact your System Administrator or Microsoft directly before downloading and installing any of Microsoft's products.
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