News: Web Host, ISP Firm, EarthLink, Institutes VoIP Package Promotions
Atlanta, Georgia - (Website Hosting Directory) - August 22, 2007 - Web host and ISP firm, EarthLink, is offering SunRocket customers special pricing for the first six months, with free activation and no obligations or prepayments required. EarthLink's trueVoice Internet phone service, provides unlimited local and long distance calling to the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico.
trueVoice offers calling features at no extra charge, including voicemail, caller ID, call waiting, call forwarding, three-way calling and e911 service, as well as viewing calling records and checking voicemail online. SunRocket customers can sign up for EarthLink's special welcome package online at www.earthlink.net, or by calling 866-850-6430. For more information about EarthLink's voice products and services, including its bundled DSL and Home Phone Service, visit www.earthlink.net/voice.
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EarthLink Business Solutions, upgraded its business web hosting and e-mail platforms, to foster more control and flexibility in web presence and business e-mail account management.
EarthLink Business Solutions also has revamped the online control center that its customers access for all their account management functions. The new EarthLink control center is intuitive and makes navigation to tools and resources easy even for those with limited knowledge of web hosting, ecommerce, and e-mail account management.
Bill Warburton, Director of Product Management for EarthLink Business Solutions remarked, ''The changes we made will empower busy customers to do more themselves and make changes more quickly. Our new platform also will give us more flexibility for introducing new features and service options that will drive more value for our business customers.''
With the upgraded platform, EarthLink Business Solutions web hosting customers now get 25 MySQL databases that can each store up to 200 megabytes of data as a standard offering. MySQL databases enable popular features to web sites, such as message boards, e-commerce stores, blogs, and guest books, among other features. Users also get access to EarthLink's award winning e-mail features including spamBlocker, e-mail anti-virus, WebMail, and more. Another new feature lets mailbox owners store files on the business's web site using FTP Dropboxes, for ease of use.
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: Development Platform for Virtual World Network, from Multiverse
Mountain View, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - August 22, 2007 -
Online games (MMOGs) and 3D virtual world network firm, the Multiverse Network, Inc., has released version 1.0 of its Multiverse Platform, a comprehensive software solution designed to conjoin development teams, technology, tools and assets to create virtual worlds.
Including games and business tools, the solution was previously available in beta, the Multiverse Platform has attracted over 11,000 development teams from around the world.
Bill Turpin, Co-founder and CEO of The Multiverse Network, Inc. commented, ''We're passionate about empowering our customers to create the next wave of online experiences. By providing our technology without upfront fees and eliminating many technical barriers, we've made virtual world development faster and less expensive than ever before.''
In addition, the company also launched its ''Worlds in Progress'' initiative. Comprised of early prototype games and worlds built on the Multiverse Platform, this initiative provides consumer access to the Multiverse Network. All four games and worlds launched today are available through the Multiverse Network for consumers to experience via the free, downloadable Multiverse World Browser that lets consumers easily access any game or world on the company's network.
Of the Worlds in Progress launched, Max Gaming Technologies' Dark Horizons Universe, is the network's featured MMOG. Built by an established independent game studio with several published titles, Max Gaming chose Multiverse because of the flexibility the platform allowed.
Adrian Wright, CEO of Max Gaming Technologies remarked, ''After reviewing several platforms, we selected Multiverse because of their commitment to providing bullet-proof technology, and their shared vision for what the future of online entertainment will look like. More importantly, Multiverse has played an invaluable role in helping us take our game concepts to the next level.''
In addition to Dark Horizons, Multiverse also launched the following prototype MMOGs:
Doomsberg Entertainment is a young and energetic team of gamers-turned-game-creators who met through the Multiverse developer community. Their next-generation fantasy world includes a skill- and power-based leveling system that will enable players to improve their characters through a wide range of innovative game play, without the need to ''grind.''
As part of the ''Worlds in Progress'' initiative, Multiverse also launched two sample worlds today. The Multiverse Social World provides a basic environment for people to chat and dance, and the Multiverse Fantasy World puts players into a basic MMOG-style game. Included with the Multiverse Platform, development teams receive the complete source code for both worlds, which they can learn from or modify, if they want a starting point for their individual projects. At this time, Multiverse has no plans to continue developing either world beyond their current state.
With the Multiverse Platform, this team of dedicated and talented developers, with non-traditional game design backgrounds, is now able to realize their dream of entering the video game industry. Force of Arms, which uses the award-winning Hero System role-playing system, is a futuristic mech-based game that includes innovative use of mixed media.
LunarQuest is as an MMOG that puts players in a large, persistent multiplayer game world set on the Earth's moon. In LunarQuest, players act as Lunar Colonization Authority (LCA) cadets, who are tasked with preparing the moon for colonization. Multiverse expects production-quality versions of these worlds to become available on the Multiverse Network in late 2007 or early 2008. The company will continue to launch new prototype games and worlds as they become available.
The Multiverse Network, Inc. is creating a network of online video games and other 3D virtual worlds. Its technology platform endeavors to empower development teams to create high-quality, Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) and non-game virtual worlds for less money and in less time than usual. Multiverse provides development teams with a comprehensive, pre-coded client-server infrastructure and tools, a wide range of free content -- including sample worlds for modification -- and a built-in market of consumers. The Multiverse Network gives consumers a single program -- the Multiverse World Browser -- that lets them play all of the MMOGs and visit all of the non-game virtual worlds built on the Multiverse Platform.
For more information about the company, please visit: www.multiverse.net.
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Search Engines for Mobile Industry, Expand and Improve, Per Report
Dublin, Ireland - (Website Hosting Directory) - August 22, 2007 - According to a new e-commerce report issued by Research and Markets, since 2006, Internet search giants such as Sina, Baidu, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo, have launched their mobile search services in China.
However, there is no one company dominating this market. It is believed that before 2007, these search engine providers were dedicated to optimizing their products. Now they are focused on market domination. Driven by the great profits gained through Internet search engines, many search technology developers have entered into the mobile search market since 2004. The initial entrants into the China market were relatively small companies that don't provide search services for the global Internet, such as Yicha, Cgogo, UUCUN, and Roboo.
To help the industry players learn the attitudes of customers and gain more customers and trust from advertisers, Research and Markets carried out a web-based survey in March 2007. Its ''Mobile Search Adoption Picks Up Steam in China as the Experience is Improved'' report, is based on data from 725 respondents, 444 (61.2%) of which had not used mobile search and 281 (38.8%) who are existing users.
In the existing user survey portion, the characteristics of existing users are analyzed first, followed by their degree of satisfaction and their usage behaviors, such as usage frequency and influencing factors, favorite information category, and preferred search engines. In the potential user survey part of the report, we studied the usage constraints, interest levels and influencing factors, favorite information category, and preferred search engines.
Research and Markets is an international market research and market data resource, with major research publications from most of the leading publishers, consultants and analysts, concerning key industries, top companies, new products and the latest trends. The market research reports and industry newsletters from specialist research firms and niche market analysts, are listed at the same price as the specialist research firms.
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News: Web Hosting Firm, MaximumASP, Integrates Quad Core Processor Technology
Louisville, Kentucky - (Website Hosting Directory) - August 21, 2007 - Microsoft Windows based hosting services, MaximumASP, has deployed quad core processor technology from Intel, with four physical cores on the same chip, to deliver increased speed and power, over single core or dual versions.
The upgrade in technology allows businesses to reduce application costs based upon physical CPU count. In addition to the new Dell PowerEdge hardware, MaximumASP also provides enterprise class 64-bit operating systems.
Silas Boyle, Managing Partner of Sales at MaximumASP commented, ''We wanted to offer our customers the performance value that comes with the quad core servers without increasing the price structure.''
The addition of quad core processor allows customers to further consolidate web applications onto a smaller number of physical servers. Instead of being processor bound in terms of capacity, customers can now specify machines with large amounts of RAM and hard drive space, and run them reliably and efficiently while also reducing the number of overall processors that require separate software licenses. This evolution has allowed many new and existing clients to extract the maximum value for each server deployed, further reducing their total cost of ownership.
All MaximumASP server packages include comprehensive network protection, automated server patching, and advanced server monitoring, public and private networks, tier-one bandwidth and industry leading security practices. The packages start at $249 for dual core single processor servers and scale to $499 for quad processor servers.
Mr. Boyle continued, ''The move to the newest technology is part of MaximumASP's ongoing goal of providing our customers with expertise in emerging technologies to enable their business growth. Increasing technology requirements and the growth of multi-threaded applications will continue to make the newer quad core technologies very useful and powerful with an affordable price.''
MaximumASP, based in Louisville, Kentucky, was founded in 2000 as an outsourcing firm for Microsoft Windows based hosting services. The company currently hosts more than 44,000 domains for customers in over 60 countries.
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News: Hosting Tools, Developed by Search Destination, Lycos
Waltham, Massachusetts - (Website Hosting Directory) - August 21, 2007 - Search firm and destination portal, Lycos, has developed free web site building tools, designed to enhance classroom curriculum and compete in the Web 2.0 world.
Students, parents, teachers and other educators, may take advantage of the new Tripod web publishing and hosting tools. Much more than a virtual classroom, Tripod gives teachers powerful, easy-to-use tools to better compete in the world of Web 2.0, with the ability to create interactive web sites for more efficient communication.
Tripod for Teachers was developed to provide classroom templates, easy-to-use site building tools and hosting services for any teacher to create web sites quickly. Many teachers are unaware of free web page building and hosting sites like Tripod, giving educators resources to create a web presence to post homework assignments, provide links to websites for references, host class photo albums and field trip videos, and blog with parents and others in a secure online environment.
Don Kosak, Chief Technology Officer for Lycos noted, ''Education is the fifth most popular topic with our millions of Tripod members, and we are thrilled that more and more teachers are turning to Tripod to access our easy-to-use site building tools to aid them in their classrooms. Lycos is proud to be able to offer educators the opportunity to utilize our award-winning building and blogging tools to better connect with the audiences that are most important to them.''
Heidi McCasland, a New York teacher offered, ''Tripod has made a huge impact in my classroom, especially in the communications between myself, students and parents. I discovered Tripod more than five years ago and have been using it in my classroom ever since, and spreading the word to colleagues across the country as well. After seeing the positive impact my web site has had on my students, many of my fellow teachers wanted to create their own classroom web sites. Since then, I have led workshops, instructing other teachers how to build their own sites using Tripod, creating a more connected community focused on providing the best educational experience possible for our students.''
Getting Started links (www.tripod.lycos.com/teachers/index.tmpl) direct teachers to site-building tutorials, offering quick guides to building web sites, blogs and photo albums. Tripod for Teachers also provides customizable Sitebuilder templates to begin web site building in minutes, while Tripod's free hosting services allow teachers to get a web site up and live within moments of creation. Tripod's Blog Builder tools also give teachers the ability to communicate publicly or privately as needed.
Established in 1995, Tripod is one of the original Web publishing and hosting sites on the Internet, currently serving nearly 12 million unique visitors, and ranked as the second most popular web hosting site (comScore Media Metrix July 2007). Tripod's award-winning Blog Builder tool let users create blogs for free, providing quick and easy access to post digital photos via cell phones and mobile devices. Tripod's Photo Album tool let users customize album designs, receive comments and ratings and print copies of favorite photos. Tripod for Teachers gives educators a web presence, connecting with students, parents and fellow teachers; Education is 5th most popular topic with Tripod members.
Lycos, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Daum Communications Corp., an Internet portal and e-commerce destination in Korea with a growing presence throughout the Asian markets. Lycos, Inc. creates and operates search, community and technology lifestyle sites including Lycos.com, Hotbot.com, Wired.com, Tripod.com and Angelfire.com. Other Lycos products and sites include Lycos Mail, Lycos Games, Lycos Planet, Lycos Phone and GetRelevant. Lycos was acquired by Korean Daum Communications Corp. in October 2004 and has its U.S. headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts. Daum Communications Corp. is traded on the KOSDAQ: 035720.
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