LITTLE ROCK — Cox restores lost e-mail service
Cox Communications said Monday that it has restored e-mail service to its residential customers in Arkansas, neighboring states and some states in the Midwest and East Coast regions who lost the service over the weekend.
Kelly Zega, director for public affairs for Cox, said in an e-mail that all residential customers in the state who use cox.net as their platform lost service Friday. Full service was restored system wide early Monday morning.
Zega declined to say how many customers were affected. Neighboring states that lost service were Oklahoma, Kansas and Louisiana.
The company said all incoming messages were stored in its system and are being delivered on a rolling basis. Delivery of all messages could take days and some may not arrive in chronological order.
Cox Communications is a broadband communications and entertainment company whose primary service area in the state covers Northwest Arkansas. It is the third-largest U.S. cable TV company, serving approximately 6 million residences and businesses.
- John Magsam
Windstream to open N.C. center
Windstream Hosted Solutions, the data-center operator for Little Rock based Windstream Corp., said Monday that it plans to open a new data facility in Durham, N.C., in 2013.
The 22,000 square-foot data center will include 10,000 square feet of raised floor space where computer servers are stored, the telecommunications company announced Monday.
The data facility, scheduled to open sometime next summer, will house customer equipment and data.
Windstream Hosted Solutions has two other data centers in the Raleigh-Durham area.
Windstream expects to build more data centers next year, including one in Nashville, Tenn. The company opened similar facilities in west Little Rock in April and McLean, Va., in November.
Windstream acquired Hosted Solutions in 2010.
- Jessica Seaman
State Index rises; all 16 stocks gain
The Arkansas Index, a price-weighted index that tracks the largest public companies based in the state, climbed 3.74 to 246.46 Monday.
“Following three straight declining sessions, the Dow Jones industrial average rose over 100 points following a proposal by House Speaker John Boehner to increase taxes for the first time during the latest debate over the federal budget,” said Bob Williams, senior vice president and managing director of Delta Trust Investments Inc. in Little Rock. “Arkansas stocks fully participated in the rally with all 16 stocks in the Arkansas index advancing.”
USA Truck gained 6.4 percent, followed by P.A.M.
Transportation Services, which rose 4.7 percent.
The index was developed by Bloomberg News and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette with a base value of 100 as of Dec. 30, 1997.
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