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November 30, 2005
Did shopping appeal more than turkey this Thanksgiving?

Americans didn't just eat turkey and give thanks.
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November 29, 2005
Cyber Monday A Dud

Major online retailers comfortably weathered "Cyber Monday," the Monday after Thanksgiving that's often designated as the e-shopping equivalent of "Black Friday, a Web performance service said Tuesday.
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November 9, 2005
Best Buy on the blink

No. 1 electronics retailer Web site sees mid-day shutdown; online ordering option unavailable.
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November 2, 2005
Software Helps Sites Handle Traffic Surges in Times of Crisis

Vendors like AlertSite, Keynote Systems, and Dotcom-Monitor are cashing in on a new opportunity with Web site monitoring technologies designed to give online news media sites a visitor's view of application performance. These technologies can help sites anticipate challenges.
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October 11, 2005
AlertSite Offers Data Protection Testing

After MasterCard, VISA and other major credit card companies created the MasterCard Security Standard initiative earlier this year, online merchants have been forced to update their payment systems to obtain Payment Card Industry compliance.
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August 25, 2005
Top web sites maintain performance amid traffic growth, survey finds

Leading retail, entertainment and travel sites successfully handled customer traffic demands over the summer, though the availability of retail sites averaged 99.23% in June and July, slightly trailing entertainment sites at 99.75% and travel sites at 99.73%, according to data from web performance measurement company AlertSite.
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August 23, 2005
Top Entertainment, Retail, and Travel Sites Score High Marks Over the Summer

AlertSite, a leading provider of Web performance measurement, systems monitoring and security vulnerability scanning products and services, announced today that top entertainment, retail and travel sites proved successful in handling customer demands during the 2005 summer season.
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August 17, 2005
Zotob Worm Is Bad But It's Not Sasser or MSBlast

The Zotob bot attacks may be among the biggest of 2005, but they aren't anywhere near the level of last year's Sasser, security and Web performance monitoring companies said Wednesday.
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July 14, 2005
Wal-Mart Gets Potter Book Date Wrong, Shuts Web Site

Alertsite.com, a Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based firm that tracks Web site performance, said Walmart.com posted a message saying it was closed at about 12:40 a.m. New York time.
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July 14, 2005
Walmart.com Drops Offline For 10 Hours

Walmart's online store was offline for more than 10 hours starting late Wednesday and ending Thursday.
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July 8, 2005
CERT Warns on Latest Trojan Horse Attacks

CERT (the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team), issued an alert today warning of heightened trojan virus attacks against companies and individuals. While there were numerous reports of slowdowns at various Web sites, the cause has largely been attributed to increased Web use following the Live8 multi-venu concert event and the terrorist bombings in London.
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July 8, 2005
U.K. news sites hit by heavy Web traffic after bombings

Online news sites in the U.K. took a hit yesterday as people hit the Internet for information about the terrorists attacks in London, according to Web performance monitoring companies AlertSite and Keynote Systems Inc.
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June 9, 2005
Amazon.com hit with slowdown

A technical glitch caused online retailer Amazon.com to suffer at least two periods of extended slowdowns Thursday, one during late morning and a second during the peak lunch-time browsing period.
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June 9, 2005
Amazon Goes Dark

Amazon.com went dark today, in a complete outage lasting 41 minutes, according to AlertSite, a vendor of products and services for Web performance measurement, systems monitoring and security vulnerability scanning.
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June 2, 2005
From Start to Finish

"That's one reason e-retailers such the Vermont Teddy Bear Co. monitor and test site performance in a variety of ways. For its four e-commerce web sites, Vermont Teddy Bear depends on vendor AlertSite to monitor uptime and load time, and also to monitor performance of a couple of key web site applications."
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May 25, 2005
Doors Opening for Outsourced Security

"It all adds up to a significant opportunity for companies such as ... AlertSite, which also sells hosted vulnerability management. IDC analyst Charles Kolodgy said there are a number of reasons why customers, in particular small and medium-size businesses, will increasingly look to hosted security applications."
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May 17, 2005
AlertSite Adds Security Scan to Web Service

Web site performance-measurement and monitoring services provider AlertSite added a new security twist to its services on Monday with the introduction of a vulnerability scanning service.
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