News: Search Engine Open Source Software, Added to Koders.com
Waltham, Massachusetts - (Website Hosting Directory) - July 31, 2008 - Provider of products and services for accelerating software development, Black Duck, has made a substantial expansion to the volume of open source software, managed in the Koders.com code search engine.
Douglas Levin, Founder and CEO of Black Duck noted, ''When we acquired Koders, our promise to that community of users and to Black Duck customers was that we'd make searches even more productive and valuable, and this is a very tangible step in that direction. We're also working to augment Koders with code and metadata from the Black Duck KnowledgeBase - the most comprehensive database of information on open source software containing literally tens of billions of lines of code. Koders returns the highest quality code search results of any tool today. When used with other Black Duck offerings - Code Center for finding, tracking and selecting open source and Protex for validation and compliance - customers benefit from the most complete solution for incorporating open source into the software development lifecycle.''
Koders.com now contains 15 percent more code through the addition of C and C++ code governed by open source and other licenses. The addition will enhance Koders' position as the search engine of choice for developers looking for reusable open source code, methods, examples and algorithms.
Black Duck acquired Koders in April 2008 and has quickly worked to enhance it for the benefit of the more than 30,000 individual developers and software-centric organizations that rely on the search engine every day. Koders complements Black Duck's family of solutions, which together save customers time and money by helping development teams find, properly use and manage open source software.
The additional code now accessible through Koders comes from the acquisition of the assets of csourcesearch.net, the website devoted to locating and continuously updating information about the thousands of open source packages including communications tools, games, desktop environments, software development libraries, plugins and utilities written in C or C++. The languages are particularly important to developers of embedded software or firmware used by the consumer device and embedded systems industries. Examples of projects that are widely used by embedded developers and that are now available through Koders include GeeXboX, a Linux distribution that acts as a stand-alone media player, and lm sensors, which offers essential tools for monitoring hardware health.
Black Duck Software is a provider of products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open source and third-party code. Black Duck enables companies to shorten time-to-market and reduce development and maintenance costs while mitigating the risks and challenges associated with open source reuse, including hidden license obligations, security vulnerabilities, unsupported open source and version proliferation. The company is headquartered near Boston and has offices in San Mateo, California, Amsterdam and Hong Kong, as well as distribution partners throughout the world.
Ontario, Canada - (Website Hosting Directory) - July 30, 2008 - Web hosting software solution firm, CM4all's website creation tool, WebsiteCreator (SiteCreator), is being made available and affordable to hosting companies in North America, by SaaS company Topline Ventures.
Topline is launching its new service at HostingCon 2008. The new service is a powerful and sophisticated Web authoring and content-management tool that will allow small and medium sized hosting companies to offer the same Website creation services as the largest companies, without overreaching their customers' budgets. All tools can be activated with a single mouse click.
Robert Bray, President of Topline Ventures noted, ''SiteCreator is a very sophisticated Website creation tool that is widely used in North America and Europe. It provides users with a large number of professionally-designed Website templates, which are tightly controlled. That means that, although you can customize the template to a high degree, you can't violate its design parameters by trying to combine incompatible colours and typefaces or other design elements that don't fit. So, whatever you do, your Website will maintain a professional look and design.''
Mr. Bray added, ''This is a German engineered product that has been continually refined over the last seven years. This commitment to quality has attracted many of the largest and most successful hosting companies and ISPs to become CM4all customers. These big brand companies insist on top quality products backed by a company they can trust for the long haul.''
However, the direct licensing costs of SiteCreator can be too expensive for smaller hosting providers. For that reason, Topline decided to add CM4all to its already successful SaaS service.
SiteCreator is built on award-winning CM4all Technology, based on Web 2.0 enhanced AJAX software and uses SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) to provide a stable yet sophisticated platform. A world leader in site builder applications, CM4all has well over 3 million paid users worldwide.
Mr. Bray explained, ''This model gives small and medium providers easy, affordable access to the top software on the market today. We can brand it to the hosting company, so it looks like their own product. That makes it an excellent way for hosting companies to differentiate themselves from competitors - by offering a more sophisticated, but still affordable, Website creation tool. It puts small and medium-sized hosting companies in the same league as the big guys.''
SiteCreator's extensive tool set enables a wide range of Web-based activities, including:
Flash animations
RSS feeds
guest books
feedback forms
voting tools
ecommerce tools
automated search engine optimization
interactive maps
multiple output publishing from existing databases for .mobi websites and W3C Accessible formats
Headquartered in Cologne, Germany, Robert Schovenberg and Cornel Schnietz founded Content Management AG (CM-AG) in 1999. CM-AG develops and distributes software and infrastructure solutions based on CM4all's scalable software, which allows for the creation, maintenance and easy-updating of websites and mobile devices, while also providing highly effective online file storage, management and sharing solutions.
With 3 million paying customers worldwide, CM4all is a leading developer of Web-based applications for the Internet. CM4all software is currently being distributed worldwide via leading telcos, MSOs, ISPs and web hosting companies, like Endurance International Group Inc., Hostway, Deutsche Telekom AG, Terra Networks S.A., Tiscali S.p.A., Swisscom AG, Verio Inc., NTT Communications, and 1 and 1 Internet AG.
CM4all's technology is based on a high-speed XML application server and is operated on an ASP model. The company's core product is the most popular online website creation software CM4all WebsiteCreator, which is adapted for and licensed to individual OEM partners and is available in 15+ different languages.
HostingCon is the largest conference and trade show for the hosted services industry, this year to be spread over 56,000 square feet reserved specifically for the event, with approximately 20,000 net square feet of booth space in an easy to navigate floorplan. The exhibit hall will feature over 70 vendors displaying products and services, offering demonstrations and activities related to the hosted services industry.
Editor's note: TechPad Agency (parent company of The Hosting News) returns as a HostingCon 2008 media partner, and will be exhibiting in booth #418.
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News: Search Engine, Baidu.com, Enters Into Agreement with ESPRE
Plano, Texas - (Website Hosting Directory) - July 30, 2008 - Search engine, Baidu.com, will launch its instant messaging application with real-time video chat, based on the GIPS Video Engine solution integrated with the ESPRE LSVX Codec.
ESPRE Solutions, Inc. is a Dallas-based video media solutions and technology company with a patented video compression technology. In GIPS' June 5, 2008 press release Emerick Woods, Global IP Solutions CEO, stated, ''GIPS developed its reputation in voice, and we've been successfully solving real-time video complexities for the last three years. Video conference/chat users are increasingly demanding better network speeds, quality, reliability and consistency, and developers are challenged with adding more features. While most video chats suffer from freezing, bad lip synchronization and postage stamp video images, Baidu now offers one great application which delivers GIPS quality serving the single largest market in the world.''
Pete Ianace, CEO of ESPRE noted, ''In 2006 ESPRE licensed its LSVX(TM) codec to GIPS as part of a partner strategy to get global acceptance of our technology. We licensed our codec to GIPS because they had a great reputation in the VoIP world with a who's who customer list that wanted to migrate from a voice only company to one that offered both voice and video in an integrated platform. The license is limited to live video chat and doesn't allow GIPS to offer the full array of our ESPRE Live platform. Our goal was to use their global technical credibility and user base to get broad deployment of our core technology, which would help address one of the biggest obstacles facing a small company attempting to be successful convincing a crowded market there might be a better alternative to the traditional approach. GIPS have integrated our codec into their Video Engine and have started to win major accounts. This is the strongest possible endorsement of both of our technology and our strategy to get global acceptance of it.''
Baidu is the Google of China servicing the largest single market in the world. They have selected and deployed a LSVX based solution over the industry standard H.264 that is dominant in all of Asia. This is the second big win in Asia for GIPS. In March, they announced that PIVOTEC, a major Korean ICT service provider, had become the first implementer of GIPS Voice Engine Multimedia in Asia.
ESPRE reported that this same technology is at the core of its new service offering VUELive, announced at NAB on May 1, 2008, which will launch over the summer. Additionally, this technology is integrated into ESPRE's spin out, OpenACircle.com that will be launched within the same period.
Plano, Texas-based ESPRE Solutions is a public company that is reinventing how enterprises and individuals work and exchange information and ideas by providing a truly viable solution for live, high-quality multi-media video collaboration. ESPRE Solutions' newest offering, a Java-based ASP, VUELIVE.com delivers broadcast-quality interactive, collaborative video to consumer and B2B content providers. ESPRE harnesses the power of collaboration to extract the benefits of visually connecting global work groups and individuals to create, share, and deliver live video content over the Internet. ESPRE Solutions' ESPRE Live media engine provides an integrated toolkit for solutions integrators and developers to create applications for business and personal communications. ESPRE's business strategy focuses on building strong partnerships, investing in companies that define the leading edge of video collaboration, and developing businesses to bring its growing suite of SDKs and APIs to the market.
Baidu.com, Inc. is the leading Chinese language Internet search provider. As a technology-based media company, Baidu aims to provide the best way for people to find information. In addition to serving individual Internet search users, Baidu provides an effective platform for businesses to reach potential customers. Baidu's ADSs, each of which represents one Class A ordinary share, are currently trading on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol ''BIDU.''
GIPS provides best-in-class voice and video in end-to-end IP communications with robustness against packet loss for service providers, enterprises, applications developers, network equipment, gateway and chip manufacturers. GIPS' customer list includes Nortel, Samsung, WebEx, Yahoo!, AOL, EarthLink and other key players in the VoIP market. GIPS is a member of the Intel(R) PCA Developer Network, Motorola Design Alliance, Symbian Platinum Partner Program, and Texas Instruments' third-party developer network. GIPS is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Stockholm, Boston and Hong Kong.
Baidu provides access to one of the largest online audiences in China, targeting groups with defined interests as indicated by queries. Baidu also offers performance based online advertising services, designed to for measurable cost effeciency.
To learn more about ESPRE Solutions, or to experience the company's pioneering video compression technology, visit www.espresolutions.com
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - (Website Hosting Directory) - July 29, 2008 - Webhosting company, and subsidiary of United Internet, 1 and 1 Internet, has
partnered with customer feedback and online reputation management services firm, RatePoint.
Oliver Mauss, CEO of 1 and 1 Internet Inc. noted, ''As the world's largest hosting provider, we are in a unique position to understand the needs of businesses with an online presence. Businesses today need to take advantage of online tools that help them build a more personal, engaging experience with site visitors. We've partnered with RatePoint as part of our commitment to providing our customer base with progressive tools to maintain an innovative web presence. Not only will RatePoint's platform help our customers stand out on the Web and promote their business quality, it will have a tremendous impact in converting site visitors into loyal customers and improving customer satisfaction.''
The strategic partnership has been engaged to integrate RatePoint's platform as a value-added offering within all of 1 and 1's hosting packages. The partnership also significantly strengthens RatePoint’s international reach by extending its platform to businesses in Germany, the United Kingdom, France and Spain.
Given the proliferation of consumer-generated content on the Web, RatePoint helps businesses manage what is being said about them online by providing a proactive mechanism to collect, manage and promote authentic consumer reviews and feedback directly from their websites. Previously, where any individual's comments could impact a business, RatePoint's patent-pending offering provides the most innovative tool for businesses in encouraging customers to speak up. The mutual benefit to consumers is they are given an interactive method to provide feedback directly to a business, where potential issues are more likely to be resolved; and a mechanism to view insightful, honest feedback to help guide purchase decisions.
In addition, the RatePoint platform provides email marketing and survey tools that allow businesses to remain connected with their customers. Businesses can use these tools to create and send targeted email campaigns and detailed surveys that ultimately create a more satisfying customer experience and help drive repeat business.
Neal Creighton, Co-Founder and CEO of RatePoint noted, ''1 and 1 has established its place as a global leader in the Internet marketplace by continually providing progressive services to meet future trends in the marketplace. RatePoint is proud to offer our online reputation management services to help transform business websites into formidable marketing and customer satisfaction tools for 1 and 1's international customer base.''
Internet Inc. is a subsidiary of United Internet, a profitable public company with a market cap of $5 billion. 1 and 1 was founded in 1988 and hosts more than 10 million domain names, while more than 55,000 servers run on the company's five data centers. 1 and 1's global community is over 7 million customer contracts strong. The company's U.S. headquarters is located in Chesterbrook, Pennsylvania.
For more information about 1 and 1 Internet, please visit: www.1and1.com.
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News: Google Search Engine, to Present at Pacific Crest Technology Forum
Mountain View, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - July 29, 2008 - David Girouard, President, Google Enterprise, will participate in a question-and-answer session at the Pacific Crest Technology Leadership Forum in Vail.
The session is scheduled for on Tuesday, August 5, 2008 at 3:15 p.m. Eastern Time; 12:15 p.m. Pacific Time.
2007 marked the fifth consecutive year of record top and bottom-line financial performance for Pacific Crest Securities, having received numerous awards for its expertise. Institutional Investor has ranked the company the #1 tech research boutique from 2002 - 2007. Its analysts received the most votes in all technology categories. In addition, Greenwich Associates has ranked our sales group as #1 for tech from 2004 - 2006. Our sales and trading group is the largest dedicated group on Wall Street.
Its Investment Banking group leverages our tech-only sales, trading and research platform to provide corporate finance and strategic M and A services to leading technology companies. In 2007, the company was a managing underwriter on 12 public offerings totaling over $3.5 billion including Alibaba.com, Data Domain, Mercado Libre and SuccessFactors.
Pacific Crest Securities is an investment banking firm that focuses exclusively on technology and conducts equity research, institutional sales and trading, M and A advisory, and public and private financings. The firm's highly focused and collaborative approach gives it an unparalleled depth of knowledge and unique ability to identify the key emerging technology trends for North America's and Europe's largest institutional investors, venture capitalists, and technology companies. Pacific Crest has received numerous awards for its expertise, including Institutional Investor's ''Best of the Boutiques'' award for its technology research in each of the past six years and Greenwich Associates' #1 technology sales group ranking for each of the past three years. Headquartered in Portland, Ore., Pacific Crest also has offices in San Francisco, Calif., Stamford, Conn. and Boston, Mass.
With the largest index of websites available on the World Wide Web and the industry's most advanced search technology, Google Inc. delivers the fastest and easiest way to find relevant information on the Internet. Google's technological innovations have earned the company numerous industry awards and citations, including two Webby Awards; two WIRED magazine Readers Raves Awards; Best Internet Innovation and Technical Excellence Award from PC Magazine; Best Search Engine on the Internet from Yahoo! Internet Life; Top Ten Best Cybertech from TIME magazine; and Editor's Pick from CNET. A growing number of companies worldwide, including Yahoo! and its international properties, Sony Corporation and its global affiliates, AOL/Netscape, and Cisco Systems, rely on Google to power search on their websites. A privately held company based in Mountain View, California, Google's investors include Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers and Sequoia Capital.
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