Portsmouth, New Hampshire - (Website Hosting Directory) - September 1, 2006 - Web hosting, design and Internet enablement consultancy, PixelMEDIA, Inc., has reported a 20 percent revenue increase in 2006 over the same period last year, as new and existing clients focus on custom portal and content management services.

According to the company, in addition to an increase in revenue, PixelMEDIA has seen a steady rise in the number of clients. New accounts include National Financial (subsidiary of Fidelity Investments), Mall Radio Network, Aubuchon Hardware, Nuance (NUAN), Enterasys Networks, and OneShield, which join a client list of more than 200. To support new demands, PixelMEDIA has also expanded its organizational teams. Thomas Obrey, Co-founder of PixelMEDIA stated, ''We like to think the consistent growth across the board is organic and fostered by a solid reputation, loyal customers, and quality results in everything we do.''

Of PixelMEDIA's many solutions, web-enabled portal development is gaining wider acceptance as clients begin to realize the business value of this flexible, secure communications platform. Harvey Industries and Aubuchon Hardware recently worked with PixelMEDIA to deploy portal solutions that leverage data and resources within the organization and make this information readily available to sales, marketing, and other corporate teams. With a portal, clients can centralize communications and resources in one location while eliminating the inefficiency associated with email, phone calls, multiple offices, and standalone software systems.

Content Management Systems (CMS) is another solution that, while not new to PixelMEDIA, is in higher demand with clients who seek a faster, easier way to update web-based content without relying on IT or HTML-savvy personnel. PixelMEDIA is well-versed in understanding clients' needs, leveraging the latest technologies, and building applications to empower less-technical content owners throughout an organization. PixelMEDIA CMS solutions range from simple tools with targeted functionality to larger scale CMS solutions--either custom developed in-house or through third parties like Ektron--more suited for global enterprises. PixelMEDIA just completed a fully integrated, multi-lingual CMS solution for LogicaCMG, a worldwide provider of IT services.

Erik Dodier, President and Co-founder of PixelMEDIA added, ''We listen to our clients. When they tell us some of the early challenges they are facing, that tells us what solution we should develop. So once they're ready to solve that problem, we have a solution that fits. In the case of portals and CMS, our timing has been perfect since clients are now looking to integrate these more sophisticated solutions to improve their business.''

PixelMEDIA identified portals and CMS applications as ''hot growth'' areas years ago. This gave the company an early start in refining the solutions to make them more robust and reliable, and recently formalized its User Experience team, bringing together information architects, content strategists, and usability specialists to develop solutions that best cater to the preferences of a client's end users.

Other enhanced solutions at PixelMEDIA include the User Interface Design (UID) group, which is taking interface presentation and functionality to unprecedented levels, as witnessed by work recently completed for Starbak and Nokia. In addition, PixelMEDIA's photography and videography capabilities now support "high-definition" imaging, which can be applied to websites and other interactive media.

PixelMEDIA is an award-winning professional services consultancy focused on Internet enablement, providing strategic, creative, and technical expertise to increase revenue opportunities and reduce costs. Founded in 1994, PixelMEDIA's solutions include branding and transactional websites, application and portal design and development, user interface design, multimedia design, hosting, and website management. PixelMEDIA's customers include industry leaders such as ECCO Shoes, LogicaCMG, Computer Associates, Nokia, Cbeyond Communications and Harvey Industries.

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Google's innovative search technologies connect millions of people around the world with information every day. Founded in 1998 by Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google today is a top web property in all major global markets. Google's targeted advertising program provides businesses of all sizes with measurable results, while enhancing the overall web experience for users. Google is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia.

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Farmingdale, New Jersey - (Website Hosting Directory) - September 1, 2006 - Web-based podcast hosting services company, PodshowCreator, has introduced a new security feature, designed to enable users to password-protect PodshowCreator podcast feeds or pages. The new security feature was developed to ensure that only the intended audience of a particular podcast is able to access the published content.

Frank Thoennes, Director of Technology of PodshowCreator explained, ''We are very pleased to further enhance our flagship product with this robust security feature, which we developed in response to feedback from our customers. As our customer base continues to grow, we will maintain our technological leadership in the podcasting field by augmenting our service offerings with simple yet cutting-edge tools that help our users achieve their goals.''

Password-protected content is the latest feature available in PodshowCreator’s suite of podcast offerings. PodshowCreator enables businesses, organizations and individuals to easily manage, publish and syndicate original audio, video and other content such as pictures, software and PDF documents to a broad audience in a secure environment. PodshowCreator subscribers can have unlimited use of the new security feature for $4.95 per month. New users can experience the power of PodshowCreator and its new security feature for free with a seven-day free trial that includes unlimited bandwidth, a personal URL and PodPage, and analytical statistics of podcast downloads.

Jerry Gorman, Chief Executive Officer of PodshowCreator offered, ''Companies and individuals are increasingly realizing the competitive advantage and tremendous return on investment they can achieve by leveraging podcasting technology in their business communications. PodshowCreator provides organizations in any industry with a powerful and effective marketing and communication tool, and we are committed to building on our core service offering by integrating pioneering features that enable our clients to accomplish their objectives more efficiently and effectively.''

A ''podcast,'' derived from the words iPod and broadcasting, most commonly refers to an audio file that can be downloaded from the Internet to a personal computer or digital player such as an iPod. Podcasts are much more than song downloads—they enable original audio, video and other content such as pictures, software and PDF documents to be distributed by businesses and individuals to a broad yet targeted audience via the Internet. The benefit of podcasts over other typical computer downloadable files is that users can download podcasts and then listen to or view them at their leisure on any digital player in addition to a personal computer.

Podcasting is a rapidly growing market. In a 2005 research report, The Diffusion Group estimated there would be 4.5 million podcast users in the U.S. by the end of 2005 and they forecasted this number would rise to 11.4 million users in 2006 and 56.8 million users by 2010. This growth projection is supported by the July 2006 Nielsen Analytics report, ''The Economics of Podcasting,'' which reveals that more than six per cent of U.S. adults, or nearly nine million web users, downloaded at least one podcast in the past 30 days.

PodshowCreator is an end-to-end, high-performance network solution, designed to enable users to manage, publish and syndicate their hosted online content. The suite of PodshowCreator podcasting solutions were developed to benefit businesses in any industry, and the company's current clients include those in the financial, entertainment, radio, food, health and fitness, sports and recreation, religious and spiritual, and non-profit sectors. PodshowCreator subscribers have full access to its patent-pending Media Manager, a secure web-based interface that simplifies the process of creating and syndicating podcasts with audio, video and other content such as pictures, software and PDF documents. PodshowCreator subscriptions range from $9.95 to $39.95 per month, depending upon the amount of storage the user needs.

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Globat.com also sponsored a birth, in addition to the above-mentioned events. The sponsorships were created with the goal of launching at least one such special event in each of the 50 states. In addition, Globat recently introduced a new customer service initiative in order to increase all measures and provide the best-quality service for customers.

The recent efforts includes doubling in size for both Customer and Technical Support Centers, which are now available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. In addition, the Technical Live Chat and Tier 2 Technical Support is also available 24 hours a day, as well as an increase in resources to their E-mail Ticket Center that guarantees a response to all inquiries within 4 hours during peak hours.

Ben R. Neumann, President and CEO of Globat.com explained, ''Our customers spoke and we listened. Customer service plays a huge role in the reputation and value of a web hosting company and is something that will set Globat.com event further apart from other web hosting providers. This push comes in conjunction with a series of other improvements we are implementing. Check back within the next several weeks and you'll see a revamped Globat.com.''

Globat, LLC is a web hosting company in the United States, offering web hosting solutions to over 75,000 customers worldwide. Globat.com Founder Ben R. Neumann, a two-time Entrepreneur of the Year award nominee, was a pioneer of the budget web hosting industry in 1994 when he founded Icom.com, which was sold to Interliant in 1998 and was acquired by Interland. The company is privately held and headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

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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. With a strong focus on hosting solutions that combine advanced monitoring and management tools, MaximumASP provides Microsoft developers with a hosting platform for mission-critical web applications.

SWsoft is a recognized leader in server automation and virtualization software. With more than 10,000 customers in over 100 countries, SWsoft's suite of award-winning products delivers proven performance, manageability and value. SWsoft is a high-growth company funded by Bessemer Venture Partners, Insight Venture Partners and Intel Capital.

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