News: Web Hosting Provider, Network Solutions, Upgrades Security Applications
Herndon, Virginia - (Website Hosting Directory) - May 9, 2008 - Web hosting and small business applications company, Network Solutions, has launched a new security product, designed to protect online business owners and customers.
The new WatchDog web site security service, is aimed at monitoring web sites for known vulnerabilities and performance problems. WatchDog offers web site vulnerability scanning, web site performance monitoring, and a Certification Seal.
Charlie Buckley, Director of Security Product Development for Network Solutions noted, ''WatchDog provides our customers with the most complete package of web security services that are not only simple and user friendly, but also affordable. With this new Web site security tool business owners are alerted to major issues that could negatively impact their business.''
WatchDog is a comprehensive security package for Web site monitoring, which features three components, including Web Site Vulnerability Scanning, Web Site Performance Monitoring, and a Certification Seal. Working together, these three elements monitor vulnerabilities, availability and performance, and build customer trust and confidence.
Web Site Vulnerability Scanning detects existing site security holes that can be entry points for hackers. It can also detect whether hackers have already compromised a Web site. When a vulnerability is detected this feature sends alerts via e-mail or text message and stores a history of these reports in the customer's Account Manager.
Web Site Performance Monitoring lets customers know when their web sites are unavailable or downloading slowly by tracking Web site uptime and web page load times. This web site monitoring feature downloads web sites approximately every five minutes from numerous locations around the world to track overall performance, including the performance of hosting providers. If a web site is down or not performing optimally, customers are sent alerts via e-mail or text message. Customers also receive weekly reports detailing their site's performance.
WatchDog also offers a highly visible certification seal that dynamically displays the date of the last successful vulnerability scan. This seal offers peace of mind and trust, assuring visitors that the site they are visiting has been scanned for vulnerabilities. Web site monitoring is extremely important and is ideal for both ecommerce and informational web sites.
Network Solutions is a provider of e-business solutions and domain name registration service, offering a full range of online services to small and medium enterprises, including web hosting, web design, e-commerce software, search engine marketing, SSL certificates, e-mail services and domain name registration. Network Solutions draws on over 29 years of experience to make it simple and affordable for customers to build and manage an online presence through a one-stop web Solutions provider.
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News: Search Engine E-Commerce Small Business Marketing, Featured at Internet World
London, United Kingdom - (Website Hosting Directory) - May 9, 2008 - The InternetWorld premiere event for the UK, recently featured small business e-commerce search facilitators, at the London conference.
One of the main participants, next generation social media/social networking site, MOLI, presented the panel 'Small Business and Social Networking: The New Frontier.'
Matt Murphy, Vice President of Global Marketing, discussed how social networking levels the playing field with its competitors and brings new growth opportunity, especially to the small business owner. What used to be the local corner store in a neighborhood could now be a source of a specialty product on a global market. Mr. Murphy shared how Web 2.0 tools such as collaboration, social media and e-commerce can take a small business to its next level of success.
MOLI is a next generation social media/social commerce site where members can create and manage multiple profiles in one account. This enables users to separate their social, business and family relationships and keep control over their privacy. MOLI is an ideal platform for collaboration among enterprising individuals over the age of 18 and a destination site for small businesses to establish an online presence where they can showcase and sell their products and services. To inspire, inform and entertain its members, MOLI also publishes its own professionally created high-definition videos and articles in a variety of lifestyle channels. MOLI launched in the U.S. in January 2008 and is currently in public beta testing in the U.K. and Ireland. MOLI, headquartered in West Palm Beach, Fla., is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mainstream Holdings, Inc. a diversified Internet technology and digital media company focusing on four industry segments: e-commerce, behavioral marketing, high-definition video production, and software and infrastructure development.
For more information about MOLI, please visit: www.moli.com.
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News: Web Hosting Provider, EarthLink, Releases First Quarter Financials
Atlanta, Georgia - (Website Hosting Directory) - May 8, 2008 - Web hosting solutions and ISP company, EarthLink has reported record net income and adjusted EBITDA,from continuing operations, with free cash flow.
Financial results for its first quarter ending March 31, 2008 highlights include: -- Income from continuing operations of $57.8 million, or $0.52 per share -- Net income of $54.4 million, or $0.49 per share -- Adjusted EBITDA (a non-GAAP measure) of $82.1 million -- Free cash flow (a non-GAAP measure) of $81.7 million -- Increased full year adjusted EBITDA (a non-GAAP measure) guidance to $245 million - $260 million.
Rolla P. Huff, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of EarthLink noted, ''Clearly, we are very pleased with our first quarter results. Our performance in the quarter is a testament to the hard work and dedication of our employees who put our commitments to customers and shareholders above everything else. As a result of the stability we are seeing in the churn rates of our tenured customers, as well as our better than expected expense optimization across every part of the company, we are increasing our guidance for full year Adjusted EBITDA, free cash flow and income from continuing operations.''
As part of the restructuring analysis that was done during the third quarter of 2007, EarthLink determined that the increase in early life churn profiles of many newly acquired narrowband customers meant that we were no longer generating a positive financial return on our sales and marketing investments. EarthLink significantly reduced these activities, which historically have been primarily to replace customer churn. This change allows the narrowband subscriber base to decline to a more sustainable customer level while generating significantly higher cash returns. As a result of these expected subscriber declines, total company revenues were $263.1 million, an 18.8 percent decrease compared to the first quarter 2007.
EarthLink realized $57.8 million, or $0.52 per share, in income from continuing operations in the first quarter of 2008, compared to $(22.4) million, or $(0.18) per share, in the first quarter of 2007. The significant improvement was primarily the result of a decrease in expense related to acquiring and supporting new customers that, because of early life churn, were no longer providing a positive shareholder return. Additionally, EarthLink realized a reduction in equity method losses compared to the first quarter of 2007, which were partially offset by an increase in the company's income tax provision in the first quarter of 2008.
EarthLink generated Adjusted EBITDA of $82.1 million for the first quarter of 2008, compared to $23.6 million in the first quarter of 2007. This increase was the result of the significant improvement in income from continuing operations noted above.
Net income was $54.4 million, or $0.49 per share, for the first quarter of 2008, compared to a net loss of $(30.0) million, or $(0.24) per share, for the first quarter of 2007. Our first quarter 2008 results include a loss of ($3.4) million from our discontinued operations for the municipal Wi-Fi assets, compared to a loss of $(7.6) million during the first quarter of 2007.
Subsequent to the end of the first quarter of 2008, EarthLink reached agreements with the cities of Corpus Christi, TX and Milpitas, CA to transfer ownership of our municipal Wi-Fi assets to those respective cities. Additionally, EarthLink will terminate municipal Wi-Fi service in New Orleans, LA and remove its network from the market.
Free cash flow was $81.7 million during the first quarter of 2008 compared to $8.0 million during the first quarter of 2007. The improvement was the result of the significant increase in Adjusted EBITDA in the first quarter 2008, coupled with a $15.2 million decrease in capital expenditures and subscriber base acquisitions in the quarter compared to the first quarter of 2007.
The company repurchased 1.3 million shares of its outstanding common stock for $9.1 million in the first quarter of 2008 and had $191.9 million remaining under its share repurchase program as of the end of the quarter.
EarthLink ended the first quarter with $320.0 million in cash and marketable securities, an increase of $31.4 million from December 31, 2007. Additionally, in April 2008, as a result of Platinum Equity's acquisition of Covad, EarthLink received $50.8 million in complete repayment of our debt investment in Covad. The Company will receive an additional $6.3 million in May 2008 in payment of our equity investment in Covad.
For the full year 2008, management is increasing its previously issued guidance. Management now expects to generate Adjusted EBITDA of $245 million to $260 million, income from continuing operations of $153 million to $163 million, and free cash flow of $215 million to $235 million.
EarthLink offers its web hosting business customers value-added tools for designing web sites, monitoring site visitor traffic, and encrypting sensitive information EarthLink Business Solutions is the business services unit of Atlanta- based EarthLink Inc. Together with New Edge Networks, EarthLink Business Solutions is a total business communications solutions provider. It is a single source provider for businesses, offering high-speed Internet access, web hosting, ecommerce, remote access to VPNs, and fully managed private wide area networks. Customers include single-location businesses as well as midsize and large enterprises with complex network requirements throughout the United States. EarthLink Business Solutions has offices in Atlanta, Vancouver, Wash., and Pasadena, California.
For more information about Earthlink Business Solutions, please visit: www.earthlink.biz.
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News: Search Engine for Online Multimedia Content Developed
Rishon Lezion, Israel - (Website Hosting Directory) - May 8, 2008 - Speech recognition technologist, NSC (Natural Speech Communication Ltd.), has debuted the launch of a multimedia search engine, designed for search within online multimedia files.
The Beta version of the Snipp.tv search engine enables users to search online video and audio files in English for content covering a variety of topics including current and recent business, news, entertainment, science and health.
The search process is based on advanced analysis of the soundtrack of a multimedia file to perform keywords detection, and the use of additional data specific to the file. Exhibiting a very high accuracy rate, the detailed soundtrack analysis of the multimedia content and the resulting keywords detection enable to produce highly relevant search results and make the soundtrack content visible to classical search engines.
The interface of Snipp.TV was specifically designed for ease-of-use, assuring rapid, simplified identification of relevant online content, as well as quick and convenient filtering of results, via access to the exact location of the keywords detected in the clip.
Currently, Snipp.TV covers content from various online web sites, and is updated daily with recent and current available multimedia files and clips as they become available on these sites.
Dr. Ami Moyal, CEO of NSC noted, ''Snipp.TV addresses the challenge of searching non-textual information, which accounts for a substantial portion of Internet content. Speech analysis of multimedia content enables the return of more relevant results than searches based only on text that accompanies the content. Our technology delivers an unprecedented level of accuracy with substantially more relevant results than those achieved by other technologies. Together with the interface designed specifically for this type of search, the user can rapidly obtain relevant information, without downloading and listening to lengthy video files - an experience which we have created on the site.''
NSC (Natural Speech Communication Ltd.) is a speech recognition technologist for audio mining and speech-driven services. The company has successfully deployed its advanced solutions for clients in the telecom, security, call center and enterprise markets around the globe. NSC's cutting-edge solutions are based on a unique approach which combines a blade platform with advanced speech technology. NSC's share holders are AudioCodes (NasdaqGS: AUDC), Corex Industries, Koor Industries and Polar Electronic Communications.
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News: DiscountASP.NET Web Hosting, Extends IIS Manager with Management Tools
Pasadena, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - May 7, 2008 - Advanced ASP.NET hosting provider, DiscountASP.NET, has developed and released two new IIS Manager Extensions in public beta for customers, including web.config backup, restore, and feedback modules.
The public beta web.config Backup/Restore module can backup a web.config file and can restore the web.config file. The IIS Manager Feedback module allows customers using IIS Manager to submit feedback and suggestions.
Takeshi Eto, VP Marketing at DiscountASP.NET noted, ''One of the key features with IIS7 hosting is the ability to delegate website configurations to users. Since our goal is to provide our customers with maximum control over their hosting environment, we chose to implement IIS feature delegation on our Windows 2008 shared hosting platform.''
With the launch of Windows 2008 and Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0, Microsoft introduced IIS Manager, a new IIS administration tool which provides end users with a familiar user interface to remotely manage IIS7 server configurations. Using IIS Manager, DiscountASP.NET customers can view settings and manipulate their web.config files for features that have been delegated to them.
Mr. Eto added, ''With the introduction of additional toolsets available to manipulate the web.config file, there is also increased possibility of accidentally overwriting the web.config file. We wanted to address this issue and by taking advantage of the IIS Manager extensibility model, we developed the web.config backup/restore tool.''
The new IIS Manager UI extensions are launched as a public beta to get feedback from customers. To facilitate feedback submission, an IIS Manager Feedback module was introduced, where customers can send feedback and suggestions directly to DiscountASP.NET from within IIS Manager.
Recently, DiscountASP.NET attained its third competency in Security Solutions, recognizing the company's expertise and impact in the technology marketplace. As a Gold Certified Partner, DiscountASP.NET has demonstrated expertise with Microsoft technologies and proven ability to meet customers' needs. Microsoft Gold Certified Partners receive a rich set of benefits, including access, training and support, giving them a competitive advantage in the channel.
The Security Solutions Competency is designed to recognize the unique skills and requirements of partners specializing in delivering security-based solutions. Microsoft Gold Certified Partners enrolled in this competency have proved their skill in advanced security solutions to help protect customer information assets by building solutions such as security management and operations, security-enhanced wireless VPN and perimeter, and identity and access management solutions. Specializations within the competency include Infrastructure Security and Security Management.
The Microsoft Partner Program was launched in October 2003 and represents Microsoft's ongoing commitment to the success of partners worldwide. The program offers a single, integrated partnering framework that recognizes partner expertise, rewards the total impact that partners have in the technology marketplace, and delivers more value to help partners' businesses be successful.
DiscountASP.NET is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and featured ASP.NET Host in the Microsoft ASP.NET Hosting Advantage Program. The DiscountASP.NET web hosting plan includes instant activation, access to custom-built ASP.NET-powered control panels, web hosting on secure and reliable ASP.NET platforms where each website is hosted in its own isolated application pool, and access to many free ASP and ASP.NET components.
For more information about DiscountASP.NET, please visit: www.discountasp.net.
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