Sunnyvale, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - March 29, 2007 - Yahoo! has released its new suite of services, designed to enable publishers to increase the discovery, distribution and monetization of their content on mobile phones.
Yahoo! Mobile Publisher Services consumers, will have access to the Yahoo! Mobile Ad Network, Mobile Content Engine, Mobile Media Directory and Mobile Site Submit, as part of the company’s initiative to deliver tools to advertisers, publishers and network operators. The goal of this initiative is to enable the growth of the mobile Internet to benefit consumers, publishers and advertisers
Steve Boom, Senior Vice President of Mobile and Broadband at Yahoo! explained, "Yahoo! has become a leader in the global mobile Internet by leveraging the reach and popularity of our innovative mobile services for consumers and our competitive expertise in digital advertising. Now, we are enabling publishers to grow their own mobile businesses by taking advantage of our unique experience, technology and services.”
Yahoo! Mobile Ad Network The Yahoo! Mobile Ad Network will allow mobile publishers to have syndicated advertising served on their mobile content and services. Publishers will be able to select the ad formats they want to have run, such as display, sponsored links, video or in-game placements. By bringing together the global audiences of Yahoo!’s popular mobile services with those of participating publishers, Yahoo! will create a combined pool of valuable inventory. Yahoo! will use its global sales force and proven ad-serving technology to sell and serve this valuable inventory to leading advertisers.
Launch partners in the Yahoo! Mobile Ad Network include MobiTV, the global leader in mobile and broadband television and music services, Opera, the leading provider of web browsers for mobile devices, and go2, the leading location-enabled mobile content network in the U.S. The first advertisements will go live in the second quarter of 2007. Yahoo! plans to expand the number of partners in the Yahoo! Mobile Ad Network over the coming months.
Yahoo! has established a leadership position in global mobile advertising and is already working with advertisers, publishers and operators to create new revenue streams. In February 2007, Yahoo! launched its mobile display advertising platform on its Yahoo! Mobile Web service in 19 countries. In October 2006, the company also launched search advertisements in beta in the U.S. and U.K.
Yahoo! Mobile Content Engine The Yahoo! Mobile Content Engine will enable publishers to bring their content to Yahoo!’s mobile audience. It will also help enable publishers who do not have a mobile site or only have a limited mobile offering to quickly distribute their content to consumers on their mobile phones. The Yahoo! Mobile Content Engine will allow publishers to make their content, such as listings or articles, discoverable to consumers by integrating it into Yahoo! oneSearch™. For example, a real estate company could publish a list of homes for sale, enabling a consumer to find them and get the detailed listing information they need all through Yahoo! oneSearch.
Yahoo! Mobile Media Directory The Yahoo! Mobile Media Directory will allow publishers to make their mobile media content accessible directly through Yahoo! oneSearch. Publishers could submit a catalog of their content such as ringtones, games, video and applications.
Yahoo! Mobile Media Directory will combine Yahoo!’s editorial expertise, innovative search technology and the power of ratings and reviews from the Yahoo! community to drive discovery of mobile media. For example, a mobile game publisher could submit a list of their games, enabling a consumer to more easily discover a game, get relevant information like ratings and reviews all through Yahoo! oneSearch, as well as go to the publishers’ mobile site to get the game.
Yahoo! Mobile Site Submit The Yahoo! Mobile Site Submit will allow publishers to provide information about their mobile site, such as a description and relevant tags, to ensure that their sites are accurately indexed and available to consumers through Yahoo! oneSearch. For example, a hotel could submit their mobile site, including description and tag, enabling weekend travelers to find their location and see if they still have rooms available through Yahoo! oneSearch.
The Yahoo! Mobile Publisher Services will go live today across 19 countries, including Argentina, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Indonesia, India, Ireland, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippines, Singapore, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, UK, US and Vietnam. Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide. Yahoo! seeks to provide online products and services essential to users' lives, and offers a full range of tools and marketing solutions for businesses to connect with Internet users around the world. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
For more information about Yahoo!, please visit: www.yahoo.com.
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News: Ajax Development Community, OpenAjax Alliance, Grows with Microsoft
New York, New York - (Website Hosting Directory) - March 29, 2007 - The industry collaboration dedicated to developing and expanding Ajax, The OpenAjax Alliance, with the addition of Microsoft Corporation and 30 other companies, has announced that its community membership has grown to 72.
Keith Smith, Group Product Manager of the Core Web Platform and Tools to UX Web/Client Platform and Tools team at Microsoft Corp. remarked, "Microsoft is joining the OpenAJAX Alliance to collaborate with other industry leaders to help evolve AJAX-style development by ensuring a high degree of interoperability. By joining OpenAJAX, Microsoft is continuing its commitment to empower web developers with technology that works cross-browser and cross-platform."
The newest OpenAjax Alliance members include: 24SevenOffice, ActiveGrid, ActiveState, Appeon, Aptana, Arimaan Global Consulting, Custom Credit Systems (Thinwire), ESRI, Getahead (DWR), Global Computer Enterprises, GoETC, Helmi Technologies, HR-XML, iPolipo, Isomorphic Software, JSSL, Lightstreamer, Microsoft, MobileAware, NetScript Technologies, OpenSpot, OpenSymphony (OpenQA), OpSource, OS3.IT, Redmonk, Tealeaf Technology, Teleca Mobile, Transmend, Visible Measures, Visual WebGui and Volantis Systems.
David Boloker, Steering Committee Chairman of OpenAjax added, "After only 10 months this organization has achieved significant milestones in defining interoperability standards for the industry, the membership has grown from 13 to over 70 and the alliance has published multiple white papers on the background technology and business benefits of Ajax. The group has also established task forces to investigate possible areas of new activity in security, IDE integration, server integration and client-side server communications. Our end-goal with all of these activities is to increase adoption and provide value to the software community on both technical and marketing fronts."
The Alliance is also announcing that the following members have all been awarded OpenAjax Interoperability certificates: Apache XAP, Dojo Foundation, ICEsoft, ILOG, Isomorphic, IT Mill, Lightstreamer, Open Link, Open Spot, Nexaweb, Software AG and TIBCO. The interoperability certificates represent progress by both OpenAjax Alliance and its members towards defining and achieving industry support for OpenAjax Conformance.
The term OpenAjax Conformance is shorthand for the set of requirements that OpenAjax Alliance will be placing on Ajax technologies, products, and applications. These requirements focus on a small number of simple but important aspects of Ajax deployment, thereby providing the critical bits of Ajax interoperability that customers require. The conformance criteria are being designed in a manner that allows Ajax suppliers to continue to innovate and move forward with new technologies and products in an open platform.
OpenAjax Conformance will provide the following benefits to IT managers and the Ajax developer community: -- Seamless integration of multiple Ajax products and technologies within the same Web application, particularly with applications that use mashup techniques -- Greater certainty about product choices and reliability -- Lower training costs, lower development costs, and faster delivery of Web 2.0 innovations due to industry adoption of common approaches that build from OpenAjax standards -- Interchangeability of OpenAjax Conformant products, such that customers can choose among multiple vendors (and change vendors in the future)
OpenAjax Alliance recently published a revised set of white papers, including a new article titled -- When Does Ajax Make Business Sense, available at the website. The new article states that the benefits derived from Ajax come from more interactive and productive connections between users and web-based applications. Beyond better user interfaces for existing applications, Ajax enables new classes of applications that fall under the umbrella term "Web 2.0" and that also fit into a service-oriented architecture (SOA). According to the article, among the next-generation Ajax tools that will power the enterprise and the Internet of the future, include the following: -- Users as co-developers - New Ajax-powered environments, such as "application wikis," are empowering users to create their own customized mashups that include personalized dashboards and situational composite applications. -- Collaboration - Ajax technologies are typically the centerpiece of Web 2.0 information collection and sharing environments that harness the collective intelligence of disparate communities. -- Software above the level of a single device - Web 2.0 is accelerating the movement from installable desktop applications to Web-based applications, thereby leveraging the advantages of networks and information sharing. -- Cross-device applications and mobility - Simultaneous with the adoption of Web 2.0 is the growing proliferation of Web-capable mobile devices. Ajax technologies enable Web 2.0 applications across both large- screen desktops and small-screen mobile devices.
The existing group of Alliance members include: Adobe, The Ajaxian, American Greetings, BEA, Curl, the Dojo Foundation, Eclipse Foundation, edge IPK, eLink Business Innovations, Finetooth, The Front Side, IBM, ICEsoft, Ikivo, ILOG, Innoopract, IT Mill, JackBe, Javeline, JWAX, Laszlo Systems, Mozilla Corporation, Nexaweb, Nitobi, Novell, Open Link Software, Openwave Systems, Opera, Oracle, SAP, Scalix, Seagull Software, Sitepen, Software AG, Sun Microsystems, Tibco, Vertex Logic, Webtide, XML11, Zend, Zimbra and Zoho.
Robert Buffone, a committer at Apache XAP project commented, "Apache XAP is the declarative Ajax runtime at Apache Software Foundation. Adding support for OpenAjax Hub brings XAP a step closer to its vision of enabling developers to plug in their favorite Ajax widgets and toolkits while utilizing a unified open declarative framework to dramatically simplify Ajax application development."
Dylan Schiemann, Chief Executive at web application design and development firm, SitePen and co-founder of the Dojo Foundation added, "The open source Dojo Toolkit is one of the industry's most popular and comprehensive Ajax development platforms. The Dojo Foundation was a charter member of OpenAjax Alliance and serves on the OpenAjax Alliance Steering Committee. We are excited to demonstrate support for the OpenAjax Hub within Dojo."
Ken Fyten, VP Product Development at ICEsoft Technologies noted, "We are pleased to demonstrate ICEfaces compatibility with the Open Ajax Hub. This confirms our commitment to the Open Ajax Alliance and to our customers that want the flexibility to incorporate other Ajax libraries into their ICEfaces Ajax applications."
Jean François Abramatic, Chief Product Officer at ILOG remarked, "The approaching one-year anniversary of the OpenAjax Alliance is an important milestone for Ajax technology and the community. ILOG is proud to have been there from the start, and based on the overwhelming demand from our customer base for Ajax-enhanced graphical displays, we are excited to participate in the OpenAjax InteropFest and to continue to contribute to this flourishing ecosystem with open and interoperable technologies."
Charles Kendrick, CTO of Isomorphic Software added, "Years before the term AJAX was coined, our customers demanded interoperability with other early AJAX technologies as part of the process of integrating SmartClient into commercial portal servers and other enterprise products. And we delivered. Isomorphic remains committed to AJAX interoperability, and we are excited to see the industry make strides toward interoperability standards. Our customers value Isomorphic's ability to immediately embrace emerging industry standards via SmartClient's flexible and extensible architecture."
Joonas Lehtinen, CEO of IT Mill offered, "OpenAjax Hub is one of the key components that allow easier integration in future. IT Mill Toolkit 4.0 enables Java programmers to create solid enterprise user interfaces on top of Ajax technologies and OAA Hub will help to integrate it better into other applications. We are excited that our product is one of the first ones to pass the compliance tests."
Alessandro Alinone, CTO at Lightstreamer intimated, "We are pleased to have passed the InteropFest test and we are committed to further OpenAjax Hub specification adherence. Our goal is not to compete in the general AJAX toolkit market, but to remain focused on the delivery of a scalable and reliable Push Server that can work with any AJAX solution."
Gideon Lee, President of OpenSpot added, "The technologies developed by the OpenAjax alliance let toolkit libraries from different vendors work together within a web application. At a higher level, virtual desktop technologies such as our open source SameDesk environment let applications delivered from different sites interact across domain boundary at the browser. These two complementary types of technologies will help narrow the gap between desktop and web applications, thereby creating more flexible alternatives for the developers and the end users."
Coach Wei, CTO at Nexaweb Technologies, Inc. offered, "Nexaweb Universal Client Framework supports Ajax, Java as well as offline web computing for Enterprise Web 2.0 applications. As a key contributor to various open source projects and a member of the Steering Committee of OpenAjax Alliance, Nexaweb is excited to announce the support for OpenAjax Hub in its Universal Client Framework offering."
Dr. Peter Kuerpick, Member of the Board of Software AG and responsible for Crossvision added, "As a global provider of mission-critical software infrastructure solutions, we are very pleased to see the increasing momentum and the significant progress of the OpenAjax Alliance. We believe that businesses are expecting solutions that are manageable, interoperable and open. Already a leader in SOA Governance, Software AG is proud to be one of the first companies that have an OpenAjax conformant offering for building rich SOA front ends."
Kevin Hakman, Director of General Interface Product Marketing at TIBCO added, ''Ajax interoperability standards are critical to our customers' enterprise Ajax implementations -- TIBCO's OpenAjax Conformance certificate reduces their technical risks and enables them to leverage existing skill sets. Interoperability standards also open up the Ajax eco-system so anyone can create new components that can predictably work with literally dozens of OpenAjax Conformant toolkits. The OpenAjax Alliance provides developers and their management with a reliable way to mix and match Ajax pieces and parts from multiple projects and vendors to efficiently build and maintain their solutions."
The OpenAjax Alliance is an organization of leading vendors, open source projects, and companies using Ajax that are dedicated to the successful adoption of open and interoperable Ajax-based Web technologies. The prime objective of the group is to accelerate customer success with Ajax by promoting a customer's ability to mix and match solutions from Ajax technology providers and to help drive the future of the Ajax ecosystem.
To learn more about OpenAjax Alliance, please visit: www.openajax.org.
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News: Search, Research Intelligence Firm, IBISWorld, Launches National Campaign
Los Angeles, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - March 29, 2007 -
Independent publishers of business intelligence research, IBISWorld, has engaged The Appleman Group, to help debut a national media campaign, showcasing its research product portfolio.
Los Angeles-based Appleman Group, a strategic communications firm, will assist in the development and implementation of IBISWorld's national awareness campaign.
Founded in 1971, IBISWorld publishes in-depth reports on more than 700 industries, offers thousands of profiles on key business competitors, and provides databases of economic and demographic data relevant to various business sectors. With additional new products in the pipeline, the company also offers industry-sector statistics, analysis, and industry forecasts. IBISWorld also recently introduced "i-Expert," a quick-read online overview of business sectors designed for sales people and other time-crunched professionals who need a fast briefing about one of more than 700 top industries.
Harvey Jones, Senior Vice President of IBISWorld remarked, "While we have long served a extensive blue-chip roster of clients in a range of industries including private banking firms, commercial and consumer banks, private equity firms, valuation firms, insurance companies, technology concerns, the healthcare industry, professional services firms, including law firms and accounting firms, marketing and advertising agencies, and many other industries, we believe there is a significant potential to expand awareness for our extensive and growing portfolio of products. Working with our communications partner, The Appleman Group, we will be executing an aggressive media awareness campaign targeting key vertical markets that may not be aware of how our rich product offering can help businesses and organizations of all sizes and types make critical decisions in today's increasingly challenging domestic and global economy."
Todd Appleman, President of The Appleman Group offered, "We are delighted to be engaged by IBISWorld. We believe there is an outstanding opportunity to showcase IBISWorld's Industry Intelligence products. The company's entire offering serves as an invaluable tool to provide instant access to information for professionals of all types, including journalists working on tight deadlines, advertising agencies, public relations firms, as well as business and government clients who need a powerful business tool to learn about existing and potential clients, industry trends, and how changes in market segments may have an impact on business outcomes."
Founded in 1972, IBISWorld provides an extensive online portfolio of business research and analysis products designed to serve a range of business, professional service and government organizations. Delivered through enterprise subscriptions, the company publishes in-depth reports on more than 700 industries and offers profiles on more than 8,000 U.S. companies. In addition, the company provides databases of economic analysis, demographic data, and risk assessment reports relevant to virtually every business sector. IBISWorld's research and analysis covers the entire U.S. economy, incorporating both financial and non-financial information impacting tracked industries and companies. Current IBISWorld partners include Hoovers, Valuation Resources, Superfactory and American Small Business Development Centers. With U.S headquarters located in Los Angeles, IBISWorld has offices in New York, Melbourne, and Sydney.
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News: Web Hosting Provider, Easy CGI, Supports MySQL 5.0.27
Pearl River, New York - (Website Hosting Directory) - March 28, 2007 - ASP.Net web hosting provider, Easy CGI, has recently upgraded its supported version of popular open source database, MySQL, by adding the 5.0.27 version to its offerings.
The MySQL database has become the world's most popular open source database because of its superior performance, high reliability and ease of use. Easy CGI has upgraded to MySQL 5.0.27 because of it offers new features such as an information schema view, new triggers and advanced stored procedures.
Dan Richfield of Easy CGI remarked, "MySQL 5.0.27 offers a more efficient and stable database. With this upgrade to version 5.0.27, we continue to provide our loyal customers with a host service that is comprehensive and dependable."
MySQL AB develops and markets a family of high performance, affordable database servers and tools. The company's flagship product is MySQL, the world's most popular open source database, with more than 4 million active installations. Many of the world's largest organizations, including Yahoo!, Sabre Holdings, Cox Communications, The Associated Press and NASA, are realizing significant cost savings by using MySQL to power Web sites, business-critical enterprise applications and packaged software. MySQL AB is a second generation open source company, with dual licensing that supports open source values and methodology in a profitable, sustainable business.
Easy CGI was founded after running a successful regional Internet Service Provider since 1994. Since its inception in 1998, Easy CGI has hosted over 20,000 web sites. Consistently ranked among the top 10 Web Hosting providers worldwide, Easy CGI has developed an expandable shared web hosting platform, with a control panel that allows the customer to administer every aspect of its account at any time, from any location. Easy CGI´s three tiers of shared web hosting solutions incorporate a wide range of individuals and companies, including simple to complex. Easy CGI maintains its own Data Center located in the same facility as its corporate headquarters. Extensive system monitoring allows support staff to quickly assess and resolve problems.
For more information about MySQL, please visit: www.mysql.com.
To learn more about Easy CGI, please visit: www.easycgi.com.
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News: Technology Council Event to Feature Apple Co-Founder, Steve Wozniak, Oracle
Summit, New Jersey - (Website Hosting Directory) - March 28, 2007 -
The Co-founder of Apple Computers, Steve Wozniak, will be featured as a keynote speaker at the 2007 CIO Conference at the Grand Summit Hotel on April 20.
As a Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist for the past three decades, Mr. Wozniak designed Apple's first line of products the Apple I and II and influenced the popular Macintosh. For his achievements at Apple Computer, the Woz was awarded the National Medal of Technology by the President of the United States in 1985, the highest honor bestowed on America's leading innovators.
The Luncheon Speaker will be Mary Ann Davidson, Chief Security officer at Oracle Corp. For the third year, the NJTC will name a CIO of the Year at the CIO Conference. This award is designed to recognize a chief information officer or an executive in an equivalent position for his/her innovation and creativity in planning and deploying their enterprise systems, future IT goals, management philosophy and service to the industry and community. The CIO of the Year will be chosen from one of three finalists: Greg Miller, Senior Vice President of IT at Advanced Health Media, Josefina Nash, Director of Information Systems at Coriell Institute for Medical Research, and Kathy Tomasello-Meade, Vice President of IT at Dale and Thomas Popcorn.
In addition to the speeches, and the naming of the CIO of the Year, there will be two panel discussions: "Security Management: The Importance of Strategic Security Planning" and "Mitigating Internal and External Risk." Indications are that the number one priority facing the IT Professional in 2007 is security. The 2007 CIO Conference will focus on strategic security planning with an exciting discussion about the management side of the topic. What is the role of the Chief Security Officer? What is the strategic value of IT Security? What is enterprise rights management space? These questions and many others will be explored in the panel discussions.
The conference on April 20 will take place at the Grand Summit Hotel, 570 Springfield Ave., in Summit. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. and will be followed by the keynote speech and panel discussions. Cost for the conference: Steve Wozniak Keynote address ONLY -- NJTC/SIM Members: $75 and Non-Members: $150; Steve Wozniak Keynote address AND CIO Conference -- NJTC / SIM Members: $175 and Non-Members: $275.
The New Jersey Technology Council provides business support, networking opportunities, information, advocacy and recognition of technology companies and their leaders. Founded in 1996, NJTC's more than 1,200 member companies work together to support their own enterprises while advancing New Jersey's status as a leading technology center in the United States.
To learn more about the conference, please visit: www.njtc.org.
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