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KeyMetric Announces adTrax

2010-11-30T10:04:00-05:00

(Gawkwire.com) - KeyMetric®, a pioneering phone call and conversion analytics company, announced KeyMetric adTrax™ - the industry’s only user-managed phone call and conversion analytics tool tailored for small and medium sized businesses, ad agencies and advertising publishers.

The release of KeyMetric adTrax makes standard call tracking obsolete, by delivering the first software-as-a-service (SaaS) call analytics tool that enables users to manage and administer their own phone numbers, campaigns, conversions and account details.

Integrating advanced phone call analytics with user search data, adTrax provides insight into the performance of online and offline advertising investments, including unlimited pay-per-click keywords and organic search terms and rankings. Accordingly, businesses can more than triple the amount of incoming leads and phone sales just by knowing which sources, keywords and content stimulate user interaction and engagements.

With adTrax, businesses track phone calls and offline sales activity with the same ease and accuracy as tracking click-throughs, while managing their phone call and conversion tracking with the click of a mouse. “KeyMetric adTrax does for the phone what Google Analytics did for web,” reveals KeyMetric CEO Michael Turta. “Now businesses and agencies have the power to manage their phone call and conversion analytics, in real-time, at a cost that makes sense. In addition, the depth of information made available to them to support more intelligent marketing decisions, cannot be found in any other solution on the market.”

KeyMetric adTrax works in partnership with Google AdWords, Bing and Yahoo Search, and hundreds of other ad publishers, affiliate and content networks, social media sites, referring traffic sources and offline advertising campaigns. Businesses gain real-time insight into the performance of their entire advertising investment while ‘Closing the Loop™’ on lead-generation and sales activity, including the ability to log actual sale amounts, lead values, affiliate fees and other critical call-related data directly within the adTrax user interface.

KeyMetric adTrax scales to meet the needs of any business - from smaller local businesses to national brands, ad agencies and larger enterprise and Fortune 500 organizations. “7 out of every 10 online searches result in an offline phone call, and unless businesses are accurately tracking online-to-offline engagements they cannot make intelligent decisions to improve advertising effectiveness and ROI,” says Chief Sales Officer Toni Hume. “Marketers have been lobbying for a self-contained call analytics platform, and KeyMetric is the only company to deliver it.”

Businesses can sign up online at http://adtrax.keymetric.net and add, assign, pause, and delete telephone numbers, conversions and campaigns based on changing marketing activity and objectives. KeyMetric adTrax licensing starts at just $69 per month, with no setup fees or long-term contracts required.

About KeyMetric
KeyMetric is the industry's premier solution for measuring the overall effectiveness of search engine marketing and sales activity across online and offline direct-response channels, including telephone calls.

With KeyMetric, businesses accurately track responses and conversions, including telephone calls, across unique content sources, organic search terms, and pay-per-click search keywords -- providing visibility into which campaigns and content are generating increased lead and revenue opportunities; and which are simply inflating the overall cost of advertising. Hundreds of small to medium sized businesses, Fortune 500 companies, and many of the top interactive agencies in the US and Canada depend on KeyMetric to help maintain competitive ROI and protect their advertising investments.

For more information call (866) 304-5714 or visit us online at http://www.keymetric.net.

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SEO PowerSuite Software Reinforced with Blekko

2010-11-28T12:09:00-05:00

(Gawkwire.com) - Link-Assistant.Com, an established provider of search engine optimization solutions, integrates a bunch of powerful competition research features into their user-popular pack of SEO software SEO PowerSuite. The new features that facilitate analyzing competitors’ link networks and monitoring their positions in search engines let SEO PowerSuite users gain maximum strategic value from competitive environment research.

Competitive intelligence in SEO Search engine optimization is a key Internet marketing mechanism that has proved to be a solid source of clientele for most online and offline businesses. As a scope of measures to achieve website’s top search engine positions for a set of theme-relevant keywords, SEO presupposes outranking other websites that appear in search results for the same keywords. Thus, successful SEO strategy ensues from the thorough analysis of competitive landscape. The newly-released SEO PowerSuite features bring SEO competitive analysis depth to a yet unseen level.

What’s new?

The crucial update was made to two SEO tools - SEO SpyGlass and Rank Tracker - included into four-unit SEO PowerSuite toolkit.

SEO SpyGlass is cutting-edge SEO software that uncovers the sources of backlinks used by competitors in their link-building campaigns. The tool got equipped with a new backlink research method – collecting links in Blekko search engine. The update increased tenfold the number of link sources found per analyzed competitors’ domain. Combined with other backlink research methods in SEO SpyGlass, Blekko lets SEO SpyGlass users get the deepest possible insight into their competitors’ link-building and discover the tremendous amount of link sources for their own website.

Rank Tracker - high-end SEO software for automatic search engine positions checks – was reinforced with a module for competitor rankings monitoring. The feature enables Rank Tracker users to control their competitors’ positions changes and detect their maneuvers in time to take preventative measures.

What are the other tasks SEO PowerSuite tools handle?

Rank Tracker: besides ranking checks, the SEO software helps site owners detect the most SEO-efficient keywords that will bring most targeted visitors to their websites.

WebSite Auditor: helps create SEO-wise website structure and search engine-friendly content for every page of the site. It analyses numerous crucial structure and HTML-coding related factors and builds a custom optimization strategy on the basis of top 10 competition research.

LinkAssistant: manages the link building part of website SEO - from finding new link partners to generating and uploading a link directory and checking that all inbound links are in place and are bringing the website the desired SEO value.

The competitive intelligence update maximizes SEO PowerSuite’s efficiency in building website link popularity and improving its search engine rankings. Monitoring competitors’ maneuvers through changes in their search engine positions reinforces SEO with preventive - alongside with usual “post factum” - measures.
The latest update reasserts SEO PowerSuite’s forefront position on SEO software market, making it the world’s most technologically-advanced SEO solution for entry-level website owners, as well as SEO professionals and SEO companies.

Cross-platform: SEO PowerSuite software works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

For additional information and screenshots please visit Press Room on the website: http://www.link-assistant.com

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SEMPO Canada Appoints Ontario Chair

2010-11-23T08:34:00-05:00

(Gawkwire.com) - SEMPO Canada, recognized as the authority in Search Marketing in Canada, announced today the appointment of Helen Faber, Owner of Canadian SEO agency WebFuel, as the first Provincial Chair for the organization. SEMPO Canada is one of the country groups under this organization the SEMPO (Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization). Focused on improving the visibility of ethical, professional and responsible Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing for the Canadian search industry, the appointment of Helen Faber in Canada sets the organization up to pursue the next phase of growth in Ontario and across other provinces.

SEMPO Canada was created by founding members and co-chairs Ken Jurina, President and CEO of Epiar Inc. and Alexandre Brabant, President of eMarketing 101, who are charged with the mission to educate and increase awareness of the benefits of ethical search. "We are very fortunate to have Helen on board,” said Jurina. “Her deep understanding of the industry combined with her experience in building relationships, both online and off, has made her the perfect choice for the role of Ontario Chair for SEMPO Canada.”

Helen Faber will be working closely with other leaders in the Canadian Search Engine Marketing industry to ensure SEMPO Canada’s mission is fulfilled. Not unlike other countries, the fields of Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Pay-Per-Click (PPC), and Search Engine Marketing (SEM), are well established in Canada. “We have a strong network of Search Engine Marketers who are extremely dedicated to ethical search from across the country. By building on that network, I look forward to continued innovation in the field to ensure business organizations in Ontario and other provinces across Canada are well served,” said Faber.

Join SEMPO Canada on LinkedIn

SEMPO Canada is currently reaching out to other Canadian Search Marketing Agencies and in-house Internet marketers who are looking to align themselves with an organization poised to strengthen the Search Engine Marketing Industry. SEO, PPC and SEM practitioners, managers and/or educators are invited to join the SEMPO Canada LinkedIn Group, which officially launched earlier today. “We welcome all levels of expertise who are interested fostering growth, awareness and understanding of ethical search marketing in Canada”, adds Ken Jurina. The SEMPO Canada LinkedIn Group is open to Search Marketing agencies and in-house Internet Marketers from all provinces across Canada, and in both official languages, looking to share their knowledge. Join the SEMPO Canada LinkedIn Group today to engage in topical discussions on Search Marketing, SEO, PPC and other search-related topics.

About WebFuel

WebFuel is an Ottawa-based search engine optimization agency that improves visibility in search and social media. Specializing in Canadian organic, paid and social search, WebFuel offers ethical strategies, best practices and measurable conversions to empower business on the web.

About SEMPO Canada

Working on behalf of the country’s Search Engine Marketing and industry professionals, SEMPO Canada is non-profit professional search marketing association dedicated to increasing awareness and promoting the ethics and value of search engine marketing in Canada.

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Champion Solutions Group Partners with Peak 10

2010-11-21T11:23:00-05:00

(Gawkwire.com) - Peak 10 Inc., a managed services company with world-class data centers, is proud to announce its partnership with Champion Solutions Group, an infrastructure solutions and professional services provider. Champion Solutions Group will enhance its portfolio of services for clients with the addition of Peak 10’s managed services offering, including its newly-enhanced Cloud Plus platform.

“We have a longstanding relationship with the Peak 10 team and are looking forward to working with them in a joint effort to expand the reach of their services. The partnership allows us to round out our portfolio to include solution services in addition to our existing hardware offerings,” said Chris Pyle, the CEO of Champion Solutions Group. “It will also increase longevity with our existing clients and allow us to offer a wider variety of IT services to our clients in the future.”

Through its various business partnerships, Champion Solutions Group has addressed the most complex and demanding IT systems requirements while providing the highest degrees of availability, scalability, reliability and flexibility.Peak 10’s comprehensive suite of services enables Champion Solutions Group to continue to deliver technology infrastructure services that help reduce costs, increase productivity and improve application accessibility in its IT environment.

“We chose to partner with Champion Solutions Group due to their excellent team, history of delivering quality services and our overlapping geographic footprint,” said Jeff Spalding, the executive vice president of market operations at Peak 10. “This partnership allows us to broaden our reach to even more companies in need of managed IT services. We look forward to working with Champion Solutions Group to help our mutual clients be more successful.”

Peak 10's managed IT and data center services improve performance and reliability, lower costs, and maximize internal resources for customers while keeping their valuable information technology assets close to the business. The company combines its secure, private network and enterprise-class data centers with world-class engineering and support to serve market-leading companies nationwide.

As a managed services leader, Peak 10 offers a wide range of technology offerings including virtualization, managed hosting, and cloud-based services in a cost-efficient and reliable platform for its customers. The company owns and operates data centers in 10 key markets that include Cincinnati, Ohio; Atlanta, Ga.; Raleigh and Charlotte, N.C.; Tampa, Jacksonville and Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Nashville, Tenn.; Louisville, Ky.; and Richmond, Va.

About Champion Solutions Group

Champion Solutions Group, an infrastructure solutions and professional services provider, strives to deliver innovative solutions to solve real-world business challenges. Founded in 1979, Champion focuses on service offerings including virtualization, data management, business continuity, maintenance consulting and managed services. Named in 2009 as one of the Top 10 Best Places to Work by the South Florida Business Journal, Champion Solutions Group is committed to outstanding customer service and boasts deep technical skill sets in design, implementation and management of its solutions. Headquartered in Boca Raton, Fla., Champion has office locations in Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, DC/Virginia/Maryland, Delaware Valley (Philadelphia/New Jersey), Connecticut, Massachusetts, Ohio and western Pennsylvania.

For more information, visit www.championsg.com.

About Peak 10 Inc.

Peak 10 is a managed services company with world-class data centers. It delivers scalable, economical and reliable solutions for hosting and managing complex information technology infrastructure. The company’s expert team embraces the industry's evolving technologies by adopting and tailoring solutions such as virtualization and cloud-based services as part of its robust managed services offering. Its strong customer focus, financial stability, geographic diversity and technical strength attracts market-leading companies such as LendingTree, Global Knowledge, Pergo, Healthways, Churchill Downs and Carnival Cruise Lines. Peak 10 is SSAE 16 compliant and helps companies meet the requirements of various regulatory compliance acts such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), HIPAA, PCI and Gramm-Leach-Bliley (GLBA).

For more information on data center solutions from Peak 10, visit www.peak10.com.

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5nine Co-Sponsors Microsoft Hosting University

2010-11-19T15:00:00-05:00

(Gawkwire.com) - 5nine Software today announced that it has co - sponsored Microsoft Hosting University Hostapaloooza in-person IT event, hosted by Microsoft and Ingram Micro, and focused on helping mid-market web hosters to activate new customers.
Events included presentations from Microsoft www.hosting-university.com/ and their industry leading Dynamic Data Center Alliance technology partners including HP , Citrix, Parallels, NetApp, Juniper, 5nine and Virsto.
At the Conference 5nine Software has announced that it has added a highly demanded Bandwidth Throttling functionality to its 5nine Virtual Firewall for Hyper-V.
5nine Virtual Firewall provides an ability to monitor and control network traffic between virtual machines and external (physical) network, as well as between virtual machines within the virtual network. System Administrator can define the rules for different types of traffic coming to/from virtual machines, as well as the ports used. This could be done both programmatically (with simple PowerShell API), or using administrative application running on a management Virtual machine or a standalone web server.
Bandwidth Throttling feature was requested by several Hosting Companies to control the bandwidth for each of the Virtual Machines.
Pending releases of 5nine Hyper-V vFW Suite will also include comprehensive Anti-Virus and Anti-Malware modules, specifically designed for Microsoft Hyper-V to optimize the workloads and avoid performance bottlenecks during security scans.
v-Firewall 2.0 Features and Benefits:
    Controls Network Traffic - Using simple PowerShell API/scripts or intuitive Management application an administrator can define/modify various firewall rules to allow or restrict various types of network traffic coming from the external network to Hyper-V virtual machines, or vise versa, and between the virtual machines. It allows to protect the Virtual Machines and the Host System from both 'outside' and 'inside' vulnerabilities.
    Security Heartbeat Service - Special service continuously checks if the network traffic rules are enforced, and can stop or pause the virtual machine if its network filter is not communicated to ensure that VM is not compromised.
    Bandwidth Throttling - 5nine Virtual Firewall can be used to set the bandwidth thresholds for each of the Hyper-V Virtual machines.
    Compliance Audits - Enables successful compliance audits by providing the ability to monitor, report on, and filter virtual network traffic effectively.
Pricing and Availability
Free 45 day trial version can be downloaded at www.5nine.com. It is priced at 49.00 per virtual machine. It can also be licensed on a monthly basis in a Service Provider model.
About 5nine Software
5nine Software helps organizations to safeguard their investment in virtual infrastructure by providing innovative systems management solutions designed to reduce costs, increase productivity and mitigate risks. 5nine offers suite of P2V and V2V tools such as 5nine P2V Planner, 5nine Migrator, 5nine Optimizer, 5nine P2V Hyper-V Planner Free Edition and 5nine v-Firewall for Hyper-V Free Edition.
5nine is an international company with its U.S. headquarters in New Jersey. 5nine is rapidly expanding its presence and its partner network around the world, and will continue to offer innovative and practical solutions to help IT professionals to better plan and manage their virtual infrastructures.

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RegistryPro Announces Reduced Pricing

2010-11-19T04:14:00-05:00

(Gawkwire.com) - RegistryPro, the exclusive operator of the .PRO top-level domain (TLD), announced it will be decreasing wholesale pricing to accredited registrars by over 25% for 2011. The decision stems from a historic growth in the number of registered .PRO names in 2010, which were up 125% from the previous year.

The rapid growth in .PRO registrations began in 2008 when certification requirements were eased to include more professions and geographies. During the first month after this change, registrations jumped five-fold. Ongoing promotion of the accessibility of .PRO to a wider group of businesses, organizations and individuals continued to boost the total registrations.

In recognition of the success of .PRO, RegistryPro is decreasing the wholesale registration price to be in line with Verisign's .COM pricing. This is not the first price decrease for .PRO. Since 2007, the annual price to registrars have been reduced several times as the total registrations volume went up.

“We believe that registries have an obligation to pass along cost efficiencies to customers as volumes increase,” says Lucas Roh, CEO of RegistryPro. “We strongly believe .PRO is a great name with broad global appeal. With this price reduction, we will able to make it even more widely accessible to customers”

Even with this significant increase in registrations, RegistryPro reports that .PRO still has a great availability of names. Adding to the increased interest in .PRO, the registry is currently in the process of releasing its one- two- and three-character names for the first time to the general public. In the first auction that is currently ongoing, the registry is releasing a set of eleven three-character names including TEA.PRO, ASK.PRO, and DOG.PRO.

About .PRO, The Internet for Professionals

Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, RegistryPro is the ICANN-designated operator of the .PRO TLD.

Since launching in 2004, .PRO has become an important tool for businesses, organizations and individuals in building trusted relationships throughout the world. In many languages, “pro” is synonymous with dedication, skill, and vision – the .PRO name allows people to capture that distinctive character. Whether developing a brand, refining an identity, or promoting a specialty, .PRO offers every business and professional the opportunity to enhance their image by adding a powerful, easy-to-identify name to their online presence and web-based products.

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DotNetNuke 5.6 Enhances Site Search and Analytics Support

2010-11-18T11:07:00-05:00

(Gawkwire.com) - DotNetNuke announced on Wednesday the release of DotNetNuke 5.6. Version 5.6 of the DotNetNuke Professional Edition and Enterprise Edition includes the new DotNetNuke Site Search feature, which enables more effective web site content search, and Enhanced Analytics Support, which provides greater performance and control over the monitoring of web site traffic. It also includes significant enhancements to the Content Approval Workflows feature, which extends the ability of organizations to control changes to their web site content. In addition, a new perpetual license option is now available for the DotNetNuke Web CMS in addition to the existing annual subscription license.

Co-Founder and CTO, Shaun Walker said, “DotNetNuke Corp. is committed to delivering the features and functionality that our customers need for effective content management. The new DotNetNuke Professional and Enterprise Editions 5.6 meet the demands from our customers for powerful new site search and improved analytics support and content approval workflows. The evolutionary changes we’ve made to the product this year have spurred over 300% annual revenue growth as we’ve grown to nearly 1,000 subscription customers in 2010.”

Enhanced Features:

•Site Search: Exclusive to the Professional and Enterprise Editions, the new Site Search engine allows site users to quickly locate files and pages in the site. The search engine includes rich query syntax with support for Boolean searches, phrase searches, relevance searches, wild cards, fuzzy searches, and groupings. Based on Lucene, the system includes a true web spider that is capable of indexing any site, whether it is built on DotNetNuke or not.

•Enhanced Analytics Support: The DotNetNuke Professional and Enterprise Editions include Enhanced Analytics Support, which allows users to take full advantage of Google Analytics. The system has been upgraded to the latest integration best practices from Google and now enables tracking of sub-domains as a single entity as well as the use of up to five segmentation rules per page.

•Content Approval Workflow Enhancements: The Professional and Enterprise Editions now allow managers to configure approvals in a top-down hierarchy at the site, page, and module level. In addition, content locking improves efficiency and reduces the chance of workflow conflicts. Approvals ensure that users throughout the organization that are impacted by a content change can review updates before they are published. The business rules engine enables workflows with an unlimited number of states and reviewers.

•Perpetual License Option: DotNetNuke Corp. now offers a perpetual license option for existing Professional and Enterprise Editions subscription customers. Current DotNetNuke Corp. subscription customers may purchase a perpetual license to use the DotNetNuke Professional or Enterprise Edition version they are running on their production servers. The perpetual licensing provides the right to use the commercial editions of the DotNetNuke software indefinitely. It must be used in conjunction with a valid product subscription in order to get access to the additional subscription license features such as unlimited technical support, the DotNetNuke Support Network online Knowledge Base and product documentation, email alerts for product updates and patches, or product copyright indemnification.

•The DotNetNuke Community Edition 5.6 includes new features such as:

-An enhanced indexing capability which allows the standard core search feature to index page names, tag attributes and other metadata for improved search results

- Optimizations to the database architecture and handling of web analytics tracking codes which will result in faster performance for all Editions of the product

- DotNetNuke is the fastest growing open source web CMS ever with nearly 1,000 subscription customers, 33,000 Snowcovered marketplace customers, and 400 percent year-over-year growth. Connect with us online: Twitter.com/dnncorp (company) or Twitter.com/dnnsc (Snowcovered marketplace); DotNetNuke blogs; and the DotNetNuke Community LinkedIn Group.

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Heart Internet Launches Domain & Social Media Search

2010-11-15T12:00:00-05:00

(Gawkwire.com) - Heart Internet, one of the UK’s leading web hosting companies, has announced the launch of their all in one domain and social media username search tool. Named the “360 Name Finder”, it allows a user to search for the availability of their desired name across all the major domain name extensions plus the leading social media networks, all in one place.

As well as searching for a domain name’s availability, the search tool includes results from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Digg, Delicious, Foursquare and more. Users can then register the domain and usernames directly from the search results page.

“With so many different ways of developing your online identity or business marketing channels, consistency is key.” says Heart Internet director Jonathan Brealey. “This goes not just for the design, but also the name you use online. The more consistent you are with your name, the more likely it is people are going to remember you and the more professional you look. “

The 360 Name Finder is free to use for all users, Heart Internet customer or not, and can be found here http://www.heartinternet.co.uk/domain-names/name-finder.html

About Heart Internet:

Heart Internet is one of the UK's leading web hosting and reseller hosting companies. Heart Internet has been named one the UK’s fastest growing technology companies by Deloitte for the past two years running (2009 & 2010), and is currently the fifth largest UK host in terms of TLD domains hosted

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SoftLayer and The Planet Begin Merged Operations

2010-11-16T09:43:00-05:00

(Gawkwire.com) - The transaction merging the companies was completed on November 9, creating the largest hosting services provider in the world. The new SoftLayer brings customers the full-range of infrastructure as a service from one source, with fully-automated solutions and innovation, greater technical expertise, expanded geographic diversity, and higher customer value through increased economies of scale. Details include:

§ 76,000+ deployed servers

§ 10 data centers

§ 24,000+ customer accounts in 110+ countries

§ More than 1,500G of total connectivity

“Our first priority over the last few months has been to create the most seamless transition possible for our customers,” said Lance Crosby, continuing Chief Executive Officer of SoftLayer. “We’re operating as one company, but the only differences customers should notice will be the opportunities they have as we offer more options to more people, with even more value. All products and services continue to be provided, supported, and managed as before.”

Existing Planet accounts and services remain unchanged and accessible through the same control portals that Planet customers have used previously. In addition, the company has greatly integrated the SoftLayer and Planet portals to provide an easier transition for all customers. Legacy Planet customers can log into the SoftLayer Customer Portal with their Planet username and password, access information about their systems on either platform from within either portal, and move between both portals without signing in and out.

New products and services will only be offered on the SoftLayer platform, where the company will consolidate its offerings over time to leverage its advantages in automation and advanced networking architecture. However, legacy Planet customers will not be required to migrate their services, allowing them to decide when such a transition makes the best sense for their individual goals and needs.

“With our merged size, strategic advantages, and market position, we are ready to bring even more changes to the industry than either of us could have alone,” said George Karidis, SoftLayer Chief Strategy Officer, who is also serving as Chief Integration Officer. “We’ve worked hard to get ready for this day. I’m proud and, frankly, impressed by how far we are toward full integration. We’re hitting the ground running, already at a point that many merged companies don’t reach for months.”

SoftLayer’s new executive team brings together leaders from both companies: Mr. Crosby; Mr. Karidis; Tom Blair, Senior Vice President, Sales; Nathan Day, Chief Scientist; Sam Fleitman, Chief Operating Officer; Suzy Fulton, General Counsel; Mike Jones, Chief Financial Officer; and Duke Skarda, Chief Technology Officer.

DH Capital served as exclusive financial advisor to SoftLayer in connection with the merger transaction.

About SoftLayer TechnologiesHeadquartered in Dallas, SoftLayer is the innovation leader in on-demand web hosting and data center services. As the largest hosting company in the world, SoftLayer lets customers create dedicated, cloud, or seamless hybrid computing environments, leveraging the company’s world-class data center facilities in Dallas, Houston, Seattle, and Washington D.C., and network Points of Presence nationwide. SoftLayer integrates and automates all elements of its platform, empowering enterprises of any size with complete control, security, scalability, and ease-of-management via a leading Customer Portal and Open API. For more information, please visit www.softlayer.com http://www.gawkwire.com/web_hosting/softlayer_and_the_planet_begin_merged_operations.html

JungleTorch Dashboard Now Offers Inbound Marketing Solution

2010-11-15T09:51:00-05:00

(Gawkwire.com) - Companies that actively use inbound marketing to work and monitor SEO and social media can start to see inbound marketing leads almost immediately. Jungle Torch helps companies with their inbound marketing in several ways. Clients have the ability to view an SEO analysis of their company versus their competitors while also tracking a number of variables that are crucial for SEO success. Jungle Torch strengthens inbound marketing by continually checking the keywords and phrases not only for you, but also for your competition. You can see exactly where you are ranking real-time and have the ability to see all the words that your company ranks for. This inbound marketing feature is important due to the fact that many companies continually discover words and phrases they rank high for, yet they were never aware of before Jungle Torch.

“Customers that find and actively engage your company are often the most qualified customer. They are actively searching for a qualified solution to their problem,” said Anoop Rohera, co-founder, JungleTorch. “With an Inbound Marketing tool like Jungle Torch you have the ability make your company more visible through search by strengthening your SEO” Rohera said.

About JungleTorch
The JungleTorch SEO and Social Media Dashboard is a new inbound marketing tool that gives unprecedented insight into a broad range of critical Web-based outlets. It is a purpose-engineered program that consolidates diverse marketing analytics into a powerful, single platform. Powered by a custom-designed sentiment engine, Jungle Torch provides an easy-to-understand, single view into Twitter, blogs and news analytics with targeted identification of postings relevant to the user’s organization, as well as a complete sentiment analysis that determines whether online comments are trending positively or negatively.

In addition to social network analysis, JungleTorch also gives users the ability to measure the success of SEO programs, including providing the rank of a user’s Web site on hundreds of keywords and phrases, determining the SEO-friendliness of a Web site and the usefulness of links and measuring competitive SEO ROI inbound and outbound linking, as well as fifteen other critical SEO metrics.

JungleTorch is based in Portsmouth, N.H. For more information, please visit us on the Web at www.jungletorch.com.

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Luxand Automates Windows Logon with Blink!

2010-11-10T23:17:00-05:00

(Gawkwire.com) - Blink! Pro lets users log in to Windows by simply looking into a webcam. Just as fingerprint readers verify users by scanning a fingertip, Blink! Pro does the same - but without having them touch anything. The innovative biometric identification tool offers speedy, touchless login to Windows accounts by employing state-of-the-art facial recognition technologies. Blink! Pro will recognize users' faces no matter what. Tough light, low light or changes in haircut and makeup will not affect the speed and precision of the system. The latest developments in face identification techniques reduce the number of false positives and false negatives to a negligible level.

The first version of Blink! was installed by hundreds of thousands of users at homes and in offices. With newly released Blink! Pro, home users will enjoy speedy touchless login operations, while corporations will benefit from tightened security and better control over who can access PCs in the office and when. Blink! Pro will not only record who's been logging in and out, it will also take time-stamped snapshots of everyone logging into a PC, helping IT security officers discover hijacked accounts and identify users logging in with false credentials.

In addition, Blink! Pro offers the ability to continuously monitor whether the registered user or anybody at all is present in front of a PC, locking access if nobody is there for a defined period of time. Future releases will offer unobtrusive and fully invisible operation by working without any additional windows or icons cluttering the system. In addition, future versions of Blink! Pro will allow registering multiple users to share a single Windows account. Blink! Pro is available for all editions of Windows 7 and Vista in 32-bit and 64-bit versions.

Pricing and Availability

Blink! Pro is available as a free, time-limited evaluation download. After the first 30 days, Blink! Pro will continue working, but will downgrade its functionality to that of the free edition. The fully featured version can be purchased at any time for $29.95 with a no-questions-asked, 90-day money-back guarantee.

About Luxand, Inc.

Founded in 2005, Luxand Inc. is a privately held high-tech company developing various facial recognition and transformation tools. Performing scientific research in artificial intelligence and biometric identification allowed the company to develop technologies and release a complete set of tools and libraries to perform fully automatic recognition of human faces and their facial features. Today, the company markets a broad range of facial feature recognition solutions to the online entertainment industry. Luxand technologies are used on online entertainment portals, chat rooms and movie websites around the globe. Luxand encourages software developers and corporate customers to inquire about licensing its Windows login integration technology.

Blink! Pro is available as a free evaluation download at http://luxand.com/blinkpro/

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4PSA Joins SIP Forum as Full Member

2010-11-09T02:25:00-05:00

(Gawkwire.com) - "We have joined the SIP Forum because we believe in the importance of collaboration and interoperability

with key global companies and their initiatives to strengthen the SIP ecosystem”, stated Bogdan Carstoiu,

4PSA’s CEO. “Our interest is to share the experiences of our cloud implementations and what we are

doing to scale massively in distributed environments”, added Mr. Carstoiu.

"4PSA has an extremely high focus on SIP and its use in the enterprise for applications which include SIP

trunking, Unified Communications, Fax, conferencing and video. Many of our current products and much

of our development efforts are in the SIP area. As we continue to discover improved methods for

leveraging the full cloud potential, we look forward to presenting these to the SIP Forum members for

review and exchange of ideas", Mr. Carstoiu also stated.

"I also look forward to 4PSA bringing a significant contribution to the SIP Forum and its members as a

resource and as a partner. I am certain that the expertise we bring to the SIP Forum will help accomplish

its mission and provide value to the other distinguished SIP Forum members." Mr. Carstoiu mentioned.

According to Richard Shockey, Chairman of the Board of the SIP Forum, “We are very pleased to have

4PSA join our ranks as a new Full Member of the SIP Forum. The interest of 4PSA and other companies

in the Forum is a major proof-point of the growing awareness and support for SIP Forum initiatives related

to improving interoperability and speeding the broad adoption of SIP-based products and services in the

commercial marketplace.”

Marc Robins, SIP Forum President and Managing Director stated, “All of the Forum’s various initiatives

are gaining significant industry traction, including ‘SIPconnect’, which provides a best practices

methodology for accomplishing trouble-free SIP trunking between SIP-enabled IP-PBXs and SIP-enabled

VoIP service providers; the Fax-over-IP (FoIP) Interoperability Task Group work focused on achieving a

higher degree of FoIP interoperability and FoIP reliability; the User-Agent Configuration Task Group effort

to develop a simple configuration mechanism and profile suitable for a variety of user agents; and our

exploration of the applicability of SIP in the Smart Grid with our Smart Grid SIG (Special Interest Group).

In short, the progress we’re making in these areas is having a positive, direct effect on our membership.”

VoipNow® Professional software delivers a complete, full-featured, hosted IP PBX with Unified

Communications for single or multi-tenant deployment as well as fax, conferencing, IM, presence, video

and mobile support. Designed with service providers or data center managers in mind, the functions

mentioned are complemented with an array of provisioning, management and quality of service tools to

assist in maintaining the integrity of the system at all times. VoipNow® deployments can utilize private,

public or hybrid cloud infrastructure based on the customer's specific demands.

About 4PSA

4PSA is a leading innovative software development company, specialized in applications that run on

computer clouds. The company provides, under the 4PSA® brand, solutions that help service providers

and enterprises better manage their IT infrastructure, automate processes, and deliver improved

communication services.

The 4PSA flagship solution is the VoipNow® Platform, a suite of software applications designed to

accelerate Unified Communications adoption by businesses and end-users. The products are built around

cloud computing and provide unrivaled performance with the most comprehensive features, massive

scalability, and the ultimate in automation. 4PSA’s success is based on excellence, innovation, and

customer driven processes. The company's business processes are supported by the ISO 9001:2008

quality management system certified by TÜV CERT. 4PSA® and VoipNow® are registered trademarks of

Rack-Soft, Inc.

For more information, visit: www.4psa.com, follow us on Twitter @4psa or join our

About the SIP Forum

The SIP Forum is a leading IP communications industry association that engages in numerous activities

that promote and advance SIP-based technology, such as the development of industry recommendations,

technical specifications, the SIPit interoperability and testing events, special interoperability workshops,

educational seminars, and general promotion of SIP in the industry. For more information, please visit:

http://www.sipforum.org.

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Colocation America Upgrades Their Los Angeles Data Center at the Telecom Center

2010-11-09T09:00:00-05:00

(Gawkwire.com) - Colocation America, a leading colocation provider, has recently completed a large scale upgrade to their Telecom Center data center, one of 5 in Los Angeles, in response to the increase in consumer demand. Their updated space boasts an impressive infrastructure which includes redundant power generators, UPS, superior cooling systems, multiple layers of firewall and physical security and power backups to ensure one of the best uptimes in the industry. However it’s not only the technology that’s gotten upgraded, Colocation America’s team has also grown! Because of the high demand for services, Colocation America has brought on 10 employees to join their engineering and sales teams. Other improvements have been made to interconnectivity and capacity, as Colocation America now offers industry leading network speeds and performance.

“The data center, as it was 3 months ago, was certainly top notch! However with the increased demand for our services, we’ve expanded not only our facility, but our team as well, so that we may best capitalize on this opportunity,” says Michael Trunkett, President of Colocation America. “We’re very excited about getting the chance to introduce ourselves and develop business relationships with the amazing companies in the Los Angeles area and the valley.”

This Colocation America data center is the premier west coast hub, located at the renowned Telecom Center.

About Colocation America

Established in 2000, Colocation America has grown to become one of the most reliable colocation hosting providers nationally. Based in Los Angeles, California, Colocation America was built from the ground up by professional engineers with a vision of delivering a fully integrated, trusted colocation server hosting service. Colocation America has earned a reputation of excellence through its attention to detail, highly qualified technicians and commitment to the latest data center technology.

Colocation America’s primary data centers are located in the world famous One Wilshire building (Los Angeles) and 60 Hudson (New York). Colocation America’s data center locations provide maximum scalability to major fiber carriers and can connect to virtually any backbone provider. Colocation America has direct access to over 240 bandwidth providers around the world and can scale Internet connectivity to meet client needs. Colocation America leverages its extensive portfolio of colocation services with a powerful IT team to deliver affordable solutions to businesses.

For more information contact Colocation America Sales@ColocationAmerica.com

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Exchange My Mail Launches Email Hosting

2010-11-04T22:08:00-04:00

(Gawkwire.com) - Exchange My Mail, a provider of hosted Microsoft Exchange and other business email services specializing in small and medium businesses, today announced the general availability of its new hosted Exchange 2010 service. The new service provides small and medium business customers with the most advanced business email and calendaring system in an environment that provides the greatest possible uptime and performance.

While not the first provider to offer Exchange 2010, Exchange My Mail created the first hosted Exchange 2010 service deemed “ready for business.” The company invested significant additional months beyond other providers to test and optimize its Exchange 2010 service to ensure the best possible experience for customers. As part of the company’s commitment to its customers, it always trades time for performance to ensure the best and most reliable service for customers.

“As a Global consulting firm with consultants traveling around the globe and across different time zones, Exchange My Mail is the perfect solution to host our mail services,” said Ravid M. Climor, CEO of Clicom.“ The service is much better than in-house solutions, less expensive and available 365 days a year. Exchange 2010 opened new doors for us to manage time and exchange information internally and among our clients.”

To host the new Exchange 2010 service, Exchange My Mail built an entirely new premium infrastructure based on Dell servers, Cisco switches, and Compellent SANs. This infrastructure, the performance enhancements of the new Exchange 2010 software and Exchange My Mail’s proprietary optimization methodology combine to create an environment for customers that are fast, secure, reliable and redundant.

“For our small and medium business customers, email is the lifeblood of their businesses,” said Sal DiPiazza, Exchange My Mail’s CEO. “To meet their needs, we are not often the first to market, but we always provide the fastest and most reliable email services, and that’s what matters most to them.”

The biggest benefits to Exchange My Mail’s 2010 service apply to business Mac users. The new service includes free downloads of the new Outlook 2011 for Mac with every mailbox, and also supports the feature-rich Outlook Web Access client on all operating systems and browsers, providing Mac users with the same client and web experiences and their Windows-user colleagues. Windows users can also download MS Outlook 2010 for free.

Exchange My Mail’s new hosted Exchange 2010 service is now available for purchase. Plans with 5GB and 25GB mailboxes are available for single users or hundreds of users starting at $8.95 per mailbox per month. To learn more visit www.exchangemymail.com

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DIYSEO Partners with SEOmoz’s Linkscape

2010-11-03T13:19:00-04:00

(Gawkwire.com) - DIYSEO, a provider of web-based search engine optimization (SEO) software for small businesses, today announced a partnership with SEOmoz’s Linkscape. This partnership will power the DIYSEO platform with backlink data for all its small business customers. The partnership enables DIYSEO to help small businesses easily complete link building tactics and ultimately increase their rankings and overall visibility within search engines.

Since launching in April 2010, DIYSEO has focused on providing an easy way for small businesses to do SEO while also being the lowest cost SEO solution in the market. Through this partnership and others, DIYSEO utilizes the same data that is used by Fortune 500 companies but in a way that is cost effective and simplified for the small business owner.

“We are extremely excited to announce this integration and work closely with SEOmoz,” said DIYSEO CEO Dan Olson. “DIYSEO is very passionate about bringing a powerful, low-cost SEO solution to as many small businesses as possible, and this partnership allows us to take another step in that direction.”

The number of quality backlinks to a website is a significant factor for search engines to determine search engine rankings. If many different sites link to a website, this is an indication of a site’s popularity and importance. Linkscape powers popular tools, such as SEOmoz's Open Site Explorer, and has indexed more than 450 billion links from 50 billion pages across 290 million domains. By leveraging this data source, DIYSEO can provide metrics to small businesses that indicate how many backlinks they are currently getting compared to their competitors. This data also presents many link building opportunities for DIYSEO customers that will ultimately help clients get top rankings in search engines.

“Partnering with DIYSEO to provide data is a remarkable opportunity to help put powerful, actionable information in the hands of small business marketers everywhere,” said Rand Fishkin, CEO and Co-Founder of SEOmoz. “We're incredibly passionate about making SEO accessible to everyone, and this partnership helps make that happen.”

This update to the DIYSEO service is immediately available for all current customers and for the new subscribers that take advantage of DIYSEO’s seven-day free trial.

In addition, DIYSEO unveiled their SEO Report Card, a free tool that grades small business websites on a set criteria of SEO success factors. The Report Card also compares the website with selected competitors to better understand the site’s strengths and weaknesses. Similar to the DIYSEO application, the SEO Report Card is focused on providing insights in an accessible and simple format and making the world of search engine optimization much easier to understand.

“The SEO Report Card tool will help all websites, not just small businesses, view their current SEO state without costing them a nickel,” said DIYSEO Co-Founder Andy Hagans. “This is the only grader out there that presents an automatic, user friendly tool for SEO beginners.”

Interested small businesses can check out the new SEO Report Card or sign up for a free seven-day trial at DIYSEO.com.

About SEOmoz:
SEOmoz provides companies and individuals around the world with online tools and tutorials to help with their Internet marketing and search engine optimization needs. Our goal is to provide exceptional software and education to businesses, individuals, non-profits and government organizations so they can best leverage the unique reach of the Internet to increase visibility and achieve success. For more information, please visit SEOmoz.org.

About DIYSEO:
DIYSEO, founded by industry pioneers Patrick Gavin and Andy Hagans in 2009, makes the complex world of search engine optimization (SEO) simpler and more attainable than ever for small businesses. The web-based solution helps small business marketers break down a previously complex undertaking into easy, bite-sized tasks, while step-by-step tutorials and expert guidance help turn novices into SEO experts. For more information, visit DIYSEO.com. http://www.gawkwire.com/seo_sem/3841.html

Applied Innovations Campaign for Boca Helping Hands

2010-11-02T22:26:00-04:00

(Gawkwire.com) - Applied Innovations today launched its November Giving Innovations corporate responsibility
campaign, focusing on Boca Helping Hands, a Boca Raton-based organization that provides food,
job mentoring and family resources to those in need. This is the second monthly installment of
Giving Innovations, a dedicated year-round effort designed to raise awareness and donate funds
for charitable causes each month.

AppliedI will donate 10% of all new sales made during November to the organization, as well as
organizing an employee volunteering field trip to Boca Helping Hands (BHH) to assist in the
Food Pantry, Soup Kitchen or Computer Lab. “We recently took an active position as a company,
in both local and national non-profit programs that are doing important charitable work,”
stated Jess Coburn, founder and CEO of Applied Innovations, Corp. “Giving Innovations is a
framework we’ve developed that will allow us to showcase a different program each month with a
promotional campaign designed to increase awareness, raise money and provide physical assistance
for worthy causes.”

“We wanted to alternate between national high profile programs and smaller community organizations
that would allow us as a company and as individuals to get more personally involved,” said Lisa
Perry, sales consultant at Applied Innovations. “We wanted to do something a little bit different.
Something more than just sending volunteers to a soup kitchen. One of the things that intrigued
us about Boca Helping Hands was the opportunity to offer our technical expertise to their Computer
Lab.”

Formed in 1998, BHH’s mission is to provide compassionate service through food and assistance
programs to individuals, families and children to instill dignity and break the cycle of dependence.
BHH volunteers serve hot meals five days a week to families and individuals including the working
poor, single parents, children, the elderly and homeless. They also supply bags of groceries to
help people meet their basic food needs. In 2009, BHH served 24,454 meals, delivered another 6,797
meals, and provided over 7,000 grocery bags. The BHH Job Mentoring program features experienced
Human Resources professionals who assist individuals in finding employment by working on interview
skills and job hunting tactics. And the BHH Resource Center helps hundreds of clients each year
with financial assistance and counseling.

“Boca Helping Hands is making a difference right in our back yard,” continued Perry. “It’s exciting
to find a local, grass roots program like BHH for Giving Innovations to sponsor. And a number of our
team members are really looking forward to getting involved.” October launched AppliedI’s Giving
Innovations program, with a campaign to support Breast Cancer Awareness Month by donating 10%
of all new sales made during the month to Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Giving Innovations will
continue in December with a campaign for Toys for Tots, a national program that’s a favorite of
Coburn’s, particularly since starting his own family three years ago.

“It’s just amazing to see how much joy a child gets out of even the simplest toy,” said Coburn.
“Toys for Tots is a great program and we’ve participated in the past, but this year we’re making
it official.”

A campaign calendar for Giving Innovations 2011 will be announced in January. Applied Innovations
will be soliciting feedback from customers in December to identify both local and national charities
and programs deserving of recognition and support.

About Applied Innovations Corp. Based in Boca Raton, Florida, Applied Innovations is a Microsoft
Gold Certified hosting provider specializing in Windows hosting since 1999, including Shared,
VPS and Dedicated hosting. Promising superior performance, innovative world-class hosting services
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