Today’s Web Hosting News. Social Tools And Toys
November 23, 2007
I’ve just did a search on “hostign news” in a few search engines to see that my previous employer Host Color has added social tools to service. They made MediaWiki and Pligg software applications available for use with their hosting plans. I like both platforms as well as HostColor.com, a company that I can recommend to website owners.
In other news DemoWolf, a very popular web hosting tutorial producer announced it released 138 new tutorials. They include 30 end-user items for Helm 4, 30 tutorials for WebHost Manager 11, 49 Russian language tutorials for Plesk 8, and 29 tutorials for Virtuozzo also in Russian. Russians have already come 
Another hosting story says that Level 3 will speak to guests of Credit Suisse 2007 Annual Technology Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona on November 27 (”Good luck” from me).
Don’t forget we are at the end of November. That measn we can expect big discounts on web hosting next month. Some companies like Limestone Networks have already shaken the spirit of December. This dedicated hosting provider has annouced “toy drive”.
It said it asked other hosting companies, customers and anyone else to help them to raise several thousand of dollars to buy toys and to collect some. Toys shall be donated to the kids in Dallas area. Nice 
Ready to Throw Your Credit Card in The Trash Can
November 21, 2007
Sometimes science brings exciting new ideas into life sometimes it gives birth to funny gadgets. Just think that that you don’t need to bring any kind of ID document to prove who you are.
Fingerprints can be used not only on the American border but also anywhere when anyone needs to prove their identity, to shop, or to pay bills in a restaurant. All you need are device that reads biometric data and merchant system that connects it to financial infrastructure. And you can forget about using a pen to sign credit card bills. In the very near future (not for the Germans actualy*) people will be able to authorise payments by moving their finger over a sensor.
This is something that is highly appreciated in the developed economies and it could even make merchants to leave RFID tags (Check this News.com article RFID tags: Big Brother in small packages from January 2003 to see what did financial institutions think about the RFID technology at that time) which creadit card companies place in all forms of bank cards.
Since 2005 financial institutions in North America and EU as well as technology companies work on the idea with high intensity. The possible implementation of the technology for daily use even prompt privacy concerns.
But the new way to accept payments is highly appreciated from merchants who expect to save on processing fees. The technology is cheaper than creadit card POS terminals because it connects customers fingerprints directly to their bank accounts.
Once the new fingerprint based merchant terminals are brought to mass use what would be next… to implement Internet merchant accounts based on biometric technology? So we would be able to pay for our hosting accounts this way in a very near future?
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* A German supermarket chain located in the south-western town of Ruelzheim. has started offering fingerprint in March 2005.
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