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Rackspace Hosting Provider, Teams with Denim Group

2009-06-30T09:07:00-04:00

San Antonio, TX (Gawkwire.com) The Professional and Consulting Services Partner Agreement between the companies details that Denim Group will provide application security services for Rackspace and its clients.

John Engates, CTO of Rackspace Hosting remarked, ''For companies looking to migrate to Hosted and Cloud applications, Denim Group can help evaluate and recommend security strategies in this new business paradigmOur relationship with Denim Group, allows us to extend our consulting services to provide deeper offerings in the application security services market. Denim Group has a track record of proven delivery with Rackspace, and the fact that we're both located in San Antonio makes this relationship even more beneficial.''

As part of the relationship, Denim Group will conduct code reviews, deliver secure software development training, and evaluate software development strategies for Rackspace clients.

Dan Cornell, Prinicpal of Denim Group added, ''We are pleased to join forces with Rackspace in providing additional support in this area. Hosted and Cloud computing have certain risks, making security more important than ever. By teaming with Rackspace, customers can now have a more complete set of service options in order to secure their custom software.''

Denim Group develops secure software, helps organizations assess and mitigate risk with existing software, and provides training on best practices in software security. Denim Group has worked with a range of Fortune 500 companies and public sector organizations, bringing a focused software development approach to the world of software security. The Company provides clients with secure .NET and Java development services remediates serious software flaws in existing application portfolios. Denim Group also identifies vulnerabilities and quantifies risks that vulnerable applications represent through assessments, code reviews, and application-focused penetration testing. Training complements Denim Group's development and testing services by helping organizations build an internal competency in secure software development and testing through a combined classroom instruction and e-Learning approach.

Denim Group is a strong contributor to the larger application security community, and has been involved with the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) since shortly after its inception. Additionally, Denim Group was ranked 1101 in Inc. Magazine's 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America in 2008.
As a global leader and specialist in hosting, Rackspace Hosting is changing the way businesses worldwide buy IT. Rackspace delivers computing-as-a-service, integrating the industry's best technologies into a flexible service offering, making computing more reliable and affordable. A trusted partner to companies of all sizes, Rackspace enables IT departments to be more effective. Rackspace is distinguished by its award-winning Fanatical Support, furthering the company's mission to be one of the world's greatest service companies. Rackspace is recognized as one of FORTUNE Magazine's 100 Best companies to work for in the US, ranking number 43 on the list. Rackspace's portfolio of hosted IT services includes managed hosting, email hosting (www.mailtrust.com) and cloud hosting (www.mosso.com).
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click2try Hosts osCommerce Online Merchant in Open Source Catalog

2009-06-30T09:04:00-04:00

HOUSTON, TX (Gawkwire.com) click2try(TM) (http://www.click2try.com), a community site that makes it easy to try and use Open Source software, today announced it has posted osCommerce Online Merchant v2.2 into its Open Source software catalog site.

More than 14,000 online shopping sites use the popular osCommerce Online Merchant software (http://www.oscommerce.com/) to build their online storefronts and shopping carts. Online shoppers will interact with the osCommerce software whether purchasing apparel, games, jewelry, music, travel or travel accessories, or virtually any other item that can be sold over the Internet. The software is written mainly in PHP and runs on the MySQL database platform.

"Online merchants continue to drive a majority of business on the Internet," says Tom Callaghan, click2try VP of Technical Services. "Adding osCommerce to our catalog signals our commitment to provide access to the best and most popular Open Source applications."

osCommerce Online Merchant provides all of the tools necessary to build online catalogs and storefronts. The software offers a simple administrative interface that lets users easily add products, product descriptions, pricing, shipping, and payment options, among other features. osCommerce offers modules that integrate PayPal, 2Checkout, Authorize.net, ChronoPay, iPayment, and many other payment gateways.

Third-party developers continue to build add-ons to osCommerce, including shipping add-ons to accommodate a number of national postal services, FedEx, UPS, and other shippers. Add-ons also provide a variety of internationalization options, making osCommerce a powerful international online merchant solution.
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Top CEOs Still Ignoring Twitter and Facebook

2009-06-29T09:34:00-04:00

(WebHost Blog) 2 CEOs from Fortune magazine’s top 100 companies have Twitter accounts. 2! Only 19 have Facebook accounts and NONE have a personal blog. Pretty astounding figures really.

So why haven’t they started using social networking and why should they?

Well the obvious answer to the first part of this question is that they don’t see a need to. Business as usual is working just fine so why “waste” time on something that may or may not work or may not give a proper ROI for their energies?

The not so obvious answer would be how would you go about doing twitter or facebook? This is quite a serious question. Do you have multiple twitter accounts for business partners, customers, staff? What can you talk about, what can’t you talk about? If you make a channel that is exclusive how do you dictate who is allowed in or not? How can you make it compliant with various regulations, security and legal protocols?

I have often read articles where authors say, these guys need to catch up with the times, and CEOs who don’t use social networking are behind the times, but most authors fail to see how much effort, time, and even money would go into social networking when it comes to businesses of that scale. The bulk of CEOs who do use social networking are tech companies, startups, and SMBs. Startup companies can put social networking into their business culture instead of trying to fit it in. SMBs don’t have a bulky company policy to get in the way. And tech companies, well we are the industry that created this stuff, we better damn well be using it.

Should CEOs use social networks? I say yes, but with addendums. But that is an article for another time.

About David Dunlap
Over the past ten years David has been a prolific author of hundreds of blogs, commentaries and reviews found here on WebHostBlog.com, as well as WebHostMagazine.com and other sites around the Internet. David manages the daily operations at both WebHostBlog and Web Host Magazine & Buyer's Guide, and as the head editor, David uses his unique analytical skills to ensure that both sites maintain their integrity and tough, but fair minded, reputations. Prior to his active career analyzing the Web Host industry, David specialized in networking and communications for the U.S. government. David's expertise in traditional marketing and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) has helped boost companies both inside and outside of the Web Host industry.

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AvaHost Web Hosting Launches Virtual Private Server / VPS Hosting

2009-06-29T09:33:00-04:00

Houston, TX (Gawkwire.com) AvaHost has just launched VPS hosting, virtual private servers which offer a fantastic alternative to shared hosting, with pricing as low as $14.95 per month. This allows clients to enjoy the benefits of having control over hosting, right down to full root access.

AvaHost is a shared and reseller hosting service which has now expanded to offer a brand new product, VPS (Virtual Private Server) hosting. As many users are looking low cost alternatives to shared hosting, this new product offers four different levels of hosting to meet user's particular needs.

Users may choose from the four tiers which begin at 256MB of Mb to 1024 Mb. Guaranteed RAM will range from 128 MB to 512 MB. Offered disk space will begin at 10 GB going up to 40 GB and data transfer will start at 300 GB and go up to 1200 GB.

All four tiers offer users full SSH root access, unlimited domain, development tools, the ability to install your own software, free DNS hosting, dedicated IPs, the capability to have your own DSN servers, reload and reimage OS, boot, shutdown and reboot commands, and to install can compile custom software. This new product also offers custom MIME settings, website access statistics, support for .htaccess, Cron job support, sendmail support, customizable error pages and access to both raw logs and error logs.

The goal of AvaHost is to offer users an easy, low cost method to exceed the strict confines of shared hosting. One of the most engaging features of this new product is full root access, no matter which tier a user chooses. This allows for personal adjustments including the installation of custom software and network services. All VPS hosting accounts are hosted on Dual or Quad Xeon servers running the Linux operating system, which are well known for offering high performance and dependability.

Everyone who chooses Virtual Dedicated Servers (aka VPS) via AvaHost, will be given a webmaster's bonus package worth more than $1300.00. This includes templates, graphic package, banner templates and a large assortment of quality eBooks with full Resale Rights.

AvaHost has established themselves a strong contender in the web hosting industry, offering topnotch products and prides themselves on excellent customer service. With the launch of the new VPS product, AvaHost proudly states, "We devote ourselves to small to medium businesses and the personal user and with our the introduction of our new VPS we are proud to continue our commitment of offering the best technology at prices everyone can afford, in fact we offer a 60-day Money Back Guarantee so that every client can feel confident in choosing us."

You may visit http://www.avahost.net to see more details regarding AvaHost's VPS and read the details of each of the four VPS tiers.

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Ifbyphone Unveils Virtual Call Center Service

2009-06-29T09:31:00-04:00

CHICAGO, IL (Gawkwire.com) Ifbyphone today introduced Call Distributor, a service that enables small and mid-size businesses (SMBs) to create virtual call centers, complete with advanced automated call handling that enables customers to instantly route inbound calls to any phone, anywhere.

With the new Call Distributor service, SMBs pay only for the minutes consumed, avoid long-term agreements and will not incur any capital expense as the Ifbyphone service eliminates the need to purchase expensive new business telephone equipment and software.

Ifbyphone’s Call Distributor also provides call center operators an array of additional call routing options, including the ability to expand their workforce to tap into the growing home-based agent segment by sending inbound calls to any phone.

“The days of SMBs missing customer calls and losing business because they don’t have access to an expensive PBX or a call center, like Fortune 500 companies have, are over,” said Ifbyphone CEO Irv Shapiro. “With Call Distributor, any business can now have a flexible call center service option that provides advanced call handling capabilities with central management to workers anywhere, using any existing phone.”

Call Distributor also includes several capabilities beyond advanced call routing, including interactive voice response and call queuing, both of which save time, reduce costs and create efficiencies and have been designed into Call Distributor to help SMBs thrive in today’s economy. All Call Distributor capabilities are instantly available to anyone on any phone eliminating the need for agents to use phones physically connected to dedicated systems, or a specific type of phone such as a traditional landline, VoIP phone or software client-based endpoint such as a PC or smartphone.

Call Distributor includes the following capabilities:

• Agents are defined as available based on a schedule, a web interface or via a phone call from any phone;
• Complete queue size and wait time control;
• Support for customer-supplied audio prompts, queue messages and music on hold;
• Callers may choose to leave a queue at any time and are routed to voice mail or an IVR application according to a web-based configuration;
• A complete web-based agent dashboard with call notification which includes reverse lookups, integration with Salesforce.com and customer data options;
• A sophisticated, web-based management dashboard, which displays agent status, call statistics, calls in queue and supports the transmission of messages to agents.
Consistent with Ifbyphone’s innovative service and feature model, SMBs pay only for actual minutes used as opposed to the expensive, commonplace practices of charging per-agent or per-seat license and/or fees for agent idle time. The virtual approach is in stark contrast to traditional call centers which use expensive PBX/ACD or key telephone systems to distribute calls to onsite agents in a central facility.

“Whether they’re considered big regional companies with multiple locations, or the popular sandwich shop around the corner at lunchtime, businesses of all sizes need high-power, low-cost, web-based and configurable tools for optimally managing their call volume,” explained Shapiro. “This is an essential business function because lost calls mean lost revenue.”

Call Distributor is just one component of a family of advanced telephone applications which all work with any phone. These applications include: virtual phone numbers with advanced routing, Hosted IVR, Voice Broadcasting, Call Tracking, Find Me, Click-to-Call, Google Analytics® Integration and more. To see the complete family of Ifbyphone’s services, please visit http://www.ifbyphone.com. http://www.gawkwire.com/business/ifbyphone_unveils_virtual_call_center_service.html

Robert Velarde, SEO & Local Search Expert to Speak at FastTrac New Venture

2009-06-29T09:29:00-04:00

Charleston, SC (Gawkwire.com) TWIF Marketing, a full-service search engine marketing company, is proud to announce their SEO Expert, Robert Velarde, will be presenting a Local Search Case study at FastTrac New Venture course in Charleston, SC on July 7, 2009.

"There are certain local search strategies that have an impact, and some that do not work at all. My presentation is designed to help FastTrac students make smart decisions when it comes to putting together a local search strategy," says Robert.

TWIF Marketing SEO expert Robert Velarde will be one of the speakers at the Charleston, SC FastTrac New Venture course. Robert will be presenting a Local Search case study spotlighting the most effective strategies for improving local search.

http://www.gawkwire.com/seo_sem/robert_velarde_seo_local_search_expert_to_speak_at_fasttrac_new_.html

i/o Data Centers Opens its Phoenix ONE Data Center

2009-06-26T09:30:00-04:00

Phoenix, AZ (Gawkwire.com) i/o Data Centers, the premier provider of data center solutions, held a grand opening ceremony for its 538,000 square-foot Phoenix ONE Data Center facility today. The Phoenix data center, located in a recently-refurbished building, is the company's second Arizona-based data center and is the largest commercially-available data center in the United States.

"We are delighted to have our Phoenix ONE facility up and running and appreciate the warm welcome we have received from the city, our partners and our customers," said i/o Data Centers President and Founder Anthony Wanger. "Phoenix is an ideal location for a data center of this magnitude because of its abundant power supply, outstanding network access and lack of natural disasters."

"The City of Phoenix is pleased i/o Data Centers has chosen to locate its flagship data center facility here," said Mayor Gordon. "Not only will it attract new businesses to Phoenix, but it will also create high-wage, highly-skilled job opportunities for local residents. Phoenix is becoming a technology hub because of companies like i/o Data Centers."

"Not all data centers are created equal" is the corporate motto for i/o Data Centers and the Phoenix ONE facility proves just that. The 31-acre site contains the square footage of nine football fields. Size aside, Phoenix ONE was designed and built to be highly reliable and efficient. The facility incorporates a number of diverse and green data center systems to provide "always on" operations for its customers and reduce the facility's overall carbon footprint.

There were more than 200 workers involved in the build out of the Phoenix data center- everyone from electricians to steelworkers. "We feel good about being able to contribute to the health of the Phoenix economy and help solidify Arizona as a high-tech state," said Wanger.

i/o Data Centers has grown tremendously over the past year. In addition to bringing the Phoenix ONE facility online the company has added a number of operations, sales and marketing positions to further the company's expansion plans. "The team we have brought on board this year will help us take the company to the next-level," said George Slessman, i/o Data Centers' CEO. "We are pleased with the progress we have made over the past few years and look forward to continuing our success."

The Phoenix data center , although recently completed, is already home to a number of large corporate customers. "Because of the success we had with our Scottsdale ONE facility, we were able to pre-sell some space at this new facility," said Wanger. "There is a lot of interest in Phoenix ONE and we are excited with the prospects we have had so far."

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Job Search 2.0 Podcast - How Linkedin Can Fast-Track Your Career Transition

2009-06-26T09:29:00-04:00

(Gawkwire.com) Donna Sweidan, founder of Careerfolk, is an expert in Linkedin branding strategies, career assessment, executive-level job search, on-line identity, resumes, and professional coaching. In a new interview on the popular career podcast, Total Picture Radio, Sweidan reveals little known techniques unemployed executives are using to make Linkedin their primary marketing tool in the job hunt.

"With thousands of professional recruiters using Linkedin every day to source candidates for job openings, Linkedin has become an important resource for executives in career transition to promote their accomplishments," according to social networking expert and career coach Donna Sweidan, founder of Stamford, CT based Careerfolk. With unemployment roles continuing to swell, Sweidan has begun offering a series of webinars to help professionals employ the rich trove of networking tools and opportunities Linkedin offers. "Linkedin continues to grow in importance, and now is an essential element in any job search campaign."

High-level strategies for employing Linkdedin, and other popular social networks, such as Twitter and Facebook, is the focus of the new 25 minute podcast interview with Peter Clayton, producer/host of Total Picture Radio. Clayton found Ms. Sweidan through Linkedin Groups. Impressed with the advice she was providing through her group, appropriately enough called Careerfolk, he invited the credentialed career coach to discuss her strategies on his career management podcast.

Employment trends, the Internet, and the highly competitive job market have fundamentally changed how everyone must approach a job search today. Those who’ve been downsized from the automotive, financial services, and real estate sectors are forced to look for opportunities in unfamiliar territory. Sweidan had this to say in the interview: "The rules have definitely changed, and I think that makes it so much harder – it's a whole new job search process that people have to learn and it definitely is a skill... even resumes have changed dramatically. I had a CEO in my office... whose resume still said 'objective' at the top. Objectives are very old school," according to Sweidan. "Employers and hiring managers don't really care what you're looking for; they want to see what you've got to offer... and how you might make a difference. While seemingly small, job search mistakes like this can be costly, particularly in a market as competitive as today's- it's so important to seek out professional help to understand what is truly expected of you."

Sweidan offers several very specific suggestions for using Linkedin. "For example, there are two sections ... the Answer section and Linkedin Groups... Those are two places that job seekers can just spend a little bit of time, look at the activity and the discussions that are going on; take part in the discussions, or post a question (in Linkedin Answers), allowing one to engage with other people in their industry or field and... build new connections... this small effort can be of tremendous value." According to Sweidan, "these strategies are very effective in finding, and allowing you to connect with people you don't know, who are outside your first level Linkedin network."

"I think networking today is not just about receiving, but it's very much about giving. It's very much about participating and helping others, answering questions – if you know the answer to something, share that information to help others because it can only come back to you in a positive way," she advises.

Sweidan uses recent industry statistics to make her case: "There are over 40 million professionals on Linkedin. According to a new ExecuNet survey, 86% of recruiters say their firms use Internet search engines to uncover information about potential candidates... that's why," Sweidan says, "having a well written, 100% completed Linkedin profile is so important. It will always appear on the first page of a Google name search, and if you're using Linkedin to your advantage, that's what you want those recruiters, HR execs, and hiring managers to find." 100% completed Linkedin profile is key to search engine results, she emphasizes.

A significant way Sweidan is helping clients is through a series of 2-hour webinars on how to use Linkedin as part of their career strategy. "I present a very holistic view of the relevance and value of LinkedIn, which I think is where many get stuck- many job seekers have a hard time getting their head around what is involved and how to use it effectively," she tells Clayton. "I build in the whole notion of personal branding and why that is important. That's a critical piece of the new job search today – understanding that you must market yourself. Linkedin really is a vessel for doing that."

Donna Sweidan's is generously offering Clayton's listeners a free 15 minute critique of their Linkedin profile. Send an email to info (at) careerfolk (dot) com with "Total Picture Radio offer" in the subject line. Be sure to include your contact information in the body of the email. Ms. Sweidan's office will contact you to arrange a personal phone call.

Sweidan’s podcast on Total Picture Radio can be found in the Career Transition channel, and includes a full transcript of the interview.

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eUKhost.com announced the availability of DotNetPanel

2009-06-26T09:39:00-04:00

(Gawkwire.com) eUKhost.com, a UK based web-hosting provider, recently announced the availability of DotNetPanel control panel on their existing Windows Shared Hosting and Windows Reseller Hosting plans.

The company states that DotNetPanel is a feature-rich solution for simplifying Windows hosting management operations. The on-demand control panel manages multiple servers, is scalable, uses the most advanced security technologies and is very simple in use.

It further adds that DotNetPanel offers notable features - Advanced File Manager, ability to manage websites and virtual directories, database backup/restore utility for end-users of DotNetPanel and Simple Resource Navigation, "Work on behalf of" Mode, Access to Audit Logs for Reseller accounts. According to the company, the DotNetPanel will also allow customers to run SmarterMail Mail Server, SmarterMail that provides them with a Webmail interface complementary to the DotNetPanel.

The company avers that it offers a 30 day money back guarantee on all of these Windows Shared and Reseller Packages, giving clients the opportunity to experience this simple to use control panel.

Ryan Watson, Business Development Manager at eUKhost, states ''We remain committed to the continual development of our services in line with the needs of our customers. Besides, our reliable staff will provide full support for the control panel to our customers and continue our commitment of providing the best support services.''

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AboveNet Provides Resilient High Capacity Services to Baltimore Data Center

2009-06-26T09:28:00-04:00

New York, NY (Gawkwire.com) AboveNet, Inc., (NYSE: ABVT) a leading provider of high bandwidth connectivity solutions, today announced its service expansion into Baltimore Technology Park's (BTP) data center. This capability is part of AboveNet's continuing investment in connectivity to premier in-market data center providers.

As Jim Weller President of BTP said "As the premier data center in Baltimore we are extremely pleased to have AboveNet as an on-net fiber provider at our facility. This helps us offer customers key data center capabilities, along with best of breed network partners, which combine to provide regional customers an unrivaled IT infrastructure platform."

MaryBeth Nance, AboveNet Executive Director Business Development & Marketing said, "AboveNet's suite of services will appeal to BTP data center clients who require reliable, high capacity network services that compliment the hardened, mission critical infrastructure of protected power, cooling, and security that BTP has established for vital IT applications."

Jim Weller of BTP added, "AboveNet has proven to be a leader in providing fiber optic connectivity to support high capacity data center solutions. As a valuable addition to our services ecosystem AboveNet can help us deliver measurable connectivity benefits to our customers."

With the addition of AboveNet to its already robust carrier mix, BTP has become one of the most fiber-optic connected buildings in Baltimore, offering customers an optimal location to meet their secure infrastructure and high capacity network needs.

To learn more go to www.above.net

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Webhosting.uk.com launches Hyper-V Windows 2008 VPS Hosting

2009-06-26T09:36:00-04:00

(Gawkwire.com) The company states that Hyper-V represents the next era of virtualization, allowing them and their customers to get the most out of their sever investments and usage. Another aspect of Hyper-V virtualization which sets it apart from other virtualization platforms is the ability to run a number of different operating systems in parallel on a single physical server.

The new VPS servers are hosted on the most powerful Dual Quad Core server with 12-16 GB RAM and RAID arrays for redundant data protection and replication. The entry-level Hyper-V Starter plan includes 15 GB of data storage, 300 GB of monthly data transfer, and access to 512 MB of server RAM while Plesk control panel is optional. When combined with the company’s managed services, 24/7 support and reputation for experience and reliability, the new VPS offering positions Webhosting.uk.com VPS plans as the industry’s leading virtual server solutions.

"With the addition of Hyper-V Windows 2008 VPS to our existing portfolio, we are glad to offer our customers a user friendly and reliable virtualization platform for hosting their Web applications and services" states James Anderson, Business Development Manager of WEBHOSTING UK COM LTD. He adds further "With Hyper-V VPS hosting plans, customers are going to have the same level of control as on a dedicated server, but they will be paying significantly lower prices."

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mail2web.com Gets a Big Makeover: Re-launches Web site and Services

2009-06-25T09:34:00-04:00

Toronto (Gawkwire.com) SoftCom Inc. overhauls one of its largest brands, mail2web.com, a destination for millions of Webmail users and a leading provider of email hosting services to customers worldwide. The company is re-launching the popular brand today with a new focus on mobile email and the mail2web.com community.

"We want it to be more than a just a Web site about our email hosting services," said Celal Ulgen, chief marketing officer of SoftCom. "We want to embrace the mail2web.com community and bring it together. It’s a place where people can come and ask questions on forums, comment on blogs, and discuss their ideas. The new site is very community-centric now."

mail2web.com offers email hosting services that target smart phone owners with its Mobile Email service . With the re-launch, there is a bigger focus on Activesync based push email, Blackberry email and iPhone email for the casual crowd. The unveiling of the new Web site launch coincides with the launch of mail2web.com Community Portal featuring a new forum, blog and ideas Web sites.

"It is a very consumer-centric product," Ulgen said, referring to the Mobile email solution. "With our email hosting solutions, we bring Mobile Email and a host of features to every smart phone user from CEO’s to students at an affordable price and in a very simplified fashion."

Some of those features include:

- Real-time push email delivery to smart phones
- Sync email, contacts and calendars
- Consolidate multiple email addresses into one mail2web Mobile Email account
- Synchronized email on Outlook or Entourage Desktop email clients
- Browser based access to email, contacts and calendar via Outlook Web Access (OWA)

The company recently hired Mark Salerno as the head of technology to help scale the email and Web hosting services infrastructure and to continue innovating, as the mobile communication services market evolves.

"Mark is a perfect fit for that role," said Turker Sokullu, CEO of SoftCom. "He’s an industry veteran with more than 10 years of experience in the Web hosting space. He brings a wealth of subject matter expertise as well as years of executive management experience to our company. We are lucky to have him on board."
With this re-launch, mail2web.com will now offer a wider selection of mobile email services, combined with improved Web site functionality and overall customer experience.

"Providing email and Web hosting services is our passion," said Turker Sokullu, CEO of SoftCom. "With the redesigned Web site and the new streamlined service options, our customers will continue to benefit from affordable and reliable email hosting services. This new launch demonstrates our commitment to providing innovative email hosting choices for our worldwide base of customers."

http://www.gawkwire.com/business/mail2web_com_gets_a_big_makeover_re-launches_web_site_and_servic.html

Merchant Data Systems Selects PCI Compliance Provider ControlScan

2009-06-25T09:32:00-04:00

Miami Beach, FL and Atlanta, GA (Gawkwire.com) Merchant Data Systems (merchantdatasystems.com), a full service payment processing company, has joined forces with ControlScan (controlscan.com), a leading provider of Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance and security solutions exclusively focused on small- to medium-sized merchants, to help its merchants meet mandatory requirements set forth by the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC).

"To demonstrate our commitment to cardholder data security, Merchant Data Systems has partnered with ControlScan to help our merchants validate compliance with the PCI Data Security Standards (PCI DSS)," said Drew Freeman, president, Merchant Data Systems. "We are very impressed with how ControlScan's proactive outreach programs help educate and engage merchants through the complex PCI compliance process. The ControlScan tools are easy-to-use tools and their support team holds the merchant's hands throughout assuring that they will achieve and maintain a high security posture. It is critically important that our ISO Partners know their provider is ensuring their merchants' full compliance and ControlScan enables this confidence."

Merchant Data Systems merchants will now have access to ControlScan's PCI 1-2-3 compliance solution, available online via a Web-based merchant portal called myControlScan.com, which provides merchants with the leading tools and support necessary to analyze, remediate and validate PCI compliance, including:

PCI 1-2-3 Self Assessment Questionnaire
PCI 1-2-3 Vulnerability Scanning
PCI 1-2-3 Security Policy Builder
PCI 1-2-3 Security Awareness Training
Personal Touch Support

"We are excited to be working with Merchant Data Systems in this partnership." said Joan Herbig, chief executive officer, ControlScan. "Merchant Data Systems' commitment to providing its merchants with best-in-class solutions like ControlScan's PCI 1-2-3 suite will reduce their risk exposure from merchant card breaches and help their business grow, as they are providing a service-based approach to assist merchants."

For more information about this partnership, please call 1-800-825-3301.

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Smart Traffic Recognized as One of the Best Organic Optimization Firms

2009-06-25T09:31:00-04:00

Plymouth, IN (Gawkwire.com) After a long review, the independent authority in search, uk.topseos.com has completed the list of the top search engine optimization companies in the United Kingdom for the month of June. Smart Traffic, one of the best companies, was recognized for the exemplary service it provides to their UK clients. Smart Traffic is the 5th best UK firm in June after topping hundreds of other companies vying for rankings.

Smart Traffic focuses on the SEO services and they provide exemplary services to companies of all sizes, from small to medium enterprises to blue chip companies. They differentiate themselves by providing a uniquely superior service at a reasonable cost. Andy Birt, the managing director of Smart Traffic explains, "We have developed a method of building the most effective, ethical links available anywhere on the internet." Mr. Birt explains their process further, saying, "It involves working closely with webmasters of our selected link partners to promote and optimize their websites to drive higher rankings and greater traffic levels."

Smart Traffic has continually maintained high quality organic optimization services which have set their firm apart. Add that to the fact that they offer this high quality at such a low cost that even competitors make use of their services. Clients also like the fact that the progress of their campaigns are easy to track. Mr. Brit explains, "If we say we will deliver 50 theme content based links by the end of the month - then we deliver that report on time with every link detailed. We do not believe in just working on a retainer."

After celebrating the top page ranking of their 1000th client, their drive is to supply core products to other SEO companies at wholesale prices and providing clients with tangible optimization for a reasonable price. That is why they have won the loyalty of their clients which includes Toshiba, The Premier League, Days Hotel, Betfair, usbfactory, and rtherapy.

View the complete list of the best SEO companies in UK for June at: http://uk.topseos.com/rankings

To learn more about the services of Smart Traffic, visit: http://uk.topseos.com/smart-traffic-ltd

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Host Color Added VPS Hosting Tutorials To Its New Help Center

2009-06-25T09:30:00-04:00

(Gawkwire.com) Host Color has opened its new Web Hosting Tutorials ( http://www.hostcolor.com/tutorials ) section in order to help its customers easy to learn new technologies, websites management tools and software, the company uses to power its IT Hosting services.

The first series in the new Tutorials Center are video guides that explain to VPS owners how to use Parallels software Virtuozzo Power Panel and Plesk 9. Virtuozzo Power Panel series include 16 demo videos including "Becoming familiar with Power Panel", "How to configure your Power Panel interface?", "How to start/stop/reboot your VPS?", "How to use File Manager?", "How to backup and restore your VPS?", and etc.

The second series of video tutorials help Host Color's customers to take control of the Plesk 9, the latest version of the popular web hosting control panel.

The third series is aimed for beginners and features 12 video tutorials that explain newbie website owners how to set up and configure their
POP3 email (SMTP) accounts.

The web hosting provider has told web hosting media that it is working to create one of the most comprehensive web hosting help centers in the industry to better serve new VPS Hosting owners. "We know that there are many web entrepreneurs who heed to move from shared hosting to virtual private servers, but at the same time don't feel prepared to manage their VPS hosting accounts. Our Help Center provides them with step-by-step guides and helps them to understand new software technologies", said Alexander Avramov, Managing Director of Host Color LLC.

He has also said that Host Color has recently released a coupon code - S2009FMVPS. It discounts VPS management service and allows VPS owners to get Fully Managed Virtual Private Server by paying only $24.95 per month.

The hosting provider has also extended the expiration date of its "VPS2009" VPS hosting coupon until June 30, 2009. The coupon code gives
1 free month of VPS hosting service to anyone who signs up with any of the provider's virtual private servers.

The company kicked off another very nice instant rebate on all VPS Hosting ( http://www.hostcolor.com/vps ) plans. It gives Macintosh users 15% off the monthly price of VPS Start, VPS Advance , VPS Power and VPS Custom virtual private servers. This means that the entry level VPS Start now costs only $17.34/month. According to Host Color this is probably the web hosting industry's lowest price of a Quality VPS hosting service, powered by Virtuozzo Power Panel (VZPP), the world's leading OS virtualization solution, produced by Parallels. MAc users can use the coupon code - MACISBETTER.

Host Color has recently made a significant change in its Shared Hosting ( http://www.hostcolor.com/webhosting ) service policy. It has introduced "unlimited data transfer" for its premier web hosting plans.
The step has been made to help the provider to respond to the overselling trend in the shared hosting market.

Host Color LLC is a U.S. web hosting provider incorporated in Delaware.
It powers thousands of business and personal websites in data centers in South Bend, Indiana, U.S. and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The company also provides fully Managed dedicated hosting through HC Servers and European hosting services through HC Europe. It offers discounts to academics and non-governmental organizations. The Host Color's corporate message is "Web hosting about people, not about gigabytes."

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HP Blends Functionality, Durability and Style with New HP Mini PC

2009-06-24T14:00:00-04:00

PALO ALTO, CA (Gawkwire.com) HP (NYSE:HPQ) today unveiled its top-of-the-line Mini PC for on-the-go professionals who demand a stylish, yet durable fully functional companion PC. The HP Mini 5101 features a sturdy, lightweight anodized aluminum display enclosure with a black, brushed finish. Complementing the aluminum is the use of magnesium alloy in the lower case of the Mini frame. Soft-touch paint on the base and palm rest further advance the PC’s look and feel. This combination of materials, an industry first in the netbook category, not only delivers an eye-catching design, but also improves durability.

Furthering the stylish look of the HP Mini 5101 is a newly designed, spill-resistant keyboard that is 95 percent of a full-size QWERTY keyboard. It features a visually open and spacious keyboard design with keys raised from the surface. HP DuraKeys, a clear coating over the keys, makes the keyboard 50 times more resistant to visible wear than keyboards without it.(1) In addition, the mouse buttons are located in the traditional space below the touchpad, making for a familiar user experience.

“HP Mini PCs have no equal when it comes to industrial design, use of innovative materials and overall feature sets,” said Ted Clark, senior vice president and general manager, Notebook Global Business Unit, Personal Systems Group, HP. “The HP Mini 5101 is truly a work of art, a sophisticated companion PC crafted for the trend-savvy mobile professional who needs functionally, durability and style.”

Starting at 2.6 pounds,(2) the fully functional and durable HP Mini 5101 is an ideal companion PC for the on-the-go professional. It features a large 10.1-inch diagonal LED display available in either WSVGA or high-definition (HD)(3) resolutions. Customers can also choose either the four-cell battery for lighter weight or six-cell battery for longer battery life. When configured with the optional six-cell battery, the HP Mini 5101 delivers up to eight hours of battery runtime.(4)

Mobile professionals can stay ultra-productive with the HP Mini 5101 PC’s small, low-power Intel® Atom processor, which enables the unit to run cooler, use less power and improve battery life. A fast-performing 7,200 RPM hard drive comes standard with the unit. Alternatively, an optional Solid State Drive (SSD) is available in either 80 or 128 gigabytes.

An optional, integrated Gobi-powered HP Mobile Broadband module allows users to conveniently access the Internet, corporate intranet, email and other critical information around the world.(5) Other wireless technologies include integrated Wi-Fi Certified WLAN(6) and optional Bluetooth® 2.0. An integrated 2-megapixel webcam allows for easy still-image capture, web-conferencing or video-enhanced instant messaging(7) with no additional hardware.

HP QuickSync software, planned to be available as a web download in September, allows quick synchronization of the HP Mini with notebooks or desktops so users can avoid maintaining multiple documents, media files and email. Information also can sync to portable storage devices.

The versatility of the HP Mini 5101 can change how students learn and is the practical answer to providing each student continuous access to a PC in one-to-one computing. Its suite of wireless, (6) multimedia and security capabilities allows students to learn wherever they have Wi-Fi access – from the classroom, to the library, to their homes.

The HP Mini 5101 is built to last, featuring HP 3D DriveGuard, which offers a three-axis digital accelerometer chip that sends a signal to shut down the hard drive upon sudden movement or shock. The HP Panel Protection System includes a scratch-resistant acrylic LCD cover and magnesium hinge bracket for added durability in demanding environments.

The HP Mini 5101 has been engineered for reduced impact on the environment by eliminating or reducing substances of concern, using fewer resources and reducing energy consumption. Configurations of the HP Mini 5101 are ENERGY STAR qualified and are identified as HP Mini 5101 ENERGY STAR on HP websites and on www.energystar.gov. In addition the Mini 5101 is EPEAT Gold registered in the United States.(7)

New accessories designed for use with the HP Mini include a USB 2.0 port replicator that adds a variety of audio, networking and USB ports to allow greater productivity. A lightweight, functional messenger bag designed specifically for the HP Mini or a neoprene slip case offer added protection for professionals while on the go. Other accessories available for the HP Mini include a USB 2.0 docking station, external optical drive and USB-powered external speakers.

More information on HP Mini 5101 product specifications, images and other HP mobility solutions is available in an online press kit at www.hp.com/personal.

Pricing and availability
The HP Mini 5101 starts at $449(8) and is expected to be available in late July.

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Coming This Fall: Executive's Guide to Cloud Computing

2009-06-24T14:00:00-04:00

St. Louis, MZ (Gawkwire.com) Technology industry veterans Bob Lozano and Eric Marks today announced they are co-authoring the "Executive's Guide to Cloud Computing," to be published by Wiley and available in Fall 2009.

The book, due to hit store shelves in November, will give members of the C-suite a detailed look at:

- Why cloud computing must be a top priority on their companies' IT roadmaps;
- How the drive for scale, lower costs and greater agility is making cloud computing a fiscal and technological imperative;
- The relationship between cloud computing, SOA, web services, and other relevant IT initiatives;
- The strategic implications of cloud computing on the enterprise;
- Where to begin and how to get started integrating cloud computing into their existing operations.

Lozano is the founder and chief strategist at Appistry, a pioneer in cloud computing for the enterprise, and a popular speaker on cloud computing and related topics. An experienced entrepreneur with a history of building successful companies, Lozano previously served as the company's President and Chief Executive Officer, providing direction for the company as it developed its foundational technology, secured initial patent protection, broadened its management team, and recruited its early customers.

"For all the excitement in the industry around cloud computing, there's surprisingly little information available from the perspective of the enterprise executive," said Lozano. "And with the enterprise emerging as the next battleground for the cloud, Eric and I knew it would be important to provide a resource for tackling the issues and concerns specific to the enterprise."

Marks is president and CEO of AgilePath, an innovative information technology (IT)
professional services firm focused on solving CIO/CTO management, technology and operational challenges, as well as facilitating DoD and Commercial adoption of emerging technologies such as Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Cloud Computing.

Marks is the author of three industry-recognized SOA books including, "SOA Governance for the Services-Driven Enterprise" (2008), "Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA): Planning and Implementation Guide for Business and Technology," (2006), and "Executive's Guide to Web Services" (2003). Mr. Marks also wrote "Business Darwinism - Evolve or Dissolve," (Wiley, 2002), and he also edited and contributed to "Manufacturing Leadership through the Extended Enterprise" (2000). He also contributed to "Coherency Management: Architecting the Enterprise for Alignment, Agility, and Assurance" (publication TBD).

"We think executives will find value in a guide that tells them what they need to know about the technologies behind cloud computing and, more importantly, how those technologies apply to their business," said Marks.

For more information, register to receive e-mail updates and join the discussion at http://www.execsguidetocloud.com

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Dahlia Web Designs Re-Launches www.RecommendedReferrals.com

2009-06-24T14:00:00-04:00

(Gawkwire.com) Recommended Referrals has been re-launched with a new focus as a directory of small businesses offering children's products and services. It is a partnering service of Great Kids Corner, the online store for kids furniture, where ‘themes come alive for kids’.

Businesses recommend themselves by submitting their URL to the site. Recommendations can also be submitted by customers. The website includes online stores, services for kids and informational resources from the U.S. and around the world. “We want to give small businesses the opportunity to enhance their internet visibility and give parents additional resources to help them with children's products and services,” says Dahlia Benaroya, President, Dahlia Web Designs LLC. Viewers of Recommended Referrals must assess the appropriateness of the products and services for themselves.

Online stores include the categories of activities & gear such as strollers, books, clothing & accessories, collectibles such as the newly launched Collectibles 4 Baseball, educational toys, food & nutrition, furniture & décor, health, and musical. Many products such as the clothes are handmade. Children love to bond with beautiful themes hand painted on kids furniture. The products give children much joy. The information helps parents in their purchases.

Services include amber alert support, camp and party activities, training opportunities, medical and dental referrals, website design and illustration services. Resources include services that provide directories of information, product reviews and additional information to help parents make safe choice.

“We are also very excited about showcasing the member businesses that are helping worthy causes,” states Dahlia. “Hopefully, by showcasing these initiatives, more people will find a way to contribute their assistance to these efforts." This new section, ‘Contributing to Special Causes’ on Recommended Referrals, is currently being prepared. It will highlight how businesses are making a difference and about the causes they are supporting. Several of the members donate portions of their proceeds to charity and are tirelessly developing systems and connections to bring people together to help causes such as children’s hospices, reading programs, and others.

Spotlighting a Recommended Referrals member:

Laura Sherman, founder of Your Chess Coach in Clearwater Florida, is on a mission to get children to play chess at home and in schools, on the beach and in the park, anywhere a chess board can fit! She and her husband teach over 50 children in six schools, and more online. Laura believes that chess helps children in so many ways. Children learn self-confidence, gain patience and an ability to concentrate, learn excellent problem solving skills and so much more. She started teaching her son when he was 4 years old and her daughter when she just turned 2. Laura is currently creating e-courses and books to teach educators and parents how to teach very young children the ancient game of Kings and Queens. Laura joined Recommended Referrals in order to connect with more parents and help them teach their children how to play chess.

Laura won Great Kids Corner's recent contest by submitting a video of her 5 year old teaching her 2 year old chess. The video is posted on Kids Love To ® Play Chess for viewers to be amazed.

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Hospital confirms Steve Jobs' liver transplant

2009-06-24T09:31:00-04:00

(cnet) Jobs, who returned to work at Apple's campus on Monday after a six-month medical leave, "received a liver transplant because he was the patient with the highest MELD score (model for end-stage liver disease) of his blood type and, therefore, the sickest patient on the waiting list at the time a donor organ became available," according to a statement by Dr. James D. Eason, the program director of the Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute in Memphis. ...Go to source http://www.gawkwire.com/business/hospital_confirms_steve_jobs_liver_transplant.html

Interxion increases credit facilities to Euro 180 Million

2009-06-24T09:29:00-04:00

(Gawkwire.com) The subordinated credit facility was arranged with Fortis Bank (Nederland) N.V., Coöperatieve Rabobank Regio Schiphol U.A. and ING Corporate Investments Mezzanine Fonds B.V., with Fortis Bank (Nederland) B.V. acting as agent. The new credit facility announcement follows on from the recent announcement by Interxion of the company’s full-year results for 2008, which showed year-on-year revenue growth of 38% to Euro 138.2 million and Adjusted EBITDA margins of 34.9%.

“This new credit facility is a yet another vote of confidence in the past performance and future prospects of the company. Interxion will continue to maintain its focus on customer-led, profitable growth across Europe in 2009 and beyond,” said Josh Joshi, Interxion CFO. http://www.gawkwire.com/business/interxion_increases_credit_facilities_to_euro_180_million.html

JaguarPC Offers Professional Web Site Builder to Hosting Customers Free of Charge

2009-06-24T09:28:00-04:00

HOUSTON, TX (Gawkwire.com) JaguarPC, an industry-leading provider of end-to-end web hosting services, today announced that the web site building software tool RVSiteBuilder Pro will be available with all shared and reseller hosting packages.

RVSiteBuilder Pro is a hosted web site building software application that features an intuitive WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) user interface and a large library of ready-made templates that allow users to create a professional looking web site in literally minutes. A wide selection of themes allow users to create a web site for almost any purpose, whether it be a blog, photo gallery or a web presence for a small business.

RVSiteBuilder Pro enables users to build much more than plain vanilla web sites. Several new features can be conveniently integrated into a web site through a point and click interface, including photos albums, hit counters, guest books, blogs and FAQ guides. There is also a supply of free media such as commonly used banners, buttons and icons, along with a library of images.

“JaguarPC is always looking for a way to add value to our hosting offerings,” stated Greg Landis, CEO of JaguarPC. “RVSiteBuilder Pro is an easy-to-use software application that anybody without technical experience can use to build an attractive, professional looking web site. This is the essence of value and we are providing it free to our shared and reseller hosting customers. It is further proof that JaguarPC is committed to enabling customers to realize their full potential on the Internet.”

RVSiteBuilder Pro recently released an updated version of its software (version 3.0), adding an updated navigation system, a new blogging application, database capabilities and improvements to the Ajax-enabled user interface. A total of 16 new templates have been added to the library in this newest release. RVSiteBuilder Pro has a library of 646 templates.

For more advanced users, there is an online Flash editor and users can also download templates, customize them and then re-upload them for future use.

RVSiteBuilder Pro supports all major web browsers and operating systems. It is available in multiple languages, allowing customers around the world to build a web site in the language they are most comfortable with. Languages supported include English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian-Portuguese, Finnish, Norwegian, Turkish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian and Slovak. http://www.gawkwire.com/web_hosting/jaguarpc_offers_professional_web_site_builder_to_hosting_custome.html

Wikimedia Selects Green Data Center EvoSwitch as Internet HUB for Europe

2009-06-24T09:27:00-04:00

Amsterdam and San Francisco, CA (Gawkwire.com) The Wikimedia Foundation manages eight distinct, open, wiki based free knowledge projects, including the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia.
Wikipedia is consistently ranked one of the top five most visited websites in the world by comScore MediaMetrix, serving billions of page views every month. All of Wikimedia’s projects are hosted on a central data infrastructure based in Florida, USA. The complementary part of the infrastructure is now based in Amsterdam at the EvoSwitch data center.

'Hosting Europe'
“We're very pleased with EvoSwitch's professional and well secured data center environment, which includes a highly cost-efficient infrastructure in a location that is of great strategic importance to us,” explains Brion Vibber, Chief Technology Officer for the Foundation. “We are using the Amsterdam site for caching in particular, aiming to reduce the response time of our project websites in Europe. EvoSwitch will also be a good location for backing up content that is stored at our Florida data center. We will also be relocating European free knowledge projects to EvoSwitch, such as Toolserver.org – a project of the German Wikimedia chapter.”

Vibber considers the environmentally friendly nature of EvoSwitch another advantage. “As operators of one of the most heavily accessed web property on the web, we are aware of the impact that the Internet
and its energy consumption have on the environment,” explains Vibber.
“EvoSwitch’s energy-saving measures, combined with their use of green energy and CO2 compensation are very attractive to us.”

'Amsterdam Hosting'
The Wikimedia Foundation's hosting infrastructure in Florida encompasses over 300 servers. The Foundation will install about 50 servers at the EvoSwitch site in Amsterdam.

According to Vibber, “the Amsterdam servers both retrieve the content from the servers in Florida, as well as store it. Web pages can then be displayed to Internet users directly from Amsterdam, which improves
the speed and accessibility of the web pages in Europe significantly.
I expect that we will further increase our capacity at EvoSwitch in the near future due to the required storage capacity and new European publishing projects.”

'Open Internet'
The Wikimedia Foundation is a nonprofit organization with idealistic
objectives that are in line with EvoSwitch’s corporate objectives.
“We are strong supporters of Wikimedia and their Wikipedia free knowledge project in particular,” confirms Eric Boonstra, EvoSwitch’s Commercial Director. “The Foundation's operations coincide with the objectives of our own organization, to keep the Internet 'open' and stimulate freedom of expression and the transmission of knowledge via the Internet. This partnership is all the more special to us because of Wikimedia’s faith in EvoSwitch.”

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rackAID Selected to Provide Managed Hosting Services for Plurk Layouts

2009-06-24T09:25:00-04:00

Jaclsonville, FL (Gawkwire.com) rackAID, a managed service provider, today announced that Plurk Layouts has selected rackAID's managed hosting services to power
plurklayouts.com

Offering customized layouts for the social networking site Plurk, Plurk Layouts turned to rackAID for solutions to the downtime and poor support that had plagued the company's site. Working with Plurk Layouts owner Olivia Bell, rackAID helped the company optimize content delivery and build a foundation for continued expansion.

"rackAID helped us migrate from another hosting provider who continually failed to address our needs", said Bell. "Our site had constant reliability and performance issues. Since moving to rackAID, I don't worry about hosting issues or any issues at all. I can focus on my job and let them do theirs. I recommend them to anyone wanting a trustworthy IT partner."

rackAID assists small business owners in making informed decisions about their IT operations and works closely with each client to identify a best-fit solution. The company's broad range of services gives its clients the benefit of working with a single provider, delivering services ranging from planning to implementation to server management

According to rackAID CEO Jeff Huckaby, "Our group is excited to work with an entrepreneurial and talented designer such as Olivia Bell. We understand that, like many start-ups, Plurk Layouts needs to control costs while gaining access to a scalable IT environment. rackAID's partnership with Plurk Layouts is a perfect example of how we work with our small business clients to align their IT needs with their business concerns."

For more information on rackAID's services, contact Jeff Huckaby or visit www.rackaid.com.

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Online Storage & Online Backup Leader MyOtherDrive Launches Affiliate Program

2009-06-24T09:24:00-04:00

(Gawkwire.com) While online backup has become a necessity for many organizations, a hidden cost many online storage companies don't advertise is that they charge per computer. That is why MyOtherDrive has introduced an affiliate program that is based on their cost-effective flat-rate pricing structure for truly unlimited storage.

The new affiliate program is just the latest decision by MyOtherDrive based on saving or earning the customer money in these tough economic times. Qualified affiliates will receive a perpetual percentage of each sale, which can lead to an additional consistent revenue source.

MyOtherDrive has become a leader in business and multi-computer online backup, in part because of their flat-rate fees. Suppose an organization has 10 computers they would like to backup. A common price point for an online backup subscription is $5 per month. With services that tie a subscription to a single computer, backing up those 10 computers is $50 per month, or $600 per year.

With MyOtherDrive's "multi-use" subscription pricing, the price is still $5 per month or $60 per year. That is a 10 to 1 difference in price. For $5, MyOtherDrive subscribers receive 100GB. If they need more space, a larger subscription can be purchased. In fact, 500GB can be obtained for only $10 per month. MyOtherDrive has online storage plans that go on up to 10TB (Terabytes).

MyOtherDrive offers online storage and collaboration services, which includes encryption and scheduled, automatic online backup. Users can share files publicly or create groups and share files exclusively with them. To learn more about the affiliate program or for more information about MyOtherDrive's services, visit www.MyOtherDrive.com.

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Value Reseller Private Label Web Host Acquires Javascript Zoom

2009-06-23T14:00:00-04:00

FLEMINGTON, NJ (Gawkwire.com) Value Reseller, an industry leading provider of private label reseller web hosting services, today announced the acquisition of Javascript Zoom, a Javascript application that enables users to zoom in and focus closely on web site objects.

Javascript Zoom is ideal for zooming in on products and image galleries displayed on e-commerce sites and sophisticated web sites. Users simply move their cursor and a virtual lens appears and magnifies the object. Right-clicking opens an options menu that allows the user to adjust the lens size or increase the resolution. There are also advanced settings that provide viewing lenses of varying sizes and shapes.

Value Reseller has acquired ownership of the application and will license it to all reseller partners free of charge. Resellers have the choice of monetizing the script or offering it free to customers as an add-on service. The application has the benefit of being a strong differentiator and demonstrates the reseller's ability to deliver extra value to the customer. Javascript Zoom is ideal for reseller hosting providers serving developers and web designers - a demographic that is always on the look out for innovate new tools and features. Value Reseller is owned by Realware, a Managed Service, Application Service and Security Provider.

"We are extremely excited about bringing this technology in-house. Value

Reseller is deeply committed to serving its reseller partners in every way possible and we acquired Javascript Zoom with that objective in mind," stated Ali Davachi, CEO of Realware. "In a business as competitive as hosting it is not easy to separate from the pack. We saw an opportunity to help our reseller partners do exactly that by giving them a tool that helps people build attractive and feature-rich web sites. This is the epitome in value and we stepped up to the plate and made sure we could provide this exclusively for our partners."

Javascript Zoom only works in Javascript-enabled web browsers. Browsers already tested include IE6, IE7, IE8 (beta), Firefox 2.x, Firefox 3.x, Chrome, Safari 3.x and Opera. Javascript Zoom does not require the Adobe

Flash plug-in.

Value Reseller provides a completely private label reseller hosting solution to web designers, developers and smaller hosting companies. Reseller partners get access to a world-class hosting operation with a cloud-based infrastructure that is guaranteed to deliver 100% uptime.

Value Reseller does not compete at the retail level against its partners

and is fully committed to helping them succeed. The Javascript Zoom acquisition is an example of how Value Reseller has continually invested

in a full suite of products and services designed to augment hosting and

generate additional revenue streams.

Learn more about Javascript Zoom at www.jszoom.com.

To access Javascript Zoom, sign up with Value Reseller today at www.valuereseller.com.

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iWeb strengthens its Managed Services line with strategic acquisition

2009-06-23T14:00:00-04:00

MONTREAL, QC (Gawkwire.com) iWeb announced the strategic acquisition of Montreal-based managed hosting provider Netsimplify. This move brings iWeb closer to providing its own brand of managed hosting services - which represent the majority of Netsimplify's revenues in 2008.

"Customers face an increasing complexity in managing their IT infrastructure, and many of our dedicated hosting customers have requested that iWeb provide additional services." says Eric Chouinard, iWeb's President and CEO. "Netsimplify's customer-driven approach brings a lot of experience, expertise and depth, all of which are important aspects of iWeb's services"

"This is a logical step towards both cloud computing and managed services" said Martin Leclair, iWeb co-founder and President of Products and Technology. He added that "It is also a homecoming of sorts; Netsimplify's founder, Simon Boulet, was one of iWeb's first employees before he left to start his own company nearly three years ago - Welcome back Simon!".

Simon Boulet will be appointed to the newly created position of IT Manager, from which he will spearhead internal development initiatives.

"We looked at a number of companies and individuals, and Simon was naturally at the top of the list of potential candidates." Said Cyrille Mertes, Vice-President of IT and Infrastructure. He then points out that "in the medium-term, Simon and the entire infrastructure team will integrate cloud computing and automation into iWeb's service offering".

The transfer of Netsimplify's customers to iWeb is almost complete, a task made easier by the fact that Netsimplify's infrastructure was mostly colocated within iWeb's data centers. Financial details regarding the transaction were not disclosed. http://www.gawkwire.com/web_hosting/2128.html

Future Hosting Upgrades Technical Support with Launch of Server Doctor 2.0

2009-06-23T14:00:00-04:00

NOVI, MI (Gawkwire.com) Server Doctor™ 2.0 introduces an array of proactive security and monitoring improvements, enabling the technology to be more seamlessly deployed and more effective at minimizing security risks. Namely, the new version includes significantly enhanced external vulnerability scanning capabilities and extensive new security controls installed upon account provisioning.

Designed to automate time consuming server configuration and repair tasks on Virtual Private Servers (VPS), Server Doctor™ allows customers to receive a greater level of technical support than is available when technicians spend their time performing routine or basic maintenance tasks. With Server Doctor™, technicians are free to spend their time offering a level of technical support that is unrivaled and otherwise unaffordable.

The new version of Server Doctor™ also includes the necessary tools for greater customer interaction in the server hardening process. Customers now receive more frequent, detailed and comprehensive summaries of the latest security threats and available software upgrades. What’s more, customers now have the ability to manually approve certain upgrades that cannot be performed without consent due to potential capability issues; in these cases, Server Doctor™ automatically perform upgrades which can be automated once approved. Those that cannot be automated will be manually completed by technicians.

“Server Doctor™ has helped distinguish Future Hosting as an innovative company committed to improving customer service. Nearly a year and a half after we first launched this pioneering support automation system, the second major iteration of Server Doctor™ is a welcome improvement with exciting capabilities,” said Vik Patel, Future Hosting CEO.

For more information about Future Hosting, please visit http://www.futurehosting.com.
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Platform Computing Announces Private Cloud Management Software

2009-06-23T08:14:00-04:00

NEW YORK, NY (Gawkwire.com) SIFMA Conference -- Platform Computing, the global leader in grid and cloud software, today announced a new software product for managing private cloud environments from the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) Conference in New York City. Platform ISF is the first end-to-end cloud management product for enterprises to build and run their private clouds. It is the centerpiece of Platform's cloud strategy and will be made available for beta in June with general availability planned for the Fall.

As the longtime leader in grid and HPC management software, Platform Computing is expanding its product offerings to support the needs of mainstream business applications, leveraging its strong technology and experience in deploying large-scale shared compute environments. Platform ISF is computing infrastructure sharing software for private cloud management. Private clouds generally refer to resources pooled together in a shared IT infrastructure to run applications for business users. Platform ISF creates private clouds from physical and virtual resources, delivering application environments according to workload and resource scheduling policies. It incorporates Platform's production-proven resource sharing technology (EGO) and virtual machine orchestrator (VMO) and includes capabilities for self-service, service-offering definition, contracts, reporting and billing. Private clouds deployed through Platform ISF allow IT departments to be more responsive to the needs of the enterprise by offering IT as services on a pay-per-use basis. This new computing paradigm is expected to drastically reduce the costs of IT as resource utilization levels increase due to resource sharing.

"Our vision for this product and for private clouds is based on 17 years of production experience in delivering IT infrastructure sharing software to industry, education and government," said Songnian Zhou, CEO, Platform Computing. "Platform ISF enables applications to run on shared infrastructure driving higher server utilization and ROI across clusters, grids and clouds. Using Platform ISF, businesses can deploy and run applications faster, cheaper and more flexibly. Platform is well suited to deliver private cloud solutions as we have extensive experience in deploying large-scale shared compute environments that leverage both physical and virtual resources."

Platform ISF is a technology-agnostic platform that supports any collection of hardware, operating systems and virtual machines. It also supports third-party system management tools for security and provisioning. This allows organizations to leverage existing resources while conforming to corporate standards. It does so while supporting

IT's obligation to oversee corporate requirements, including governance, compliance, business continuity, and cost and risk management. While public clouds can offer infrastructure and computer resources on a pay-per-use basis, most of the benefits of cloud computing are not realized by enterprises through the use of public clouds alone. Private clouds can leverage both internal and public cloud resources. Platform ISF acts as the management layer for pulling resources into a unified environment and its value is independent of location or ownership of resources.

This need for enterprises to get started with private cloud and evolve to hybrid has been supported by recent research from Gartner, Inc. "Appropriate investments in private cloud computing will make it easier for enterprises to gradually use public cloud services as needed, if and when the services mature," said Tom Bittman, VP, Distinguished Analyst, Gartner, Inc. "Because public cloud computing is years from fulfilling many enterprise needs, it is likely that IT organizations will spend more money through 2012 on private cloud computing investments than on offerings from public cloud providers."(1)

"We are encouraged by potential cost savings and rapid availability of computing resources through Platform ISF," said Keith Collins, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of SAS Institute, the leader in business analytics software and services, and partner of Platform Computing. "Because SAS has a well-defined and aggressive strategy for cloud computing, we are eager to evaluate an early release of the software and consider how our internal operations, as well as our customers, can benefit from this promising technology."

Platform will be exhibiting at SIFMA June 23-25. To view a demonstration of Platform ISF and learn more about Platform's solutions for the financial services sector, please visit booth #2411. Also see www.sifma.org/events/2009/315/index.html. Concurrently, Platform will be exhibiting at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC '09) in booth #440. Visit www.supercomp.de/isc09/.
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Internet Evolution Debuts 'Digital-Physical Convergence' Video Tutorial

2009-06-23T08:12:00-04:00

NEW YORK, NY (Gawkwire.com) Converging IT networks and assets with other in-house systems will give companies a profound new level of visibility, control, and automation, says Doug Brown, Vice President of Marketing for the Tivoli brand of the Software Group at IBM. And this "digital-physical convergence" will accelerate service delivery and execution of key business processes, Brown adds, in a video tutorial posted today on the Internet Evolution Website.

Click here to view the tutorial:

http://www.internetevolution.com/tutorial-digital-physical-convergence.asp

"We're accustomed to thinking about how to instrument our IT systems and assets, but we need to be equally adept in thinking about how we instrument and extract insight from our physical assets," Brown advises. Organizations like city governments, overnight delivery services, and manufacturers are already reaping the benefits of networked traffic signals, bar-coded inventory, and GPS devices that feed data back for analysis and fast action.

So if heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC), electrical systems, lighting, fire alarms, and video surveillance (to name a few) get networked with servers in the data center, does this mean everything is now IT's responsibility? No, says Brown, but it does imply the need for a much deeper level of partnership and collaboration between IT and the operating sides of any organization. Line-of-business leadership and operations managers should be asking themselves questions like, "Have we instrumented our operating assets sufficiently to maximize their value? Have we considered ways to manage these assets more cost-effectively or in ways that could dramatically improve service delivery? And how can IT potentially help us to achieve these goals?" Brown notes in the tutorial.

Brown encourages enterprises to consider these issues as they work toward digital-physical convergence:

    * Rather than get bogged down in what it's going to cost to integrate all these systems, consider what it will cost if you don't converge the management of business and IT infrastructure. Cost savings and improving services are the two biggest reasons to integrate IT and physical infrastructure, according to Brown.

    * IT professionals must consider new "asset types" outside the data center they might be asked to help manage someday, as well as what new skills, processes, and infrastructures they'll need to make that happen. "This is what visionary business leaders are doing to build 21st century businesses with efficient, differentiated services."

    * Digital-physical convergence can help enterprises achieve strategic "green" objectives. Richer oversight of all assets means that when service crews are deployed, for example, their routes are optimized to reduce travel time, fuel costs, and carbon footprint.

"Aggregating intelligence from across the entire business allows you to store, virtualize, replicate, and secure enterprise intelligence in ways that you couldn't if all the data were maintained in individual, disconnected silos and repositories," Brown says. "Convergence means bringing all of your assets into a modernized, 21st century management construct that can better withstand disruptive circumstances like service outages, security breaches, and labor skills deficits, among other challenges."
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click2try Grows Collection of Wikis With Addition of MoinMoin

2009-06-23T08:10:00-04:00

HOUSTON, TX (Gawkwire.com) Fast, easy-to-edit and simple to maintain, MoinMoin is an advanced and extensible wiki engine with a large community of users. Its storage mechanism is based on flat files and folders as opposed to a database, enabling users to edit content in a text editor on the server, if desired.

"As the wiki of choice for many corporate intranets and Open Source projects, we are proud to make MoinMoin available to even more users through our Open Source catalog," says Mario Grech, click2try CEO. "Given its variety of features, MoinMoin can meet a number of needs. Now visitors to our site can easily evaluate and compare MoinMoin with other featured wiki engines including DokuWiki, MediaWiki and TikiWiki."

Implemented in Python, MoinMoin is multilingual and includes GUI WYSIWYG editing capabilities, e-mail and jabber notification, built-in full text search and access control lists (ACL) that make it practical for content management systems. Like other well-known wikis, MoinMoin supports plugins, facilitating the integration of other formats or applications.

click2try is dedicated to providing a way for individuals and companies to easily evaluate and use the best wiki engines in the Open Source market. Bypassing downloads, visitors to the site (http://www.click2try.com) can try any application for free or subscribe to an affordable service plan for persistent access. Subscribers can save data, share applications with other registered users and enjoy peace of mind knowing that all applications and data are securely stored within a hardened network infrastructure at the company's data center in Houston, Texas. click2try currently hosts over 40 Open Source applications in its VM Jukebox(TM) and adds new applications weekly. http://www.gawkwire.com/technology/click2try_grows_collection_of_wikis_with_addition_of_moinmoin.html

364 days and counting to iPhone 4G

2009-06-19T06:06:00-04:00

(cnet) Interestingly, even though the 3G S is technically Apple's third-generation iPhone, some tech pundits were expecting the iPhone 3G S to be called the iPhone 4G. But you could also argue that the iPhone 3G S is more like the iPhone 3.5G, which doesn't have the greatest ring.

There's also a chance that in between the iPhone 3G S and iPhone 4G (or whatever it's called), we might see a totally new branch of iPhone, something akin to an iPhone Mini or Lite.

I'm not sure Apple needs to answer to the smaller form factor of the Palm Pre, but there are some people out there who think the iPhone's just a tad too big. And there are some people who want a physical keyboard, but don't count on Apple slipping in a slide-out keyboard anytime soon. ...Go to source

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2009 Technology Impact Award Winners Announced

2009-06-20T05:00:00-04:00

Vancouver, BC (Gawkwire.com) Renowned for connecting people and systems to global mobile broadband networks, Sierra Wireless (http://www.sierrawireless.com) was named Company of the Year at the 2009 Technology Impact Awards (TIAs) hosted by the BC Technology Industry Association (BCTIA). The award formally recognized Sierra Wireless’ phenomenal year that included developing the world’s first data devices for the HSPA+ standard, further penetrating the M2M market with an acquisition of Wavecom S.A., increasing their BC-based employees to 250 and, for the first time in company history, surpassing half a billion dollars in annual revenues.

Earning the Leadership in Social Responsibility Award was Telus (http://www.telus.ca) and its 'Give Where You Live' philosophy. Since 2000, Telus, team members and retirees have contributed $137 million and more than 2.6 million hours of community service. Having also contributed over 2000 computers and laptops during the 2008 calendar year, Telus was further recognized with an appreciation award by Computers for Schools – an organization that provides increased access for students and learners of all ages to computer technology.

James Topham, retired partner of KPMG, was awarded the prestigious Bill Thompson Award for career achievement. James enriched BC's technology industry for over 30 years. During that time, he advised more than 100 technology companies and spent countless hours contributing to technology related associations and philanthropic efforts. This includes being a founding member of the BCTIA. James is currently involved with three small technology firms as a financial advisor and director.

Over 700 representatives from the BC's technology and business community came together at the new state-of-the-art Vancouver Convention Centre to recognize British Columbia's top technologies, companies and individuals. Other winners include:

Most Promising Pre-Commercial Technology
Heart Force Medical Inc. (Vancouver) has developed the Ballistocardiograph™ (dBG), a non-invasive medical device that assesses cardiac function by sensing forces generated from heart muscle contractions and relaying results via Bluetooth technology. http://www.heartforcemedical.com

Best Application of Technology
ACL Services Ltd. (Vancouver) delivers business assurance technology for audit and compliance professionals, allowing companies to concurrently interpret and analyze multiple heterogeneous systems all from a centralized control station. http://www.acl.com

Excellence in Product Innovation
Sophos (Vancouver) provides a web security and control appliance that features real-time monitoring and prevention of 100% of known and 90% of unknown malware, as well as patent-pending technology that automatically blocks ‘rogue’ surfers as they attempt to bypass web filtering. http://www.sophos.com

Most Promising Start-up
Energy Aware Technology Inc. (Vancouver) helps improve demand-management energy conservation using an In Home Display (IHD) that communicates with the utility’s smart meter to continually monitor and notify residents of their power usage and associated costs. http://www.energy-aware.com

Emerging Company of the Year
Elastic Path Software Inc. (Vancouver) uses a flexible e-commerce framework, based on open source technologies and full access to source code, to give enterprise clients complete control over their e-commerce projects. http://www.elasticpath.com

Team of the Year
Mixpo's (Vancouver) team of five dedicated developers maintained and even advanced the business' alpha product while concurrently, and in nine short months, re-created the company for a burgeoning niche by delivering the robust and highly scalable Mixpo VideoAd Platform. http://www.mixpo.com

Person of the Year
Jonathan Rhone (President and CEO, Nexterra Energy Corp.) is one of BC's most prominent advocates of the clean tech sector, using his time and effort to ensure environmental sustainability remains a top priority in the province. Jonathan also secured a fourth round of financing and increased year-over-year revenues by 300% for his company Nexterra – developers of advanced gasification systems that convert waste fuels into clean energy.

"Tonight's winners and finalists reaffirm the breadth of BC's technology sector, delivering cross-cutting innovations that touch all sectors of the economy," said Pascal Spothelfer, President and CEO of BCTIA. "We congratulate all winners and finalists for their ingenuity, adaptability and particularly their resiliency in a challenging economic climate – they are all making their mark on the world."

This year, over 100 applications were received from technology companies of all sectors and sizes and from all corners of British Columbia.

For more information on the awards, the finalists and the winners, please visit:
http://www.bctia.org/awards

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Top 10 Ranking & SEO Firm Concludes Its 'Recession' Experiment

2009-06-20T05:00:00-04:00

London & New York (Gawkwire.com) Website promotion and search engine optimization service provider www.servicewrap.net has waded into the deep with startling evidence, which it claims adds direct weight to the argument of an in-balance in how deeply the recession is affecting online spend in the SEO and website promotion marketplace.

Wholly non-scientific advises servicewrap.net, comes their report that seems to demonstrate an almost 50% drop in UK spending whilst areas that include Australia, Asia and even South America appear to be up almost 100% on previous years. www.servicewrap.net also sees real emphasis being placed on Yahoo and Google in local markets, rather than across the board, a trend which has increased tenfold they advise since November 2008.

To put the figures into context, the background of servicewrap.net sees the search engine ranking firm being online for over 7 years. Providing search engine optimization support and its website marketing skills to almost 10,000 client websites, resellers and associates during this time the promotion company has always maintained its inexpensive promotional packages as a means to assist smaller business and help them compete with the 'big boys'. Servicewrap.net has seen many changes over its first 7 years, but none so significant as that seen from the period November 2008 - June 2009.

Detailing the most significant changes the promotion firm highlight the following as the key indicators to change in the spending patterns of its client base. Again it stresses these figures to be wholly un-scientific but if taken as a representation of the whole market area, could be seen as a remarkable shift in marketing spend in a short time frame.

1. Servicewrap.net highlights how PayPal has become the primary payment method of choice for its clients. With a multitude of available payment methods available online its own research has shown that online business is steering towards PayPal, and in doing so is is part funding marketing spend from a business point of view from its personal pocket. In saying this its own figures seem to demonstrate that businesses are also using their own personal spending power to maintain advertising spend, and in some cases increase it. PayPal has become a primary payment method during the last 8 months, a shift not seem by servicewrap.net since 2003.

2. UK SEO spend down at least 50% when compared to any other year, back to 2002. Servicewrap.net qualifies this unscientific conclusion based on its client history, which demonstrates how the firm attracts 50% less UK business than ever before. In addition to this US based business is down just 10% based again on any period back to 2002, a much smaller drop-off but still significant in that the trend appears neither to be declining or increases - simply remaining steady.

3. The rapid amendment of payment tiers. Providing its customers with different search engine optimization packages, that include yearly and monthly options and having done so for over 6 years servicewrap again concludes from its key internal research that online business are requiring yearly, not monthly service package charges, thus allowing one spend to cover one year of service. Prior to November 2008 its customers preferred, with a 90% majority to take monthly solutions whereas the current climate appears to have changed the spending philosophy of many, opting for a discounted yearly spend rather than a monthly option. Again a rather remarkable about-turn in just an 8 month period.

4. The gentle giants of Australia, South America and Asia, that primarily include Australia itself, Mexico, Singapore and even China have seen a massive jump in this same 8 month period. Servicewrap.net indicate that with absolutely no additional marketing spend of their own in these areas that they have witnessed a 100% increase in clients seeking local search engine optimization. When advising 'local' these online businesses wanted, in the 90% majority to simply want to target Google and Yahoo Mexico/Singapore/China etc. Whilst at the same time those US and UK customers still spending in SEO quarters with www.servicewrap.net also wanted to just target local results in the same 2 search engines.

Servicewrap.net concludes its internal research with the note that, online business wants to spend less to achieve more, but they should use the same 'laws of attraction' as they always used, but just attain them more wisely. They want a simplified means to make online transactions and want to use more of their personal spend to assist their businesses. At the same time countries not affected by the recession as much as others are clearly seen and look to dominate their global competitors by increasing their SEO and website promotion spend at a time where others are decreasing.

In other words - UK and US businesses watch out, the other guys are coming.

A purely unscientific experiment to find out what is having in the market today. For further information visit www.servicewrap.net today.

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10 Most Popular Websites for Kids

2009-06-20T05:00:00-04:00

Tel Aviv, Israel (Gawkwire.com) As there is a seemingly endless supply of child-appropriate websites on the Internet, kids' websites are facing the same challenges as other sites on the net, namely bringing traffic and capturing the users' attention.

In a quest to drive website traffic and increase site popularity, marketers and brands are all doing their best to stand out and attract users, and to convince them to visit their websites. This, however, is quite a complicated task, as young kids visiting sites depend totally on their parents to set up the sites for them.

But what happens when you put all the kids' websites into one place and create easy navigation for children to surf these sites? What happens when you let the kids decide for themselves what their favorites are from a big selection?

This is exactly what happens in KIDO'Z, and what this Kid's Web Environment does is it gives every kids' website a fair chance to make its mark, by letting the kids themselves decide what their most popular websites are, regardless of marketing spending and online efforts.

Websites are added to KIDO'Z by parents and educators from all over the world. The KIDO'Z smart content engine ensures that, in addition to personalizing the content for each kid, all content that has been recently added is getting exposure. This keeps the content fresh for the kids and gives the new content a chance to become popular.

The following lists represent the 10 most visited sites on KIDO'Z by kids from more than 80 countries. "Through KIDO'Z, young children have direct access to hundreds of kids' websites in more than 30 languages in a safe, central place." -- Gai Havkin, CEO.

These websites are identified by colorful eye-catching thumbnails and children simply need to click on the image of their choice to visit the site. Children can also easily add any website to their Favorites section for fast and easy return to the sites that they like the most."

You'll notice that even though some of the big brands are up there, there are also a couple of unique, smaller sites that are making their mark. For example, Fun Brain and Poisson Rouge are listed among the most popular English websites in KIDO'Z, and through KIDO'Z, they are given the opportunity to compete with some of the established big brands. These two sites fall under the educational website category and use learning games and activities to educate children. The popularity of these sites could be indicative of the demand by children for educational and interactive website content.

Below you can find the lists of the most popular sites by languages. These lists, including links to the websites, can be found at http://www.kidoz.net/blog.

Most popular kids' sites in English:
Fun Brain
Dora
Mickey Mouse
Hot Wheels
Poisson Rouge
Roary the Racing Car
Ben 10
Barbie
PBS Kids
Thomas

Most popular kids' sites in French:
Pocoyo
Mila
Wumpa le Morse
Monsieur Madame
Caillou
Petite Princesse
Petit Ours Brun
Bali
Clifford
Chez Polo

Most popular kids' sites in Spanish:
Pocoyo
Cartoon Network
Jetix
Disney Playhouse Spain
Discovery Kids
Cuentos Interactivos
Mundo Nick
Wumpa
Infantil
Barbie

Most popular kids' sites in Italian:
Pocoyo
Gormiti
La Casa di Topolino
Tigger & Pooh
Manny Tuttofare
Little Einsteins
Higglytown Heroes
Il Circo di Jojo
Bunnytown
Rolie Polie Olie

KIDO'Z v 1.0 is the first Global Web operating system for small children aged 3-8 years.

With multilingual support in 17 languages, KIDO'Z is already deployed in over 80 countries.

The KIDO'Z Kid's Web Environment is the safe, easy way for young kids to surf sites, watch videos and play games - all in a child-friendly, protected environment, using content that is customized for them, and that is continually enhanced by the parents through the addition of new content. KIDO'Z is fully customizable in terms of security, account settings, and content. The user interface is rich in graphics and imagery, allowing young children to navigate easily, without needing to know how to read or write.

KIDO'Z is available as a free download at http://kidoz.net.

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FatCow & Google Work to Integrate Google Services into Hosting Control Panel

2009-06-20T05:00:00-04:00

Burlington, MA (Gawkwire.com) FatCow (www.fatcow.com), a leader in Web hosting services for individuals and small businesses, worked with Google to become the first Web hosting company to implement the Google Services for Websites console that customers access directly from the hosting control panel. The goal of Google Services for Websites is to enable customers to maximize the potential of their Web site and provide easy access to expanded services such as Webmaster Tools™, AdSense™ and Custom Search™.

Google Services for Websites allows Web site owners to easily install, activate and access their Google Web tools through a central location on the hosting control panel. Product Managers from Google and FatCow worked closely together to develop Google Services for Websites and provide hosting customers with a superior user experience.

"We wanted to capitalize on all of these great Google tools by making it easier for customers to utilize these best-of-breed tools through a single sign-on," explains Mitch Haber, Vice President, Product Management at FatCow, "It was an amazing experience to work with Google. We were able to integrate their innovation, technology and commitment to excellence with our understanding of hosting customers to deliver an outstanding application."

"People who manage Web sites are looking for easy access to simple and powerful tools because they want to focus on retaining users and managing their business," said Rajat Mukherjee, Group Product Manager for Google Custom Search. "It's optimal when we can work with a valued Web hosting partner like FatCow to develop new interfaces that make the lives of our Webmasters easier and more organized."

Each tool within Google Services for Websites adds value to a customer's site, improves the user experience, and helps the site better "communicate" with Google. The tools include:

- Webmaster Tools - Allows customers to see how Google views their site, identify visibility issues and submit sitemaps.

- Custom Search and Site Search - Adds a customizable search box to their site with a consistent look and feel.

- Adsense for Search - Helps customers generate revenue and better serve visitors' needs by displaying relevant ads with their search results.

Existing FatCow account holders will find Google Services for Websites in their online control panel under Web site tools and new customers can learn more about this tool and many others by visiting www.fatcow.com. Google Services for Websites is also available through other leading hosts, including IPOWER, StartLogic and PowWeb.

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Live blog: iPhone 3G S launch day

2009-06-19T01:15:00-04:00

(cnet) We've got a team of people covering the launch. In the East, CNET News' Caroline McCarthy and Marguerite Reardon are reporting live Apple and AT&T stores in Manhattan. Out west, Erica Ogg, Josh Lowensohn, and James Martin are keeping tabs on iPhone sales in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Are people lining up the way they have for past iPhone launches? Is the phone everything they expected it to be? Does it really take just 10 to 15 minutes to get set up? Tune in and find out as the day goes along. ...Go to source

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Reliable Hosting selects UnitedLayer as its Primary Colocation Partner

2009-06-19T10:13:00-04:00

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (Press Advance) With today’s agreement, UnitedLayer will provide a depth of colocation services for Black Oak Computers at its flagship 200 Paul data center facility in San Francisco. Colocation services include physical data center floor space for cabinets, power and cooling. UnitedLayer’s 200 Paul data centers boast fully-redundant N+1 environmental control and power generation systems.

“Our close working relationship with Reliable Hosting has developed throughout the years, and we’re excited and honored to provide colocation services on an even greater scope and scale than previously before. Black Oak Computers focuses on service, support, and quality, and this partnership is an important step forward,” said UnitedLayer founder and CEO Arman Khalili.

ReliableHosting.com was founded in 1994 as a computer system integrator. The company today manages over 1000 servers and focuses on meeting high-bandwidth hosting needs.

“For more than fifteen years, Reliable Hosting has seen the strategic importance of partnering with world-class suppliers and service providers. By engaging UnitedLayer to meet our colocation needs, we will be able to deliver more stable, scalable, and secure hosting services to our clients,” said Ken Mirell, GM of Reliable Hosting. “The multi-year span of our initial agreement with UnitedLayer is a testament to our commitment to long-term supplier relationships.”

UnitedLayer, founded in 2001, is a North American internet enabler offering a suite of colocation, Internet and managed infrastructure services.

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WebmasterRadio.FM Announces Coverage of the Affiliate Convention 2009

2009-06-19T10:11:00-04:00

Fort Lauderdale, FL (Gawkwire.com) WebmasterRadio.FM, the premier free, 24/7 Internet business radio network focused on the B2B marketplace and the official radio network of the Affiliate Convention conference series, announces exclusive coverage from the Affiliate Convention 2009 in Denver, Colorado.

"One of the goals of this conference series is to provide attendees information from our speakers through multiple interactive platforms, "said WebmasterRadio.FM and Affiliate Convention co-founder Daron Babin said. "This results in attendees getting the information they want in real-time."
WebmasterRadio.FM is the official radio network of the Affiliate Convention conference series, one of the largest trade shows and conferences for the affiliate marketing industry.

All WebmasterRadio.FM programs are available in podcast format through all major podcast portals, and in archived format on-demand inside our Affiliate Convention Channel.

WebmasterRadio.FM's exclusive coverage will feature Live streaming of the following events:

Keynote addresses featuring Kris Jones on Thursday June 18th at 9am Mountain Time, and Peter Bordes on Friday June 19th at 9am Mountain Time. Live streaming is presented by Clickbooth.com.
Live roving reporter interviews with speakers, attendees and exhibitors from the convention floor presented by RevenueWire.com.

WebmasterRadio.FM's presence will also be present at one of the premier networking events of the conference. WebmasterRadio.FM is proud to announce that they will be hosting their annual "AffiliateBash" for Affiliate Convention attendees at the Lure Lounge in Denver, Colorado on Thursday June 18th at 9pm Mountain Time. Themed "Rocky Mountain High ROI", AffiliateBash will feature great food, live music in a upscale nightclub setting in Denver's bustling nighttime district. WebmasterRadio.FM's AffiliateBash is presented by Indigo, Yahoo!, Unique Leads, Healthy Payout and DM Confidential.

About WebmasterRadio.FM WebmasterRadio.FM lifts the "veiled curtain" of the Internet, bringing the business community together through an interactive radio network. Its listeners are a global group, comprised of everyone from corporate executives and decision makers to small and mid-sized businesses and individual entrepreneurs. WebmasterRadio.FM's stellar line-up of radio programming includes "CoverStory" with Jiyan Wei of PRWeb, WebmasterRadio.FM's official newswire; Fired Up! with Gordon Rudow of Bonfire Communications; "SEM Synergy" with Search Engine Marketing Industry Leader Bruce Clay and more. To tune into WebmasterRadio.FM's live content or check out the show lineup, please visit www.WebmasterRadio.FM.

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Surpass Hosting Gives â€˜Dadâ€™ A Geeky Fatherâ€™s Day Gift

2009-06-19T10:10:00-04:00

ORLANDO, FL (Gawkwire.com) Surpass Hosting, a leading provider of Shared, Reseller, Dedicated and Virtual Private Server hosting solutions with over 30,000 customers, today announced a special sales promotion in honor of Father’s Day, the once-a-year opportunity to celebrate all-things dad.

From today until June 21 – this Sunday – Surpass Hosting customers can purchase a new shared hosting account for dad and receive a 15 percent discount on the lifetime of the account. Customers simply use coupon code SHFD when creating the new account to receive the discount. More information is available at http://www.hostdime.com/specials/fathersday/.

“Father’s Day is a chance to give something back to ‘dad,’ and we’re doing our part. With our Father’s Day promotion, we are finally making the case to give dad the geeky gift of a new web site,” said Kayla Fleming, vice president of sales, Surpass Hosting.

Surpass Hosting offers a wide variety of hosting options. Its most popular, shared hosting, starts as low as $4 per month. All shared hosting plans are powered by servers with Quad-Core technology and housed in the company’s private Orlando, Fla. data center. The 12,000 square feet data facility offers more than 32 gigabits of network backbone capacity and is constructed with concrete masonry perimeter walls capable of resisting Category 5 storms.

To learn more about Surpass Hosting, please visit http://www.surpasshosting.com.

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Webinar: The Secrets of Customer Experience in Tough Economic Times

2009-06-19T10:09:00-04:00

Toronto, Canada (Gawkwire.com) Join Customer Experience Management expert, Lior Arussy from Strativity Group, for an interactive webinar that will reveal insight from 869 global executives. This one-hour session, hosted by TELUS, will provide business leaders with valuable insights into the best practices in Canada from Strativity's 2009 Customer Experience Management Benchmark Study, and a helpful perspective on their own practices. Registered webinar attendees will receive a complimentary copy of the report.

"Customer experience is more than just providing strong customer service," said Ken Redekop, Director, Customer Experience Management , TELUS. "We encourage you to learn about the benefits of making your business customer-centric and how Canada's leading companies are using customer experience programs to come out on top during these tough economic times."

WHAT: The complimentary one-hour webinar will cover:
Investment trends in customer experience during a troubled economy
What customers are demanding from organizations today
What are profitable businesses doing differently?
The link between customer experience and brand promise
How customer experience reduces attrition, increases referrals and improves overall customer satisfaction

WHEN: Friday, June 19, 2009
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. PDT
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. MDT
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. EDT

TO REGISTER: Fill out the contact form at http://forms.telus-news.com/ats/show.aspx?cr=125&fm=40

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ZipServers.com Launches Parallels Website Builder For SMEs

2009-06-18T14:00:00-04:00

DALLAS, TX (Gawkwire.com) ZipServers, Inc. (www.zipservers.com), provider of Managed Dedicated Servers, VPS solutions and the OnePlan Shared Hosting announced today it launched the new version of Parallels Website Builder. The browser-based website creation and editing application enables small to medium sized businesses the opportunity to create and publish professional websites at zero cost to their hosting plan.

“We are extremely excited about this software integration”, says Charles Nix Vice President of Sales for ZipServers.com. “It’s providing a simple and cost effective solution for those customers who are in the process of establishing a web presence”.

The Parallels Website Builder provides users with over 500 quality templates and an easy to use five-step wizard. In addition, the new modules intergrated into version 4.5 make Website Builder even more powerful and flexible. The modules included are: Blog, Image Gallery, Guestbook, eShop, SitePal, Forum, Feedback, Registration, RSS Reader, Voting, Script, Area Map, File Download, SiteMap, External Page, and Flash Intro.

Beyond the advantages of a professionally designed websites, ZipServers Website Builder also provides:

Plesk Integration — The Plesk Control Panel included with your hosting plan integrates the Website Builder for easy management and accessibility.
Easy-to-Use Web Interface — 5-Step point-and-click wizard that includes design and layout templates, page structure, sample text, and a powerful WYSIWYG editor for non-technical users.
Advanced Design Templates and Features — Hundreds of sophisticated templates (with color variants) included in combination with advanced statistics, photo albums and a powerful WYSIWYG editor.
Designed for Differentiation — Providers and end customers can select an assortment of skins to integrate with their control panels and modify look-and-feel for private branding.
Open Architecture — Ability to modify default templates designs, add new templates, and create page sets for more advanced users.
Language Support — Parallels Plesk Sitebuilder is available in the following languages: English, German, Japanese, Spanish, French, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional and Russian.

To view more information about ZipServers Website Builder, please visit www.zipservers.com/free_web_site_builder.php

For more information about ZipServers, Inc., please visit www.zipservers.com or call 1-866-ZIP-HOST.

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Disney and ASUS Launch Netbook Computer for Kids

2009-06-18T14:00:00-04:00

GLENDALE, CA (Gawkwire.com) Disney Consumer Products (DCP) and ASUS, maker of the pioneering Eee PC™ netbook, have collaborated to develop the Disney Netpal, a netbook computer for children that’s fun, web-safe and easy to use. Developed with parents and kids in mind, the Disney Netpal by ASUS is durable, with a reinforced mechanical design, and offers a truly magical and engaging computing experience with a unique Disney user interface. Features include more than 40 robust parental control options, an 8.9-inch LCD display, Wi-Fi capabilities, Windows XP Home, and kid-friendly software featuring Disney characters and icons in stunning visual environments. Browsers and email have extra filters to assure that parents are able to control online safety and content for their children, and can easily select with whom their children can correspond via email. The Disney Magic Desktop “gadget tray” offers a creatively designed 2D menu displaying Disney-themed email, Disney-themed browser and a robust suite of Disney-themed parental control options.

With a user interface that is incredibly easy to use for both kids and parents, from package to set-up in four simple steps, the Disney Netpal will be available in late July in two models with prices based on features (see graphic below for Netpal feature comparisons). The Disney Netpal by ASUS is designed for kids ages 6-12. Retailers include Toys“R”Us and Amazon.com, and the suggested retail price is $349.99. Carrying cases will also be available separately.

“Today’s kids are a digital generation,” said Chris Heatherly, head of Disney’s Toymorrow team and VP of Toys and Consumer Electronics for Disney Consumer Products. “Parents are comfortable with their kids using the Internet, but they want to be assured that their kids are having a safe online experience. The Disney Netpal, designed together by ASUS and our Disney Toymorrow team, is a no-compromise device. There are plenty of terrific features and fun applications designed just for kids, but parents have ultimate control over the experience, with the power to set limits on how their kids are using the PC.”

Disney’s Toymorrow team is an internal group of Disney inventors, designers, engineers, researchers and product development experts. The Toymorrow team meets several times a year to brainstorm and develop new products and product concepts that focus on the convergence of toys and digital media in exciting, fun and creative ways.

ASUS is an established leader in the netbook category and is widely credited with launching the netbook craze, with nearly 7 million Eee PC™ netbooks sold to date.

“We’re proud to be involved in the creation of this very unique netbook for kids,” said Eric Chen, Vice President of ASUS' Systems Business Group. “The Disney Netpal is creatively designed in a way that truly keeps the Disney magic alive, and its state-of-the-art features make it an excellent choice for kids and families.”

Disney Netpal By ASUS Is Easy: Kid-friendly Disney Magic Desktop, Applications and Widgets

The Disney Magic Desktop installed on the Disney Netpal by ASUS is an easy-to-use interface specifically tailored to kids, with an intuitive visual interface and instructions that make it easy for kids to operate the computer. Right out of the box, the Disney browser launches numerous kid-friendly Disney websites for kids to explore. The Disney Magic Desktop features a 2D “gadget tray” that displays bold visual icons for easy access to applications. Rounding off the Disney Netpal by ASUS’ fun, kid-friendly features are a collection of 15 easily-accessible widgets, including a stopwatch, digital memo pad, which inserts “reminder notes” on the Disney Magic Desktop, and a calculator.

Disney Netpal By ASUS Is Fun, Customizable And Colorful

The Disney Netpal by ASUS features two choices of stylishly designed lids; Disney Princess Pink boasts beautiful pink florals and Disney Magic Blue cleverly displays rows of miniature Mickey Mouse icons. Kids can dress their desktops with more than 10 customizable themes inspired by popular characters from Disney’s and Disney·Pixar’s most popular franchises, including Cars, Club Penguin, Disney Classic Characters, Disney Fairies, Disney Princess, Vintage Mickey Mouse, Toy Story and WALL-E. Themes that appeal to slightly older kids, such as the popular Disney Channel series Hannah Montana and JONAS styles, are also available. Favorite character icons can be attached to email addresses.

Additional Disney-developed applications include Disney Mix for music and media management, and Disney Pix for photo customization and organization. The Disney Pix application features fun Disney Bobblehead software, which lets kids insert images of their faces on top of bodies, download them into videos and postcards and play wacky moving dance scenes, for hours of fun. The Radio Disney widget streams real-time music and lets kids simultaneously submit song requests, if they wish. The Disney Netpal by ASUS also includes a driving game, number game, memory game and photo scrapbook.

Disney Netpal By ASUS is Optimized for Web-Safety and Sports a Sleek Durable Design

The Disney Netpal by ASUS is designed to be kid-friendly, both in terms of durability and content permissions. It’s rugged and durable, with a spill-proof keyboard that protects against inadvertent liquid spills. The Disney Netpal by ASUS’ ShockShield data protection guards against data loss when the computer is subject to impact.

The Disney Netpal also allows parents to create a web-safe computing environment with 40 parental control options. Parents can pre-select email correspondence options, browsers, the websites their kids visit and the programs they use. These permissions can also be scheduled on a calendar, providing parents with a convenient, automated means of granting access on the days and times that they choose. Parents can also pull up data to determine where children spent time, and for how long. Additional websites can be added for access, but only if the parent approves and submits the request within the password-protected system.

http://www.gawkwire.com/reviews/disney_and_asus_launch_netbook_computer_for_kids.html

Bullseye Media Recognized as One of the Best UK Optimization Companies

2009-06-18T14:00:00-04:00

Plymouth, IN (Gawkwire.com) Founded in 2006, London based Bullseye Media has had a good head start on other search engine optimisation and marketing companies. They are regarded as one of the only companies that offer low pricing hand in hand with outstanding service. They have actually been offering web development, SEO and PPC services since 2000 and have literally molded their company with the ever-changing times.

The success of a company is evident in the results that they can deliver. According to Hitesh Patel of Bullseye Media, "A number of our clients have moved to us from some of the largest agencies in London, and have found we have managed to improve their rankings significantly within weeks." A bold statement that is clearly being backed up by the fact that topseos has chosen to herald this hard working team as one of the Top 10 Best Optimisation Companies.

"As a growing company, it is extremely important to find the right partner, which helps you to expand your business, support you in the decision making process, who are reliable and who charge you affordable prices. This is exactly what Wellicious has found in Bullseyemedia..." This testimonial comes from Heike Schnell, the Managing Director of Wellicious.com. It further re-iterates the level of performance that Bullseye Media have, can and will deliver.

By providing exceptional, honest and personal service to all their clients, both big and small, Bullseye Media hopes to grow into London's premier search engine optimisation company within the foreseeable future. With their "Recession Beating SEO Package" and fully comprehensive development, SEO, social media, content creation and PPC services all operated from within their office walls, it could be in the very near future that Bullseye Media's plans are recognised.

topseos endeavours to provide the world with the invaluable information that separates the trustworthy businesses from those who are merely operating from behind a bunch of catch phrases and industry jargon. With their renowned ranking process, topseos will always be a trusted source for whom to employ within the SEO, SEM and PPC markets.

For further information on topseos, please visit: http://uk.topseos.com.

For more information on Bullseye Media, please visit: http://www.topseos.com/bullseye-media
Alternatively, please direct straight to their website: http://www.bullseyemedia.co.uk

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Serotek Corporation Grows Significantly & Transitions to PEER 1 Hosting

2009-06-18T14:00:00-04:00

VANCOUVER, BC (Gawkwire.com) PEER 1 Network Enterprises, Inc. (TSX:PIX), a global online IT business hosting provider, was recently chosen by ServerBeach customer, Serotek Corporation, to provide a fully managed, scalable hosting solution. Along with text-to-speech screen reader services and remote access solutions for tech professionals who are blind or low vision, Serotek operates a complete Internet service provider and online community specifically designed to meet the needs of visually impaired computer users. Serotek has received considerable interest in its low-cost solutions and interactive community, tripling the business in two years and requiring the company’s infrastructure to expand.

“The ability for PEER 1 to be flexible and scalable is crucial for us as we have to be prepared and able to immediately handle any kind of growth hurdle,” said Mike Calvo, founder and CEO of Serotek. “Going from self-managed hosting to managed hosting was a natural growth progression for us and I applaud the service and forward-thinking we’ve witnessed from both ServerBeach and PEER 1. Partnering with PEER 1, we truly believe the sky’s the limit for our business.”

After six years with dedicated hosting provider ServerBeach, Serotek experienced a seamless transition when it turned over its complete business hosting solution to PEER 1 managed hosting earlier this year. Since the move to managed hosting service, the company has nearly quadrupled its online capacity, making its system more robust and able to support the thousands of Serotek users. Serotek now has access to PEER 1’s 24x7x365 FirstCall SupportTM and the advantage of a Load Balancing service to ensure high availability and redundancy for its online services and community. As the company grows, new machines are added and up-and-running faster than if the process was managed in-house.

In addition to its customers, Serotek’s employees, the majority of whom are blind, also experience the benefits of PEER 1’s reliable managed hosting solution. Working from their homes across the country, employees are also users of Serotek’s services and require the remote access to Serotek’s web portal and online community. Employees can now fully focus on its customers and furthering the Serotek brand knowing PEER 1 is ready to handle any IT infrastructure challenge that arises.

“Serotek’s transition from ServerBeach to a fully managed hosting solution demonstrates PEER 1’s ability to scale with our customers through all the stages of their business growth,” said Robert Miggins, senior vice president of business development for PEER 1. “Whether our customers are significantly growing or need to cut back, PEER 1 has a solution for them so they can continue to focus their time and energy on their business.”

http://www.gawkwire.com/web_hosting/serotek_corporation_grows_significantly_transitions_to_peer_1_ho.html

Webfusion Partner with GlobalSign to Provide SSL Security Solutions

2009-06-18T09:22:00-04:00

London, UK (Gawkwire.com) GlobalSign Ltd. (www.globalsign.co.uk), one of the longest established Certification Authorities (CA) and specialists in SSL Partner Programs, today announced that the UK’s biggest hosting group, Webfusion (www.webfusion.co.uk / www.123-reg.co.uk / www.donhost.co.uk), has joined the GlobalSign Partner Program and will be promoting GlobalSign’s full range of SSL Certificates including the latest Extended Validation SSL. The newly formed partnership will allow customers to easily obtain, install and activate the SSL security to secure their purchasing, checkout, login pages and other next generation online services using GlobalSign’s highly trusted 2048bit SSL technology.

After choosing GlobalSign to take advantage of its simplified but feature packed SSL Certificate portfolio, Webfusion decided to offer SSL as both a standalone retail offering and bundled with existing hosting packages. The affiliation with GlobalSign will enable Webfusion to offer all three types of SSL Certificate, including fast issuance Domain Validation, traditional Organisation Validation and the newly standardised Extended Validation (EV) SSL, which activates the green address bar interface in IE, Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Safari browsers.

"We have partnered with GlobalSign, an established international Certificate Authority, to offer the most feature packed and cost effective SSL security options to our customers," says Thomas Vollrath, Managing Director at Webfusion, "Given how security conscious online shoppers have become, businesses must now provide the reassurances that help convert visitors into customers and aim to reduce the amount of shopping cart abandonment due to security concerns."

“Since launching the SSL Partner Program back in 2007, GlobalSign has seen many partners switch to GlobalSign to take advantage of our SSL program and the financial opportunity it offers,” says Paul Tourret, Managing Director, GlobalSign Ltd, “With Webfusion joining GlobalSign, we are delighted a much wider audience is able to benefit from the strong and credible security that GlobalSign SSL provides.”

All GlobalSign SSL Certificates are inclusive of Server Gated Cryptography (SGC) (to “step up” weak browser encryption to strong encryption on older browsers), and support wildcard technology and Subject Alternative Names (SANs for Unified Communications) to allow the securing of multiple sites with a single Certificate. All GlobalSign Certificates are issued from the widely distributed 2048 bit GlobalSign Root CA Certificate.

GlobalSign SSL Certificates are immediately available from Webfusion at www.webfusion.co.uk, www.123-reg.co.uk and www.donhost.co.uk.

For information on GlobalSign’s partner program, please visit www.globalsign.co.uk/partners/index.htm. http://www.gawkwire.com/web_hosting/webfusion_partner_with_globalsign_to_provide_ssl_security_soluti.html

WebmasterRadio.FM's Affiliatebash for Affiliate Convention Attendees

2009-06-18T09:24:00-04:00

Denver, CO (Gawkwire.com) WebmasterRadio.FM, the premier free, 24/7 Internet business radio network focused on the B2B marketplace and the official radio network of the Affiliate Convention conference, announces cornerstone event Affiliate Bash on Thursday, June 18th starting at 9:00 p.m.at Denver's Lure Lounge nightclub.

Affiliate Bash is a night of networking, good food, open bar and great music. Celebrating the first day of Affiliate Convention conference, guests can unwind, re-group and let down their hair after attending the first day of this unique inaugural conference for the affiliate industry.

"WebmasterRadio.FM loves to help attendees network and have some fun during these highlight industry events," said WebmasterRadio.FM Vice President of Marketing Brandy Shapiro-Babin. "Taking time out to meet others in your industry helps to put things in context and enriches the conference experience. We're pulling out all the stops for this life event."

The party begins at 9:00 p.m., Thursday June 18th at the Lure Lounge located at 1434 Blake St. # 100 in Denver, Colorado. Affiliate Bash is being presented by their wonderful sponsors Indigo, Yahoo!, Unique Leads, Healthy Payouts, & DM Confidential. For more information, visit http://affiliatebash.com

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JaguarPC Offers Professional Web Site Builder to Hosting Customers Free

2009-06-18T09:23:00-04:00

RVSiteBuilder Pro is a hosted web site building software application that features an intuitive WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) user interface and a large library of ready-made templates that allow users to create a professional looking web site in literally minutes. A wide selection of themes allow users to create a web site for almost any purpose, whether it be a blog, photo gallery or a web presence for a small business.

RVSiteBuilder Pro enables users to build much more than plain vanilla web sites. Several new features can be conveniently integrated into a web site through a point and click interface, including photos albums, hit counters, guest books, blogs and FAQ guides. There is also a supply of free media such as commonly used banners, buttons and icons, along with a library of images.

“JaguarPC is always looking for a way to add value to our hosting offerings,” stated Greg Landis, CEO of JaguarPC. “RVSiteBuilder Pro is an easy-to-use software application that anybody without technical experience can use to build an attractive, professional looking web site. This is the essence of value and we are providing it free to our shared and reseller hosting customers. It is further proof that JaguarPC is committed to enabling customers to realize their full potential on the Internet.”

RVSiteBuilder Pro recently released an updated version of its software (version 3.0), adding an updated navigation system, a new blogging application, database capabilities and improvements to the Ajax-enabled user interface. A total of 16 new templates have been added to the library in this newest release. RVSiteBuilder Pro has a library of 646 templates.

For more advanced users, there is an online Flash editor and users can also download templates, customize them and then re-upload them for future use.

RVSiteBuilder Pro supports all major web browsers and operating systems. It is available in multiple languages, allowing customers around the world to build a web site in the language they are most comfortable with. Languages supported include English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian-Portuguese, Finnish, Norwegian, Turkish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian and Slovak.

http://www.gawkwire.com/web_hosting/jaguarpc_offers_professional_web_site_builder_to_hosting_custome.html

Host Color Released Managed VPS Hosting Coupon

2009-06-18T09:21:00-04:00

(Gawkwire.com) Host Color has reported to web hosting media that it is now offering a 50% instant rebate on its Managed VPS Hosting ( http://www.hostcolor.com/vps ). The company enables its VPS customers to turn their Virtual Private Servers into "FM VPS" (Fully Managed VPS hosting service) by paying a flat monthly fee of $24.95. The regular price of FM VPS service is $49.95. Host Color's customers can take advantage of the instant rebate by using code - S2009FMVPS.

The Fully Managed VPS hosting service includes the following operations:
Initial VPS Set-up, IP management, OS installation and maintenance, Antivirus and Antispam installation, Reboots, VPS recovery, Control Panel updates, and Resource monitoring. By outsourcing them to Host Color the company's VPS customers can focus on business and to make sure that their virtual servers are well-managed and regularly updated.

Host Color powers its VPS by Virtuozzo Power Panel, an elegant and easy to use virtual server management tool part of the world's leading OS virtualization solution - Parallels Virtuozzo Containers. The hosting company offers video tutorials which provide newbie VPS owners with a step-by-step guides on how to use Virtuozzo Power Panel (VZPP), Plesk Panel 9, NextColor web hosting control panel, and other accounts management tools. VPS customers of Host Color have a link to tutorials section in their pZone, the personal client center that Host Color's customers use to organize and manage their web hosting accounts.

Host Color offers one of the lowest prices of quality VPS hosting services and products based on Parallels OS virtualization solutions.
Its VPS Start ( http://www.hostcolor.com/vps/vps-start ) virtual private server features 256 MB RAM, 10 GB disc space and 100 GB data transfer per month for the low monthly fee for only $19.95. The most powerful pre-configured virtual server of Host Color - VPS Custom ( http://www.hostcolor.com/vps/vps-custom ) comes with 1792 MB RAM, 100 GB disc space and 1000 GB data transfer per month, and costs $119.95/month.
The "VPS Custom" users save $14.95 per month on Plesk VPS license and get the popular web hosting control panel for free.

The web host has recently announced nice offerings on its VPS Hosting plans. Company's prospective customers now get 1 free service month with any virtual private server. This will be the 6th service month. The provider has also increased the resources of its virtual private servers including RAM, disc space, and data transfer quotas. All coupons and rebates are published in section - Web Hosting Rebates ( http://www.hostcolor.com/webhosting/rebates ).

Host Color is well-known with its approach to hosting business named Quality Web Hosting. Its executives say that Host Color "customizes not just VPS and Dedicated Hosting, but even Shared Hosting services to allow anyone to work in personalized business environment".

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Cloud Computing: 10 Questions For Vivek Kundra

2009-06-17T00:48:00-04:00

(Gawkwire.com) Federal CIO Vivek Kundra is well known for innovative approaches to government IT. He introduced Google Apps to the city of Washington, D.C. when he was its CTO of back in 2007.

He's brought with him to the federal government a philosophy that cloud computing could save money, facilitate faster procurement and deployment of technologies, and allow government agencies to concentrate more on strategic IT projects.

InformationWeek sat down with him at his office last week to discuss his thoughts about cloud computing in government, and what it would take to make cloud technologies easier to adopt in the federal space.

InformationWeek: The President's 2010 budget request mentions cloud computing pilot projects. Give us a bit more context around those.

Federal CIO Vivek Kundra: One of the biggest challenges has been that agencies and departments have thought and spent money vertically, yet technology is most effective when it's implemented horizontally in terms of fundamentally transforming business processes.

The other challenge that it used to be people would come to work and have access to the greatest technologies, because the government and the corporate environment [were] investing in technologies that were leading edge. Now, we've been left behind and we're seeing massive innovation happening in the consumer space.

Part of that budget in cloud computing is to leverage platforms that are free [and] make sure we look at cloud computing in terms of platforms, which can be deployed horizontally across the government.

The cloud computing investment in the 2010 budget reflects the administration's desire to drive down costs, drive innovation across the federal government, [and] make sure we're making available technologies to the workforce that may be available to them elsewhere.

InformationWeek: Are you setting aside money in the 2010 federal budget for this?

Kundra: If you looked at some of the things the GSA [General Services Administration] has come out with, whether the RFI or the summit on cloud computing, those are ideas being fleshed out as we speak. As we get closer to October, project plans and specific funding out of $33 million dollars [in the budget request] will be determined.

InformationWeek: What are these pilots and what are you trying to do with them?

Kundra: We're trying to turn this into a scaling problem, and we're trying to make sure that we're looking at the lowest common denominator across all agencies, very simple tools like blogs, and video, and lightweight workflow platforms or public participation platforms. Kundra [cont.]: The key is to make that available to the federal government in a way that's easy and handles security up front in that you bake security requirements into the architecture. The goal is to make it as simple as, if you in your personal life wanted to sign up for an e-mail or photo-sharing platform or storage online, from the time you submit your credit card, the service will be provisioned real-time.

Why can't we do that with all agencies? Why can't we make sure we have infrastructure and platforms that are FISMA-certified [Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002] up front? Why can't we make sure procurement processes have been followed and provisioning issues around making sure we can provision these platforms real-time are addressed.

We're moving from this notion of 'here's a schedule' to the notion of 'here's a platform that can be provisioned real-time.' How do we provide those services? That's what we're working on. But it's about moving away from having schedules and this idea of GSA as an entity that has a bunch of schedules, but there's no center of gravity when it comes to information technology across the federal government. This allows us to create a center of gravity.

InformationWeek: So are you working with GSA closely to help them become that center of gravity?

Kundra: We're working very closely with GSA to be that center of gravity.

InformationWeek: What does that mean? What do you have to do with them, develop a new way for dealing with IT?

Kundra: That means one, looking at policy issues around information security. FISMA is a perfect example. Today, every agency has to get their own certification and accreditation even if they are using the same set of technologies. Imagine how much money we could save if we were able to have a central place where you could get certification and inherit those rights.

Second is actually creating a storefront that will be agency-facing, that agencies could, with the same ease that consumers do it, provision services.

Third is the underlying technology and rolling out platforms, making sure those platforms are scalable and elastic, so as agencies want to invest in technologies, they're able to do that and scale rapidly, rather than spending money on contracts where you're provisioning something where you're using only 10% of capacity.

InformationWeek: What about the internal cloud-like technologies? The Defense Information Systems Agency is building its own private cloud, for example. Does there need to be a centralized platform in government?

Kundra: The approach will be one that recognizes different requirements for various agencies. If the FAA needs to focus on a goal such as air traffic control across the country, that's very specific, versus if they're thinking about a platform for collaboration, which is a lowest common denominator. What is common across all different agencies?

Internally, we will be developing and launching a common platform so GSA becomes a center for providing these services, so you're not going around building platforms and replicating it in other data centers.

At the same time, we need to make sure we focus on open architecture. Open architecture is vital for information sharing, for collaboration down the line.

InformationWeek: Does GSA in some ways need to transform itself to a shared services organization, and will GSA then be managing data centers under that plan?

Kundra: That's part of that equation, and I'm looking forward to working with the new administrator to look at what GSA needs to do.

InformationWeek: Do you agree with criticism that all of IT in government has to be procured just as if the government was buying an aircraft carrier, and that's not the way we should be doing IT?

Kundra: If you look at the processes, if it takes 18 months to 2 years to go through procurement, you've already missed one revolution, one cycle. If we can abstract the procurement processes, security, architecture, provisioning and they're more focused on leveraging the service that's being provided rather than rolling out technology initiatives, that's where we want to move the federal government toward, and this is going to take time. It's going to take major changes when it comes to public policy and procurement and so forth.

InformationWeek: How long do you see this taking? Do you see this as a three to five year thing to get these processes down right, and are you running into resistance?

Kundra: My first month when I was looking for people to lead these transformational efforts, cloud computing had the most people in terms of the working group. CIOs would like nothing more than to be able to provision technology. Their view is that if we can take care of provisioning, they can provide services rapidly to their customers. The challenges we're going to face are around security, privacy, contracting and there are many other challenges as we move forward. We're working very closely with the procurement community, the privacy community and security community. It will take time, but we're going to begin by rolling out a set of services in the coming months and scale from there.

InformationWeek: When you say a set of services what would you start with?

Kundra: That's forthcoming. The idea there is to start thinking of government as a platform.

InformationWeek has published an in-depth report on cloud storage. Download the report here (registration required). http://www.gawkwire.com/technology/cloud_computing_10_questions_for_vivek_kundra.html

Microsoft Sues Three For Click Fraud

2009-06-17T09:46:00-04:00

(Gawkwire.com) Microsoft on Monday filed a lawsuit against three individuals residing in Canada for allegedly promoting the sale of World of Warcraft currency and collecting auto insurance referral fees through click fraud.

In a complaint filed with the U.S. District Court in Seattle, Microsoft charges that Eric Lam, Gordon Lam, and Melanie Suen, of Vancouver, British Columbia, though various companies, abused Microsoft's adCenter by conducting a campaign of competitor click fraud.

Competitor click fraud is a way of gaming keyword ad auctions in which advertisers receive ad placement based on a bid price. The scheme involves using automated methods to click on a competitor's pay-per-click ads in order to deplete the competitor's ad budget and to allow one's own less-expensive ads to be shown.

"Microsoft gathered substantial evidence that a handful of individuals were likely responsible for these click fraud attacks, which affected online advertisements related to auto insurance and the online role playing game, World of Warcraft," Microsoft's associate general counsel Tim Cranton said in an online post Monday. "Once we became aware of the click fraud attacks, we quickly took action to address any impact on advertisers and to enhance safeguards to further protect our network."

Microsoft is seeking an injunction against the defendants and $750,000 in damages, three times the estimated $250,000 allegedly earned by the defendants. The company's complaint states that it reimbursed advertisers for $1.5 million as a result of the defendants' alleged actions.

The overall incidence of click fraud declined in the first quarter of 2009, according to Click Forensics. Tom Cuthbert, the click auditing company's president, attributes this to progress Google and Yahoo have made blocking click fraud driven by botnets. However, the company reports that click fraud from malicious scripts -- JavaScript code that executes with the loading of a Web page -- is on the rise.

Microsoft is suing the two Lams and Suen for violating the Microsoft adCenter terms and conditions, among other charges. However, the company appears to have little interest in determining whether its advertisers are involved in breaching other contractual agreements.

Blizzard Entertainment, which owns World of Warcraft, forbids the sale of World of Warcraft gold though the game's terms of service agreement. Although eBay has tried to ban the sale of virtual goods like World of Warcraft gold, Google's, Microsoft's, and Yahoo's ad networks all display ads offering to sell World of Warcraft currency for real money.

Neither Microsoft nor Blizzard immediately responded to a request for comment. http://www.gawkwire.com/business/microsoft_sues_three_for_click_fraud.html

Opera Browser Becomes File Sharing Platform

2009-06-17T09:40:00-04:00

(Gawkwire.com) In an effort to break into the browser big leagues, Opera Software, maker of the innovative but little used Opera browser, on Tuesday introduced a new version of its software called Opera Unite that combines Web browsing with file serving.

Opera Unite takes cloud computing and turns it into crowd computing. That is, it removes the need for a Web server and allows people to share files and interact directly. "PCs decentralized computing away from large mainframes," Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner said in a statement. "Opera Unite now decentralizes and democratizes the cloud."

"This technology is a radical first step towards addressing what I call 'the Internet's unfulfilled promise,' which is about our ability to connect with each other and participate meaningfully online -- on our own terms, and without losing control of our data," said Lawrence Eng, a product analyst with Opera Software, in a blog post.

Opera Unite allows users to share files by generating a direct URL to the hosting computer. It lets users host entire Web sites, music playlists, and photos. It also supports a chat service and a note-exchange system.

Eng describes Opera Unite as enabling a new class of social Web applications. The software, he says, allows users to "connect directly without needing middlemen who control third-party servers."

For all the middlemen and content aggregators out there who profit from the control of third-party servers and the ads delivered there, you've been put on notice.

Initially released in 1996, Opera has never really taken off among consumers, though a mobile version is installed on roughly 40 million mobile phones around the world. Opera for computers has a global market share of 0.72%, according to Net Applications. Google Chrome has more than twice as many users, only nine months after it launched.

Opera Unite could change that dynamic, though it will be a significant challenge to steal market share from Apple, Google, Microsoft, or Mozilla without the backing of a powerful distribution partner or a community of committed open source advocates.

There's another consideration, too: security. Sharing files and running a Web server can put the host computer at risk. Michael Sutton, VP of research at Zscaler, worries that attackers will be able to leverage Opera Unite to spread malware, conduct social engineering attacks, and/or steal personal information.

Milw0rm, a site that hosts proof-of-concept exploit code, lists five Opera vulnerabilities identified in 2008 and one identified in 2009. There are likely to be more and such vulnerabilities could become more severe with the built-in file-sharing capabilities of Opera Unite.

There are also reasons not to serve files from one's home computer that are unrelated to security, such as limited upstream bandwidth and resource usage.

At the same time, Opera Unite deserves consideration for challenging the cloud computing orthodoxy. It's interesting technology, to say the least.
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IBM to Invest $100 Million in Mobile Communication Research

2009-06-17T09:38:00-04:00

ARMONK, NY (Gawkwire.com) IBM is investing to create technology in its labs that bring simple, easy-to-use services to the millions of people who have bypassed using the personal computer as their primary method of accessing the Internet, and instead use their mobile devices for managing large forces of enterprise field workers, conducting financial transactions, entertainment, shopping, and more.

Through this effort, IBM is aiming to drive new intelligence into the underpinnings of the mobile web to create new efficiencies in business operations and people's daily lives. The three focus areas for IBM's research investment are: mobile enterprise enablement, emerging market mobility and enterprise end-user mobile experiences. Analytics, security, privacy and user interface, and navigation will be concentrated on across the Research effort.

"Mobile devices are gradually becoming ubiquitous and helping us transcend many boundaries -- geographical, economic, and social, among others," says Dr. Guruduth Banavar, global leader of the mobile communications focus for IBM Research and director of IBM Research - India. "With high penetration, simple user interface, and significant cost advantage for end users, mobile telephony holds the future of communication and exchange of information for the enterprise."

Mobile Enterprise Enablement
Low cost, high bandwidth, wireless access, and PC-like information processing power are accelerating the promise of the mobile phone as a compelling platform for accessing information services.

Mobile phones now outnumber traditional telephones, and the opportunities for growth in mobility are enormous. According to IBM's Institute for Business Value, the number of mobile users will grow by 191 percent from 2006 to 2011 to reach approximately one billion users.

A glimpse of the possibilities of mobility can be found in a recent pilot performed as part of IBM's first-of-a-kind (FOAK) program, which used a technology named "BlueStar" to develop automated mobile devices and application management services for insurance claims processing. IBM's FOAK program pairs IBM's scientists with clients to explore how emerging technologies can solve real world business problems.

The pilot enabled an insurance enterprise to significantly reduce the amount of time required to process claims by leveraging mobile technology to locate and dispatch the most appropriate and available claims adjusters for each case. The right agents were identified through a combination of GPS location technology, presence awareness capabilities and an analysis of all candidate agents' calendar availability. Once agents were selected, the state of their mobile phone's configuration and security status was acquired by BlueStar, and updated, if necessary. BlueStar then assisted with preparing and formatting necessary claims case information for the specific mobile device configuration, and securely transmitted all data to the device.

This policy-driven approach to configuring information for on-the-go staff simplified the maintenance of mobile service products. Rather than having information dispersed on hundreds -- or even thousands -- of handheld devices, information briefly provisioned by a central server can be better monitored, upgraded and secured.

The BlueStar pilot demonstrated how to deploy and manage mobile devices and applications to a large force of enterprise field workers. The approach enabled not only smarter device management, but a smarter way for the mobile field force to work.

Emerging Market Mobility
For the 83 percent of the world that does not have easy access to the Web via PCs, IBM is helping mobile phone users become more productive. In these locations, there is a dearth of skills, such as technological and language literacy; a lack of infrastructure, such as reliable electrical power; as well as limited availability of smartphones.

IBM Research has established a pilot program in southern India that allows people, including farmers, repairmen, small business owners, and consumers, to post, retrieve or exchange timely information via voice on cellphones. Content -- such as weather and ocean conditions, grain prices, advertisements, bus schedules, news, class schedules, product catalogues, health information and available services appointments -- is created and updated by entrepreneurs and municipalities.

Inputting and accessing information, as well as processing transactions, such as reservations or payments, is as easy as speaking into a mobile device. In nine months of operation so far, the pilot has won rave reviews from users.

Enterprise to End-User Mobile Experience
"Mobility and the associated analytics will change virtually every enterprise business process," said Paul Bloom, chief technologist, IBM Telecom Research. "It will change the relationship between enterprises and their customers, their employees and their partners, enabling them to do business in more intelligent, efficient ways."

One example of how mobility will change the relationship between enterprises and the end user can be found in a project at IBM Research -- Haifa with Taiwan Mobile, the second largest telecommunication company in Taiwan. Here, IBM is analyzing customer information to get manageable business intelligence based on evolving user preferences, users context and transaction history.

This FOAK solution can be used by telecommunications companies and retailers alike to allow them to customize mobile portals and recommend the right products to the right customers at the most opportune time that will optimize the probability customers will complete the transaction.

The technology also enables product managers to analyze the habits and segments of existing and potential customer populations, and to then tailor effective online mobile marketing campaigns to those audiences.

Enterprise mobility will increasingly allow people to more closely monitor the energy consumption of their workplace and home; receive more personalized offers and discounts from stores; research more thoroughly and pay more conveniently for purchases; and stay in closer touch with social and professional networks. Portable, personal and precise information carried by the mobile Web will enable emergency responders to be more effective, and allow healthcare providers make more informed, effective and safer medical decisions.

IBM Research comprises approximately 3,000 scientists in eight major laboratories around the globe. IBM also has more than 20,000 software developers in 75 development labs in 18 countries. IBM has earned the most U.S. patents for 16 consecutive years, and five of its researchers have been the recipients of the Nobel Prize.
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Secure64 DNS Products to Be Sold By HP

2009-06-16T09:30:00-04:00

DENVER, CO (Gawkwire.com) Secure64 Software Corporation announced today that it has signed an agreement with HP wherein HP will resell Secure64's DNS products, including its 2009 FOSE Award-winning DNSSEC software appliance, Secure64 DNS Signer.

"HP Integrity has been our server of choice due to their unique understanding of the power of the Itanium platform," said Tom Chalk, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing of Secure64. "HP's worldwide sales and support organization will help Secure64 penetrate a larger client base that will positively benefit both companies' bottom line."

All Secure64 products run on the entry-class HP Integrity rx2660 and rx3600 servers. These cost-effective and versatile HP platforms provide customers with the performance and capacity to easily handle business-critical applications and heavy-transaction workloads.

"Customers, including government organizations and telecommunication businesses, can significantly improve the security of their online transactions by reducing risks associated with DNS threats," said Jennifer Millier, vice president of Mission Critical Business Solutions, Business Critical Systems, HP. "The combination of highly-scalable HP Integrity servers and Secure64 DNS Signer provides an easy-to-deploy platform to mitigate vulnerabilities across the data center infrastructure."

Secure64 DNS Products

Secure64's suite of DNS products includes Secure64 DNS Signer, a software product that fully automates Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) key generation, key rollover, zone signing and re-signing processes. It reduces deployment and administration costs while eliminating errors that can cause domains to become unavailable. The software also scales to extremely large, dynamic environments by safely keeping DNSSEC signing keys online while providing incremental zone signing and extremely high signing performance.

The company's other DNS product, Secure64 DNS Authority, is an authoritative name server software product that's available at all times - even during network attacks or restarts. It delivers the availability and security required in today's networks, without the cost and complexity of conventional solutions. http://www.gawkwire.com/technology/secure64_dns_products_to_be_sold_by_hp.html

IBM Readies Cloud for Business

2009-06-16T09:27:00-04:00

ARMONK, NY (Gawkwire.com) IBM (NYSE: IBM) today introduced the industry's first set of commercial "cloud" services and integrated products for the enterprise. This will give clients a reliable way to standardize IT functions that are rapidly becoming too costly or difficult to use.

Based on nearly two years of research and hundreds of client engagements, the IBM Smart Business cloud portfolio is meant to help clients turn complex business processes into simple services. To accomplish this, Smart Business brings sophisticated automation technology and self-service to specific digital tasks as diverse as software development and testing; desktop and device management; and collaboration.

From utility grids to roadways, water systems and financial instruments, the world's physical infrastructure is rapidly becoming more instrumented and IT-enabled, and corporate data centers will have to deal with a new flood of transactions and data coming from a billion connected people and a trillion connected devices. These offerings will also be aimed at helping clients deal with entirely new kinds of tasks and the colossal data burdens facing the data center.

"Cloud is an important new consumption and delivery model for IT and business services. Large enterprises want our help to capitalize on what this model offers in a way that is safe, reliable and efficient for business," said Erich Clementi, General Manager, Enterprise Initiatives, IBM. "Today's Smart Business announcement demonstrates that we take this responsibility seriously with significant investments and solutions. We are responding today as we did assisting enterprises with the shift to e-business and in the embrace of open source and Linux."

The IBM Smart Business portfolio includes three "on-ramps," or ways to quickly deploy the cloud model:

    * Smart Business standardized services on the IBM Cloud;
    * Smart Business private cloud services behind the firewall built by IBM (run by IBM or the client);
    * and IBM CloudBurst service delivery platform, for clients who want to build to their own cloud with pre-integrated hardware and software.

All three offerings include IBM's service management system - a kind of air traffic control system for IT - that automates self-service, provisioning, monitoring as well as managing access and security for the cloud. This reflects IBM's leadership and more than $10 billion in investments over the last five years in control and automation technologies, which become critical as the digital and physical infrastructure converge.

IBM's portfolio of offerings helps clients standardize IT and business services by type of work and function. The first offerings are optimized for two areas: development and test and virtualized desktops.

IBM Smart Business: Software Development & Test

In many organizations software developers are fast becoming the nucleus of innovation, crucial to all business processes. They build the services and capabilities that will underlie future revenue and generate opportunity. In fact, developers are driving so much business value that the average enterprise devotes 30 to 50 percent of its entire technology infrastructure to development and test, but typically up to 90 percent of it remains idle.(1)

In addition to high cost and low utilization rates, today software developers lose a massive amount of time and productivity getting permissions and access to the systems and tools they need to do their jobs. IBM has seen that safely enabling developers to serve themselves can help reduce IT labor costs by 50 percent, reduce provision cycle times from weeks to minutes and improve quality, eliminating software defects by up to 30 percent.(2)

IBM will offer clients three choices to deploy development and test cloud services:

    * Smart Business Development & Test on the IBM Cloud (preview) - IBM software delivery services for the cloud, enabling organizations to free up resources to gain rapid returns on their software investments by levering IBM's secure, scalable cloud delivery model for application lifecycle management
    * IBM Smart Business Test Cloud - Private cloud services, behind the client's firewall, built and/or run by IBM
    * IBM CloudBurst: a family of pre-integrated hardware, storage, virtualization and networking, with a sophisticated service management system built-in

In its ongoing quest to be competitive, South African financial institution Nedbank is automating business processes through cloud technology.

"The time and labour required to deploy business process automation environments is a pain point. IBM cloud technology has proved to us that we can shorten the provisioning time significantly, reduce our cost and also increase the agility with which we can respond to business demands," said Nicholas Parry, Nedbank. "The flexibility provided by IBM cloud technology has the proven potential to change the way we deliver services to our business, and as we look across our IT environment we see many more opportunities where the cloud environment can add more value to our environment."

"As a Fortune 500 company, Sinochem has always had an innovative IT culture to support our business, in sync with China's national agenda of integrating industry and information technology. Cloud computing increases our flexibility in providing IT resources to meet the growing demands of our global business," said Mr. Peng Jin Song, General Manager, Information Technology, Sinochem. "With IBM CloudBurst and the technical expertise from IBM Cloud Labs in China, we will be able to pool and maximize our resources to run our global business on the most efficient infrastructure possible."

IBM Smart Business: Virtual Desktops

IBM's clients have also successfully leveraged cloud computing to virtualize desktops. Using up to 73 percent less power than traditional desktops and laptops, server-enabled virtualized desktops deliver a better end-user experience and can be more efficiently managed.(3) Based on IBM internal data from client engagements, these solutions can also lower end-user IT support costs by up to 40 percent over traditional desktop environments.

IBM will offer two deployment options to help clients virtualize desktops:

    * IBM Smart Business Desktop on the IBM Cloud (preview) - IBM Smart Business Virtual Desktop is delivered via IBM's secure, scalable public cloud
    * IBM Smart Business Desktop Cloud - Cloud services delivered via the client's own infrastructure and data center

Pike County Schools System in Eastern Kentucky has 10,000 students in 27 schools, and 3,000 employees. Like many organizations today, their budget is decreasing while the need for increased access to technology is rising.

"Providing cost-effective technology solutions is an ongoing challenge for today's K-12 schools," said Maritta Horne, Chief Information Officer of Pike County School District in Eastern Kentucky. "With IBM Smart Business Virtual Desktop, more than 10,000 students in Pike County are able to easily and quickly access new courseware through private cloud desktops, and the school system is saving on expenses related to hardware updates, technology support staff and power usage."

As a result, Pike County has achieved a reduction of over 62 percent of end-user support costs while providing equal access to education content across 27 schools and just over 2,000 desktops. The introduction of new courseware - what used to take over a year - can now be implemented instantly across all schools.

IT Gets "Smarter" with Built-in Service Management System

Service management is the operating system of the 21st century, orchestrating thousands of processes and services from physical and digital sources across the world. What the operating system was for the PC era, the service management system will be for IT and business services in the cloud.

Everyday 15 petabytes of new information is generated - more than eight times the information stored in all the libraries in the United States. By 2012, the digital universe will be 5 times the size it was in 2008. While 70 percent or more of the digital universe is created, captured or replicated by individuals, enterprises, at some point in time, have responsibility or liability for 85 percent of it - including security, privacy, reliability and compliance(4).

It is no coincidence that IBM has focused so much of its investment - through acquisitions and in research and development - on developing smarter control and automation technologies. In fact, about half of that investment is on software used to control and automate what you think of as traditional IT, and the other half on getting visibility and control of the trillion connected physical devices -- mobile phone networks, smart utility meters, rail cars - that will be connected to data centers.

IBM Smart Business private cloud services for development & test as well as virtual desktops are available today, while IBM CloudBurst will join WebSphere CloudBurst in the family of pre-integrated systems and will begin shipping on June 19, 2009. More will be announced in 2009, as IBM helps clients gain efficiency through the cloud model by workload.

For more information on IBM's cloud computing portfolio, research and labs please visit, ibm.com/cloud.

For information about how IBM is helping clients usher in a smarter planet, please visit ibm.com/think.

    () IBM client engagements and research
    (2) IBM client engagements and research
    (3) IBM client engagements and research
    (4) Source: IDC White Paper sponsored by EMC, "As the Economy Contracts,
        the Digital Universe Expands," March 2008.
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click2try Helps Users Run Ubuntu Directly from Open Source Catalog

2009-06-16T09:25:00-04:00

HOUSTON, TX (Gawkwire.com) One of the most popular and stable Open Source Linux distributions, Ubuntu is a community-developed, Linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. It includes the GNOME desktop and contains all the applications users need - a Web browser, presentation, document and spreadsheet software, instant messaging and much more.

The complete Ubuntu distribution, including the standard Ubuntu applications like Open Office, GIMP, Firefox, and Rhythmbox, is hosted in a click2try virtual machine and is available for free use in the click2try catalog.

"Adding Ubuntu to our catalog furthers our plan to host all of the major Linux distros," says Tom Callaghan, click2try VP Technical Services. "Among Linux distributions, Ubuntu is one of the most popular. People want to see what it's all about. Now they can, without downloading or installing onto their own machines."

A viable alternative to Microsoft Windows, award-winning Ubuntu has established an easy-to-use reputation among millions of home, school, business and government users worldwide. Ubuntu is also growing in popularity on servers, desktops, notebooks and mobile devices.

"We're excited to have Ubuntu in the click2try catalog," says Amber Graner, an Ubuntu community guru and member of UbuntuWomen. "As Linus Torvalds says 'There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works, but only want to use it. That is a tribute to how good Linux is.' The click2try site makes it easy to try and use Ubuntu and all of the great software that's included in each Ubuntu distro."

click2try is dedicated to providing a way for individuals and companies to easily evaluate and use the best Linux distributions in the Open Source market. Bypassing downloads, visitors to the site (http://www.click2try.com) can try any application for free or subscribe to an affordable service plan for persistent access. Subscribers can save data, share applications with other registered users, and enjoy peace of mind knowing that all applications and data are securely stored within a hardened network infrastructure at the company's data center in Houston, Texas. click2try currently hosts over 40 Open Source applications in its VM Jukebox(TM), and adds new applications weekly. http://www.gawkwire.com/technology/click2try_helps_users_run_ubuntu_directly_from_open_source_catal.html

C2C Hits Four Million User Milestone

2009-06-15T10:34:00-04:00

SPRINGFIELD, MA (Gawkwire.com) C2C, a leading provider of messaging system enhancements, today announced the four millionth user of its solutions for email, files and SharePoint content. Now in its 17th year, C2C's growing worldwide customer base includes diverse sectors such as government, chemical, education, banking/finance, healthcare, law, telecommunications, energy, manufacturing, retailing, media/entertainment, and ranges from small businesses to enterprises with more than 150,000 employees.

C2C has been involved in developing products to assists with mailbox size issues and content management, with products such as MaX Compression, which compresses or decompresses all email attachments and reduce storage requirements by 50 percent or more with no impact on the end users. Today, C2C users can also select flagship software ArchiveOne(R) product family to address email, file and messaging capacity, access, retention and protection, and comply with regulatory requirements such as Sarbanes-Oxley, Freedom of Information Act, HIPAA, FRCP, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, SEC and NASD Directives.

First introduced to optimize Microsoft Exchange performance, over the years ArchiveOne has evolved to support Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Windows File Server together as well as IBM Lotus Domino.

"Hitting this milestone demonstrates the strong user value of C2C platforms and the strength and agility of the product line to meet a broad range of IT managers' needs," said Dave Hunt, CEO at C2C. "We are seeing increased customer adoption of the ArchiveOne suite because of its flexibility in providing comprehensive archiving, retention and discovery requirements for email and files, e-Discovery, compliance management, intellectual property containment and storage management tools."

Since its modest beginnings as a custom solution provider of email management applications to its four millionth user and eight years' standing as a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, C2C has been recognized for its innovation. ArchiveOne was most recently named a finalist for Archiving & Compliance product of the year and for its installation at the University of Liverpool in the 2009 Storage Awards, and was a finalist in the Network Computing product awards for Messaging Product of the Year.

Earlier this year, ArchiveOne received two perfect scores in a comprehensive Network World evaluation comparing ten vendors. In addition to high scores for ease of use and installation, ArchiveOne earned the best possible scores for management and flexibility. The review credited C2C's product with offering a "complete array of features, with enterprise-class functionality in management, granularity of permissions and scalability."

"It's an excellent time to provide messaging solutions that address capacity, mailbox quota size and backup and restore times, since these are cost-saving measures most of our customers can implement right now," said Steve Bishop, CTO at Veristor, a leading enterprise data storage solution provider. "We have been offering ArchiveOne for a number of years and we appreciate C2C for how they value our partnership and our customers."

C2C's ArchiveOne solutions help organizations solve the headaches and heartaches of email archiving, file and messaging capacity, access and protection management. ArchiveOne enables administrators to enforce data retention policies and comply with various regulatory requirements regarding the use, access and retention of critical data. ArchiveOne technology is built on an advanced analytical search and policy enforcement engine, consisting of a very broad-based, in-depth and mature set of analysis criteria used throughout the product line to centralize, automate and accelerate tasks to reduce risk and improve system usage. http://www.gawkwire.com/technology/c2c_hits_four_million_user_milestone.html

Morse Appointed Chief Financial Officer of Yahoo!

2009-06-13T05:00:00-04:00

SUNNYVALE, CA (Gawkwire.com) “Tim has a proven ability to translate strategy into structure, process, and execution, and I am delighted that he will be joining my leadership team to help drive Yahoo!’s growth,” said Bartz. “With his passion for operational finance, global experience, and expertise simplifying complex organizations and managing growth, Tim is a natural fit for Yahoo!.”

Morse has financial experience in both large and small organizations, managing in complex, fast-paced environments and establishing scalable, cost-effective processes and controls. Prior to joining Yahoo!, he was the CFO of Altera Corporation, a semiconductor company specializing in programmable logic devices for communications, industrial, and consumer applications. Morse previously served as the CFO and general manager of business development for General Electric Plastics. A 15 year veteran of GE, he also held a variety of positions at GE Plastics, GE Appliances and GE Capital in North America, Europe and Asia.

“Yahoo! is an amazing brand with a unique combination of assets, and I am extremely excited to be joining a finance team with a deep commitment to financial excellence and fiscal discipline,” said Morse. “I look forward to working with the entire leadership team to continue to focus on driving results and creating value for our shareholders.”

Morse holds a bachelor’s degree in finance and operations and strategic management from the Boston College Carroll School of Management.

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topseos Announces Their List of Top SEO Shopping Cart Companies

2009-06-13T05:00:00-04:00

Plymouth, IN (Gawkwire.com) When it comes to implementing SEO shopping cart services, there are a host of organizations that will claim to be able to dispense this unique and hugely sought after function. Trying to determine who the key performers really are is something that would usually have to come with personal experience. That is unless you consult topseos.com, which informs the worldwide community of who to trust, who to hire and which companies are fit for recognition. Their most recently ranked SEO shopping cart companies are definitely well worth the nod.

An SEO Shopping Cart that actually directs customers to your site is a valuable asset to any sales driven business. There are a number of companies that offer the ability to implement these services, but which company do you choose to go with and how do you determine who is better than the rest? Perhaps you could try consulting one of the following companies that come more than highly recommended by topseos.

The topseos top 10 SEO shopping cart companies are:

1.   SearchFit
2.   GoECart.com
3.   3D Cart
4.   Magento
5.   Network Solutions
6.   X-CART
7.   Volusion
8.   Miva Merchant
9.   Zen Cart
10.   Pinnacle Systems, Inc.

topseos has 7 years of research into search engine marketing with their incredibly strict and demanding evaluation process. The outcome is a system that sifts through all ranking applicants and separates the most highly-qualified and competent contributors from those who fail to meet the evaluation criteria. In short, topseos does all the homework.

The rankings have become synonymous with excellence, success and accomplishment, bringing only those companies who meet and exceed expectations to the table. Any company can apply for rankings, but that is not to say that they will receive them. Provided the companies that are entered into the rankings process fit the bill and meet all criteria that are presented to them, then the opportunity to be recognized as a topseos "10 of the Best" can easily become a reality.

SEO shopping cart companies may apply for rankings at: http://www.topseos.com/rankings/search-engine-marketing-agencies/apply-for-ranking.

To learn more about the best SEO shopping cart firms, please visit: http://www.topseos.com/rankings-of-best-seo-shopping-cart-companies.

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oDesk Community Recognizes its Best Freelancers

2009-06-13T05:00:00-04:00

Menlo Park, CA (Gawkwire.com) oDesk, the leading marketplace for online workteams, today announced the first results in an ongoing "best provider" recognition program. Every month, oDesk will rank 25 leading freelance providers from around the world in its five top job categories: designers, software developers, web developers, writers, and virtual assistants.

oDesk recognizes top freelance Web Developers, Software Programmers, Designers, Writers, and Virtual Assistants

oDesk's "Best" were selected from those who performed the most hours during the month while receiving the highest feedback ratings. Monthly recipients will receive exclusive web badges recognizing their achievement that can be used to attract future service customers.

oDesk's May honorees have all recently completed assignments, and are currently available for hire. The lists of recognized providers can be viewed at:

Best Freelance Designers
http://www.odesk.com/community/oconomy/best_freelance_designers

Best Freelance Software Developers http://www.odesk.com/community/oconomy/best_freelance_software_developers

Best Freelance Web Developers - http://www.odesk.com/community/oconomy/best_freelance_web_developers

Best Freelance Writers
http://www.odesk.com/community/oconomy/best_freelance_writers

Best Virtual Assistants
http://www.odesk.com/community/oconomy/best_virtual_assistants

"oDesk salutes the quality these top performing providers have achieved in their online work performance," said Gary Swart, oDesk CEO. "Through the hours they have worked and the feedback ratings they have earned, these providers can truly be considered among the best in their respective job categories. oDesk is proud to be home to such outstanding talent, and we encourage those looking to build online workteams to consider our monthly recognition program an up-to-date starting point in their search."

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Web Companies Develop Common Tag Format

2009-06-13T05:00:00-04:00

Belgrade, Edmonton, Galway, London, New York, and San Francisco (Gawkwire.com) A group of Web companies announced today the development of a new tagging format for Web pages called Common Tag. The companies--AdaptiveBlue, DERI (NUI Galway), Faviki, Freebase, Yahoo!, Zemanta, and Zigtag--offer services that help publishers use semantic tagging to make their content more discoverable, connected, and engaging.

People have long used tags to organize, share and discover content on the Web. However, in the absence of a common tagging format for Web content, the benefits of tagging have been limited. Individual things like New York City are often represented by multiple tags (e.g., "nyc", "new_york_city", and "newyork"), making it difficult to organize related content; and it isn't always clear what a particular tag represents - does the tag "jaguar" represent the animal, the car company, or the operating system?

The Common Tag format was developed to address these shortcomings and help everyone--including end users, publishers, and developers--get more out of Web content. With Common Tag, content is tagged with unique, well-defined concepts - everything about New York City is tagged with one concept for New York City and everything about jaguar the animal is tagged with one concept for jaguar the animal. The Common Tag format also provides access to useful metadata that defines each concept and describes how the concepts relate to one another. For example, metadata for the Barack Obama concept indicates that he's the President of the United States and that he's married to Michelle Obama.

Peter Mika from Yahoo! Research emphasized, "Semantic tagging is an important next step in the evolution of the Web. When we add semantic meaning to tags, the content that is tagged becomes significantly easier for machines to understand. That in turn allows for the development of more intelligent applications for aggregating, searching, and browsing the Web."

Using the Common Tag format
The organizations that developed the Common Tag format offer a range of services that help publishers and bloggers take advantage of semantic tagging: a standard and extensible set of tags, simple tools to relate those tags to web page content, and services that help users discover tagged content from other sites and popular search engines.

To tag their content using Common Tag, publishers can use automated tagging tools like those offered by Zemanta or tag their content themselves. Social tagging services like Faviki and Zigtag also allow end users to tag content using the Common Tag format.

As more publishers, developers and end users join in supporting the Common Tag format, publishers' content will benefit by becoming:

More discoverable: Over time, more and more content related to a specific concept will be discoverable through a single tag. As application developers begin to recognize or deploy offerings using Common Tag formatting, they'll deliver more related content to their users and in turn drive more traffic to publishers that use the Common Tag format. Services like DERI's Sindice.com provide developers with tools to find and incorporate related content into their applications using Common Tag. In addition, search engines like Yahoo and Google have begun reading RDFa--the markup standard used by the Common Tag format--to acquire richer information about sites that use it. Yahoo! Search's SearchMonkey uses this information to improve the presentation (and in the future, the relevance) of publishers' search results in Yahoo! Search, helping drive more traffic to their sites; and Google's new Rich Snippets feature uses the information to apply similar enhancements to Google search results.

More connected: With Common Tag, all content related to a particular concept can be connected to and organized by a single tag, both within individual sites and across the Web. What's more, Common Tag metadata connects concepts to one another, allowing publishers and developers to present end users with even more related content. For example, AdaptiveBlue's Glue service plans to use the Common Tag format to help connect end users to other people with similar interests and to other related content across the Web.

More engaging: Common Tag is a format that's understandable by machines, which allows publishers and developers to build more engaging features and applications around content tagged using Common Tag. For example, a developer might use Freebase's development tools--which understand the Common Tag format--to create a simple application that takes an article about the new Star Trek movie and allows users to purchase tickets to the movie directly within the article. Since both the publisher and ticket service use the Common Tag format, the application can use Freebase to easily make the connection without having to guess at what the content of the two services is about.

As publishers and bloggers extend the use of Common Tag, the ecosystem of consumer applications and services will continue to grow; and anyone interested in the Common Tag format can help identify and create solutions for those services that would benefit from widespread use of well-understood semantic tags.

More information on the Common Tag format
To learn more about the Common Tag format and get involved in its development, visit http://www.CommonTag.org. Publishers, developers, and others interested in Common Tag are also encouraged to join the Common Tag mailing list at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/commontag.

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SEO Expert Helps Small Businesses

2009-06-13T05:00:00-04:00

La Mirada, CA (Gawkwire.com) Today, SEOExpert.tv Founder and Chief Technology Officer announced a special event that promises to level the online playing field for small businesses by bringing together experts in Internet Marketing for a daylong workshop in Irvine, CA.

"The challenge with large businesses is the amount of red tape they have to cut through to make website changes or to get bite-size budgets for online visibility. I know because I've fought for both many times in the past with Fortune 100 accounts. What businesses will learn at the iSuccess Summit is how to pull the carpet out from under big businesses quickly, easily via the Internet and in most cases with absolutely no cost to the small business owner."

iSuccess Summit is an Internet marketing workshop scheduled to take place at the Hyatt Regency in Irvine on June 20th, 2009. Featured speakers include Search Engine Optimization Expert Steve Wiideman, featured Social Networking Expert Susan McKenna, and celebrated humorous Business Speaker Bodine Balasco. The workshop claims to provide insider strategy from experts in online marketing to improve organic/natural visits from Google.com and other search engines, as well as provide tactics that employ social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube to improve online visibility.

The show's host and SEO Expert Steve Wiideman, has been featured in a number of entrepreneurial and business publications including; Entrepreneur Magazine, Response Magazine, CNNMoney.com, and online at MarketingSherpa.com, Business.com, and other destinations. Wiideman has provided SEM and SEO support for a number of online destinations and corporate entities, including; Disneyland.com, AdventuresByDisney.com, Expedia Corporate, venues of Paciolan (a Ticketmaster Company), and Ring Central.

Steve holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in E-Business Management and is best known for his skills in organic/natural search engine optimization and pay-per-click (PPC) sponsored ad optimization. His website, SEOExpert.tv, is a popular destination for people wanting to learn more about SEO.

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A Year Later: Is MobileMe Finally Worth $99?

2009-06-12T09:42:00-04:00

(cnet) So for me, spending $99 a year on Apple's MobileMe, a service that basically does Web e-mail, contact syncing, photo hosting, and file storage, was a hard sell--especially after its bad start. This week, however, Apple finally got me to take the plunge. Why? It's starting to add genuinely useful tools for Apple hardware owners, with the promise of more to come.

On Monday, the company demoed a new tool for MobileMe subscribers called "Find My iPhone" that lets you both find a lost (or stolen) iPhone, as well as remotely wipe its contents. You can also get it to ring and vibrate for two minutes straight, which can be a huge help if it's stuck between couch cushions or buried deep within a bag. Anyone who's been late to work, or had a near-heart attack from trying to find a lost phone can appreciate how this service alone may be worth a Benjamin. ...Go to source

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HOSTMYSITE | HOSTING.COM Merge Cloud Hosting Solutions Into Cloud 9

2009-06-12T09:40:00-04:00

NEWARK, DE (Gawkwire.com) HostMySite|Hosting.com, the global leader in hosting and colocation services, today announced the merger of HostMySite’s Elastic Enterprise Computing and Hosting.com’s Cloud 9 cloud hosting solutions under the Cloud 9 brand. Two new products are immediately available – Cloud 9 Enterprise and Cloud 9 Private offer shared and dedicated cloud hosting, Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service environments. Cloud 9 Enterprise provides enhancements such as on-demand provisioning, no required contracts, interconnectivity to private cloud environments, and rapid deployment of compute and disk resources.

Prior to HostMySite’s acquisition of Hosting.com on May 19, 2009, both companies operated independent, VMware-based cloud hosting solutions. The integration was seamless due to the similar infrastructures, platforms, dedication to support, and user functionality and control. Users can access an online pricing configurator for Cloud 9 Enterprise solutions that start as low as $125.

This is HostMySite’s first product announcement since the acquisition of Hosting.com. Art Zeile, HostMySite CEO commented, “We will continue to integrate HostMySite and Hosting.com solutions at a fast pace to bring relevant and client-centric solutions to the cloud and virtual marketplaces. We chose the Cloud 9 name because it is an established cloud hosting brand. The new solutions [Cloud 9 Enterprise and Cloud 9 Private] will provide consumers with unprecedented choice and control.”

Cloud 9 Enterprise – Value Delivered, Instantly
Cloud 9 Enterprise provides on-demand cloud hosting via a secure web portal so businesses can rapidly deploy virtual servers and modify resources as needed. The solution is comparable to a virtual private server with the added benefits of high availability and elasticity. Cloud 9 Enterprise requires no contracts and clients can purchase, provision and add CPU, RAM, and DISK online in as little as one minute.

Robert Cassidy, Vice President of Marketing and Product Development, commented, “Working with VMware, the global leader in virtualization solutions, provides Cloud 9 clients high availability and advanced automation and management features.” Cassidy continued, “Cloud 9 Enterprise will prove most valuable to companies that need to align specific business needs such as website, storage, and application hosting with flexible IT infrastructure resources and want self-service provisioning.”

Robust vLAN configurations allow Cloud 9 subscribers to connect their internal IT infrastructures with a shared (Cloud 9 Enterprise) or dedicated (Cloud 9 Private) hosting environment, or connect Cloud 9 Enterprise and Cloud 9 Private for rapid scalability, increased bandwidth or storage needs, additional solution redundancy, and to provision additional resources instantly.

Cloud 9 Private – Dedicated, Clustered Environments
Cloud 9 Private provides virtual, clustered environments at a fraction of the cost (up to 40% cost savings) of traditional, dedicated server solutions. Cloud 9 Private provides enhanced levels of security, fault tolerance and scalability in a single-tenant environment.

Many companies will utilize Cloud 9 Private and Cloud 9 Enterprise to extend their internal cloud environments externally to geographically-dispersed cloud infrastructures in SAS 70 Type II certified HostMySite|Hosting.com datacenters. Cloud 9 Private allows companies to utilize external cloud technologies and maintain the highest levels of security, manageability and service as their internal IT environments.

Cloud 9 and VMware vSphere™ 4 – A Robust Platform
HostMySite|Hosting.com continues to work closely with VMware to bring enterprise-level cloud hosting services to companies of all sizes. The company is currently participating in the VMware vCloud™ Initiative, testing the recently released VMware vSphere™ 4, and working in conjunction with VMware to provide a Cloud Hosting Trial Offer for virtual appliances and general hosting needs. Enterprise and SMB companies can leverage VMware High Availability (HA) and VMware Dynamic Resource Scheduler (DRS) for fault tolerance and elasticity through Cloud 9 Enterprise and Cloud 9 Private.

“Service provider solutions such as those offered by HostMySite|Hosting.com provide cost-effective, cloud-based virtualization infrastructure that meets the specific needs of our enterprise customers through a simplified, easily accessible service model,” commented Dan Chu, vice president, emerging products and solutions, VMware. He continued, “We look forward to continued collaboration with HostMySite|Hosting.com to continue providing innovative, cloud-based virtualization solutions to the market.”

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ShoZu Names Chris Wade CEO

2009-06-12T09:37:00-04:00

LONDON, UK (Gawkwire.com) Veteran technology executive and entrepreneur Chris Wade, who has served as Chairman of the leading social media hub ShoZu Inc. since 2008, is assuming the additional role of ShoZu’s CEO, succeeding Mark Bole.

“Mark has done a great job of leading ShoZu for almost 5 years and was instrumental in guiding the company to our new app store centric model, realizing early on that the Smartphone market was going to become a driver for consumer adoption of our service,” said Chris Wade.

Wade, who has served on the Shozu board since 2002, is also a private investor in the London-based company. He also serves as Chairman of another startup in the mobility applications space – Mobile Acuity.

Wade formerly served as CEO of Cambridge Positioning Systems Limited for nine years and before that held senior leadership positions for 15 years at Canada’s Nortel Networks. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in physics and chemistry from Leeds University.

Bole, who served as ShoZu CEO since October 2004, led the company from its earliest beginnings. His accomplishments at ShoZu include:
1. Creating and launching the multiple award- winning ShoZu service, which is now used by consumers in more than 130 countries across the world

2. Successfully negotiating deals with several global mobile device manufacturers to have ShoZu pre-installed on millions of handsets shipped each month.

3. Forging the commercial strategy and key relationships within the mobile, music and web 2.0 industries that grew the company from zero revenue to multi-million-dollar revenues annually.

4. Building the ShoZu brand, which is now widely recognized within the mobile industry and beyond.

5. Building and leading a strong, innovative team to extend ShoZu’s intellectual property portfolio and to win multiple global industry awards, including those from the mobile industry, the advertising industry and the online media industry.
Wade, who resides in the UK, is based in ShoZu’s London office.

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Tech Gifts Top Shoppers' Father's Day Wish Lists According to Sortprice.com

2009-06-12T09:36:00-04:00

NEW YORK, NY (Gawkwire.com) Technology items, sporting goods and household appliances and tools are the most sought-after items among Father's Day shoppers so far this year according to data released today by Sortprice.com, one of the fastest growing shopping search engines on the internet.

"With the economy starting to bounce back, many consumers are shopping for Father's Day a bit earlier this year," said Doron Simovitch, Sortprice.com co-founder and CEO. "The in-demand gifts - MP3 players, cameras and GPS systems - continue the trends we saw for Mother's Day and the graduation season."

The company compiled data on all visits to the site and user searches between May 28 and June 10 to determine the gifts and gift categories shoppers are targeting for Father's Day 2009. In addition to the usual tech products, cologne, running shoes and golf equipment and even espresso machines have cracked the top ten most popular gifts:

Top Categories
MP3 Players - http://www.sortprice.com/search-C-MP3_Players
Digital Cameras - http://www.sortprice.com/search-C-Digital_Cameras
Men's Fragrances - http://www.sortprice.com/search-C-Men's_Fragrances
Golf Equipment - http://www.sortprice.com/search-C-Golf_Equipment
Men's Watches - http://www.sortprice.com/search-C-Men's_Watches

For more great suggestions for Father's Day gifts, visit: http://www.sortprice.com/fathersday.html

SortPrice.com, founded in 2004, has grown into one of the internet's most popular shopping search engines. With advanced search technology and a simple interface, the site features millions of products from thousands of merchants nationwide. Learn more at www.sortprice.com.

Editor's Note: Sortprice is happy to compile similar data queries for reporters based on state/region or even within particular product categories. To request a data query, contact Dave Felipe at 212-461-2204 or dave@sortprice.com

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PEER 1 Offers 30% Cost Savings for Hosting Switch

2009-06-12T09:35:00-04:00

Vancouver, BC (Gawkwire.com) PEER 1 Network Enterprises, Inc. (TSX:PIX), a global online IT hosting provider who offers managed hosting, dedicated hosting, co-location and networking services, is now offering North American hosting customers a 30 percent cost-saving guarantee with a switch to PEER 1’s managed hosting services*.

The offer includes a free consultation with a PEER 1 Solutions Engineer to review the customer’s current hosting plan and a one-hour consultation with a migration expert to provide planning and analysis if needed. The special offer is available through the end of June 2009 by calling 1-877-504-0091, along with a copy of a recent invoice from a current hosting provider. More details on this hosting offer can be found at the PEER 1 website http://www.peer1.com/hosting/specialoffers_switch.php

“PEER 1 is all about making hosting easy on the customer,” said Rajan Sodhi, VP Marketing and Communications PEER 1. “Customers should not be locked into expensive contracts with hosting providers that offer little or no protection against downtime. Customers should also be able to try hosting services with little risk, which is why we offer a 30-day money-back guarantee on all our managed hosting plans. We provide customers the best hosting terms in the industry along with the reliability and performance of our SuperNetworkTM, all at an affordable rate.”

PEER 1 is also offering a ‘ValuePro Hosting Bundle’ including an Intel dedicated server, FirstCall Support TM, data backup, vulnerability scans, 100 percent network uptime SLA and access to the high performance SuperNetwork – at just $259 per month. The ValuePro bundle is designed to take the complexity out of running an online business and provide peace of mind that security, availability and reliability are taken care of.

All of PEER 1's services are built on its SuperNetwork. This network is made up of a series of dedicated links between all of PEER 1’s facilities using multiple high-speed connections. Through strategic peering relationships with more than 500 networks, PEER 1 ensures continued high performance, maximum uptime and faster connections. With 16 data centers throughout the US, Canada and Europe, PEER 1’s SuperNetwork handles traffic to customers’ servers regardless of where they’re located.

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Web Content Filtering Company Bloxx Adds Bing to SafeSearch List

2009-06-12T09:34:00-04:00

(Gawkwire.com) Bloxx, the enterprise Web filtering vendor, today announced that Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing, has been added to its SafeSearch list. Bloxx customers have the option to enforce the SafeSearch facility on search engines which automatically overrides users attempts to change search engine settings. With this option in force, IT Managers can fully protect their users’ from harmful and inappropriate search engine results when using Bing’s search facilities.

A controversial new feature available to users of Bing is its video search facility which lets users view online videos in preview mode. Without actually accessing the website hosting the video, users can potentially preview pornographic or other offensive videos by hovering the cursor over a thumbnail. This bypasses corporate and parental web control filters.

Bloxx’s SafeSearch facility has been universally expanded to incorporate Bing and assure continued safe searching for users. Unlike other web filtering solutions, customers do not have to impose a complete ban of Bing in order to stop users viewing inappropriate video search results. For customers that use Bloxx’s SafeSearch enforcement, it will now block users from previewing, accessing and viewing offensive content presented to them by Bing’s video search facility, ensuring the highest protection for users.

Bing was launched by Microsoft at the beginning of June and is looking to tip Google off the search engine top-spot. It is reported that in the first two weeks of launch Bing has already bypassed Yahoo to become the second most used search engine in the world.

The availability of this update is currently being rolled out to all Bloxx customers.

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The Planet to Celebrate Grand Opening of Eighth Data Center

2009-06-11T14:00:00-04:00

HOUSTON, TX (Gawkwire.com) The Planet, the global leader in IT hosting, today announced it will host a ribbon-cutting event at its newly constructed data center in the north Dallas suburb of Plano, Texas. The event, scheduled for 11 a.m. on Tuesday, June 16, will include remarks from The Planet Chairman & CEO Douglas J. Erwin and Plano City Manager Thomas H. Muehlenbeck. Tours of the 106,000-square-foot, environmentally friendly facility will be offered.

The new data center – the company’s eighth – uses the latest modular cooling technology from Turbine Air Systems (TAS), with high-efficiency, water-cooled chillers that eliminate the possibility of an interior water leak. Colocation, private racks, and Northstar Managed Hosting™ services will be offered in the new facility, which brings The Planet’s total data center raised-floor footprint to 224,000 square feet. Space is also available for a Business Continuity Center, which provides office space for customers requiring a disaster recovery base of operations during an outage.

“We’ve received substantial interest in our new highly efficient facilities from customers looking to expand their IT infrastructure capabilities,” said The Planet Vice President of Facilities Jeff Lowenberg. “This new space enables us to accommodate the rapid colocation market growth we’ve seen in the Dallas area, and we invite customers, prospects and partners to celebrate another significant step forward in The Planet’s expansion.”
For more event information and to register, visit www.theplanet.com/events.

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Outright Partners with Network Solutions to Offer Free Websites & Domains

2009-06-11T14:00:00-04:00

CAMPBELL, CA (Gawkwire.com) In a collaboration that will help millions of small and side business owners, Outright.com has joined forces with Network Solutions®, pairing the free bookkeeping site designed specifically for the self-employed with the top provider of web solutions for small businesses. Starting today, Network Solutions will provide free domain name and website for one year when users sign up for Outright.com’s free bookkeeping service. With the common goal of helping entrepreneurs succeed, this partnership will enable business owners to market their services online and efficiently maintain their financial records, so they can concentrate on growing their businesses in this tough economy.

“Network Solutions has always been proud of the web solutions we provide to small businesses. We are excited to join Outright, a pioneer in online bookkeeping, in giving entrepreneurs a boost during the current economic climate. Small businesses are the backbone of our economy, and we want to make sure that they are not overlooked during these difficult times,” offered Roy Dunbar, Chairman and CEO of Network Solutions.

Beginning today and through the end of July, any new user of Outright.com will receive from Network Solutions for one full year a free domain name and an online business profile page. The combination of a web presence from Network Solutions and the ability to track income and expenses while taking care of tax requirements from services provided by Outright.com means that anyone from freelancers to contract workers to self-employed and side business owners, will be given the essential tools they need to get their business up and running for free.

Now is a great time for people who find themselves suddenly unemployed to consider going into business for themselves. This partnership provides an incredibly useful and much needed resource to get started.

“Outright is passionate about helping folks who work for themselves, whether they are starting businesses during these tough times or looking to grow their existing businesses—and this promotion with Network Solutions will give those who need it most, unprecedented access to tools to grow their business,” said Kevin Reeth, CEO of Outright.com. “With 50 percent of small businesses still without a web presence1, having the tools and support of Network Solutions enables us to provide the self-employed with the services they need so they can do what they do best, service their customers and support their families.”

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HP Advances Scale-out Computing with Breakthrough Data Center Solution

2009-06-11T14:00:00-04:00

PALO ALTO, CA (Gawkwire.com) Companies with “scale-out” business models such as these, which operate with thousands of servers, are pushing the limits of current technology solutions. The HP ExSO portfolio, which includes a new lightweight, super-efficient, modular systems architecture and spans data center solutions, services and support, helps these customers reduce costs, improve facility efficiency and dramatically accelerate time to market on a massive scale. The portfolio enables these customers to save more than $152.8 million in reduced capital expenditures and $13.7 million in energy costs.(1)

At the core of the HP ExSO portfolio is the HP ProLiant SL server family, which uses a ”skinless” systems architecture that replaces the traditional chassis and rack form factors with an extremely lightweight rail and tray design. As a result, customers can dramatically reduce capital, facilities and shipping costs while using a fraction of the space normally required in a data center. Additionally, its ultra-efficient, modular design enables customers to quickly and easily build solutions that meet extreme scale-out workload requirements.

With the HP ProLiant SL portfolio, customers can cut acquisition costs by 10 percent and power draw by 28 percent, while doubling their compute density.(2)

“Customers with scale-out business models need solutions that make every dollar, watt and square foot in the data center count,” said Christine Reischl, senior vice president and general manager, Industry Standard Servers, HP. “The HP ProLiant SL offers pioneering customers like these the most significant design innovation since the blade form factor, allowing them to achieve an economy of scale never before possible.”

Purpose-built server infrastructure for extreme scale

The HP ProLiant SL server family offers a breakthrough in server architecture designed specifically for extreme-scale environments. The solution offers customers the following benefits:

•Exceptional energy savings – consolidated power and cooling infrastructure and unique air flow design uses 28 percent less power per server than traditional rack-based servers. This can result in a savings of $4.1 million a year in energy costs.(2) Overall, the system uses 52,000 fewer megawatts per year, which is enough energy savings to power more than 4,600 average U.S. households for a year.(3)
•Ultra-lightweight design – reductions in the metal used in the ProLiant SL servers decrease weight by 31 percent.(4) This dramatically reduces shipping costs, data center floor support requirements and overall facility construction costs. It also eliminates 838.5 tons of server hardware, or the equivalent of nearly four and a half Boeing 747 jets, from a scale-out data center.(5)
•Modular configurations – provide rapid installation and deployment through swappable “compute trays.” The new compute architecture delivers double the density(6) with up to 672 processor cores and 10 terabytes of capacity per 42U rack. Built on industry standards, the servers allow customers to easily mix and match storage and compute components to meet the requirements of their applications.
•Reduced cost-to-scale – volume packaging significantly reduces acquisition costs for customers who require thousands of server nodes. This adds up to a total savings in capital expenditure of $14.5 million in a scale-out data center.(7)
“Businesses built on extreme scale-out environments, such as cloud, Web 2.0 and HPC, operate at maximum transaction volume and low margins,” said Michelle Bailey, research vice president, IDC. “These customers have very distinct and unique data center requirements, specifically around energy efficiency, cost and time to market. The introduction of technology solutions such as the ExSO portfolio from HP are specifically addressing customer requirements for optimizing capitol expenditures while lowering ongoing operating costs. As a result, these solutions are helping to redefine data center economics.”

Delivering the intelligent ExSO data center

To further maximize cost savings for scale-out environments, customers need tools that provide a higher level of visibility into and control of facilities operations. The HP Data Center Environmental Edge solution offers a complete visual mapping of environmental variables so customers can quickly identify and take action on data center inefficiencies. This results in an additional energy cost savings of up to $2.4 million per year and a return on investment within 12 months.(8)

HP Data Center Environmental Edge uses a system of wireless sensors placed throughout a data center to monitor a variety of variables, such as temperature, humidity, air pressure and power utilization. The system provides real-time visualization of environmental variables so administrators can perform root cause analysis to eliminate excess operational costs.

Specialized engagement, delivery model and services

Additional new services for ExSO environments provide customers with a customized engagement experience through their entire technology lifecycle. Packaged ExSO services include scheduled on-site repair options, on-site seed inventory of parts and installation services specifically designed for environments that support thousands of servers. These services can be customized to match customer needs.

In addition, the company’s leasing and lifecycle asset management services subsidiary, HP Financial Services, helps customers expand or renew their IT infrastructures with the entire line of ExSO offerings through flexible leasing and financing solutions.

HP’s existing scale-out computing portfolio includes the HP ProLiant DL1000 Multi Node servers, introduced on June 2, the HP POD (Performance Optimized Datacenter), HP StorageWorks 9100 Extreme Data Storage System and the HP ProLiant 2x220c double-density blade server introduced last year.

More information is available at www.hp.com/go/extremescaleout.

About HP

HP, the world’s largest technology company, simplifies the technology experience for consumers and businesses with a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure. More information about HP is available at http://www.hp.com/.

Note to editors: More news from HP, including links to RSS feeds, is available at http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/.

(1) Potential savings of a 100,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art ExSO data center using HP ProLiant SL6000 family and HP Data Center Environmental Edge.

(2) Cost savings based on internal pricing comparing the HP ProLiant DL160 G6 server to the HP ProLiant SL2x170z server; power savings based on HP comparisons of traditional rack servers with SL2x170z; double density based on fitting two server nodes in the physical space of one traditional 1U node.

(3) Estimated savings based HP comparison of traditional rack servers to SL2x170z in 100,000-square-foot data center; typical home uses 11.23 megawatts per year – based on U.S. Department of Energy data (http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/esr/table5.html).

(4) Compares maximum weight of Dell R610 and SL170z

(5) A 100,000-square-foot data center (88,000 servers) has 1,716 tons of Dell PowerEdge R610 and 878 tons of SL2x170z; a savings of 838.5 tons = 4.3 Boeing 747s (195 tons average empty weight).

(6) Compared to traditional rack servers delivering a single node in each 1U chassis.

(7) Compares 100,000-square-foot data center example (88,000 servers) of HP ProLiant SL2x170z with the Dell PowerEdge R610 with approximately $165 per node capital expenditure savings.

(8) Based on a 100,000-square foot data center, using 29 MW, at $.08 kWh electricity price, full capacity.

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Velocity Conference Speaker Sees Major Web Performance Gain

2009-06-11T14:00:00-04:00

(Gawkwire.com) Optimizing website load times will be considerably easier following the launch of software that increases page load times by up to 75% without code changes or extra hardware.

Web performance specialist Aptimize (aptimize.com) is generating considerable interest in the US and Europe with its Aptimize Website Accelerator software, believed to be the first in the world to automate the process of web page performance optimization.

Aptimize CEO Ed Robinson, currently in the US to speak at Velocity, the O'Reilly Web Performance and Operations Conference, says website optimization is something too few businesses focus on.

"The result is a surprisingly poor website experience for customers when the browser and server are physically separated by large distances," Robinson says.

"A business hosting its website on servers in New York may provide viewers on the East Coast page rendering speeds of three seconds. However when viewed from the West Coast, London England or Sydney Australia the same web page may take 20, 30 or even 40 seconds to load," Robinson says.

Forrester Research and Gartner Group report that ecommerce sites are losing US$1.1 to US$1.3 billion in revenue each year due to customer click-away caused byslow loading websites (Ref: Internet Business Law Services, March 2007).

A particular focus for Aptimize is ASP.NET and SharePoint performance, and the company is working closely with companies like Rackspace to distribute the software as widely as possible. A Linux Apache version is currently under testing.

Existing software products that promise to speed up websites typically use a mixture of file compression and caching. Aptimize includes compression and caching, but introduces a new process called "resource merging".

Resource merging reduces the number of files that make up a webpage, not simply the size of the files. This typically reduces web page load times by between 33% and 75%.

Modern web pages often have more than 50 images, scripts, styles and HTML frames and each requires a separate trip from browser to server.

"The cumulative effect of these trips is slower web pages - a bit like making individual trips to and from the supermarket for every grocery item," Robinson says.

Google engineer and author Steve Souders has described Aptimize as: ".. the next step in performance tool development - automatically making any web page faster without the developer having to do any additional work."

Aptimize is encouraging businesses to take the website speed test for a sense of the reality that visitors face.

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topseos.com Releases the List of the Best Web Design Agencies for June 2009

2009-06-11T09:32:00-04:00

Plymouth, IN (Gawkwire.com) The best web design companies have been named by topseos.com. The list consists of web design companies that provide the best possible service in the industry.

Web design is the process of creating and developing a website for presence in the web for e-commerce, web content, client and server-side scripting, and other web based programming. A good web design firm will ensure that your website represents your company professionally and capture a web user's attention. This could be the difference between a website that earns rather than a website that costs you money.

topseos' list compiles firms known for creating dynamic websites that perform for their owners. These firms build websites that provide returns for their investments for their clients.

The top ten web design providers are:

1.   MindSmack.com
2.   Crea7ive Web Design
3.   Oxygen Productions
4.   POP Interactive
5.   DeepBlue
6.   352 Media Group
7.   2advanced.com
8.   Studio 7 Designs
9.   lifeBLUE Media
10.   Oxidev Interactive

topseos.com asked customers of each of the companies in this list questions to find out how they stack up against the competition. These questions include, "What type of a ROI were you anticipating, what was achieved and in what time frame?", "Does your website have a search engine friendly design?", and "What components of your design and strategy included SEO?" topseos put the companies through rigorous assessment processes that determines the companies' extent of knowledge, track record and drive for customer satisfaction.

Web design companies that would like to be considered for the topseos.com rankings can apply at:
http://www.topseos.com/rankings/search-engine-marketing-agencies/apply-for-ranking.

To learn more about the best web design firms, visit: http://www.topseos.com/rankings-of-best-web-design-companies.

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Domain Name Provider Network Solutions Announces New .IM Extension

2009-06-11T09:31:00-04:00

(Gawkwire.com) Leading domain name registration and Web services provider Network Solutions® announces the availability of a new Top-Level Domain extension. The .IM extension is now available for purchase at a discounted rate in comparison to some other Network Solutions domain names.

The .IM domain name extension is designed for a couple of applications. First, it relates to Instant Messaging. Now, people can create a Web site using their Instant Messaging screen name (ScreenName.IM) in order to connect online chats with their Web sites. The .IM domain name extension is also applicable to Isle of Man businesses and residents.

"As more and more domains are registered each year, the need for new specialized extensions continues to grow," said Susan Wade of Network Solutions. "The .IM extension allows for a connection between the social aspects of instant messaging and Web presence and can be useful for a number of applications, even beyond personal Web sites."

The .IM domain extension is currently available from Network Solutions for $15 dollars off the normal domain name registration price the company offers. A one year term for registering a .IM name is only $19.99 per year.

For more information or to check the availability of a desired .IM domain, visit Network Solutions.

http://www.gawkwire.com/domains/domain_name_provider_network_solutions_announces_new_im_extensio.html

iWeb moves up in the 2009 PROFIT 100 ranking with 1128% in revenue growth

2009-06-11T09:28:00-04:00

Montreal, Quebec (Gawkwire.com) From 2003 to 2008, the company's revenues have gone from $ 1,384 million to $ 15,616 million as of October 1st 2008. Last year, iWeb's 5-year growth totaled 627%, enough for the IT infrastructure and Internet hosting company to make its entry into the 100th position on the annual ranking.

Eric Chouinard, CEO and co-founder of iWeb; "In 2003, shortly before iWeb went public and bought its first data center, we knew everything would become digital. It's amazing to see how quickly this transition is actually happening!." He then adds that "This is a very proud achievement for iWeb. More than anything else, it is the result of teamwork and persistence."

"Since 2003, we have grown from 15 employees to over 170 today! The fact that many of those original 15 are still involved with iWeb today says a lot about our environment" comments Martin Leclair, co-President, products and Technology and iWeb co-founder. "The biggest challenge has been to continue innovating while managing our growth" he adds.

iWeb, who has reported revenue growth exceeding 90% for the first two quarters of 2009, is also becoming an important exporter of IT services, generating over 60% of its revenues from abroad.

iWeb's growth, in numbers*:

                                                                   2003                               2008                  % increase

Employees                                   15                            166                1,107%

Revenues (in thousands $)            1,384                       15,616            1,128%

Data center square footage (net)    500                          59,000           11,800%

Network Capacity                           100 Mbps(0,1 Gbps)   59 Gbps         59,000%

Dedicated servers                          200                          11,000           5,500%

Co-location cabinets                       4                             1,012            25,300%

*rounded figures

The PROFIT 100 is the annual ranking which rates the top 100 Canadian companies based on the percentage of their revenue growth over a 5-year span. Produced by the business magazine PROFIT, 2009 marks the 21st edition of the ranking. The complete list will be published in the June edition, as well as on the website: http://www.profit100.com

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Funkmaster Flex, Microsoft's Zune & Ford to Give Away Custom Sport Trac

2009-06-11T09:25:00-04:00

Redmond, WA (Gawkwire.com) Hip Hop DJ Funkmaster Flex, Zune, and Ford are giving one lucky person the chance to win a fully customized 2008 Ford Sport Trac truck. Entries can be submitted until 8/31/09 on the contest homepage (www.zune.net/flex).

Funkmaster Flex with the Zune Funkmaster Flex Customized Ford Explorer Sport Trac
Zune worked closely with Funkmaster Flex in planning the design and added features of the Funkmaster Flex customized Zune 2008 Ford Sport Trac, donating an arsenal of Microsoft electronics ranging from the Zune media player to an Xbox, PC computer, and the Sprint wireless AirCard, giving passengers Internet access all from the comfort of the Funkmaster Flex customized Zune 2008 Ford Sport Trac.

The Funkmaster Flex customized Zune 2008 Ford Sport Trac features some of the latest and greatest technology, including:

- A custom Zune display mount connecting to trailer hitch to display Kicker Zune player
- Xbox 360
- PC computer powered by Microsoft Windows XP mounted in center console
- Internet on the go with Sprint wireless AirCard
- TV on the go with Slingbox
- Wireless keyboard and mouse
- Two 7" headrest monitors featuring built-in DVD player
- One 10" flip-down monitor with VGA input
- One converted factory screen to display movies, computer, and Xbox 360 in-dash
- 8" and 6.5" Kicker speakers in front doors, with custom fiberglass pod
- 6.5" Kicker components in rear doors
- Four 8" Kicker subs behind rear seats, installed in a custom sub box
- Two Kicker amps

The appeal of the car does not just stop at the fully loaded electronics, Funkmaster Flex's Bronx auto shop further customized The Funkmaster Flex customized Zune 2008 Ford Sport Trac with Suede headliner and interior parts, a full Katzkin custom interior featuring the Zune logo and a vibrant Zune paint job.

The car is the ultimate entertainment experience outside of the living room. With the Zune Pass, the winner can wirelessly stream music from a library of over 5 million tracks on the Zune Marketplace while also having the added benefit of subscribing to specific music channels, such as the Funkmaster Flex Channel updated weekly with the hottest tracks in Hip Hop by Funk himself. To subscribe to Flex's channel on the Zune Marketplace, click here: Zune Funkmaster Flex Channel

The Funkmaster Flex customized Zune 2008 Ford Sport Trac will be touring around the country as a featured car on Funkmaster Flex's 2009 Custom Car and Bike Show. Dates for the tour are as follows:

June 12-14      Sam Houston Race Park   Houston, TX
June 27      NJ Convention & Expo Center   Edison, NJ
July 18      Connecticut Expo Center   Hartford, CT
Aug 1&2      Roland E Powell Conv Center   Ocean City, MD

Enter to win the Zune Funkmaster Flex Customized Ford Explorer Sport Trac here:
http://www.zune.net/en-us/discover/flex/default.htm

Check out Flex's Zune channel on the Zune Marketplace here:
http://social.zune.net/external/launchclient.aspx?mid=C59b52b7-e0b8-48d5-8c66-0cc5bed750e2&mtype=Channel

For more info on Zune, check out: www.zune.net

For more information, please contact:
Vinti Bhatnagar
Cornerstone Promotion
212-652-9278
vinti @ cornerstonepromotion.com

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YesPCI Names Rey Pasinli Chief Compliance Officer

2009-06-11T09:24:00-04:00

LAKE FOREST, CA (Gawkwire.com) YesPCI, the nation’s leading of Payment Card Industry (PCI) all-in-one solution, today named Rey Pasinli its chief compliance officer, charged with developing and implementing PCI compliance strategies for YesPCI’s online merchants.

Pasinli, who will continue to serve in his management capacity at YesPCI parent company Total Apps, is an industry veteran with more than 10 years experience in building e-commerce merchant systems. Pasinli holds an MBA in Finance from Pepperdine University and BA in Mechanical Engineering from California State University, Fullerton. He is an expert in online merchant processing, risk mitigation techniques, and credit card and ACH regulations.

“Rey’s expertise in e-commerce and credit card processing will enable YesPCI to offer solutions that satisfy enormously more complex client requirements. Rey has been working with YesPCI since our launch, and we’re excited that he has agreed to begin serving in this compliance manager capacity,” said Jason Taylor, YesPCI executive director. “His commitment is a step forward as YesPCI continues to grow and attract a more diverse collection of clients.”

Pasinli’s responsibility at YesPCI includes coordinating the collective efforts of Colocation America, Total Apps, and ControlScan to ensure each client’s specific needs are meet. Pasinli will also oversee the development and implementation of custom security and compliance solutions for clients.

YesPCI’s individualized merchant services cater to the needs of specific clients, instead of offering boilerplate hosting plans. Each customized solution includes three basic components: dedicated hosting, merchant services, and compliance. YesPCI also offers training to help merchants optimize traffic and minimize exposure to credit card fraud.

Colocation America, which operates at a variety of facilities in the East and West Coast of the United States, provides premium connectivity and server management services for YesPCI’s clients. Colocation America boasts an enterprise-grade, fully redundant network that meets the security, capability, and reliability requirements needed to host large e-commerce sites.

To learn more about YesPCI’s unique solution, please visit http://www.yespci.com/yes-pci-solution.php.

To get a customized quote and free consultation, please visit http://www.yespci.com/free-quote.php or call 866-397-3515.

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An Official Announcement Regarding 3FN.NET, Pricewert LLC Shut Down Issue

2009-06-10T15:41:00-04:00

San Jose, CA (Gawkwire.com) The following is the first official announcement by 3FN.NET, Pricewert LLC regarding the shut down of its whole network on June 1, 2009.

Dear customers and everyone, who follows on this case.

The following is the first official announcement by 3FN.NET, Pricewert LLC regarding the shut down of its whole network without any notifications.
The company would like to publish its announcement articulately. In the mean time new paragraphs may be added.

Pricewert LLC is able to assist the investigation and help finding the real cyber criminals, however, its customer databases and all server are shut down with no access possible to it.
The company's ability to function properly is severely limited, the court decision has restricted and limited our operations that makes us hard to defend and provide the evidence of our innocence.

Accepting and declining payments our billing department has statistics that is similar to world statistics showing that most carders as well as spammers use such respectful email providers as hotmail or yahoo and others. However, this does not mean that mentioned companies participate in spam or carder activities and obviously no one is going to shut them down. There may be a number of doubtful customers or users in every company. As a matter of fact, the bigger the company is the bigger number of such customers may use its services. No one is accusing Google or any other search engines in showing results and conducting searches for illegal content.

Any provider is responsible to cooperate and assist the investigation. Our company has always been willing to assist authorities in their investigations.
Accusing the provider in illegal actions made by its customers is not the way out and will not solve anything. It causing more damage to law-abiding customers than helps successfully fighting cyber criminals.

2) The company has provided web hosting services for more than 6 years. And it has an experience in solving any issues connected with illegal actions of its customers by reacting promptly and solving the abuse issues without any delays.

All ISPs (those companies Pricewert is renting Internet Service from) are able to prove that our Support and Abuse Department always reacts and it never ignores any abuses or complaints. Our abuse department has been working 24/7/365 and has been taking immediate actions regarding any complaints.

We have had a positive experience in cooperating with FBI regarding issues connected to one of our customers and we have solved the issue in a quite short period of time. It can be easily proved that our company is always open to cooperate with authorities and there is no difficulty in contacting us.

3) As for ICQ logs, text files in which ICQ history is saved can not be the evidence of Pricewert complicity. Nevertheless, the dialogue between our representative and botnet owner was misinterpreted. The only intention of our representative was to obtain and further provide the information about botnet holders in order to close their servers and report to authorities.
As we have had an experience in cooperating with the U.S. authorities we know what is required to actually shut down the cyber criminal activity. Our representative was trying to get as much information as possible to have enough evidence in order to take appropriate measures against botnet holders.

FTC has declared in its announcement that such companies as Spamhaus assisted in the 3FN shut down case dated June 1, 2009. At the same time, when entering a request to the Spamhous database there are no current SBL listings for 3fn.net or for apxtelecom.com.
There is a quite an easy way to check this for any company:

http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/listings.lasso?isp=apxtelecom.com

And, the results follow: "There are no current SBL listings for 3fn.net"
While you can see:

http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/listings.lasso?isp=godaddy.com

10-May-2009 10:01 GMT Spamming scam jobs to harvested email addresses

http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/listings.lasso?isp=theplanet.com

06-Jun-2009 15:22 GMT Repeat Spammer Spam Hosting (USGuides.net)
06-Jun-2009 15:12 GMT Repeat Spammer Spam Sources (USGuides.net)
28-Apr-2009 08:28 GMT Domain registrar on auto-pilot (or run by cybercriminals?!)

Our point is that there is a chance to find dishonourable customers at any web hosting service providers.
We will provide documents to the court to compare 3FN operation with other U.S. hosting providers.

It is stated that "Spamhaus has a long history with 3FN, and has sent 3FN more than 70 abuse reports 10 since 2005. Linford Decl., Ex. 4"

However, Spamhaus has no current abuses or complaints on its website to 3FN as it was displayed above. Moreover, it only reports 70 abuses send to 3FN in 4 years. To compare the statistics Spamhaus reports more than 100 abuses every single day and in this scale 70 complaints within 4 years is not much at all.

4) It is obvious that the case against Pricewert, 3FN.NET may as well be a setup, an effort to conduct the PR campaign showing bright activities against cyber criminals.

If FBI or FTC preliminary contacted Pricewert, the company would have certainly agreed to cooperate and as the result more information could have been obtained to assist in the investigation and finding those who may have violated the law.

However, no one from the U.S. authorities has contacted Pricewert or 3FN. The equipment was just shut down and the Internet access was cut off without any given notice. That alone has given possible criminals an opportunity to escape and find other places to manage their illegal activities.

This only means that the measures taken have had no positive effect in fighting the cyber criminals. Such actions will only advise criminals to hide their illegal actions more carefully on other hosts.

Authorities responsible for the shut down just warned criminals and let them to escape and now each hosting provider risks to get new dishonourable customers that will just hide and protect their data much more thoroughly. While cooperating with us could have brought much bigger results in fighting against real cyber criminals.

5) Providing web hosting services in large scales always means automatic or semi-automatic services of accepting payments and sending accesses to servers.

Our services, responsible for new customer accounts setup, were semi-automatic and were followed with phone calls verification. Even such methods are not able to secure web hosting provider and will not indicate customer legal or not legal intentions.

If web hosting customer's action violated the law it means the customer violated the law not the hosting provider.

The forced shut down of whole of our network has already caused the sheer loss and enormous damage to our company. Along with "blackhat" customers (possible criminals) thousands of white projects have been taken down and customers with decent business are losing money.

Direct damage for millions of US dollars was inflicted and our strongest aspiration is to claim damages and appeal to authorities, responsible for this act, to recover all losses.

6) To our Customers: As the matter of fact we were not aware of FTC intentions and actions until they have shut down our network without any notifications on June 1, 2009. All damages will be claimed to be recovered and the access to our equipment to be provided as soon as possible.

You should not consider us as a law breaker or any kind of an asylum for criminals.

We are doing our best to assist to manage this unexpected situation and recover your accounts.

http://www.gawkwire.com/business/an_official_announcement_regarding_3fn_net_pricewert_llc_shut_do.html

The Best Email Marketing Firms Have Been Named by topseos.com for June

2009-06-10T15:40:00-04:00

Plymouth, IN (Gawkwire.com) After putting applicants through a rigorous selection process, topseos.com, has narrowed down the list to the ten best email marketing firms on the web this June. Each of the companies in this prestigious list has proven that they can provide their clients with tangible results. The rankings allow firms to showcase their excellent skills to possible clients and grow the industry of email marketing even further.

Email marketing is a form of direct marketing that makes use of e-mail as the primary means of communication between a company and a prospective customer. The project is done in order to gain customer loyalty, acquire new customers and introduce a new promotion. Email marketing is very effective because it gives you contact to a wide range of customers with minimum cost to you. It also allows you to track your return of investment on your campaign.

Companies in this list have proven that they can deliver the results.

The top 10 email marketing agencies include:

1.   Exact Target
2.   Topica Inc.
3.   StreamSend
4.   EmailLabs
5.   Mailworkz.com
6.   Constant Contact
7.   Double Click
8.   My Emma
9.   iContact
10.   Vertical Response

In order to be included in the list, each company was evaluated with strict parameters. topseos had to ask difficult questions to get all the necessary knowledge in order to rank each firm properly. Some of the questions asked to customers of these companies include, "What would be 3 things you would change about your experience?", and "How much support and how readily was it available after the purchase was made?".

Email Marketing Companies that would like to be considered for the topseos.com rankings can apply at:

http://www.topseos.com/rankings/search-engine-marketing-agencies/apply-for-ranking

To learn more about the top Email Marketing Firms, visit:

http://www.topseos.com/rankings-of-best-email-marketing-companies

http://www.gawkwire.com/seo_sem/the_best_email_marketing_firms_have_been_named_by_topseos_com_fo.html

1&1 launches new Dual Core and Quad Core server packages

2009-06-10T11:05:00-04:00

London, Uk (Gawkwire.com) Internet users can now choose between five servers with Dual Core processors and three models with Quad Core CPUs. With the Dual Core M and Dual Core XXL servers, 1&1 has also introduced two all-new server packages.

At £39.99/month+VAT (Windows server: £49.99/month+VAT) , the 1&1 Dual Core M Server provides an AMD-Athlon 4200+ CPU with two-fold 2.2, GHz, a Raid 1 system with two 250 GB hard drives and 2 GB of RAM.

The 1&1 Dual Core XXL Servers contain two AMD Opteron 2216 HE processors and 8 GB of RAM. During June, the Dual Core XXL is available at only £69.99/month+VAT for the first six months, £149.99/month+VAT from the seventh month onwards. For Windows configuration, the prices are £79.99/month+VAT for first six months and £169.99/month+VAT thereafter.

1&1’s ideal offering for beginners is the 1&1 Dual Core S Server – available at only £29.99/month+VAT (Windows configuration: £39.99/month+VAT) – featuring an impressive Dual Core AMD-Athlon 3800+ processor and two160 GB hard disks with Raid 1.

For professionals, the 1&1 Quad Core XXL Server provides a true Raid 5 system with three hard disks and 1,500 GB of usable storage space. Two AMD Opteron 2352 CPUs add up to a superb 8 processor cores. 1&1’s top-notch server has 16 GB of RAM and is available for a limited time only for £119.99/month+VAT for six months (£249.99/month+VAT thereafter. Windows configured Quad Core XXL servers are priced at £129.99/month+VAT for the first six months and £259.99/month+VAT).

For more information on 1&1 Servers visit the website at www.1and1.co.uk

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IQ is the #1 Judgment Made From e-mails in the US

2009-06-10T11:04:00-04:00

Philadelphia, PA (Gawkwire.com) Over half of adults in America judge people's intelligence based on e-mail content and format, according to research released today by GMX, www.gmx.com, the free e-mail service for more than 11 million active users. The survey of 1,002 US adults1 who use e-mail for both work and personal reasons on a regular basis1 found that communication through e-mail plays a significant role in how Americans perceive and judge others both personally and professionally. Of those surveyed, 58 percent of Americans admitted they judge intelligence based on the writing style, tone and language used in e-mail. Along those same lines, 57 percent of users are concerned about having an influence on how others view their own intelligence. In fact, adults who worry the most about this perception intentially adapt to a particular language, writing style or tone of voice in their e-mails to peers, family or coworkers.

The results found in the 2009 GMX E-mail Psychology Study suggest how essential e-mail is in the US for learning about others and developing a sense of personality and intellect. In fact, after intelligence, the next characteristics most often judged through e-mail were age and authority. About a third of users (33 percent) said they may try to guess a person's age just based on the language, tone and style of e-mails, while 28 percent assume how much of an authority figure a person is amongst their peers. Moreover, 23 percent said they will judge how successful a person might be in a lifetime along with 20 percent of users who interpret social status through electronic communication.

Eva Heil, Managing Director, GMX, said, "E-mail has truly changed how people interact and has evolved into a highly valued means of communication. Most people now make social judgments based on the e-mails they receive and care about their own e-mail identity, which means that an individual's approach to their e-mail has never been so important."

Words alone are enough for some Americans to interpret a person's attractiveness and sense of fashion, as suggested by the study's data. Juding only from what is written in e-mails, 11 percent of Americans decide how sexually attractive someone is and 8 percent make a judgment about fashion sense.

Heil added, "What people write is not necessarily taken at face value anymore. People are starting to form opinions based on the language, tone and style used in e-mail."

When it came to perceptions about their own image, people seemed most concerned about their intelligence (57 percent). Judgments about how calm, happy and authoritative they are also took top priority with 31 percent, 28 percent and 25 percent, respectively. Surprisingly though, perceptions about age were only top concerns for 14 percent of US adults, while 9 percent worried about sexual attractiveness and 6 percent with being seen as fashionable.

Based on results from the recent GMX survey, e-mail is becoming an acceptable medium for sharing sensitive and important information. Over half of US adult users surveyed (60 percent) felt e-mail was appropriate for getting asked out on a date as well as for telling major 'life decisions' to family and friends. Doing so with incorrect grammar and shorthand was acceptable to 59 percent.

With over 11 million active users, GMX offers a reliable, secure e-mail service coupled with great looks, great performance and state-of-the-art functionality. Free e-mail has grown up, find it at GMX. The free e-mail service can be seen at www.gmx.com.

http://www.gawkwire.com/technology/iq_is_the_1_judgment_made_from_e-mails_in_the_us.html

Design Professionals Are Use More Stock Photography in Tough Economy

2009-06-10T11:02:00-04:00

New York, NY (Gawkwire.com) In an economic climate where graphic designers are often asked to produce more with fewer resources, a new survey by International Communications Research (ICR) shows that over 40 percent of designers are using more stock photography to lower costs in 2009 compared to last year.

Designers today have responded to the economic downturn in a myriad of ways, according to Ami Brophy, CEO of The Art Directors Club in New York, a top organization for art directors and designers in the U.S.

"Increasingly, designers report taking on more concurrent projects while expanding their organizational and project management skills with greater awareness for the bottom line," Brophy said.

The ICR survey showed that many designers found using stock photos an effective way to save money in the face of greater economic pressure. Further, when considering stock photo vendors, most looked for the best deal due to tighter budgets.

Shutterstock, the world's largest subscription-based online stock image agency, ranked highly in many key areas. Approximately 60 percent rated Shutterstock highly for quality and selection of images, and three-fourths said they are likely to use Shutterstock in the future.

"It has always been our goal to provide the best images at the best value," said Jon Oringer, founder and CEO of Shutterstock. "The advertising and design community can rely on us for their image needs to maintain the high level of design their clients expect."

Adam Riggs, Shutterstock president and CFO, points out that Shutterstock's image library continues to grow despite the economic downturn, adding an average of 70,000 images per week.

"Thanks to Shutterstock's extensive library of over 7 million premium images, our subscribers always know that they'll be able to find the perfect photo, vector or illustration for their creative projects," Riggs said.

For more key statistics from the ICR survey, please visit the press page at Shutterstock: http://www.shutterstock.com/releases/060909.mhtml

Survey Methodology:
International Communications Research (ICR) surveyed 300 professionals (120 Art Directors and 180 Graphic Designers) by using a targeted web panel of 300 respondents. In order to qualify for the survey, respondents had to be employed either part or full-time in the United States and be at least aware of stock photography. Awareness of stock photography was 93% and the survey ran 10 minutes on average.

Because this is a sample, and not an actual population, an associated margin of error applies. At the 95% confidence level, the margin of error for the total sample of 300 is +/-5.7 percentage points.

http://www.gawkwire.com/web_design/design_professionals_are_use_more_stock_photography_in_tough_eco.html

GlobalSign Facilitates International Recognition of New Zealandâ€™s Public Docs

2009-06-10T10:58:00-04:00

Portsmouth, NH (Gawkwire.com) GlobalSign, Inc. (www.globalsign.com), one of the longest established Certification Authorities (CA) and specialists in digital certificate lifecycle management, today announced a significant milestone in the worldwide expansion of fully electronic Apostille Services. Electronic Apostille Services now present a fast, carbon footprint-friendly and highly efficient and secure alternative to the time consuming paper based system. GlobalSign has enabled the Government of New Zealand to introduce Electronic Apostille Services, via Adobe Systems Incorporated’s Certified Document Services (CDS) program.

The Apostille Convention (otherwise known as The Hague Convention 1961) facilitates the circulation of public documents among signatory States. An Apostille authenticates the signature of a Notary or approved public official. Historically, it has been a separate paper certificate, sealed by the competent authority in the country of origin and affixed to the document requiring authentication. The competent authority can vary from country to country but is commonly a department within the ministry of foreign or external affairs. The Hague Conference, which is responsible for the operation of the Convention has, in conjunction with other stakeholders, been promoting the development and use of an electronic Apostille (e-Apostille http://www.e-app.info/) within Member States.

Working closely with the Department of Internal Affairs’ Authentication Unit in New Zealand, GlobalSign were able to deliver a fully electronic document lifecycle management system based on the Certified Document Services (CDS) platform (CDS is a digital signing solution from Adobe that allows authors to create Adobe Reader PDF files that automatically certify to the recipient that the author's identity has been verified by a trusted organization). The international language support in the free Adobe Reader for PDFs, together with the automatic authenticity and integrity checks of the embedded digital signature information within the certified PDF offered an ideal vehicle for the Authentication Unit to launch their services.

“This e-Apostille is the first of its kind to be issued in the Asia-Pacific region and represents a glimpse into a future where official documents can cross borders securely and seamlessly by email,” said Patrick Geddes, Manager of the Authentication Unit for the Department of Internal Affairs (Te Tari Taiwhenua).

“The interoperability of electronic signatures across jurisdictional boundaries and the need to support digital signatures in the long term is a critical issue. The acceptance of the PDF-based signature format (ETSI/ESI 102 778) in the EU and the increasing use of PDF based digital signatures by Governments around the world pave the way for greater eBusiness across all industries,” said Steve Roylance, Business Development Director for GlobalSign.

Representatives from the Authentication Unit in New Zealand will be highlighting the success of the project to a worldwide audience in London on June 13th during the 5th International Forum on the electronic Apostille Pilot Program (e-APP) and Digital Authentication hosted by the International Union of Notaries (UINL) and the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH).

For more information on GlobalSign DocumentSign solutions for Adobe CDS, please visit http://www.globalsign.com/adobe-cds/index.htm

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Live Web Event: Web Content Management By Nexus

2009-06-10T10:56:00-04:00

Reston, VA (Gawkwire.com) Siteworx, Inc. announced today that it is sponsoring a complimentary webinar titled "Web Content Management (WCM) at the Nexus of Your Marketing and Customer Experience Strategy," on Monday, June 22 at 1 p.m. EST.

Do more, grow more, save more is the mantra driving virtually every Marketing and IT department today. While leading organizations are leveraging their Web Content Management (WCM) investments to create a powerful, customer-centric Web experience, many are barely scratching the surface. This live Web event will share best practices and top strategies in extending WCM to reduce costs, improve efficiency and ultimately help grow business.

The one-hour executive briefing will feature Stephen Powers, Senior Analyst at Forrester Research, Inc., who will provide an overview of the WCM landscape. Specifically, Stephen Powers will address:

- Limitations of "first generation" WCM solutions and the transition to a customer experience-centric approach

- The "next generation" initiatives that are pushing the limits of legacy WCM capabilities, such as, building communities, tailoring content for site visitors, distributing content across multiple channels and interacting with other enterprise applications; i.e. Digital Asset Management (DAM), Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and - Document Output Management (DOM) systems
- An analysis of Forrester's latest research report, "The Forrester Wave™: Web Content Management for External Sites, Q2 2009."

Stephen comes to Forrester with many years of experience in information technology management and customer software applications. Most recently, Stephen served as vice president and general manager of a software startup in Cambridge, Mass., managing client engagements in the areas of CRM, asset management, and supply chain management. Prior to that, he spent eight years at ZDNET (later CNET), where he led IT groups responsible for enterprise content management, eCommerce, search applications, and data warehousing. Stephen began his career at TV Guide, working on a project to upgrade the magazine's publishing system.

To participate in this live event, visit http://www.siteworx.com/WCM2009.

Siteworx offers a continuing series of Web events on a wide range of topics including user-centered design, interactive marketing, and Web strategy. A recording of its most recent event, CMS 2.0: The Next Wave of CMS Directions and Challenges, featuring Siteworx President, Tim McLaughlin is available on the Siteworx corporate site.

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topseos.com Releases List of Best Landing Page Optimization Firms for June

2009-06-09T09:31:00-04:00

Plymouth, IN (Gawkwire.com) topseos.com has named the best landing page optimization firms for June 2009. Optimizing a website's landing page is possibly the most important element that contributes to successful marketing of the company or product. This is where end-users and customers are most frequently directed to, and should be the welcome mat that draws business inward instead of sending it in the opposite direction. There are those companies that claim to be able to deliver results with regard to optimizing landing pages, and then there are those that know that they can deliver results and have proven to do so time and time again. The latter are the companies that topseos focus on, building them up to be the great suppliers of valuable service that they are.

topseos has become the equivalent of "The Guru" SEM and are always doing extensive research into the mechanisms behind e-marketing so as to stay up to date with the constant evolution of the times. They are always on the lookout for the budding talent, and will make sure that if these companies have what it takes, then the world will know about it. No hard work goes unrecognized, conscientious companies are given credit where credit is due and those who like to hang onto the success of others are discarded from the running.

The Top 10 Landing Page Optimization Companies are as follows:

1.   WebiMax
2.   SiteTuners.com
3.   Widemile Inc.
4.   WiderFunnel Marketing Inc.
5.   SiteSpect, Inc.
6.   Performics Inc.
7.   FutureNow, Inc.
8.   ion interactive, inc.
9.   iProspect
10.   Stratigent, LLC

Any company within the genre search engine marketing can apply for rankings through topseos. If you have what it takes and you successfully endure their rigorous and stringent evaluation process, then you might be seeing your company's name at the top of one of these lists in the near future. No special treatment or privileges are given, just concrete facts. A positive ranking on topseos will guarantee that your business gets the recognition it deserves.

Landing Page Optimization Companies that would like to be considered for the topseos.com rankings can apply at:

http://www.topseos.com/rankings/search-engine-marketing-agencies/apply-for-ranking.

To learn more about the best Landing Page Optimization Firms, visit:

http://www.topseos.com/rankings-of-best-landing-page-optimization-companies.

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DiscountASP.NET Named Best ASP.NET Hosting Service

2009-06-09T09:30:00-04:00

Pasadena, CA (Gawkwire.com) ASP.NET hosting and SQL hosting leader, DiscountASP.NET proudly announces receiving prestigious recognition from The Code Project, one of the world's largest online developer communities. DiscountASP.NET was named "Best ASP.NET Hosting Service" in The Code Project's first annual members choice awards.

"The Members Choice Awards reflect the diversity and depth of the tools available to today's professional developer. While there is still a robust collection of UI controls as there has been since the advent of visual programming, today's array of tools encompass multiple platforms, tiers and stages of the development process," said Jeff Hadfield, president of The Code Project (USA). "Kudos to the winners, and congratulations to the development community: the ultimate beneficiaries of these excellent products."

The Code Project members were asked to rate their favorite ASP.NET services, software, and tools in over 30 categories. The award winners were the highest ranked in each product category. Since, The Code Project members decide which companies or products deserve recognition based on their experience, the results reflect the actual perceptions of what the developer community values.

"We are extremely grateful to The Code Project member community for their support," said Takeshi Eto, VP Marketing and Business Development at DiscountASP.NET. "The announcement has energized our team. We are committed to providing innovative ASP.NET hosting solutions."

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RealWire now offers industry specific Twitter feeds

2009-06-09T00:27:00-04:00

(Gawkwire.com) Parents in the UK are becoming increasingly worried about the amount of time teens are spending online and admit to having little idea of what their kids are doing when they log on. A survey* released today by internet security firm Trend Micro has revealed that, despite more than 50% of parents claiming not to have a clue about what’s going on in their teens’ digital world, only 3% of them actually monitor their kids’ online behaviour.

The survey, which polled 1,000 teens and parents across the UK, also revealed that parents fear their kids are no longer using the internet to learn. 55% of parents said they wish their kids would spend more time learning than on social networks. Unsurprisingly, nearly three quarters of those surveyed said they were worried that under-18s would lose essential face-to-face and English language skills as a result. This comes at a time when text and social network-speak is the norm amongst Generation Y.

But it seems that, whilst the majority of parents do have these concerns, they don’t wish to – or don’t know how to - enforce controls on their kids. 97% admitted they still continued to leave their kids in an uncontrolled environment.

“The best way for a parent to overcome their fears about technology and what their children are up to online is to take the time to have a look at the technology their children are using,” said Will Gardner, CEO, Childnet. “Better still, get them to guide you through it. A conversation on how to keep safe and look after others online is a must.”

“Social interaction online is evolving at a constant and rapid rate and the digital generation know all the tricks of the trade,” said Rik Ferguson, security expert at Trend Micro. “With the summer holidays fast approaching, parents should put simple but effective measures in place to ensure their kids do not fall victim to unnecessary dangers. Parents need to become more tech savvy first before they can start educating their kids on what’s right and wrong.”

Top tips for protecting your kids online:
•       Keep all computers in common areas.
•       Agree to time limits for using the Internet and all social devices.
•       Keep software security up-to-date.
•       Talk with your kids about entering personal information online.
•       Run a manual scan with your software security and check browser history.
•       Set profiles on social networking sites to private.
•       Encourage children to be respectful of others.
•       Teach children to have multiple passwords that are NOT associated with names, nicknames or commonly found information over the net.
•       Most importantly, keep informed about the latest outbreaks and dangers on the Internet.
•       Buy Trend Micro internet security 2009. The latest software has enhanced parental controls. This means that parents can better tailor controls depending on the particular family member. New functionalities include the ability to control the date and time each child can go on the Internet and also the option to specify categories of information (such as home addresses, telephone numbers, passwords, etc.) they do not wish to be sent from a computer.
•       For more information, visit: http://uk.trendmicro.com.

For more information, please contact Clare Hamilton-Eddy or Sophie Brown at Chocolate Communications on 020 8322 1922/07966 503 592 or email trendmicro@chocolatecom.co.uk.
*505 parents and 505 children were polled in March 2009 for Tickbox.net on behalf of Trend Micro

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DemoDemo.com Adds Parallels Plesk Panel 9 Tutorials

2009-06-08T11:19:00-04:00

Brampton, Canada (Gawkwire.com) DemoDemo.com ( http://www.demodemo.com ), the market leader in Flash web hosting tutorials, is pleased to announce the addition of Parallels Plesk Panel 9 tutorial series to general inventory.

Parallels released a new v9 interface after purchasing Plesk from SWSoft. Arguably the most popular hosting control panel script in the web hosting industry, Parallels have added a new look and additional features to this new interface. DemoDemo covers all the main functions and tasks in this robust 43 tutorial series. This includes tutorials for End User, Mail User and Reseller.

Recently DemoDemo also added 27 tutorials covering the new WHMCS v4. This covers tutorials for Admin and End User tasks.

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It's All About .ME! Network Solutions Announces Top-Level Domain Extension

2009-06-08T09:23:00-04:00

(Gawkwire.com) Network Solutions®, the pioneer of the domain name registration service and a leading Web services provider for small business customers, announces the availability of the .ME domain extension, a new ccTLD (Country Code Top-Level Domain) option.

The .ME domain name extension has a number of useful applications, especially as more and more .com, .net and .org names are taken. The .ME domain is ideal for personal use and can be registered with your name for a unique Web address. The .ME domain name also makes for a great call to action in the domain name itself and is optimal for social networking purposes.

"As more and more domains are registered, people need different choices beyond the simple .com," said Sean Kaine, Director of Domain Services for Network Solutions. "The .ME extension provides a personalized touch to the often impersonal World Wide Web."

The .ME domain name extension is also ideal for broadcasting a business' location .ME is also the country domain name for Montenegro.

For a limited time, registering a .ME domain name at Network Solutions can be done for $19.99/year on one, two, three and five year terms. This is $15 off the normal domain name registration price of a one year term.

For more information, or to check on the availability of a .ME domain name, visit Network Solutions.

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Search Engine Strategies (SES) Toronto 2009 Adds Express Site Clinics

2009-06-08T09:21:00-04:00

Toronto, ON (Gawkwire.com) Search Engine Strategies (SES) Toronto 2009 today announced the addition of Express Site Clinics in the Expo Hall, which will be taught by Shari Thurow, Jennifer Slegg and Ken Jurina. The largest search engine marketing conference and expo in Canada opens today at the Sheraton Centre Toronto.

Now in its sixth year, SES Toronto is considered the definitive digital event for marketers, corporate decision makers, webmasters and search engine marketers (SEMs), including pay per click (PPC) advertisers and search engine optimization (SEO) professionals. The event is organized and programmed in cooperation with the SES Advisory Board, Search Engine Watch and Andrew Goodman, the founder and president of Toronto-based Page Zero Media.

Goodman says, "Don't miss the opportunity to visit the Expo Hall and take in the added bonus of an Express Site Clinic! No need for appointments as these PowerPoint-free, interactive clinics are 'first-come, first-served' offering you a rare chance to get your Web site reviewed live by one of our SES experts."

The Express Site Clinics will be held at Booth #6 in the Expo Hall. They are:

Express Search Usability Clinic -- Get one-on-one advise from Shari Thurow, Founder and SEO Director, Omni Marketing Interactive, for usability, design, copy, link development, and any technical issues that may prevent your Web site from receiving high quality search engine traffic and visitor conversions.

User Friendly Sites That Monetize Well -- Is your site user friendly or are visitors wandering around lost before finally hitting the back button? How clean is your content and is it engaging for your readers? Are your on-site ads suffering from banner blindness or can they be placed in a better position to increase revenue without alienating visitors by being too blatant? Get tips from Jennifer Slegg, CEO, JenSense.com, on how to make the best user friendly website that also monetizes well for you and your advertisers, so you can find the happy medium between a well optimized, user friendly site and one that monetizes well.

Is Your Website Clicking On All Cylinders? -- Are you scratching your head as to how to further improve the SEO or usability of your website? The Express Clinic with Ken Jurina, President and Co-founder, Epiar, will help you get an on the spot audit of your website identifying the good, bad and the ugly. Learn what you're doing right and where there's room for improvement. Some small changes could get you some big results!

For more information about SES Toronto 2009, go to rates and registration details. To follow news about SES Toronto 2009 on Twitter, go to http://twitter.com/SES_Toronto.

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Data Domain Comments on Unsolicited Offer from EMC

2009-06-06T05:00:00-04:00

SANTA CLARA, CA (Gawkwire.com) Consistent with its fiduciary duties and in consultation with its financial and legal advisors, Data Domain’s Board is reviewing EMC’s offer. At this time, the Board is not making a recommendation with respect to the EMC offer. Data Domain requests that its stockholders defer making a determination whether to accept or reject EMC’s offer until Data Domain has communicated to stockholders its position regarding the tender offer from EMC. In accordance with Rule 14d-9 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, on or before June 16, 2009, Data Domain will communicate to stockholders its position regarding the tender offer from EMC. At this time, the Board is reaffirming the recommendation in favor of Data Domain’s merger with NetApp, Inc. (NASDAQ:NTAP) that is described in the Registration Statement on Form S-4 that NetApp has filed with the Securities Exchange Commission.

Qatalyst Partners is serving as financial advisor and Fenwick & West LLP is serving as legal counsel to Data Domain.

About Data Domain
Data Domain® is the leading provider of deduplication storage systems. Thousands of companies worldwide have purchased Data Domain systems to reduce storage costs and simplify data management. Data Domain delivers the performance, reliability and scalability to address the data protection and nearline storage needs of enterprises of all sizes. Data Domain products integrate into existing customer infrastructures and are compatible with leading enterprise backup and archive software products. To find out more about Data Domain, visit www.datadomain.com.

Additional Information and Where to Find It
NetApp has filed with the SEC a Registration Statement on Form S-4 in connection with the transaction, and Data Domain has filed with the SEC and will mail to its stockholders a Proxy Statement/Prospectus in connection with the transaction. The Registration Statement and the Proxy Statement/Prospectus contain important information about NetApp, Data Domain, the transaction and related matters. Investors and security holders are urged to read the Registration Statement and the Proxy Statement/Prospectus carefully when they are available. Investors and security holders are able to obtain free copies of the Registration Statement and the Proxy Statement/Prospectus and other documents filed with the SEC by NetApp and Data Domain through the web site maintained by the SEC at www.sec.gov and by contacting Data Domain Investor Relations at (408) 980-4909. In addition, investors and security holders will be able to obtain free copies of the documents filed with the SEC on Data Domain’s website at www.datadomain.com.

Participants in the Acquisition of Data Domain
NetApp, Data Domain and their respective directors, executive officers and certain other members of management and employees may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies in respect of the proposed transaction. Information regarding these persons who may, under the rules of the SEC, be considered participants in the solicitation of Data Domain stockholders in connection with the proposed transaction will be set forth in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus described above when it is filed with the SEC. Additional information regarding NetApp’s executive officers and directors is included in NetApp’s definitive proxy statement, which was filed with the SEC on July 14, 2008, and additional information regarding Data Domain’s executive officers and directors is included in Data Domain’s Annual Report on Form 10-K/A for fiscal year ended December 31, 2008, which was filed with the SEC on April 30, 2009. You can obtain free copies of these documents from NetApp or Data Domain using the contact information above.

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iomart Sees Silver Lining in Cloud as Pursuit of Hosting Strategy Pays Dividends

2009-06-06T05:00:00-04:00

Glasgow (Gawkwire.com) Managed hosting and data centre services provider iomart Group plc has today reported a 45% per cent rise in hosting services revenues to £11.8M (£8.1M 2008) for the financial year 2008/09, and a post tax profit of £11.2M from total operations (£0.4M 2008)

Both of iomart's main operating units contributed to the strong growth, with Easyspace increasing its revenues 14% to £7.2M (£6.3M 2008), and the group's Managed Hosting business, iomart Hosting, growing its revenues by 155% to £4.6M (£1.8M 2008).

The Group's latest final annual results reveal:

45% increase in revenue £11.8M (£8.1M 2008)
Post tax profit £11.2M (£0.4M 2008) from total operations
Revenue growth in both operating units
52% Gross Margin maintained at £6.1M (£4.2M 2008)
Final dividend of 0.3p per share
Basic earnings per share from total operations 11.27p (0.35p 2008)
Cash balances at year end £13.9M (£0.7M 2008)
iomart Hosting gains 60 new managed hosting customers

EBITDA losses from continuing operations improved to (£0.3M) from (-£1.4M) in previous year. Cash balances at year end totalled £13.9M (£0.7M 2008) due in the main to the resultant net proceeds of the disposal of its non-core directory business for £15.2M.

Additionally, the group has also announced a re-establishment of a dividend policy with the Board proposing to pay 0.3p per share on 3 September 2009 to shareholders on the register on 12th June 2009.

Ian Ritchie, CBE, Non Executive Chairman stated: "I'm very pleased to report that we have continued to make substantial progress in pursuit of our strategy to become one of the UK's foremost hosting groups."

Angus MacSween, CEO, stated: "The past year has seen significant progress on all fronts. Both of our hosting businesses have demonstrated strong organic growth with Easyspace now serving over 235,000 customers and iomart Hosting acquiring 60 new managed hosting customers.

"Utilising our own data centre and network infrastructure, which offers both synergy and efficiency, we can offer a hosting brand suited for every market - from the small online retailer seeking a simple web presence through to high availability, on demand virtualised hosting for the corporate and new media markets.

"There can now be no doubt that the world is split into two economies, the offline and the online, and the online one continues to grow, change and innovate despite the world's economic problems. As a Group, we are solely focused on providing the expertise, facilities and quality support demanded by the online market. Despite the hype and general confusion over the definition of Cloud Computing, we are quite clear on our positioning. We are beginning to see the benefit of our geographically spread UK network of 5 data centres, and we are able to offer a uniquely resilient high availability 'infrastructure as a service' solution for all organisations on an outsourced basis at lower cost than in-house.

"For today's business, the benefits of Cloud Computing, of a centralised computing infrastructure that can be easily accessed via the internet, are just too compelling to ignore but there is a flip side. When you are dependent on someone else for the technology, you are effectively placing your business in the hands of a third party. We recognise this and have ensured that every process, every practise, every piece of technology is engineered to ensure no single point of failure.

"I have stated before that we don't simply offer web hosting, we offer peace of mind and this is our key differentiator in the marketplace. I am pleased to report that this mantra is finding empathy with many businesses and we are seeing a very healthy prospect pipeline developing across all of our brands."

Last month the AIM-listed company revealed it had acquired the managed server hosting business RapidSwitch for sum of £5.2m, one of the UK's market leading dedicated server hosting brands.

Angus MacSween added: "Our strategy has always been to deliver both organic and acquisitive growth and after the year end we were delighted to conclude the acquisition of RapidSwitch. In Rapid Switch we have acquired a fast growing and profitable business with a strong brand that we expect to continue to thrive within our environment. We shall continue to seek to add complementary cash generative hosting businesses to the Group's portfolio for the benefit of our employees, customers and shareholders."

Issued by The BIG Partnership on behalf of iomart plc. For more information contact Bryan Garvie at The BIG Partnership on 0141 333 9585 / bryan.garvie(at)bigpartnership.co.uk

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20" Rack Mount 1U LCD Monitor Keyboard Drawer Introduced by Acnodes

2009-06-05T15:48:00-04:00

(Gawkwire.com) Walnut, California-based Acnodes Corp. today introduced a new, 1U rack mount terminal drawer designed with a 20-inch 1600x1200 high resolution LCD monitor, keyboard and touch-pad for standard 19-inch rack cabinet.

The 20.1 inch TFT LCD display provides 1600 x 1200 pixel resolution, .255mm dot pitch, a contrast ratio of 1000:1 and a brightness of 300cd/m2. An optional DVI video input is available.

With a viewing size of 20.1", the KD700 presents an ample display area and vivid sharp images for industrial applications. Its on-screen display function allows users to adjust the images on screen with ease. Along with the 20-inch display, the KD 7200 also has an integrated 106-key keyboard and two-button touch pad mouse.

The drawers are made completely of steel finished with a black powder coating. Two thumbscrews lock the screen in place when not in use. The KD7200's rugged construction is intended for the rack mount and military market requiring high end graphic capabilities.

For more information on these products call (909) 598-7388or visit the Acnodes website at www.acnodes.com.

Pricing and Availability
Pricing for the KD7200 starts at $1,325.00 and is available for immediate delivery.

Additional KD7200's details can be found online:
To see another rack mount LCD monitor keyboard drawer products

To buy this product or for more information call (909) 598-7388 or visit the Acnodes website at www.acnodes.com.

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BrightCloud to provide Microsoft with URL Categorization Services

2009-06-05T15:46:00-04:00

San Diego, CA (Gawkwire.com) BrightCloud today announced that Microsoft has selected BrightCloud to provide URL categorization services for Microsoft products. Microsoft has licensed access to BrightCloud's Hosted Internet Security Service in order to incorporate URL categorization into numerous Microsoft and Forefront-branded security products and services such as their upcoming Threat Management Gateway.

BrightCloud's Hosted Internet Security Service provides access to the largest, most accurate, and most up to date repository of categorized Web sites in the industry. Web filtering is a common feature requirement across many Microsoft products, providing end customers with the ability to manage employee internet access and mitigate security issues associated with web browsing. For example, an enterprise may wish to limit access to online gambling sites during work hours, or protect employees from unknowingly visiting websites that attempt to download malware.

The challenge presented by web browsing today is that there is a high degree of churn with websites being created at a rate of almost one hundred thousand per day, with a comparatively large number disappearing. Additionally, websites infected with downloadable malware have become the most common means of distributing malware. Keeping up with end user browsing behavior in such a dynamic environment while also addressing security concerns is a daunting task. Integration of the BrightCloud Hosted Internet Security Service with Microsoft products will help Microsoft customers mitigate these problems.

URL data from the BrightCloud's Internet Security Service will join other data feeds into Microsoft's Reputation Service (MRS), which was announced at RSA 2009. The MRS is a globally-distributed platform that provides reputation and categorization information about various digital objects including URL's, files and publishers. This reputation content services multiple end-point scenarios spanning the Microsoft and Forefront solutions.

"Web filtering is a required component in many of Microsoft's product offerings, and our customers demand a high quality solution," said Greg Kohanim, Principal Product Unit Manager, Identity and Security Division, Microsoft. "BrightCloud provides comprehensive, accurate, and up to date URL classifications for both the most popular and most obscure websites. This will help Microsoft Reputation Service customers of all types and sizes be more productive and secure, which supports the Microsoft Business Ready Security strategy."

"We are pleased that Microsoft has selected BrightCloud as a data source for their products which incorporate web filtering," said Quinn Curtis, BrightCloud CEO. "Microsoft has the highest quality and coverage requirements of any vendor, with products serving over one half billion users worldwide visiting web sites in just about any language you can think of. This validates BrightCloud's technology and processes as being able to provide a service level in the most demanding environments on the planet."

The BrightCloud Hosted Web Filtering Service, through BrightCloud's partners such as Microsoft, provides enterprise customers with the highest web filtering service level available in the industry. BrightCloud has utilized hybrid humanautomated URL classification systems, including leveraging the latest in machine learning technology, to build the industry's most comprehensive URL content and security classification service. It contains classifications for more than 180 million URLs (and growing), and as a hosted service, it is updated continuously. The BrightCloud Internet Security Service is integrated with and accessible from a variety of client types, including browsers, mobile devices, anti-virus clients, security appliances, enterprise security software, and can be integrated with carrier and internet service provider solutions.

For more information visit www.brightcloud.com.

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"Wikipedia for Porn" Launches

2009-06-05T09:52:00-04:00

San Diego, CA (Gawkwire.com) After several months of development Carnalpedia is opening its doors to the public. Built on MediaWiki, the same platform that powers Wikipedia, Carnalpedia is a free, peer-editable resource on all things sex and porn related.

Carnalpedia is a free, peer-editable adult graphic encyclopedia about sex.
After only a few weeks it is already home to over 120,000 articles, making it the largest online sex encyclopedia. Everyone, including adult companies, webmasters, porn stars and sex enthusiasts are invited to share their wealth of knowledge on the site, including the creation of pages for any products or services they would like to increase awareness of.

"The fact that Wikipedia has a certain type of audience leaves a lot of information about sex and the adult industry either blocked or censored. Having a wiki geared exclusively for the topic of sex, as well as having all the articles using the Restricted to Adults website labels, allows us a lot of latitude in what we can provide," said site creator Jeremy Haddock.

The site allows images to be added only by authorized individuals from approved sources to ensure compliance with copyright law and the legal age of the models. All pages within Carnalpedia also carry the RTA label, which allows services like NetNanny to block access to those not of an appropriate age.

Visit Carnalpedia.org or Carnalpedia.net for more information.

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topseos Launches New Websites Dedicated to UK, Canada, Australia & India

2009-06-05T09:50:00-04:00

Plymouth, IN (Gawkwire.com) The independent authority on search vendors, topseos.com, has been in operation since 2002. When in doubt as to who to trust within the pay per click, search engine optimization, and marketing industries, you can always count on a highly qualified opinion by the topseos team. Without employing favoritism or displaying biased opinions, topseos gives their honest and sometimes critical viewpoint on who has what it takes. Companies choose to be evaluated and ranked, and in doing so they choose to be criticized or complimented. They do this because of the value of a positive topseos ranking.

The significance and usefulness of the topseos ranking system reached such high acclaim that extending their reach beyond the American shores to the UK, Canada, Australia and India was the natural progression for this innovative company. topseos has launched dedicated websites for these regions to accommodate the influx of exponential growth that is currently being experienced in each area. All the websites have enhanced features and expert navigation, making it easier to locate all the most prominent regional vendors within each country.

The updated websites for each country are as follows:

UK - uk.topseos.com
India - topseos.in
Canada - canada.topseos.com
Australia - australia.topseos.com

By consulting each country's website you will be receiving the most up to date information on which SEM vendors are the most reliable and efficient in their field. Each ranked company is outlined briefly, and all links and contact details are made available with one click of the mouse.

Businesses that would like to get an idea of where they rank in comparison to their competitors can apply for rankings by navigating to the rankings tab on their country's website. By simply filling in the contact information form, you could be allowing your company the privilege of being positioned up there with the industry's elite - provided you meet all the criteria.

Questions asked to clients of the SEM firms during the evaluation include:

- What are the most competitive keywords you have been able to rank on the major search engines and how long did it take you to achieve those rankings?
- How comprehensive, specific, and useful are the reports that are offered to the client?
- What type of needs analysis was conducted before work initiated?
- What type of a ROI were you anticipating, what was achieved and in what time frame?

Not everyone cuts the grade, which is what makes topseos service so vital in the online world. The evaluations are neutral, professional and consistent, keeping those that offer excellent standards of search engine marketing exactly where they should be: In the limelight.

For more information about topseos, please visit www.topseos.com.

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dotDigital Hires Ex-Ogilvy Online Expert Skip Fidura to Drive Digital Strategies

2009-06-05T09:49:00-04:00

London, UK (Gawkwire.com) dotDigital Group today announces that Skip Fidura, previously Email Partner at OgilvyOne, has taken up the post of Digital Director at the digital consultancy. He is tasked with helping clients improve their digital marketing. He will be working with clients across the dotDigitalGroup – dotMailer, dotCommerce and dotAgency businesses.

Skip joins dotDigital after almost three years at OgilvyOne where he helped grow the company’s worldwide email consultancy and lead their London team of email specialists working on clients like BT, American Express, IBM, and Kodak. With 15 years experience in digital marketing, Skip has held senior roles at Crestar Bank and US marketing solutions company Digital Impact, now Acxiom Digital, during which time he founded the company’s London office. Skip is also Vice Chairman of the DMA’s Email Marketing Council.

Skip Fidura explains, “There is a radical shift going on in the agency world and I am keen to be a part of it; dotDigital represents a new breed of agency, built around client needs in the digital economy, allowing us to recommend fresh innovative strategies that deliver results against measurable business objectives. We are embarking on an exciting journey.”

Peter Simmonds, Chief Executive, dotDigital Group Ltd. states, “Digital levels the playing field, creating opportunities for innovation so that smaller companies can compete with global heavyweights. We are committed to providing customers of every size with the best possible advice and Skip is the ideal guide for clients who hope to make the most of the tools available to them online, but lack the strategic marketing experience to understand how they can work together.”

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Cobweb Solutions Deploys Parallels Automation to Expand Hosted Services

2009-06-05T09:47:00-04:00

FAREHAM, UK & HERNDON, VA (Gawkwire.com) Cobweb Solutions, a provider of managed IT services, and virtualization and automation leader Parallels, today announced that CobWeb has implemented Parallels Automation to streamline internal administration, improve user experience and enable the provisioning of business applications and services, including Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint and Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

Parallels Automation will allow Cobweb and its resellers to provide multiple-vendor solutions, flexible billing and administration across its different service offerings. The Parallels solution enables Cobweb’s channel partners with a fully branded, self-service portal they can deliver to their customers, combined with advanced billing functionality. The technology also accelerates Cobweb’s rapid progress into a white label reselling business model with VARs and System Integrator channel partners.

With over 5,000 customers and 175 reseller partners, Cobweb is committed to investing in infrastructure that provides the best possible experience for its users and maximizes productivity for its employees. Before implementing Parallels Automation, Cobweb was using a control panel that had been developed in-house for user administration. However, as part of its ongoing strategy to develop its range of offerings to meet growing customer demand,
Cobweb wanted a platform that would support this growth whilst ensuring ease-of-use for end-users.

“With the phenomenal growth in popularity of hosted IT, we needed a platform that would allow us to offer a broader range of services with the scalability to meet increasing customer demand,” said Dan Germain, CTO at Cobweb Solutions. “Parallels Automation allows us to improve user experience whilst streamlining our internal processes and offering more flexible opportunities to resellers. This is a very important strategic move and puts Cobweb in a perfect position to maximize the interest in and growth of cloud computing. It also gives resellers an attractive alternative to Microsoft’s new Business Online Productivity Suite, giving them better overall control, not to mention advantageous profit margins.”

Cobweb uses Parallels Automation to power their white label reselling model to:

o Broaden offerings for customers and resellers - Parallels allows Cobweb to quickly add new products and services to its current range of hosted solutions. In addition to Microsoft Hosted Exchange and SharePoint, Cobweb now offers Microsoft Hosted CRM and a range of non Microsoft products from Online PC Backup and security to Hosted Desktop Virtualization which can all be white labelled.
o Streamline administration processes – The new platform gives resellers and their customers, self-service management of users, service billing and the ability to provision additional services. This lets partners simplify processes across the business, from IT maintenance and updates to billing, customer service and account management.
o Improve the customer experience – Cobweb makes everything available to customers through one easy-to-use control screen with unified log-ins, easy account management and simple upgrades.

“For forward-thinking hosting/cloud services providers like Cobweb, white-label reselling of cloud services like Hosted Microsoft Exchange and Dynamics CRM, is a great way to expand access of business-class communications and collaboration to IT-hungry SMBs,” said Jack Zubarev, President, Service Provider Division at Parallels. “By implementing Parallels Automation, Cobweb and their reseller partners can focus on providing value-added services to its customers whilst keeping their administrative and operations costs low.” http://www.gawkwire.com/web_hosting/cobweb_solutions_deploys_parallels_automation_to_expand_hosted_s.html

PEER 1 offers 30% cost saving guarantee to switch hosting

2009-06-05T09:46:00-04:00

Southampton, UK (Gawkwire.com) PEER 1 Network Enterprises, Inc. (TSX:PIX), a global online IT hosting provider, is offering UK hosting customers a 30% cost-saving guarantee by switching to PEER 1’s UK hosting services*.

PEER 1 recently launched its managed hosting operations in the UK and is using the power of its global SuperNetworkTM through 21 POPs and 16 data centres worldwide to deliver cost-savings of up to 30% for hosting customers.

The offer includes a free consultation with a PEER 1 Solutions Engineer to review the customer’s current hosting plan and a one-hour consultation with a migration expert to provide planning and analysis if needed. To take-up the offer, which is available until the end of June 2009, hosting customers should call 0800 840 7490 and present a recent invoice from their current hosting provider.

Dominic Monkhouse, UK MD at PEER 1 said: “PEER 1 does hosting differently – we don’t believe customers should be locked into expensive contracts with server capacity they don’t need and SLAs that offer no protection against downtime. For many web businesses, hosting uses over half of their operating IT cost; cutting this back by 30% delivers a serious saving through a straightforward switchover.

“We’re more than happy to put our service where our mouth is,” Monkhouse continues, “PEER 1 is able to make efficiency savings through green servers, we own our own content delivery network and through our extensive peering agreements worldwide, we can offer customers the best terms for hosting in the industry, backed up with our standard 100% uptime guarantee.”

PEER 1 in the UK is also offering a ‘ValuePro Hosting Bundle’ including FirstCall SupportTM, SAN backup, vulnerability scans, 100% network uptime SLA and access to the high performance SuperNetworkTM – all for £179 per month. The ValuePro bundle is designed to take the complexity out of running an online business and provide peace of mind that security, availability and reliability are taken care of.

PEER 1 currently has over 500 customers in EMEA and revenue in excess of £3milllion making it one of Europe’s largest IT hosting providers. The company offers managed hosting through PEER 1 and dedicated hosting through, ServerBeach, which is billed as ‘by geeks, for geeks’.

* Terms of the 30% cost-saving guarantee include switching from an equivalent hosting package on proof of invoice from another provider and switching to a 24-month contract with PEER1. Hosting customers can choose to engage either the ValuePro Hosting Bundle or 30% cost-saving guarantee from PEER 1 UK. Specification details for the 30% cost-saving guarantee and ValuePro bundle are available online at www.peer1hosting.co.uk.

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topseos acknowledges SearchFit as the #1 Best SEO Shopping Cart in the World

2009-06-04T15:48:00-04:00

Plymouth, IN (Gawkwire.com) SearchFit is dominating the world of e-commerce with their SEO friendly shopping cart software. With built-in SEO tools, their software is allowing their vast and varied arrangement of clients to optimize their products in search engine listings, thus obtaining extensive exposure within their fields. The SearchFit software features go above and beyond the required or expected norm, to deliver more than one would bargain for or even hope for. topseos.com took all this into consideration when awarding SearchFit as the best shopping cart company.

Not one to focus solely on the high flyers, SearchFit has developed a product for smaller businesses that has all of the functionality of their corporate plans, just presented on a smaller scale. Their constant introduction of new features, such as plug-ins for social networking, ties in well with the current trends within the search engine optimization industry, making sure that they always stay in check with the development and evolution of the times.

SearchFit also prides themselves on standing by their customers, from the initial birth of their business relationship right up until successful implementation of their shopping cart. "SearchFit tends to be more involved than other shopping cart companies; we want every one of our customers to succeed, so we are often involved in every phase of their site's development or conversion, offering not only design and development services, but search engine optimization as well," said Tim Scott, Director of Ecommerce, "As a result, our clients see a faster return on investment because they are set up to succeed from the beginning."

topseos is always keeping their eyes open for dynamic teams such as SearchFit. The business in search engine marketing is expanding exponentially on a daily basis, and without resources such as topseos to turn to it is difficult to distinguish between the true players and the con men. topseos enforces a strict bench mark. Companies either make it or they don't. Those that don't are always going to try harder and attempt to move faster in order to cut the grade, making topseos' service invaluable from whichever angle you choose to look at it.

For further information on topseos, please visit: www.topseos.com.

For further information on SearchFit, please visit www.topseos.com/searchfit.

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Host Color Announced VPS Hosting Coupons And Instant Rebates

2009-06-04T15:45:00-04:00

(Gawkwire.com) The company added one free month to all new VPS hosting customers and gave 15% instant rebate to Mac users who needed quality virtual private server powered by Virtuozzo Containers OS virtualization technology. Now the Host Color's entry level VPS - VPS Start that features 256 RAM, 10 GB disc space and 100 GB data transfer - costs only
$17.34 per month.

The VPS Hosting Provider (http://www.hostcolor.com) HostColor.com has reported to web hosting media the launch of its new VPS hosting coupons and rebates. The company has extended the expiration date of its VPS2009 coupon until June 30, 2009. The coupon code gives 1 free month of VPS hosting service to anyone who signs up with any of the provider's virtual private servers.

Host Color has also kicked off another very nice instant rebate on all VPS Hosting plans. It gives Macintosh users 15% off the monthly price of VPS Start, VPS Advance, VPS Power and VPS Custom
(http://www.hostcolor.com/vps/vps-custom) virtual private servers. This means that the entry level VPS Start
(http://www.hostcolor.com/vps/vps-start) now costs only $17.34/month.
According to Host Color this is probably the web hosting industry's lowest price of a Quality VPS hosting service, powered by Virtuozzo Power Panel (VZPP), the world's leading OS virtualization solution, produced by Parallels. Mac users can use the coupon code - MACISBETTER.

Alongside with the VPS Hosting discounts Host Color released some coupons that provide web business owners with the opportunity to save money on Dedicated Hosting (http://www.hostcolor.com/dedicatedhosting)
and Shared Web Hosting (http://www.hostcolor.com/webhosting). The coupon code MACISBETTER also applies for the above listed types of web hosting services.

Host Color has recently made a significant change in its Shared Hosting service policy. It has introduced "unlimited data transfer" for its premier web hosting plans. The step has been made to help the provider to respond to the overselling trend in the shared hosting market.

The hosting company is well-known with its approach to hosting business named Quality Web Hosting. Its executives say that Host Color "customizes not just VPS and Dedicated Hosting, but even Shared Hosting services to allow anyone to work in personalized business environment".

Host Color LLC is a U.S. web hosting provider incorporated in Delaware.
It powers thousands of business and personal websites in data centers in South Bend, Indiana, U.S. and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The company also provides fully Managed dedicated hosting through HC Servers and European hosting services through HC Europe (http://www.hostcolor.eu).
It offers discounts to academics and non-governmental organizations. The Host Color's corporate message is "Web hosting about people, not about gigabytes."

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YouDu Content Mgmt System Puts Businesses In Control Of Website Content

2009-06-04T15:44:00-04:00

London, UK (Gawkwire.com) An enhanced version of YouDu CMS has launched today, offering a new, advanced range of content, design and multimedia features to enable any organisation to effortlessly create and manage their website or intranet. Provided by the Big Oxford Computer Company (BOCC), the YouDu CMS is an intuitive, easy-to-use and affordable content management system, designed to enable non-technical people to quickly and simply build and enhance their website, in order to keep content fresh and engaging.

YouDu CMS - geared towards professional associations, local governments, member and ecommerce websites, and corporate intranets – negates the need for special browser plug-ins or complex user manuals, enabling websites to be updated in real-time through an internet browser – whether that’s changing text, uploading images or inserting rich media files, such as audio and video.

The system offers a comprehensive range of features and functionality, including built-in multimedia applications to really bring websites or intranets to life. These include:

• Easy editing with a WYSIWYG browser based editor
• Search engine and social media optimisation with RSS feeds, link management, automatic site map generation and URL aliases
• Interactivity built in with polls, site search and video functionality
• Flexibility to grow the site with events, news and media pages easy to create
• Microsite builder to create campaign or project specific areas

Complimenting YouDu CMS is YouDu Forms (http://www.youduforms.co.uk/ ), an online web form-building tool that makes it simple to create user-friendly stylised forms complete with real-time data and reporting tools.

“Most businesses have had some sort of web presence many years, but static sites of the mid-90s are a thing of the past. An organisation’s website must be seen now as a key communications and marketing tool; it has to be both engaging and interactive. Today’s web visitor expects more from a website, but this presents a potential headache for companies that are eager to keep their online portal fresh and engaging,” explains Mark Hall, Managing Director of BOCC.

“YouDu CMS hands complete control of the website to the business, enabling non-technical users to effortlessly update the site and negating the need to hire a developer for simple tasks. With the built-in multimedia functionality, companies and organisations of all sizes can use YouDu to really take their website to the next level.”

More information about YouDu CMS and YouDu Forms can be found at www.youdu.co.uk

http://www.gawkwire.com/web_design/youdu_content_mgmt_system_puts_businesses_in_control_of_website_.html

YouDu Content Mgmt System Puts Businesses In Control Of Website Content

2009-06-04T15:44:00-04:00

The system offers a comprehensive range of features and functionality, including built-in multimedia applications to really bring websites or intranets to life. These include:

http://www.gawkwire.com/web_design/youdu_content_mgmt_system_puts_businesses_in_control_of_website_.html

Benefits Of An Offshore Merchant Service Provider

2009-06-04T09:36:00-04:00

(Gawkwire.com) Why a merchant may need an offshore merchant account - Merchants, especially those that transact business internationally may find it beneficial to use an offshore or non-domestic bank to process their credit card transactions. This can benefit the merchant because many non-domestic banks have a lot of experience in multi-currency transaction processing and have high volume merchant account processing capabilities.

The "real" purpose of an offshore merchant account - Offshore banks offer merchant accounts for various reasons. 1. So a merchant can secure a merchant account with unlimited processing capabilities. 2. The merchant may have been placed on the TMF or Match file with their domestic processor. 3. The merchant is looking to grow their business but are restricted by their domestic processor. 4. The merchants business is now considered high risk by their domestic bank. Offshore banks offer secure credit card processing, mostly by way of third party fraud scrubbing and secure payment gateways. Many of these security protocols are performed by independent companies to ensure a non-partisan security environment.

What to look for in an offshore merchant service provider - Shopping for a good, reliable merchant service provider can be very difficult for new and even well established businesses. Some things to look for in a merchant service provider are their ability to source high volume of sales and ability to accept high risk clients. A merchant service provider's portfolio says a lot about the ways they can serve you. While many merchant service providers specialize in certain industries and do a fine job, others that have a diverse portfolio can handle issues in a variety of ways. Research the merchant service provider. Ask the provider how long they have been working with the bank, what type of businesses have been most successful processing through their bank, as the provider if you will have the ability to speak with programmer, accounting department, chargeback department, and merchant support directly. (this is important)

What to avoid in an offshore merchant account provider - Beware of offshore merchant service providers advertising tax evasion and tax havens! This is not only unethical it is illegal! You have to report and pay your taxes. Beware of 99% approvals! This is impossible. If the provider insists it is true, then run for the hills. 99% approvals = bad merchant portfolios. Watch out for providers accepting questionable / controversial industries such as gaming and new companies. Chances are, if the provider is doing any of the above, they are aiding and abetting criminals and are turning a blind eye to the activity. This will come to haunt them in time. Do not risk your business on this type of provider.

Security and seamless credit card processing should be your number one priority. For more information on high risk merchant accounts and offshore credit card processing solutions, please visit http://www.stradafee.com.

http://www.gawkwire.com/business/benefits_of_an_offshore_merchant_service_provider.html

Boost SEO Performance on Bing, Google, and Yahoo! with SmarterStats

2009-06-04T09:34:00-04:00

PHOENIX, AZ (Gawkwire.com) Because SmarterStats analyzes a site’s log files, it consistently delivers accurate statistics that include data collected from all Web site visitors. Competing products like Google Analytics use JavaScript to track Web site visitors and potentially miss a significant percentage of search engine referrals in their metrics. Since not all Web surfers have JavaScript enabled in their Web or mobile browsers, these competing products tend to underreport Web site visitor statistics.

“Whether your traffic originates from searches on Bing, Google, or Yahoo!, SmarterStats can help you understand that traffic and engineer your sites for SEO performance,” said Jeff Hardy, vice president of business operations for SmarterTools.

With the next major release, SmarterStats will complete the circle—allowing for the complete management and control of Web site statistics and SEO marketing efforts in a single application.

“Already, internal tests of SmarterStats 5.x have allowed SmarterTools to combine the power of SEO and analytics to fine tune our Web site’s performance in leading search engines. When Bing launched June 1, SmarterTools ranked on the first page of search results for our targeted SEO terms,” Hardy added.

With detailed reports and no database requirements, SmarterStats delivers accurate and detailed Web site statistics for a single site or up to 30,000 sites across distributed networks. In addition, SmarterStats further refines statistics by separating real traffic from spider and bot traffic, providing companies with true Web site statistics that reflect actual customer behavior. For a full list of features in SmarterStats 4.x, see the SmarterStats Edition Comparison page on the SmarterTools Web site.

http://www.gawkwire.com/seo_sem/boost_seo_performance_on_bing_google_and_yahoo_with_smarterstats.html

REDPLAID Launches Private Cloud Computing

2009-06-04T09:33:00-04:00

ST. LOUIS, MO (Gawkwire.com) Since REDPLAID’s initial launch of Cloud Computing in 2008, there has been a surge of customers interested in Private Cloud Computing as well. REDPLAID’s current Cloud Computing uses proprietary methods developed by REDPLAID to deliver a fully-secured, shared computing environment; one that enables computing resources to be readily provisioned and scaled in response to a customer’s application demand. Customers leverage REDPLAID’s Cloud Computing on a monthly, pay-as-you-go basis.

Similar to REDPLAID’s current Cloud Computing offer, Private Clouds are intended to deliver the benefits of cloud computing, however the computing environment is fully dedicated for the sole use of a specific customer. Private Cloud Computing leverages REDPLAID’s core solutions which include VMware, Dell PowerEdge servers, EqualLogic Storage Area Networks, and REDPLAID’s comprehensive managed service plans. REDPLAID Cloud Computing Solutions are backed by REDPLAID’s industry leading “Relentless Security” and comprehensive 24 / 7 support.

“Adding Private Cloud Computing is a significant addition to our managed hosting services,” noted REDPLAID President and CEO, Rich Waidmann. “Our customers will have the flexibility and range of choice to select the type of Cloud Computing best suited to their needs. And we will continue to expand our offer in the future to provide our customers the most secure, reliable, flexible and affordable cloud solutions in the market.”

For more information on REDPLAID’s Cloud offerings, please visit: http://cloud.redplaid.com.

http://www.gawkwire.com/web_hosting/redplaid_launches_private_cloud_computing.html

Internet TV specialist, BestTV powers US contemporary entertainment portal

2009-06-04T00:32:00-04:00

LONDON, UK (Gawkwire.com) BestTV has partnered with AMOS (A Matter of Substance) to provide a premium Video-On-Demand (VOD) service on an internet TV platform.

AMOS is a contemporary entertainment company producing visual media across the music, film and television industries. AMOS solely uses premium 1080i HD footage from around the globe to create a first-class viewing experience.

The site broadcasts its media assets in HD format with the option to switch to lower bandwidth if the user is on a slower internet connection.

Utilising V-Ware™ (Best TV's superior internet video platform) AMOS’ web team has connected the V-ware™ search engine to the video catalogue so all videos are indexed and can be easily searched via the built in search engine facility.

The AMOS webmaster can upload videos to the V-ware™ platform via an intuitive and easy-to-use Video Management System (VMS). The technology utilises Adobe Flash Player 10 for optimal video streaming of High Definition video content.

Additionally BestTV has provided AMOS with a total Content Delivery Network (CDN) solution so videos can stream optimally to global viewers.

View beautiful contemporary arts videos in high definition and learn more now at http://www.amostv.com/online/.

For more information on BestTV and its premium internet TV platform services, visit http://www.best-tv.com/.

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Contest Combines Pubs, Google, Twitter and Mashups

2009-06-04T09:27:00-04:00

Manchester, UK (Gawkwire.com) The contest entry criteria are simple: create a mashup that has anything at all to do with pubs. Any entry can win, just so long as the mashup involves a pub in some way. The competition runs from June 1 - June 30, 2009. Winners will be selected in early July. Details on the rules and entry forms are available at: http://www.34sp.com/pub-mashup.

As stated by Wikipedia, ''mashup'' is a term in web development, denoting a web application that combines data or functionality from two or more sources into a single integrated application. The term mashup implies easy, fast integration, frequently done by access to open APIs and data sources to produce results that were not the original reason for producing the raw source data. Google and Twitter are frequently used by developers when creating mashups as the APIs are well developed and accessible.

Co-founder of 34SP.com and frequent pub visitor, Stuart Melling explained the thinking behind the pub mashup competition, ''Let's face it, here in the UK pubs are a revered institution. Our own staff enjoy a quick pint quite frequently here in Manchester, plus we often visit our local pubs, so we thought - why not create a great contest that involves both our audience of web developers and pubs? Plus, it gives the web development community a great way to combine their favorite activities into one - pubs and coding mashups.''

Winners of the First Ever Pub Mashup Competition will be selected by a panel made up of 34SP.com employees who enjoy going to pubs. The entries will be judged on the following criteria:

Originality
Functionality
Robustness
Betterment of the greater Pub community
Fun and engaging to use

To learn more about 34SP.com, the First Ever Pub Mashup Competition or 34SP.com web hosting products, please visit: http://www.34sp.com or http://www.twitter.com/34SP.

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Google's Former Policy Exec Faces Objections To Appointment As Deputy CTO

2009-06-03T16:42:00-04:00

(Gawkwire.com) The reported appointment of Google's former head of global public policy as federal deputy CTO is being challenged by two consumer groups.

Andrew McLaughlin is slated to become the new deputy CTO, under federal CTO Aneesh Chopra, according to a New York Times report citing two unnamed sources.

Google has acknowledged McLaughlin's departure, but not his destination. The White House has not yet announced plans to appoint McLaughlin.

Nonetheless, the Center for Digital Democracy and Consumer Watchdog on Wednesday asked President Obama in a letter not to complete the rumored pending appointment because doing so would violate the President's ethics guidelines.

"The problem is that [McLaughlin] has been a lobbyist for the biggest digital marketing company in the world, and we believe no special interest connected person should assume a position of vital importance to the country's future," the letter from the two consumer groups states. "It would be just as inappropriate for a lobbyist from Microsoft, Yahoo!, or any similar technology company to be appointed Deputy Chief Technology Officer."

The letter also cites Google's market power as a secondary reason to deny McLaughlin's appointment. "Google's growing influence is already raising profound concern," the letter says. "The Justice Department is weighing antitrust issues relating to the proposed Google Books settlement and the Federal Trade Commission is considering the anti-trust implication of the relationship between Apple and Google directors."

It also mentions privacy issues that arose about the federal government's use of YouTube and the Justice Department's opposition to last year's Google-Yahoo ad partnership.

The Justice Department is also reportedly investigating the hiring practices of certain technology companies including Apple, Genentech, and Google to determine whether they colluded illegally to not poach each others' employees.

Google declined to comment. http://www.gawkwire.com/business/google_s_former_policy_exec_faces_objections_to_appointment_as_d.html

CRE Loaded Validated by the Payment Card Industry

2009-06-02T14:00:00-04:00

Atlanta (Gawkwire.com) Assessors certified by the Payment Card Industry (PCI), a coalition of the world's leading credit card companies, have validated that the CRE Loaded ecommerce system is compliant with the newest data security standards.

These standards were enacted in response to the growing number of expensive data breaches. Starting Oct. 1, online retailers will no longer be allowed to host credit card transactions in non PCI-approved environments. Stores that aren't compliant can be fined, have their transaction fees raised, or even have their merchant accounts frozen.

CRE Loaded, which was validated May 8 by Coalfire Systems, a PCI-approved "Qualified Security Assessor," helps retailers:

- Manage their online stores.
- Accept secure Web-based credit card transactions.

CRE Loaded is now the world's first open-source PCI-compliant ecommerce system.

CRE Loaded is PCI compliant because it's integrated with the new CRE Secure™ payment system, which safely connects online stores to the major banks and merchant processors. Both systems are flagship products of Atlanta-based Chain Reaction eCommerce, a provider of innovative products for small- and medium-sized online retailers.

CRE Loaded is also the first ecommerce system that offers a payment page that automatically evolves to mirror any retailer's website design.

When online retail sites are powered by CRE Secure HTML Clone™ technology, shoppers never know they left the store…even though their transactions are hosted in a secure, PCI-certified data center.

The newest CRE Loaded, available in three versions--including a free one--offers features that made the previous versions so popular, including customizable online website templates and the ability to optimize merchandise for search engine rankings.

Greg McGraw, a serial entrepreneur who became CEO of Chain Reaction eCommerce in 2009, says he's seen an uptick in demand for PCI-compliant ecommerce solutions. In addition, he says, online spending is still increasing--regardless of current economic conditions.

Research firm Forrester in April 2009 forecasted U.S. online sales would increase 11 percent in 2009 and 13 percent in 2010. These expected gains, McGraw says, are the result of:

The fact that better deals can often be found online.
Opening an online store is not as expensive as launching a "brick and mortar" store.
More shoppers are increasingly getting used to submitting credit card info online.

When Chain Reaction eCommerce began to work on a PCI-compliant version of CRE Loaded that could accept payments, McGraw says, the team heard one resolute complaint from customers: The fact that PayPal and Google Checkout offered merchants little control over their own stores.

"Chain Reaction eCommerce listened to our customers when we developed the newest CRE Loaded," says McGraw. "Developers approached the newest version with four main goals in mind: Security, flexibility, cost-effectiveness and branding."

CRE Loaded and CRE Secure are backed by $5 million in venture capital and years of development. For more information, contact 800.609.2141.

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Chain Reaction eCommerce Launches CRE Secure

2009-06-02T14:00:00-04:00

Atlanta (Gawkwire.com) Chain Reaction eCommerce, a provider of innovative products for small- and medium-sized online retailers, has launched CRE Secure, the first downloadable payment system that is fully compliant with new credit card security rules.

These rules, called Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security standards, were enacted by the world's major credit card companies in response to the growing number of expensive data breaches. Starting Oct. 1, online retailers will no longer be allowed to host credit card transactions in non PCI-approved environments. Stores that aren't compliant can be fined, have their transaction fees raised, or even have their merchant accounts frozen.

On May 7, CRE Secure satisfied all requirements for the "PCI Payment Application Data Security Standard revision 1.2" and as a Level One Service Provider--which indicates the highest level of protection. The several-month process was carried out by Coalfire Systems, a PCI-approved "Qualified Security Assessor."

CRE Secure takes the worry out of the daunting PCI-compliance process. The service--which is free for merchants who have accounts with participating credit card processors--integrates with retailers' existing online shopping cart programs and connects those programs to the major banks.

Further, CRE Secure is the only payment system that automatically mirrors any retailer's website design.

When an online store is powered by CRE Secure's HTML Clone™ technology, shoppers never know they left the site when they're ready to pay…even though their transactions are hosted in one of the most secure PCI-compliant data centers in the country. With services such as PayPal, on the other hand, shoppers are sent to another company's own branded page--a process that often leads to buyer confusion and abandoned orders.

A great time to launch a secure ecommerce solution

Chain Reaction eCommerce CEO Greg McGraw believes now is the perfect time to be launching CRE Secure:

While much of the retail industry is suffering, McGraw says, online spending is fairing well. According to April survey by research firms Performics and ROI Research, 19 percent of respondents said they would spend more money online during the summer than they did a year ago. More than 40 percent of respondents, meanwhile, said they'd spend as much money.

In addition, the number of data breaches continues to skyrocket. According to the 2009 Data Breach Investigations Report by Verizon Business, there were 285 million records compromised in 2008. Payment Card Data breaches accounted for 81% of the total incidents and 98% of the total records breached.

In addition, McGraw says, CRE Secure is backed by an industry mandate. Even smaller online retailers who are found to not be in compliance after Oct. 1 could be fined by their acquiring bank $5,000 to $100,000 per month for PCI violations.

"While other ecommerce companies are scrambling to make their payment systems PCI-compliant, we saw the writing on the wall early," says McGraw, a serial entrepreneur who came to Chain Reaction eCommerce from TechCFO, where he assisted early-stage companies raise venture funding. "But we weren't satisfied with just making the most secure downloadable system available. We also wanted to address the main problems our customers were having with 'out of scope' payment services such as PayPal and Google Checkout."

CRE Secure is backed by $5 million in venture capital and years of development. The system can work with a growing number of "open source" shopping carts, including Chain Reaction eCommerce's award-winning, PCI-certified CRE Loaded software. For more information, contact 800.609.2141.

http://www.gawkwire.com/technology/chain_reaction_ecommerce_launches_cre_secure.html

Domain Registrar, NameCheap Giving Away Free Domains & Vacations on Twitter

2009-06-02T14:00:00-04:00

(Gawkwire.com) NameCheap, the domain registrar and web host that launched one of the biggest contests on Twitter, will be launching another contest with free domain names and bigger and more prizes.

This contest, dubbed the NameCheap Travel Twitter Trivia Contest, will ask Twitter users trivia questions about places around the world. Every hour on the hour, NameCheap's Twitterbot will put out a question on Twitter. The first to answer and two at random will win free domain names. Since NameCheap has linked its interface to the Twitter API, the funds for the domains are automatically deposited into the winners' NameCheap accounts.

The top two players to answer the most correctly as well as one person at random win $1,000 towards the vacation of their choice. Three random players will win Canon Powershot D10 cameras.

"We prefer to spend less money in marketing and more money on these contests. Our customers really like them and it's a great way to let others know that we are out there. Aside from just marketing, we use Twitter for basic customer service and customer feedback, so it's a win/win on many levels. The more people play, the bigger and more numerous the prizes get," said Richard Kirkendall, NameCheap's CEO.

To play, simply sign up for Twitter, follow @Namecheap, and then follow the easy setup instructions at NameCheap's website. On Wednesday June 3 at 11 am EST, the questions will begin every hour on the hour for two weeks.

"The funny thing is, the players actually get to know other players in the process," said Michelle Greer, NameCheap's Social Media Strategist. "It's like watching a bunch of regulars and newbies at a Vegas blackjack table or something."

NameCheap was started in 2000 by CEO Richard Kirkendall in Los Angeles, California. Millions of domain names have been registered through the site, making it one of the top five domain registries in the world. Namecheap also offers hosting for businesses, online stores, blogs, and more. Find out more by visiting namecheap.com.

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The Planet Appoints Senior IT Executive

2009-06-02T14:00:00-04:00

HOUSTON, TX (Gawkwire.com) Reporting to Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Douglas J. Erwin, Skarda will be responsible for the company’s entire span of IT activities, including core IT operations, and software development and implementation for customer-facing solutions.

He will be the resident senior executive in the company’s Dallas offices.

“Duke Skarda brings extensive enterprise-level experience in the telecommunications industry, with deep technology strategy and architecture knowledge,” said Erwin. “His expertise in dealing with customer-facing technologies, including portals, order-entry services, financial systems and business intelligence, provides The Planet with new capabilities as we expand products and services to grow our global footprint.”

Skarda joins The Planet following a 10-year tenure with Level 3 Communications, where he held a series of increasingly responsible positions. Most recently he served as senior vice president for its Content Markets Group, where he led engineering and IT development for its content distribution network platform and IT support systems. Previously, as senior vice president for IT architecture and application development, Skarda led a broad range of programs, including business process management, and order-entry and service assurance development. In his role as vice president of IT architecture, he led the development of a long-range systems roadmap, systems merger and acquisition planning, and the development of the company’s enterprise architecture team. Previous work includes four years with Sprint.

Skarda earned a B.S. in Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at El Paso.

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Webhost.UK.Net Named Best Performing Partner of the Month By Vision Helpdesk

2009-06-02T09:41:00-04:00

(Gawkwire.com) Webhost.Uk.Net is a leading UK based webhosting company; began its connection with TheVisionWorld in 2008 and since then its dedication to TheVisionWorld combined with ongoing proactive marketing work has made it one of Vision Helpdesk biggest distributors.

“Webhost.Uk.Net’s professional and positive performance has contributed to consistently increasing sales over the last year.” Preeti Sharma HR at TheVisionWorld said. She added “In June 2009 we will be launching Vision Helpdesk 2.0 beta version and certainly we can look upon Webhost.UK.Net as one of our trusted partners to promote Vision Helpdesk further.”

Tyler Bristow, Sales Manager at Webhost.Uk.Net; said - “Vision Helpdesk is a Best Helpdesk for small to large organizations — It offers unique features like Satellite Helpdesk i.e Manage Multi-Company support through single helpdesk, Paid Support and Fast loading Ajax Interface” futher he said “After adding Vision Helpdesk as a value added service we have recorded an increased sales ratio in our reseller and vps hosting plans.”
Bristow, spoke graciously “I am very proud to promote Vision Helpdesk and am wondering how to do better in next months and the years after.”

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GoGrid Enables Highly Scalable Web Applications Using Zeus Technology

2009-06-02T09:39:00-04:00

San Francisco, CA (Gawkwire.com) GoGrid, the Cloud Computing division of ServePath Dedicated Hosting, today announced a strategic partnership with Zeus Technology, the only software-based application traffic management company. The partnership will enable GoGrid to offer Zeus' ZXTM VA (Virtual Appliance) software as an integral part of its on-demand service offering to its customers, who are deploying their web infrastructure within a Cloud environment.

Without the worry of significant upfront hardware costs, Cloud Computing offers vast savings in bandwidth costs, provides total flexibility as well as energy efficiency and economies of scale. GoGrid's customers can purchase Zeus' secure, layer-7 load balancing and application acceleration solution on a flexible, pay-as-you-go licensing fee calculated on monthly usage. This will give them access to dedicated traffic management features, not available from hardware based competitors.

With the ability to handle massive volumes of web traffic and ensure consistent availability and uptime, ZXTM VA is much more than a load balancing solution. Additional features include bandwidth management, traffic shaping, traffic prioritization, content compression and service level monitoring, coupled with TrafficScript™, an intuitive traffic routing language. This will result in huge performance improvements for GoGrid's customers.

Travis Reed, General Manager, Americas, Zeus Technology, explains: "As organizations review and upgrade their IT infrastructure and their business requirements change, we are seeing a shift to the Cloud. In doing so, customers are able to rapidly scale their IT infrastructure, also taking advantage of greater operational efficiency, better quality of service and commercial flexibility.
"The combination of the great Cloud Computing infrastructure provided by GoGrid and the power of Zeus' software solutions, enables existing and prospective GoGrid customers to have dedicated, enterprise-class traffic management solutions in GoGrid's Cloud."

John Keagy, CEO, GoGrid, said: "It was a logical choice to partner with Zeus. Offering a pure software solution as a virtual appliance makes it ideally suited to a Cloud environment. Zeus fits our model of delivering scalable web hosting perfectly. By integrating Zeus' unique SPLA program into our Cloud infrastructure, we can now offer a dedicated, instantly scalable and cost-effective traffic management solution to all our customers, on-demand and in a more agile manner. Our customers will find the ability to avoid the initial investment in proprietary hardware, while improving efficiency, managing traffic growth and enabling applications to scale and burst as they need to, to be hugely advantageous for them."

Whilst GoGrid offers free load balancing via a physical f5 hardware appliance, Zeus' ZXTM Virtual Appliance software allows you to further manage and control scalable web applications with robust traffic management features not available in the standard GoGrid out-of-the-box solution. Creating a full-featured "cloudcenter" using GoGrid with Windows and Linux cloud servers, load balancing and Cloud Storage has never been easier. Plus, you can now take your cloudcenter to the next management level with the addition of Zeus' ZXTM VA software.

http://www.gawkwire.com/technology/gogrid_enables_highly_scalable_web_applications_using_zeus_techn.html

topseos.com Has Announced the Best PPC Companies for June 2009

2009-06-02T09:38:00-04:00

Plymouth, IN (Gawkwire.com) The best PPC companies have been placed on the topseos.com's prestigious list for the month of June. As the independent authority in search, topseos.com, has evaluated hundred of companies to find the best in the business. topseos had each company go through a rigorous evaluation process in order to weed out the bad eggs and introduce real Pay per Click experts to the general public.

Independent Authority on SearchPay per Click is the term used to describe an advertising campaign using search technology to deliver ads directly to the client's target demographic. Pay per click ads can be seen in various sites, including blogs, search engine results and other content rich websites.

The PPC companies in topseos.com's list are professionals that will deliver results and get your website noticed. topseos likes to introduce you to the best in the business and that is exactly what you will get after this month's review.

The 30 best PPC companies for June include:

1.   JumpFly, Inc.
2.   Intrapromote PPC Agency
3.   SEOP
4.   WebiMax
5.   Increase Visibility Inc.
6.   Bruce Clay Inc.
7.   SEO Image Inc.
8.   Oneupweb
9.   ThinkBIGsites
10.   Customer Magnetism
11.   WebMetro
12.   SEO Inc.
13.   Web.com Search Agency
14.   Location3 Media
15.   First In Search Inc.
16.   Efficient Frontier Inc.
17.   Maximum Hit
18.   Reprise Media
19.   Enquiro Search Solutions Inc.
20.   Morpheus Media LLC
21.   Target Logics
22.   KeyRelevance
23.   Response Mine
24.   Page Zero Media
25.   eVision LLC.
26.   SpiderSplat Consulting Inc.
27.   Pure Visibility Inc.
28.   NetSetGo Marketing
29.   Point It, Inc.
30.   Top Click Media

Each of these companies went through a tremendous amount of scrutiny to even be considered the best for the month of June. Looking at criteria like return on investment, depth of knowledge, and overall customer experience, topseos.com asked questions that zeroed in to actual customer concerns. topseos asked questions like "How is your PPC campaign monitored actively and how are the bid adjustments made?" and "Are the PPC campaign reports useful and easy to understand?".

PPC agencies that would like to be considered for the topseos.com rankings can apply at:
http://www.topseos.com/rankings/search-engine-marketing-agencies/apply-for-ranking.

To learn more about the best PPC Firms, visit:
http://www.topseos.com/rankings-of-best-pay-per-click-management-companies.

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Guy Willner joins Teraco board

2009-06-02T09:36:00-04:00

London, UK (Gawkwire.com) Teraco Data Environments today announces that Guy Willner, co-founder and CEO of IXEurope (now Equinix Europe), has joined its board.

Guy Willner has also invested in the company alongside leading international and local shareholders including black owned South African private equity group, Treacle Private Equity and prominent British industrialist, Sir Peter Michael.

“I’m excited to be involved with Teraco. South Africa’s telecoms is now at a similar stage of liberalisation as Europe was when we started IXEurope, opening up a new world of opportunity for businesses to connect cost effectively and reliably,” says Willner. “Carriers and service providers will increasingly see the value of a neutral point to interconnect their networks and do business. The time is now right to create a real home for the Internet in South Africa and I believe the Teraco management have addressed theâ€¨ opportunity in the right way. The team is very competent, focused on being the highest quality player in the market and is already well on track to building a very successful business. I look forward to working closely with the team on this exciting project."

Guy Willner, 45, has over fifteen years of senior leadership experience in high-tech companies. He founded the UK-based colocation provider IXEurope in 1998, forging high-level strategic relationships with key accounts as the company's turnover grew over 600% in the first three years. His leadership team grew IXEurope into a London Stock Exchange listed business operating 14 large-scale data centres in four countries. Equinix Inc (Nasdaq EQIX), the largest global operator of network-neutral data centers and Internet exchange services, acquired the company in 2007 for £270.1 million (over R3.5 billion at current exchange rate). He now serves in a non-executive role as President of Equinix Europe.

Andrew Tuckey, Chairman of Teraco, said: "Guy has already made a major contribution to Teraco and we welcome him to our board. His experience in the sector and in building and growing successful companies will be of enormous value to Teraco as our business accelerates, and as we become the yardstick in South Africa for vendor neutral data environments."

http://www.gawkwire.com/business/guy_willner_joins_teraco_board.html

"SEO 2.0 And Social Media Marketing Pulls The US Out Of Recession"

2009-06-02T09:34:00-04:00

San Diego, CA (Gawkwire.com) Internationally acclaimed Chris Howard interviews Owner and CEO of BrandSEO.com Andrew Zirkin to discuss how SEO 2.0 and Social Media Marketing will improve the current economic condition.

To All Website owners and Business owners; Do not miss this interview.

This groundbreaking interview is scheduled for this Tuesday, June 2nd, at 2 p.m. Pacific Standard Time.

The interview between Chris and Andrew is part of a weekly business call series for Chris Howard's Billionaire Adventure Club and is usually only available to members of Chris's networks. However, this interview has been made available to the general public because of the incredible value that is going to be provided to anyone with a Website... which is just about everyone these days.

Chris Howard is a Wealth and Lifestyle Strategist, owner of Christopher Howard Training and also a best selling author. When Chris and his team needed help with effective Social Media Marketing and SEO 2.0 techniques, they decided to interview one of the Top experts in the field. This was decided and the interview with Andrew Zirkin was established, so both Chris' Billionaire Adventure Club Members and the general public could benefit from the information that will be discussed during the interview.

Looking for information about Website Optimization and Social Media Marketing?

Andrew Zirkin, an expert in the field of Ethical Search Engine Optimization and Social Media Marketing, works with high-profile clients like Brande Roderick, Ben Gay III, Jim Rohn, Jeffrey Gitomer and many more.

Andrew was hired by one of the top SEO Companies in the world before he decided to establish his own SEO Company. He observed first hand the lack of time and energy being spent on client's projects, despite the large amounts of money being paid. This was the primary reason Andrew began his own SEO Company, www.BrandSEO.com.

BrandSEO.com was built on the foundation of being an ethical search engine optimization firm that takes great pride in being honest and affordable, as they deliver real results to their clients. BrandSEO is now a world class SEO Company that helps the best-of-the-best drastically increase their bottom-line profits through SEO 2.0 and Social Media Marketing.

Approximately 70% of the United States work force is employed by small businesses! When SEO 2.0 and Social Media Marketing begin to turn the economy around for business owners, everyone wins; employers, employees and the general public.

As more and more businesses turn to Internet Marketing, bottom-line profits will inevitably drastically increase, which will lead to more money in everyone's pockets. Businesses expenses go down, the price of products and services go down, the amount of money in the public's pocket naturally goes up! Social Media Marketing and SEO 2.0 will help small businesses thrive again, which is the cornerstone of our economy.

In today's competitive economic climate, Internet Marketing has completely replaced the need for more expensive traditional forms of marketing. Successful businesses understand the importance of obtaining a higher search engine placement and make the wise decision of utilizing Website Optimization and Social Media Marketing. Being on Top of the Search Engine shows the world who the expert of the specific industry is and everyone wants to do business with the experts!

To listen into this incredible interview and to gain valuable information:

Dial in via phone or use Skype/VOIP

Phone-Number to Dial: +1-206-701-8388 (this is a US number)

Use Conference ID: 345328#

Listen live online by going here:

http://instantTeleseminar.com/?eventid=7411539 (copy and paste link into Website browser)

Learn more about Andrew and his company, and get a FREE consultation, by visiting http://www.BrandSEO.com.

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June is Backup Awareness Month and 94% Of People Still Risk Data Loss

2009-06-01T14:14:00-04:00

Palo Alto, CA (Gawkwire.com) study conducted on behalf of Backblaze showed that individual backup habits have gone nearly unchanged year-over-year. Despite 46% of computer users every year losing photos, music, and other data from viruses, theft, hard drive crashes and a slew of similar causes[1], 94% of computer users continue to not do regular backups daily.[2]

To help users start backing up their computers, Backblaze is giving away a 1-year online backup subscription every day during this June's Backup Awareness Month. For more details, visit www.backblaze.com/backupawareness.

As a best practice, regular backups are defined as happening at least once per day. Unfortunately, there has been no change in the number of users doing backups at this frequency. There is a slight silver lining in the survey: while the percentage of users backing up daily went unchanged, there was a small improvement in users backing up at least weekly (13% vs. 14%) or monthly (27% vs. 26%).[2] This infrequent type of backup still results in significant pain when data loss occurs, but it points to some increased awareness of the importance of data backup.

Last year, sales of laptops - which are more susceptible to theft, loss, and breakage - overtook desktops; users buy more digital cameras, iPods, smartphones; and they take more digital photos, buy more digital music, and create more digital documents for work and home.[3] An average new computer today with a 320 GB hard drive can store over 30,000 photos, 20,000 songs, and 100 full-length movies. [4] Despite all of this, computer users continue to act as if their data is impervious to loss.

"For several years, Backup Awareness Month has been a time to examine whether your computer and those of your family and friends are being properly backed up," said Gleb Budman, CEO of Backblaze, "To help people start backing up, we are giving away free 1-year subscriptions to Backblaze online backup every day this month."
To be entered to win one of the 30 free subscriptions for unlimited backup, visit www.backblaze.com/backupawareness.

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SESToronto Adds Copywriting, Landing Page & Twitter Sessions to Agenda

2009-06-01T05:10:00-04:00

Toronto, ON (Gawkwire.com) Search Engine Strategies (SES) Toronto 2009 today announced the addition of copywriting, landing page and Twitter sessions to the already packed conference agenda. The largest search engine marketing conference in Canada will be held at the Sheraton Centre Toronto June 8-10, 2009.

According to Hitwise, Google received 80.2 percent of all Canadian searches conducted in the 12 weeks ending April 25, 2009. MSN search properties, Yahoo! search properties and Ask search properties received 8.8 percent, 7.3 percent and 2.8 percent, respectively. By comparison, Google accounted for 72.7 percent of all U.S. searches conducted during that period, according to Hitwise. Yahoo! Search, MSN Search and Ask.com received 16.3 percent, 5.7 percent and 4.0 percent, respectively.

Goodman says, "Although most of the conference agenda was set months ago, we kept a couple of slots open for sessions that covered topics that needed to be addressed. I'm excited that we found one for each of our concurrent tracks: Nuts & Bolts, Corporateville, and Geek Track."

The three new conference sessions are:

Copywriting: 45-Minute Boot Camp: Copywriting requires special skills in the search marketing world. Writing ads for paid search requires three parts science, two parts audience research, and at least one part creativity. SEO copywriting requires a mix of skills, including an understanding of the balance between a natural flow, and the importance of keyword research. And improving conversion rates on landing pages may require testing long versus short copy, headlines, benefits copy, tone, call-to-action text, and more. Our experts share their top tips to maximize your search campaign performance by choosing the right words to connect with customers and bots alike.

Search Ads & Landing Page Clinic: Does your PPC ad make a promise that your landing page can't keep? Make sure that your ad copy and landing page contents are in alignment to ensure a smooth and profitable visitor experience. This clinic will examine actual ads and landing pages offered up by volunteers from the audience.

The Ins & Outs of Twitter: Of all emerging social media platforms, Twitter is perhaps the most talked (or should we say tweeted) about today. Coming seemingly out of nowhere, Twitter's exemplary ability to offer real-time search capability is shaking up the search world. And surely, retweets, follower counts, and mentions on Twitter should be factored into the search algorithms of the very near future. There are also downsides and even dark sides to improper use. Panelists discuss, with a longer Q&A period to take your posts, as submitted on Twitter to #sestortweet.

For more information, go to SES Toronto 2009 rates and registration details. To follow news about SES Toronto 2009 on Twitter, go to http://twitter.com/SES_Toronto.

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World Leading SEO Company Acquires and Re-Launches SEOCompany.com

2009-06-01T14:09:00-04:00

Mount Dora, FL (Gawkwire.com) World Leading Internet Marketing Firm and SEO Company, Buildtelligence Web Solutions acquired SEOCompany.com last Tuesday for an undisclosed sum and quickly launched a new site on the popular domain. This acquisition is considered a solid move by the company by several industry insiders.

Buildtelligence Web Solutions burst on to the Internet marketing scene in 2006 and gained immediate name recognition shortly thereafter acquiring the company, tools, and technology of PPCManagement.com. Since then they have focused on building an extensive private label / white label offering of services geared to help advertising agencies and other SEO Companies add SEO / SEM services to expand their market space and bottom line.

"We serve numerous of clients directly" said Ken Knorr President and CEO of the firm. He continued "however our real focus is to provide turn key based solutions to the agency space". Knorr wouldn't release agency client specifics because of strong non-disclosure agreements but their agency services have resulted in several newcomers to the seo / sem space to be recognized and ranked as top PPC Management companies. "I'm pleased that several of our clients are ranked by topseos.com as leading Pay per Click Companies" said Ty Roden, Director of Search Engine Marketing. "We turn all the wrenches and they get the recognition, it's how it's supposed to work" Roden went on to say.

The explosive growth of the company has not gone unnoticed. Buildtelligence was recently awarded economic development grants for high wage job creation in Central Florida. "I think the most satisfying thing about operating this company are the numbers of people we are putting to work in a sluggish economy" Knorr said "on top of that we're really having an impact on the clients we serve, helping them to grow as well."

The acquisition of SEOCompany.com will give Buildtelligence even greater traction in the hyper competitive SEO Company keyword space allowing them to focus more resources on client services. "As I mentioned before we do take on non agency clients but we are exceptionally selective and very conscious of our non competition agreements. If an agency has introduced us to a client then they are explicitly off limits". Knorr said.

Buildtelligence Web Solutions, LLC (www.buildtelligence.com) is a leading Internet Marketing Firm specializing in providing SEO / SEM, professional consulting services, website optimization and design, search engine optimization, pay per click management, and reputation management services to clients in the United States, Europe, and Australia.

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How State and Government Laws May Impact Online on WebmasterRadio.FM

2009-06-01T14:07:00-04:00

Fort Lauderdale, FL (Gawkwire.com) WebmasterRadio.FM, the premier free, 24/7 Internet business radio network focused on the B2B marketplace is pleased to present the first of several monthly town hall meetings from the leading affiliate marketing network XY7.com.

On Monday, June 1st, at 6pm EDT, XY7 Marketing Director and Show Host Jon Fondy will discuss the new developments in Affiliate marketing, state and federal laws governing internet marketing and becoming a corporation.

Featured guests for this "State of Our Industry" special include:

Brett Grow, CEO of LinkTrust, which specializes in Affiliate Tracking and Lead Management Software, and he tell us about their features and benefits for affiliates.

Bennet Kelley, of the Internet Law Center discusses the legal implications being placed by the FTC by affiliates regarding misleading advertising.

Kevin De Vincenzi, President and CEO of XY7.com and Rapid Response Marketing LLC introduces us to XY7 Elite, a unique invitation only private network built by super affiliates for super affiliates. Kevin tells us about XY7 Elite and its fast weekly payments, member only offers and unprecedented affiliate support made exclusively for existing XY7 Affiliates.

The program will also be made available same day on demand at http://www.WebmasterRadio.FM located inside the "Town Hall Meetings" channel.

http://www.gawkwire.com/events_html/how_state_and_government_laws_may_impact_online_on_webmasterradi.html

Truphone Launches 3.0 for the iPod touch

2009-06-01T09:57:00-04:00

LONDON, UK (Gawkwire.com) Following hot on the heels of the launch of Truphone 3.0 for the Apple® iPhone™, Truphone today launched Truphone 3.0, a major new upgrade to its mobile VoIP application for the Apple® iPod™ touch.

The new version dramatically builds upon the success of previous versions of the VoIP application for the iPod, enhancing users’ instant messaging and account management experience, faster than ever before, and delivering a new standard for call quality.

Among the many improvements in Truphone 3.0 are increased ease of use, speed of function response, intuitiveness and simplicity – all designed to enhance the users’ experience. Further, Truphone has improved voice quality making the app for the iPod better than it’s ever been before.

Using Truphone’s integrated messaging tool that unifies all IM communities in a single place, users can now simply manage all their IM communication from a single page within the application, eliminating the need to constantly jockey between different applications or even different pages within an application. IM services currently supported include Skype, MSN Messenger, AIM, Yahoo! Messenger and Google Talk.

“Following the successful launch of Truphone 3.0 for the iPhone we were keen to follow-up as quickly as possible for all our iPod touch customers. That’s what we’ve done to ensure that they can take advantage of all our new improvements: improved UI, account management and call quality. We believe Truphone 3.0 sets a new benchmark in terms of quality and performance”, said Geraldine Wilson, CEO Truphone.

“With these improvements, we believe Truphone 3.0 is the best application to turn your iPod touch into a Wi-Fi phone and staying in touch with all of your IM communities.”
What Truphone already does:

Free calls when in Wi-Fi to:
• Other Truphone users
• Skype and Google Talk users

Free Instant Messages when in Wi-Fi to:
•       Skype
•       MSN Messenger
•       Google Talk
•       Yahoo! Messenger
•       AIM

Incredible savings on calls to:
• Call landlines and mobiles around the world at cheap rates

Account Management:
•       See rates for calls before initiating a call
•       Display recent call history, showing the Truphone customer exactly how much a call just cost and how long it lasted with the ability to see a summary of calls made month by month
•       Top-up from within the application, without the need for web windows to open separately
•       Top-up in a variety of ways: credit card or PayPal
•       Change calling tariffs within the application

http://www.gawkwire.com/technology/truphone_launches_3_0_for_the_ipod_touch.html

The Best SEO Companies for June Have Been Named by topseos.com

2009-06-01T09:56:00-04:00

Plymouth, IN (Gawkwire.com) The independent authority on search vendors, topseos.com, has concluded their rankings for the month of June and is happy to recognize the 30 best SEO firms working in the web today. After conducting rigorous evaluation among hundreds of possible firms, they have narrowed down the list to 30 of the finest companies to cater to client's organic optimization needs.

Independent Authority on SearchThe companies in topseos.com's prestigious list have proven results in increasing rankings in the search engines. topseos.com understands the importance of effective natural optimization and that is why they are committed to recognizing the companies that do a good job of improving website rankings.

The top 30 SEO firms include:

1.   Increase Visibility Inc.
2.   WebiMax
3.   SEOP
4.   Intrapromote LLC.
5.   ArteWorks SEO
6.   Oneupweb
7.   SEO Image Inc.
8.   Bruce Clay Inc.
9.   Customer Magnetism
10.   ThinkBIGsites
11.   WebMetro
12.   Web.com Search Agency
13.   Weblinx Limited
14.   Webpagefx
15.   Getupdated Internet Marketing
16.   SEO.com
17.   High Position Limited
18.   Direct Hit Solutions, Inc.
19.   SEO Inc
20.   First In Search Inc.
21.   iMajestic
22.   Sems
23.   1st on the List Promotion Inc.
24.   First Page SEO
25.   HighPoint Search Marketing
26.   iProspect
27.   Reprise Media
28.   PageTraffic
29.   SEER Interactive
30.   eVisibility, Inc.

Each of the companies went through an assessment that takes a deeper look at the results that each company delivers. Hard hitting questions were asked by topseos.com to ensure that possible clients get their money's worth. They ask questions that look at the depth of the company's knowledge in SEO, the return on investment and most importantly, the overall customer satisfaction that each company provides. Some of the questions topseos.com asks the customer of the SEO firms include, "How comprehensive, specific, and useful are the reports that are offered to the client?" and "How many of your top industry keywords rank in the top 10?"

SEO Companies that would like to be considered for the topseos.com rankings can apply at: http://www.topseos.com/rankings/search-engine-marketing-agencies/apply-for-ranking.

To learn more about the best SEO firms, visit: http://www.topseos.com/rankings-of-best-organic-optimization-companies.

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Interxion Announces Gold Sponsorship of Hosting Transformation Summit

2009-06-01T09:55:00-04:00

LONDON, UK (Gawkwire.com) Interxion, a leading European operator of carrier-neutral data centres, today announced its Gold Sponsorship of the Hosting Transformation Summit Europe (www.hsvsummit.com) presented by Tier1 Research and The 451 Group. The event will take place at the Hilton Tower Bridge in the City of London on 2nd June 2009.

The Hosting Transformation Summit Europe is the premier forum for the hosting, data centre and Internet infrastructure sectors. The Summit provides a complete overview of the opportunities and challenges facing the hosting industry — ranging from power, cooling and partnering to M&A strategies and meeting the ever-increasing expectations of the customer.

As part of the company’s support for the event, Interxion Group MD Anthony Foy will join a panel of industry analysts and experts to discuss “Disruptive Data Centre Operator Services: A Practical Necessity, Or Unrealistic Pipe Dream.” The panel will be outlining the ‘build versus buy’ debate, within the context of the credit crunch, and discussing whether the separation and specialisation of data centre services is a better way to succeed in the current commercial environment.

“The Hosting Transformation Summit Europe brings together analysts and industry players, providing an excellent forum for discussion of trends seen in the market,” said Anthony Foy, Group Managing Director Interxion. “We look forward to sharing our expertise in data centre design, management and service provision to contribute to the debate.”

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Parallels Workstation 4.0 Extreme Now Available with HP Z800 Workstations

2009-06-01T09:53:00-04:00

Renton, WA (Gawkwire.com) Parallels announced today that it has expanded its relationship with HP to include an offering that combines the HP Z800 Workstation, which is based on the Intel® Xeon® 5500 series processor, with Parallels Workstation 4.0 Extreme and select NVIDIA SLI Multi-OS enabled Quadro FX graphics cards. The combined products will be available as a configure-to-order solution via standard HP Workstation channels and will be supported by both HP and Parallels.

Parallels Workstation 4.0 Extreme is the first high-end workstation virtualization solution to offer users near-native performance for resource-intensive applications. The product leverages key virtualization technologies from Intel, including VT-x for accelerated virtual CPU performance, VT-d for direct high performance NVIDIA Quadro FX graphics card and NIC assignment, and Extended Page Tables (EPT) for improved performance in memory management.

By offering the solution on pre-configured and validated workstations, HP and Parallels enable enterprises around the world to derive value from the exceptional performance of the HP Z800 Workstation and increased productivity through driving multiple workloads. When compared to running multiple older workstations, this new virtual workstation offering provides for a compelling return on investment.

"After several years of deep technical engineering collaboration by HP, Intel, NVIDIA and Parallels, the vision of delivering virtual workstations to the market is now a reality," said Serguei Beloussov, CEO of Parallels. "Technical workstation users, from graphic designers to engineers in multiple disciplines around the world, can now leverage HP's experience in delivering technically elegant solutions and robust services to support the deployment of Parallels Workstation 4.0 Extreme in their enterprise. At the same time, they can continue to count on Parallels to deliver new enhancements and innovations, such as adding support for Intel's EPT technology, to even further blur the line between physical and virtual workstations."

"With the release of Parallels Workstation 4.0 Extreme, virtualization technologies are beginning to make a real impact on productivity and how users employ powerful workstations to create and visualize results," said Boyd Davis, Intel General Manager, Workstation Product Group. "Parallels Workstation Extreme and the HP Z800, based on the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series, use Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O to enable users to take full advantage of their digital workbench. These desk-side supercomputers can help engineers, animators, and other digital creators develop, test, simulate, and modify their ideas faster than ever before."

Availability and Pricing
The HP Z800 Workstation with NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800s and Parallels Workstation 4.0 Extreme is available now, and is expected to be available with the Quadro FX 4800s and FX 5800s next month. A typical HP Z800 Workstation configuration would include dual Intel Xeon processors, dual NVIDIA Quadro FX graphics cards, and appropriate RAM to support the various customer workloads across the host and guest operating systems. One year of support and maintenance for Parallels Workstation 4.0 Extreme is included with the product.

"Parallels is making workstation virtualization available for customers working in these environments, and the solution is only offered on an HP Workstation," said Jeff Wood, worldwide director of marketing, Workstations, HP. "The combination of these technologies built on our most powerful and expandable HP Z800 Workstation allows customers to dedicate system resources as needed and gain greater productivity across multiple operating systems and workloads."

For more information, video demonstrations, boxshots and screenshots of Parallels Workstation 4.0 Extreme, please visit: www.parallels.com/workstation/extreme. For pricing of pre-configured Z800 Workstations, please visit www.hp.com/go/workstations.

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Free Sandbox Hosting Platform Beta Version Now Available at DiscountASP.NET

2009-06-01T09:50:00-04:00

Pasadena, CA (Gawkwire.com) Today, DiscountASP.NET, a leading innovator in Windows Server 2008 hosting, invites Visual Studio 2010 beta 1 users to experience next-generation web application packaging and deployment scenarios using the free MsDeploy sandbox hosting platform first unveiled at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) 2008.

The free sandbox hosting platform was originally introduced to allow developers to get early experience with the Microsoft Web Deployment Tool (MsDeploy). In March 2009, the sandbox hosting program was updated and extended to June 30, 2009 with the latest Web Deployment Tool RC1.

With the general availability of Visual Studio 2010 beta 1 from May 20, 2009, developers can now test features such as web application packaging, web.config file transformation, database deployment and One-Click publishing with the live hosting environment of the sandbox.

The free sandbox hosting program is a limited program offered as an open beta on a first come first serve basis. The beta hosting account comes with 50 MB of disk space and 50 MB of SQL Server 2008 database space. Interested developers are welcome to sign up at http://labs.discountasp.net.

"As a hoster, we hear from our customers that deploying web applications is not always easy. But with the next-generation development tools, Microsoft has invested in easing the application deployment experience," said Takeshi Eto, VP Marketing and Business Development at DiscountASP.NET. "So now with the beta 1 release of VS2010, we want to extend an invitation to the community to experience end-to-end application deployment using VS2010 on our free sandbox hosting platform. There are still available accounts and time left to test one-click deployment."

The VS 2010 beta 1 bits can be downloaded from the Microsoft site at http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010/default.mspx

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