We had posted sometime back about a click tracking issue with unknown third party providers, that we were facing with OpenX.
We tried approaching different people, including OpenX forums, third party freelance sites, etc. A consistent answer we received was, if the third party advertiser does not support the extra parameter in their ad code, there [...]

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As many of you know, our ad server runs on OpenX.
Two interesting things happened yesterday:
1. We upgraded to the latest version of OpenX (2.8.3)
2. We also moved our adserver to a new server.
Right after these changes, the statistics stopped getting captured.

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Auro Infotech is happy to announce our New Year Special offer on Shared Hosting where you can get our 1GB package with free domain and MS SQL Server for just Rs.999/- a year.
Our standard 1GB package is now only Rs.999/- per year (19.95USD per year) as a part of the New Year offer until 15-Jan-2010. [...]

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As we come to the end of year 2009, on behalf of the team at Auro Infotech, I want to thank all our clients for providing us an opportunity to serve you.
We take this time to thank you with sincerity. Without each one of you, we would not be where we are today. We hope [...]

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As we move into 2010, we look forward to bringing in significant improvements in our development methodology, which will help us improve efficiency in the results we deliver to our clients.
The following are a list of some of these improvements:
1. Source Code Control using SVN: All these years we have struggled without a proper implementation [...]

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At Auro Infotech, we have a informal programme that has been going on for over three years now. Today we are giving it an official name:
Auro Shared Hosting Customer Loyalty Rewards Programme
Most of our shared hosting customers pay us on a yearly basis and we have customers with us for over five years now. As [...]

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Wordpress announced the release of version 2.9 which is code named CARMEN after the jazz vocalist Carmen McRae.
Besides the hundreds of code improvements they have made (a full list is available on the Wordpress website, the following are some of the key enhancements handled in Wordpress 2.9 Carmen release:
- Upgrade all plugins at once using [...]

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We are happy to announce the launch of News Plugin.
News Plugin is a site primarily targeting news about India and Indians anywhere in the world – through our Plugin set of sites.

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The team members of Auro Infotech Chennai office went on a one day trip to Padappai yesterday.
I heard it was a good trip which was interrupted by showers in the middle due to the monsoon season in Chennai.
Looking forward to a detailed writeup on the trip from one of the team members..stay tuned.

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We are happy to announce the launch of Search Plugin, a search tool that searches across various sites of interest for Indian audience.
The crawler is a light weight php based tool that is quite powerful to fetch the relevant content from the specified list of sites. The plan is to have highly relevant content returned [...]

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