Tweet FatCow is excited to announce our ”moovelous” giveaway, “Host Smart, Drive Smart!” A few lucky winners will drive away with a smart fortwo coupe, a Vespa scooter, or one of four Shwinn bikes. FatCow is giving any person who signs up for a hosting plan an automatic entry into the giveaway. “The Original FatCow [...]

Tweet A new study produced under the auspices of the venerable environmental group Greenpeace focused on the climate change impact of cloud computing and web hosting. According to their study, many components of web hosts and cloud computing service providers like Google, Yahoo and Facebook provide power to their servers by using fossil fuel derived [...]

Tweet The number of satisfied customers purchasing through e-retailers has reached an all-time high according to a study from Foresee Results. The study was completed on the top 100 e-retail websites as reported by Internet Retailer. The study showed that, on average, the overall satisfaction increased by 5 points on a 100 point scale receiving [...]

Tweet Between the recent Greenpeace report on the state of cloud computing and recent adoption of data center efficiency metrics developed by The Green Grid, a data center regulation and efficiency organization, the world is beginning to take serious notice of the energy costs of computing. With the increase in web activity and the growing [...]

Tweet During Twitter’s first official conference, Chirp, the CEO of the social network revealed it was creating its own link shortener and dumping the bit.ly shortener it had made so popular. The CEO of bit.ly, John Borthwick, wasn’t too concerned. Bit.ly Not Official, But Still a Favorite Even prior to the network promoting the use [...]

Tweet Web hosting is a constantly expanding industry, with millions of new users requiring additional services, which in turn require new servers to handle the load of hosting web pages. Web hosting and cloud computing have driven an intense amount of competition between producers, which leads to a number of rather creative marketing approaches intended [...]

Tweet In the thousands of years since humanity developed writing, we’ve come up with countless variations on its production, storage and transmission. People have written in pictures, words and ideograms, on paper, stone, clay and papyrus, and shared their words through books, telegraphs and now the Internet. But the act of reading has remained essentially [...]

Tweet When you consider the amount of information that’s now accessible online and how connected everything and everyone is, security is a huge concern. In many instances, if someone were to gain access to a useless Social Network you tried once, they can use that information to gain access to everything including your email and [...]

Tweet Email marketing can be an extremely effective tool, particularly if you already have a list of targeted recipients interested in the information and products you have to offer. Unfortunately, a lot of spammers use this same method, so it’s imperative to be smart and get this type of correspondence right from the start. Here [...]

Tweet Twitter is a great service for both individuals and businesses, but both need to learn to use proper Twitter etiquette. Like any community, Twitter has certain unspoken rules which members follow. Thanks to spammers, identity thieves, and other unsavory types, Twitter users are becoming more cautious and more willing to stop following Twitter users [...]