May 16, 2013 pm31 12:05 pm, by Sita Bridglal, Comments
After struggling on the M61 on a surprisingly cold May morning (or maybe not, this is England), NuBlue made it to the annual eCommerce expo held at the Manchester Central building in (you guessed it) Manchester. Held on May 15th, the expo showcased over 40 exhibits, with 20 seminars given on a range of topics. [...]
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January 25, 2013 pm31 12:01 pm, by Vasiliki Makou, Comments
From News Feed to Timeline and now to Graph Search, Facebook has built its “three pillars” and continues to evolve and grow. Last week, Facebook announced the launch of its own internal search engine called “Graph Search”. According to Facebook’s newsroom, its mission is to “make the world more open and connected” and it achieves [...]
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January 16, 2013 am31 09:01 am, by Daniel Fletcher, Comments
NGINX is a web server which is now a standard component in NuBlue VPS & Managed Dedicated Servers. But what exactly does it do? And why do you even need it? What “IS” NGINX? NGINX runs in front of the Apache web server dealing with specific end user requests to websites. Apache is a very [...]
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December 18, 2012 am31 11:12 am, by Ewan, Comments
Well a little over a month ago we made the trip to the Etc Venues St Paul’s in London to attend the MagentoLive UK Event. It was our first dedicated Magento event since the much more modest MageCamp in Internet World all those years ago, with the added bonus of a pre-event warmup party! So [...]
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December 03, 2012 am31 09:12 am, by Mike, Comments
At this years Magento Live, we met a whole host of interesting companies working to develop systems to enable online merchants to maximise revenues from trading online. Among them were the good people from Kount, the sister company to ClickBank, who have developed an all-in-one fraud and risk management solution for companies that have card-not-present [...]
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September 24, 2012 am30 09:09 am, by Mike, Comments
We recently had the pleasure of meeting the team from Owned it, an innovative new company with an innovative new product. Owned it, plugs into eCommerce applications and allow customers to share purchases to friends and followers on Social Networks. The marketing reach of targeted social marketing tool like this is quite staggering, so we [...]
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July 31, 2012 pm31 01:07 pm, by Mike, Comments
Not everyone working with the Magento platform gets to be an official Magento Solution Partner. But what does being a ‘solution partner’ mean? And why should you care? THE CAKES, COOKIES AND CRAFTS CASE STUDY You sell everything imaginable for baking and decorating the perfect cakes and cookies. From cutters to icing nozzles, candles to [...]
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July 06, 2012 am31 10:07 am, by Tom, Comments
Yesterday evening Varien released a public statement regarding a serious vulnerabilty in the Zend Platform which the Magento E-Commerce solution is built on. The statement states that “the vulnerability potentially allows an attacker to read any file on the web server where the Zend XMLRPC functionality is enabled. This might include password files, configuration files, [...]
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June 26, 2012 pm30 05:06 pm, by Tom, Comments
As of today, NuBlue are happy to announce the availability of the Parallels Plesk 11 hosting control panel when purchasing a VPS or Dedicated Server. NuBlue has been rigorously testing the panel since we got our hands on the Parallels partner preview release. We are really impressed and hope our customers will be too! The main highlights [...]
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June 11, 2012 pm30 03:06 pm, by Mike, Comments
NuBlue are delighted to announce our appointment as the new web development partner for Lowe Alpine. Lowe Alpine is one of the world’s leading outdoor brands, creating solutions for outdoor enthusiasts in every discipline. Lowe Alpine offers a wide range of products from wind and waterproof outer layers to breathable fabrics and durable packs. The [...]
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