News: Search Engine, b2bYellowpages.com, Offers Free Business Directory Listings
Syosset, New York - (Website Hosting Directory) - March 13, 2007 - Search engine, b2bYellowpages.com, has debuted free business listings in its directory. Companies may select Free or Premium memberships, and enter key business information, for access to millions of annual viewers.
Andrew Wax, President and CEO of b2bYellowpages.com remarked "Our local search capabilities have greatly expanded over the past year. The success with this has our members requesting greater access to local business communities. The new free listings are a great way for all businesses to experience the benefits of the world's top business-to-business yellow pages, while enabling us to deepen our business resources at the local level. As the directory grows, we expect that our members and users will benefit from the expanded number of resources the directory can provide. We are offering two types of free membership for businesses: Listed and Premium Membership. Listed memberships can submit their business information in the company's B2B directory, while Premium Membership enables members to submit multiple keywords and obtain a priority listing throughout the B2B directory, web search and local search results. Premium members simply need to provide a return link to b2bYellowpages.com website in order to receive its membership privileges."
Mr. Wax added "Both memberships allow listings within two directory categories. We encourage companies to add one listing within a product and service category, and to add a second category listing using the name of their town or city (US-based companies only)."
Founded in 1999, b2bYellowpages.com is one of the first vertical online yellow pages for business-to-business (b2b) advertising and commerce. The b2bYellowpages.com Directory has grown to include more than 100,000 industry specific categories within 72 vertical communities, including geographic categories for each town and city throughout the United States. The company is also one of the largest owners of B2B dot com digital real estate on the Internet with more than 1,100 globally recognized domains (e.g. b2bAutos.com, b2bCosmetics.com, b2bTravel.com, etc.)
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News: Hosted Microsoft Exchange Firm, Debuts 40 Windows SharePoint Services
Burlington, Massachusetts - (Website Hosting Directory) - March 12, 2007 - Hosted Microsoft Exchange, Sharepoint and CRM services firm, 123Together.com, is offering a total of 40 Windows SharePoint Services v3.0 application templates.
Up until February 26th, only 20 templates were available by Microsoft. Adding the additional 20 templates increases usability of Sharepoint v3 for their customers. 123Together.com is the first Hosted Exchange messaging and collaboration provider to provide the full complement of application templates to their users.
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services v3.0 is the premiere work force collaboration tool in the market today. Windows SharePoint Services is used to increase the efficiency of business processes and improve team productivity providing tools for collaboration and data management.
Windows SharePoint application templates are out-of-the-box add-on solutions that address specific needs of different areas of the organization. Application templates provide all the tools needed for the specific process but are still easily customized to more efficiently fit with the business workflow. Some of the newest application templates offered by 123Together.com and Microsoft are:
Event Planning - The Event Planning application template helps teams organize events efficiently through the use of online registration, schedules, communication, and feedback. Role-based dashboards offer specific information for various event members such as speaker, guest, staff, vendor, delegate, and attendee home pages.
Sales Lead Pipeline - The Sales Lead Pipeline application template helps teams manage the sales pipeline by tracking leads, opportunities, contacts, and accounts. Through role-based dashboards, team members can track sales information, assign open opportunities and gain visibility into the status of overall leads entered into the application template.
Timecard Management - The Timecard Management application template helps teams track hours spent working on various projects. The site enables team members to 'punch in' on a particular project and 'punch out' when they cease work. The system automatically generates the time worked by project, and can show managers who is working on a particular project, total hours versus budgeted time and the details of who worked on a each project entered into the site.
Equity Research - The Equity Research application template helps teams collaborate on researching stocks and other equities. It provides a central location for teams to store documents, post links, track news, and hold discussions related to the equities tracked by the site.
Ravi Agarwal, Chief Executive Officer of 123Together.com remarked, "Our Hosted Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services is a very important and fast growing product offering for us. It's very important to us that we provide the most up to date software add-ons and patches. The newest application templates bring the total of templates available through 123Together.com to 40, which provides our customers with an application template for just about any situation and with development of more application templates currently ongoing, we will continue to provide these important tools to our customers."
123Together.com, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, endeavors to help small and medium-sized businesses leverage the power of Microsoft Exchange Server. With over 9 years of hosting industry experience, 123Together.com is one of the largest providers of Microsoft Exchange Hosting today. With up to a 100% uptime guarantee, 123Together.com provides Mission Critical E-mail to companies such as banks, airlines, pharmaceuticals, and public companies, around the world, with flexible hosting options including shared and dedicated server hosting, full mobile availability for Blackberry, Treo, PocketPC, SmartPhone, and Windows Mobile handhelds, and the ability to resell the service completely white labeled.
123Together.com.com offers free Outlook 2007, 24x7 tech support, advanced SPAM filtering, Virus scanning, unlimited Public Folders, RPC over HTTP(S), VPN, Outlook Web Access (OWA), Outlook Mobile Access (OMA), web-based administration, daily backups, SharePoint, and continuous monitoring, with a 30-day trial.
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News: Game Developers Conference, Highlights OGSi Presentation
San Francisco, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - March 12, 2007 -
Online Game Services Inc., hosted a Game Developers Conference, at Moscone Center in San Francisco, California, featuring the opportunity for members of the gaming industry community, to learn what is needed, to globally launch online game websites.
In addition, the conference spotlighted valuable information about the economic and technical aspects of hosting a single online game instance, as well as how to approach hosting a game for a global community. James Hursthouse, CEO, OGSi, Chairperson of the IGDA Online Games SIG, and a member of Standard and Poor's Society of Industry Leaders and George Dolbier, Senior IT Architect, IBM, was a keynote speaker and presided over the event.
Online Game Services Inc., a San Jose-based company, has been refining its game service provider business model since its inception in June 2004. The company provides game companies with fully-managed dedicated game hosting services, comprising best-of-breed server and network infrastructure, expert network design, deployment and operations. OGSi's "pay-as-you-grow" business model offsets much of the risks and costs associated with online game deployment and operations.
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News: E-Commerce Solutions Application from GXS, Offers Service Level Guarantees
Gaithersburg, Maryland - (Website Hosting Directory) - March 12, 2007 -
Provider of business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce solutions, GXS, has debuted the launch of its Trading Grid 2007, including high availability architecture, to provide customers with industry-leading service level commitments as well as greater speed, reliability and security.
Trading Grid Ultra, was designed to afford new, multi-lingual, web-based portal; additional web forms capabilities; and a new messaging gateway enabling multi-protocol and enterprise resource planning (ERP)-system integration. With new offerings and this hardened infrastructure, GXS helps customers maximize investments in B2B integration and extend global supply chains. GXS Trading Grid 2007 also presents businesses with a compelling alternative to expensive hardware and software or do-it-yourself solutions for B2B integration.
GXS Trading Grid 2007 includes the following components: -- Higher Reliability Including Dual-Continent Failover. Built on a blade-server architecture and supported by a high-speed switching fabric spanning GXS' global data centers, GXS Trading Grid Ultra infrastructure offers customers unmatched availability and performance. This architecture raises the bar on service availability and performance within data centers and also features a unique and innovative dual-continent failover capability for use in disaster recovery. Mirroring and remote duplication failover facilitated by a secure network between continents ensures continued operations in the shortest timeframe possible. Additional benefits of Trading Grid Ultra include on-demand capacity for traffic spikes; quick recovery from an unplanned interruption; improved storage systems with pro-active monitoring and error detection tools; and redundant hardware components with no single point of failure. GXS recently began upgrading customers from legacy platforms to Trading Grid Ultra infrastructure.
The upgrades are expected to ultimately enable every GXS customer to benefit from its next-generation B2B infrastructure. -- Industry-Leading Service Level Guarantees. GXS Trading Grid Ultra infrastructure also enables GXS to provide customers with a baseline service level availability of 99.9 percent. In addition, customers can purchase premium service level offerings that provide guarantees of 99.95 percent availability or higher, representing an industry-leading service level commitment. -- Innovative, Web-Based, Trading Partner Management Console. Newly available with Trading Grid 2007, GXS Trading Grid Online is a multi-lingual, customizable, Web-based portal that enables the instant modification and provisioning of trading partner networks, providing real-time insight and visibility into global supply chain operations. It also enables customers to expand trading partner networks dynamically through electronically-generated requests, to view historical reports of trading partner transactions (e.g., invoice response time, payment histories and shipment timeframes) and to accelerate trading partner adoption of B2B e-commerce initiatives. -- Additional Forms Capabilities with Integrated Data Validation. Integrated within Trading Grid Online, GXS Intelligent Web Forms enables detailed, electronic representations of paper-based forms and then enhances the forms with rich dynamic processing capability for transmission via the web.
Targeted for enterprises seeking an easy-to-use and easy-to-deploy method for conducting e-commerce with smaller trading partners, GXS Intelligent Web Forms now can be customized to have the company's look-and-feel and to include form fields that meet a company's specific requirements and data validation rules. Intelligent Web Forms is available in nearly any language including English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Portuguese. -- High-Performance Multi-Protocol and ERP Integration. GXS also is launching a new high-performance messaging tool within GXS Trading Grid enabling seamless integration of diverse communications protocols and message formats -- old and new -- offering customers maximum flexibility and cost advantages. GXS Shared Messaging Gateway serves as a centralized point of entry for participants in a supply chain that use disparate communications protocols, and acts as a mediator between those partners. In addition, it enables GXS to deploy new communications protocols, such as AS3, faster and cheaper than any customer could on its own. Finally, GXS Shared Messaging Gateway provides a powerful, on-demand mechanism for integration into back-office and ERP systems, such as Oracle and SAP, eliminating the need for unnecessary software and improving the integrity of information exchanged throughout an enterprise. -- GXS SAS-70 Type II Certification Renewed. A leading independent auditing firm recently completed a Statement on Auditing Standards No. 70 Type II audit of GXS. This independent review of the controls and processes within the GXS Trading Grid concluded that these controls are suitably designed and operating effectively, consistent with SAS 70 requirements.
Mark Pearson, IS director of Iceland Foods remarked, "As a large retailer in the highly competitive grocery industry, the need for innovation and new efficiencies is a constant. GXS' e-commerce solutions have enabled us to achieve a stellar 100 percent adoption rate for the use of electronic documents among our trading partners, saving us time and money and reducing data errors. The size, type and technical knowledge of our suppliers and trading partners vary greatly. GXS' range of e-commerce options gives us the freedom to conduct transactions easily and in our standard of choice, while enabling our trading partners to use solutions that require no additional investment in IT resources."
As the world's largest electronic business community, GXS Trading Grid is used by more than 40,000 customers to exchange goods and services, gain visibility into global logistics operations and to synchronize product data. Businesses now can use the on-demand B2B integration capabilities of GXS Trading Grid to manage the complexity inherent in globalization, improve customer satisfaction through greater responsiveness and flexibility and enhance business results by improving B2B trading partner relationships.
Gary Greenfield, Chief Executive Officer of GXS commented, "When we first unveiled GXS Trading Grid in 2004, our vision was simple: a global, shared, secure platform for cross-enterprise business process automation. Today, through the launch of GXS Trading Grid 2007, we continue to demonstrate our commitment to this concept and have taken it even further by providing customers with best-of-breed, on-demand B2B integration services to optimize global supply chains. Our dual-continent failover and shared messaging gateway capabilities will provide our customers with greater reliability and security and significant cost advantages. The end-result is that customers now have an alternative to deploying expensive hardware and software and can rely on GXS Trading Grid to make their businesses more efficient."
GXS is a global provider of B2B e-commerce solutions that simplify and enhance business process integration, synchronization and collaboration among trading partners. Organizations worldwide, including 75 percent of the Fortune 500, leverage the GXS Trading Grid to extend supply networks, optimize product launches, automate warehouse receiving, manage electronic payments and gain supply chain visibility. Based in Gaithersburg, Md., GXS' extensive global network serves customers throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific regions.
To learn more about
GXS, please visit: www.gxs.com.
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News: Search Engine Rankings Software, Upgraded to Streamline SEO Process
Los Angeles, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - March 12, 2007 -
SEO software, Traffic Travis, has developed a 2.0 version, including more features to streamline the SEO process, designed to facilitate search engine ranking, for website owners of all levels and experience, without the need for a big marketing budget.
Justin Maddox, Development Manager for Traffic Travis, explained "Website owners panic and use snippets of information they have gathered from blogs and articles in a haphazard approach to SEO that usually produces very little in the way of results. Some webmasters end up watching their sites slip even further down the ranks."
However, he says it is not just newbies who struggle with SEO, even experienced webmasters find it challenging. "The cost and time involved in SEO can be very restrictive -- we don't all have the resources of the BBC. Obviously something had to change."
Mr. Maddox continued, ''Search engine optimization does not have to be labor intensive or a financial burden. Traffic Travis 2.0 offers a simple 5-step optimization system that can be carried out quickly and easily using 13 custom-created tools. The tools automate different stages of the process, so that previously time-consuming research tasks can be achieved in minutes."
Mr. Maddox says that the process of exchanging links is just one example of how the software has radically streamlined the SEO process, reiterating that
"Link exchanges are a great way of increasing your ranking in the search engines. Usually, the best way to find sites with good link potential is by checking out who your competition are linking to. But doing this manually literally takes hours -- you have to trawl every competitor's entire site to find their links and then copy and paste them into a spread sheet. Then you have to manually check every link to ensure that the PR isn't being diluted by linking to dozens of other sites. This could take days depending on how many links the site has. In contrast, Traffic Travis can analyze a competitor's site, give you all of their external and internal links, the PR of those links, and how many other sites that link is linking to. Within five minutes you have all that information compiled in front of you."
The results that Traffic Travis users have achieved are impressive, many regularly achieving first page rankings for main search terms. A spokesperson for 000Relationships.com remarked ''We've been plodding away for years trying to get our search engine rankings up. And now, using Traffic Travis, we've managed to get our site to #4 & #5 in Google, #1 & #2 in Yahoo and #2 & #3 in MSN for our highly converted search phrase -- 'How to Attract Men'."
Mr. Maddox concluded, "Our aim is to give all website owners the means and opportunity to rank on page one for their search terms. Traffic Travis puts all webmasters on an equal footing, no matter what their budget or experience is."
For more information about Traffic Travis SEO Software, please visit: www.traffictravis.com.
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