News: Web Hosting Provider, KickAssVPS, Engages SmarterTools Productivity Software
Eagan, Minnesota - (Website Hosting Directory) - July 21, 2008 - Web hosting provider, KickAssVPS, will now offer, at no additional cost, access to the SmarterMail, SmarterTrack, and SmarterStats productivity software applications.
Through the partnership, KickAssVPS customers receive access to SmarterMail, SmarterTrack, and SmarterStats at no cost to them. The automation and productivity software enables small to medium sized businesses to operate more efficiently. KickAssVPS customers can receive their licenses to the software via their customer control panel.
Brian Emerson, President and CTO of KickAssVPS noted, ''With today's partnership, SmarterTools provides our clients with the feature-rich, robust software they need to succeed in running their businesses. We aim to introduce value-added benefits that enhance the overall impact of our service, and SmarterTools helps us meet that goal.''
SmarterMail is a scalable and easy to manage mail server with a richly rendered Webmail Interface; extensive Reporting, Throttling, Collaboration, and Synchronization; out-of-the-box Antispam/Antivirus; and an industry-leading Events architecture that provides automated Actions and detailed Notifications.
SmarterTrack 3.x is a robust support Help Desk, Ticket System, Live Chat, Cost Analysis, Data Mining, Knowledge Base, Reporting and Analytics, and Event-driven software application delivered through an elegant web interface.
SmarterStats 3.x provides businesses, hosting environments, and webmasters with an in-depth understanding of keywords and visitor navigation trends by providing on-demand Website Statistics, Custom Reports, Data Mining, Geographic Mapping, and more.
KickAssVPS provides standardized and customized Virtual Private Servers, operating with a 100% Microsoft Certified, United States-based workforce. Virtual Private Server plans, available on both Linux and Windows platforms, start at $25 monthly. KickAssVPS also offers ColdFusion Hosting; SSL Certificates; Shared Web hosting; and Domain Name registration.
A division of Point North Networks, Inc. KickAssVPS is one of the largest providers of Virtual Private Servers in the Midwest. KickAssVPS is a Certified Microsoft Hosting Partner and Parallels Silver Partner, with a fully Microsoft Certified customer support team. Point North Networks, Inc. has over 15 years of experience in developing and implementing solutions for Fortune 500 companies, including 3M, BestBuy, and Carlson Companies.
Posted by editor on Monday, July 21 @ 10:50:31 EDT (1546 reads)
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News: Search Engine for Forum Communities, Twing.com, Debuts Brand Monitoring
Jersey City, New Jersey - (Website Hosting Directory) - July 21, 2008 - New search engine, designed to find information within forums and communities, Twing.com, has launched new features for brand managers to gain insight into product and company discussion information.
Kevin Shea, General Manager at Twing.com noted, ''Our Saved Search and Buzz Graph products were created for our users. And they also have a lot of value for anyone tracking brand conversations.''
Buzz Graphs let visitors see the popularity of various terms within the online community space, as well as refine terms by category and share the results with colleagues. Typical web users might find the results fun and interesting. For brand managers, it's a valuable tool offering insight into what's being said about products and companies.
Scott Germaise, Director of Product Management remarked, ''If today's marketing is really about conversations and relationships, then good brand stewardship demands managers pay attention to the conversations happening in forums. Keeping track of web pages and blogs is not enough. The real person-to-person communication is happening in online forums.''
According to Forrester's North American Social Technographics Online Survey, Q2, 2007, those who read online forums account for 28 percent of US Consumers - even more than blogs, which account for 25 percent. In terms of participation, 18 percent contribute to online forums, whereas only 14 percent comment on blogs, with 11 percent maintaining their own blogs. While blog writing and usage is considered explosive, the facts show that much of the online conversation is happening in forums.
Mr. Germaise added, ''Online forums are an established - yet growing medium people have been using even prior to blogs and social networks. But those who seek out online discussions to ask questions, seek and offer advice and so on haven't had an effective means to seek out these spaces until now. Our goal is to help people find appropriate venues to participate in discussions by providing both a forum search and a directory resource.''
Twing offers multiple search options plus advanced filtering and sorting tools so people can effectively search forums in ways not available until the advent of Twing.com. The company also seeks to build even more awareness of the online forum space. Twing.com is easily used by entering search terms to quickly locate specific discussions and/or topics. Visitors can register for free to become a Twing.com member, participate in Twing.com's forums and take advantage of current and upcoming personalization options.
Launched in January 2008, Twing.com is a search engine dedicated to online communities and forums. Twing.com's proprietary software and algorithms index thousands of forums and millions of conversations worldwide. Analyzing forum posts, topics, and whole forums provides highly accurate and relevant search results.
Twing.com's use of proprietary software and algorithms is designed to enable users to search into forum content well beyond the limitations of traditional search engines. Twing.com's goal is to allow Internet users the ability to search the rich user-generated content found in online communities and forums, and access these discussions through highly relevant, easy-to-read search results.
For more information, visit www.twing.com.
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News: Web Hosting Tutorial Firm, DemoWolf, Releases Free DemoSuite
Nova Scotia, Canada - (Website Hosting Directory) - July 18, 2008 - Web hosting industry flash tutorial firm, DemoWolf, has launched its DemoSuite application as a free application available to any web hosting company who requests a license.
Companies no longer have to be a DemoWolf customer to incorporate this unique support tool and offer it for free to their customers.
DemoSuite is an application that hosting companies can use to create a custom-branded 'DemoSuite Flash Player' they can then give to their customers. This Flash Player can be downloaded by their customers and used to view the host's support tutorials directly from the customer's desktop. With the DemoSuite Flash Player, hosting customers no longer have to search for help on their host's websites. Instead, they simply launch the DemoSuite Flash Player, and view their host's tutorials directly from their own desktops.
Rob Moore, Founder of DemoWolf.com noted, ''DemoSuite is a revolutionary product that web hosts can use to provide faster support to their customers, and help differentiate themselves from their competition. Not only is DemoSuite a great support tool, but it is also great at promoting the host's brand, as it puts their logo on the desktops of all customers who download it.''
DemoSuite's power is increased given that it can be used to play any demos, and not just the demos produced by DemoWolf. In other words, if hosting cxompanies have purchased their demos from a DemoWolf competitor, or if they've produced their own custom demos, they will work in DemoSuite. In fact, DemoSuite Flash Players will play any flash-based SWF file no matter how it's been created.
With DemoSuite, the hosting company has the ability to change 11 different settings before exporting the Flash Player, including custom skins, colors, uploading their logo, and even giving the Flash Player it's own name (i.e. 'ABC Host Tutorial Viewer'). They also have full control over building their tutorial movie lists and categories, including making an unlimited number of tutorials available to their customers. They can even add their own custom links in the Flash Player so customers can click to open their host's website, or send an email to their support department as examples.
DemoWolf has over 1800 ready-made custom branded tutorials for the web hosting industry, including tutorials for cPanel, Plesk, Helm, H-Sphere, Virtuozzo, Direct Admin, Email and FTP applications, Domain Registrars, Private Nameservers, phpMyAdmin, SmarterMail, RVSiteBuilder, Fantastico, and many more. DemoWolf is currently producing new demos for DotNetPanel, RVskin, RoundCube, MyLittleAdmin and Plesk 8.x for Windows. DemoWolf is the fastest growing tutorial provider in the industry, and also produces custom tutorials, voice tutorials and interactive demonstrations.
DemoWolf will be exhibiting at HostingCon later this month at Chicago's Navy Pier.
DemoWolf continues to add new tutorials to the inventory, and will be releasing voice versions of Horde, SquirrelMail, and Plesk 8 for Windows shortly. DemoWolf now has over 1800 ready-made custom branded tutorials for the web hosting industry, including tutorials for cPanel, Plesk, Helm, H-Sphere, Virtuozzo, Direct Admin, Email and FTP applications, Domain Registrars, Private Nameservers, phpMyAdmin, RVSiteBuilder, and many more. DemoWolf is the fastest growing tutorial provider in the industry. Tutorials currently in production include WordPress, phpBB2, WHMCS, CubeCart, Plesk 8.2, Drupal, and Gallery.
For more information about DemoWolf, please visit: www.demowolf.com.
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News: Search Engine Firm, Develops Online Media Search Application
Scottsdale, Arizona - (Website Hosting Directory) - July 18, 2008 - Multi-media mega-search engine provider, Dizzler, has officially launched its website, as an added offering to its established playable media technology solution.
As the evolution of online technology has allowed for the exponential growth of search engine giants like Google and Yahoo, other entities attempting to replicate just a fraction of that success in the area of music search, have not often succeeded. This has been largely due to copyright infringement, and other backlashes from the music industry, coupled with the inability to integrate with newer web 2.0 and social networking websites.
While the remnants of these free music, ring tones, video and gaming websites still struggle with copyright infringement and user annoyance with adware and intrusive advertising, Dizzler is racing to the forefront of free music, social network-friendly music players, multi-media search and playability, by providing users with, a Spyware and Adware-free environment that offers more music than iTunes and more videos than YouTube. More importantly, Dizzler adheres to copyright infringement laws, and only returns publicly available content from the Internet. Dizzler's technology indexes and then encrypts in-line links to 3rd party websites that publicly host media using the same standards and practices as the major search engines (Google, Yahoo). This encryption prevents Dizzler users from accessing the actual paths to content in order to thwart inappropriate downloading, copying or sharing of files.
Information released by the company from Dizzler CEO stated, ''We wanted the website to grow virally, by word of mouth while we perfected the technology -- and that's just what happened.''
Dizzler is currently witnessing a wild-fire spread in use of its Web 2.0 friendly, free music player that is compatible with all of the popular social networking websites like MySpace and Facebook.
Joe Perez, CEO of Zealous Marketing and Ian Rakow, CEO of Cyberactive Marketing added, ''The search technology, environment and ease of social networking music player integration of Dizzler are unrivaled. The viral value of Dizzler makes it a major force to look out for.''
Mr.
Perez noted, ''The first time I visited the site, I found myself searching for music I hadn't heard in years -- to the tune of 3 solid hours trying to 'stump the Dizzler machine' without success.''
Established in 2006 and based in Scottsdale, Arizona, Dizzler offers playable media search technology. Due to its vast search results, it has become a fast growing reference tool for the media as well as free music and entertainment for the world.
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News: Web Hosting Provider, Rackspace, Garners Computerworld Honors
San Antonio, Texas - (Website Hosting Directory) - July 17, 2008 - Web hosting services provider, Rackspace Managed Hosting, has placed on IDG'S Computerworld annual list of Best Places to Work in Information Technology.
Kip Miles, Vice President of Information Technology noted, ''As a service company, Rackspace's IT department is in a very unique position. To continuously deliver Fanatical Support to our customers, we must strive to develop and support solutions that ensure our customer's applications are always available, every day, every minute. Our IT Rackers constantly amaze me with how they handle this responsibility. This award reinforces that, while they work hard and achieve amazing results, they have also created a great work environment where they feel empowered and rewarded.''
Since 1994, Computerworld's annual ''Best Places to Work in IT'' feature has ranked the top 100 work environments for technology professionals, based on a comprehensive questionnaire regarding company offerings in categories such as benefits, diversity, career development, training and retention. In addition, this year Computerworld surveyed more than 31,000 IT workers for the list, and their responses factored heavily in determining the rankings.
Rackspace has a long history of being ranked as a 'great place to work.' That honor is always tracked back to the people who are hired to deliver Fanatical Support. Rackspace was built around a culture that ensures it hires friendly, service-oriented people to all departments, who care about customer service. Rackspace maintains open communications with all employees through quarterly Open Book meetings and Town Hall meetings. All executives have open door policies and managers encourage the growth and development of Rackers through internal and external training courses and certifications. Rackers are rewarded in a number of ways, including payment of quarterly bonuses, use of the Rackspace BMW, weekend stays at the Chairman's river house, or by receiving the highest honor at Rackspace, the Straightjacket Award.
Scot Finnie, Editor in Chief of Computerworld remarked, ''The competitive edge sought by the best and smartest companies is no longer information technology itself, it's the people behind the technology. The new competitive edge is finding and retaining the very best people to chart and implement your IT strategy and companies like Rackspace have built their entire culture around the people that deliver that technology. After all, IT has permeated the business processes of almost every department of virtually every enterprise.''
Computerworld is a leading source of technology news and information for IT influencers worldwide. Computerworld's award-winning weekly publication, Computerworld.com Web site, focused conference series and custom research form the hub of the world's largest (40+ edition) global IT media network. In the past five years alone, Computerworld has won more than 100 awards, including Folio Magazine's 2006 Gold EDDIE Award for the best technology/computing magazine, the 2004 and 2006 Magazine of the Year Award, and 2006 Best Overall Web Publication from the American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE). Computerworld leads the industry with a print audience of 1,252,000 readers each week (IntelliQuest CIMS Spring 2006) and an online audience of over 2 million unique monthly visitors (Omniture).
Computerworld is a business unit of International Data Group (IDG), the world's leading technology media, events, and research company. IDG's online network includes more than 450 web sites spanning business technology, consumer technology, digital entertainment and video games worldwide. IDG publishes more than 300 magazines and newspapers in 85 countries including CIO, CSO, Computerworld, GamePro, InfoWorld, Macworld, Network World, and PC World. IDG's lead-generation service, IDG Connect, matches technology companies with an audience of engaged, high-quality IT professionals, influencers, and decision makers.
International Data Group (IDG) is the world's leading technology media, events, and research company. IDG's online network includes more than 450 Web sites spanning business technology, consumer technology, digital entertainment, and video games worldwide. IDG publishes more than 300 magazines and newspapers in 85 countries including CIO, CSO, Computerworld, GamePro, InfoWorld, Macworld, Network World, and PC World. IDG's lead-generation service, IDG Connect, matches technology companies with an audience of engaged, high-quality IT professionals, influencers, and decision makers.
IDG is a leading producer of more than 750 technology-related events including Macworld Conference and Expo, LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, Entertainment for All Expo (E for All), DEMO, and IDC Directions. IDC, a subsidiary of IDG, is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events. Over 900 IDC analysts in more than 90 countries provide global, regional, and local expertise on technology and industry opportunities and trends.
Rackspace Hosting delivers hosted IT systems and computing to businesses of all sizes, providing hosting specialization and expertise, backed by the company's award-winning Fanatical Support. Customers can receive benefits such as higher quality, lower cost and better performance from Rackspace's vast knowledge of industry best-practices. Because Rackspace removes the burden of IT systems maintenance and management, customers can focus on key areas that differentiate their business. Rackspace's portfolio of hosted services includes managed hosting (www.rackspace.com), email hosting (www.mailtrust.com) and cloud hosting (www.mosso.com). Rackspace is recognized as one of FORTUNE Magazine's 100 Best companies to work for, ranking number 32 on the 2008 list.
For more information about Rackspace Managed Hosting, please visit: www.rackspace.com.
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