News: Web Hosting Provider, ATG, Powers Homes.com and AgentAdvantage Websites
Cambridge, Massachusetts - (Website Hosting Directory) - November 24, 2008 - E-commerce web hosting firm, ATG (Art Technology Group, Inc.), has been chosen to power Homes.com and AgentAdvantage, to provide marketing solutions for real estate professionals and instant response tools for home buyers and sellers.
The companies have selected eStara Click to Call and eStara Call Tracking to drive sales for its interactive clients and measure lead generation activities. Both services enable Homes.com and AgentAdvantage to provide real estate professionals with a powerful way to instantly connect with prospective buyers and sellers, while tracking their results in real time.
Charles Warnock, Director of Marketing for Homes.com and AgentAdvantage remarked, ''For more and better leads, real estate pros need to be able respond instantly track the results of all their online marketing activities. We're thrilled to partner with ATG and have the ability to make our subscribers instant response real estate agents. The Click to Call feature is an excellent addition to our AgentAdvantage websites and Homes.com online listings.''
According to the California Association of Realtors, 67 percent of Internet homebuyers selected their agent because he or she was the first or most responsive agent to answer their questions. Using Instant Response powered by eStara Click to Call, real estate professionals can respond instantly to questions from visitors browsing their websites or property listings. Simply clicking a button initiates an instant, toll-free voice session to connect online visitors to real estate professionals.
eStara's Click to Call enables buyers and sellers browsing online to get instant answer to their real estate questions. Reporting features provide agents with instant reports to track and evaluate online leads generated through Click to Call. Instant Response buttons powered by eStara can be placed on property listings, display ads, agent websites, emails, and more.
Homes.com print now offers eStara Call Tracking to directly measure the impact of its print publications. Driven by proven VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) infrastructure, eStara Call Tracking services enable Homes.com subscribers to accurately track every inbound telephone response and unify online and offline marketing efforts.
eStara Call Tracking offers much more insight on callers than traditional call measurement tools. Features include dynamic call routing, which ensures local advertisers get local leads by geo-targeting inbound calls.
Ernie Blood, Vice President and General Manager at Homes.com remarked, '''Homes.com Print subscribers are using eStara Call Tracking to track performance for themselves and their clients. Now our subscribers can accurately measure the response to their Homes.com magazine listings.''<
AgentAdvantage and Homes.com recently exhibited Click to Call services at the NAR 2008 REALTORSConference and Expo in Orlando, with Dominion Enterprises real estate businesses Advanced Access, eNeighborhoods and Number1Expert.
Ryan Hoppe, Marketing Director for ATG's e-Commerce Optimization Services remarked, ''During these tough economic times, particularly felt in the housing sector, realtors are looking to technology for an edge in the market. eStara Click to Call allows real estate agents to quickly engage with online home seekers, capturing their attention at peak interest and turning them into clients via a seamless, cross-channel experience. At the same time, eStara Call Tracking helps advertisers track the results of their print campaigns. By adopting both of these services, Homes.com and AgentAdvantage offer subscribers a powerful way to create closer, more personal relationships that result in more satisfied, loyal clients for real estate professionals.''
eStara Connections - including eStara Click to Call and eStara Call Tracking - are part of ATG's e-Commerce Optimization Services product line, which quickly and dramatically lift online revenue for any Web site. eStara Connections includes additional services that help online media properties drive ad revenue including eStara Save and Send and eStara Form To Phone.
Dominion Enterprises, a division of Landmark Communications, is a leading marketing services company serving the automotive, real estate, apartment, recruitment and marine markets. The company operates a variety of businesses that offer Internet marketing, web site design and hosting, lead generation, CRM, and data capture and distribution services. The company has more than 40 market-leading web sites reaching more than 12.5 million unique monthly visitors, and more than 500 magazines with a weekly circulation of over 5 million. Headquartered in Norfolk, Va., the company has nearly 6,000 employees nationwide and annualized revenue of more than $946 million.
ATG (Art Technology Group, Inc., NASDAQ: ARTG) makes the software and delivers the on demand solutions that the world's most customer-conscious companies use to power their e-commerce web sites, attract prospects, convert them to buyers and ensure satisfaction so they become loyal, repeat, profitable customers. Its e-commerce suite is ranked the #1 current offering and #1 in strategy by the industry's most influential analyst firms, and powers more of the top 300 internet retailers than any other vendor. The eStara brand provides customer interaction solutions to enhance conversions and customer support, and delivers the world's most widely used click-to-call service. ATG's solutions are used by over 900 major brands, including Amazon, American Eagle Outfitters, AOL, AT and T, Best Buy, B and Q, Cabela's, Carrefour, Cingular, Coca Cola, Continental Airlines, CVS, Dell, DirecTV, El Corte Ingles, Expedia, France Telecom, Harvard Business School Publishing, Hewlett-Packard, Hilton, HSBC, Intuit, Macy's, Meredith, Microsoft, Neiman Marcus, New York and Company, Nokia, OfficeMax, PayPal, Philips, Procter and Gamble, Sears, Sony, Symantec, Target, T-Mobile, Urban Outfitters, Verizon, Viacom, Vodafone and Walgreens. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with additional locations throughout North America and Europe.
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Google Search Engine SketchUp 7 Solution Debuts
Mountain View, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - November 24, 2008 - Search engine, Google, has developed its new SketchUp 7, SketchUp Pro 7, the newest versions of its 3D modeling software, designed to be used for everything from architect drafting, to video-game designing.
SketchUp 7 was developed to make design easy and more intuitive. With many useful new features, SketchUp 7 will not only help users express their ideas better and more easily in 3D, but will allow them to share their work and collaborate more effectively as well.
The creative and technical challenges of 3D can be daunting, and may prevent great projects from ever getting started. SketchUp 7 includes new features designed to make modeling more intuitive, help beginners get going, and enable veteran designers to work more efficiently. Available in both SketchUp 7 and SketchUp Pro 7, Dynamic Components are 3D models that are aware of what they are and behave like the real-world objects they represent. A dynamic staircase, for example, knows that it is a staircase, and not just a shape designed to look like a staircase. Using the Scale tool on this staircase will automatically add or remove steps as you make it bigger or smaller. Dynamic Components allow modelers to scale objects without distorting them, configure ready-made components, and simply animate the objects.
SketchUp 7 and SketchUp Pro 7 were designed to make it even easier to share ideas and finished work with other SketchUp and modeling enthusiasts, wherever they may be in the world. Now, the Google 3D Warehouse, an online database of millions of 3D models, can be searched from within the SketchUp 7 component browser, making the process of finding, downloading, and using existing models of anything from the Golden Gate Bridge to a dining room table, even easier. As designs in SketchUp become more collaborative, taking and attributing credit for these models becomes increasingly important. Credits ensure that modelers' work will be recognized and helps all users better understand the history of design behind each model.
There are additional powerful features for SketchUp Pro users. LayOut 2, now out of beta, is a tool for creating and sharing professional presentations made from SketchUp models. LayOut 2 allows users to share hard-copies of their work and transfer models from SketchUp to paper, enabling them to print 3D items in a newly dynamic and detailed fashion. SketchUp Pro 7 users can author their own Dynamic Components, creating their own fully customized, interactive 3D models. SketchUp Pro 7 can be purchased online for $495.
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.
To learn more about Google, please visit: www.google.com.
Posted by editor on Monday, November 24 @ 11:09:24 EST (681 reads)
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News: Web Hosting Solutions Provider, Attenda, Joins Microsoft BizSpark
London, United Kingdom - (Website Hosting Directory) - November 21, 2008 - Web hosting company, Attenda Limited, has been selected to join the Microsoft BizSpark Program as a Network Partner, due to a proven track record and capability in Critical Applications Hosting and Software as a Service (SaaS).
The Microsoft BizSpark Program is a new global program designed to accelerate the success of early stage Startups by connecting them to Network Partners who, as active members of the global ecosystem, can provide mentorship, guidance and resources to BizSpark Startups. As a Network Partner, Attenda can provide BizSpark Startups with a robust, scalable infrastructure, tools and resource to help design, develop and implement service-enabled software applications.
Simon Hansford, VP Products and Marketing, Attenda remarked, ''BizSpark is uniquely designed to help Startups engaged in software development, providing them with express access to Microsoft tools and technologies. Our role as a Network Partner is to assist and support high potential Startups in hosted application production and deployment.''
The Microsoft BizSpark Program provides Startups with fast and easy access to Microsoft’s full-featured development tools and platform technologies, as well as production licences, to bring to market innovative and interoperable software based products and services for the next generation of user experience.
Neil Bacon, Founder of iWantGreatCare, a website which collects patient feedback on UK-based doctors, who has signed up to the Microsoft BizSpark program through Attenda commented, ''As a Startup managing costs and having access to good advice and guidance is key as I look to establish and grow the business. The Microsoft BizSpark program gives me this. Low cost access to Microsoft software and a structured program that gives me support through Network Partners such as Attenda are highly valuable.''
Mr. Bacon added''The uniqueness of Attenda's highly resilient shared platform is ideal for us a technology Startup, reducing cost and driving up availability, with significant ability to scale as we grow the business.''
>To be eligible for the Microsoft BizSpark Program, Startups must be actively engaged in the development of a software-based product or service that is a core part of their business model, be in business less than three years and have less than US $1M in revenue.
Attenda, the Always On Managed Services company, manages those vital applications that every business relies upon today to function effectively allowing our clients to selectively outsource their IT operations and re-focus on using IT to add strategic value to their business.
With over 8 years' investment into Attenda M.O., Attenda's operations platform, we provide the people, process and technology to deliver exceptionally high service levels, but at a cost that is amortised across Attenda's entire client base - currently 134 of the UK's leading companies.
The company enjoys substantial financial backing, the industry's leading accreditations and an unrivalled portfolio of clients including bmi, Christian Aid, easyCar, Microsoft, NHS, Princes, St. James's Place and Travelodge.
Attenda is ISO9001, ISO20001 and ISO27001 accredited, an HP SP Signature Partner, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, a SAP Adaptive IT Hosting Provider, a SunTone accredited managed service provider and an Accredited Catalist Supplier. Attenda is one of only seven companies to have been ranked in the UK's Sunday Times ARM Tech Track 100 for three consecutive years. It was voted Best Managed Services Provider by Data Centre Europe Awards for both 2007 and 2008 and VMware's EMEA Hosting Partner of the Year 2007.
Posted by editor on Friday, November 21 @ 11:27:13 EST (775 reads)
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News: Yahoo! Search Engine oneSearch, Debuts on T-Mobile Web2goSM
Sunnyvale, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - November 21, 2008 - Search engine company and web hosting provider, Yahoo!'s oneSearch has been enlisted to power mobile Internet searches made through T-Mobile's new web2goSM service.
Cole Brodman, Chief Development Officer, T-Mobile USA remarked, ''T-Mobile's web2go helps connect our customers to the people, places and information that they want by providing access to the Internet wherever they go. Web2go includes personalized internet access, and with an integrated mobile search powered by Yahoo! oneSearch, it delivers a more intuitive mobile experience that places the most relevant information at the fingertips of T-Mobile customers.''
Web2go provides a better Web browsing experience on your mobile phone by making it easier to view and navigate the Web through a customizable home page, a simplified shopping and download experience, and Yahoo!'s award-winning mobile search experience.
Yahoo! oneSearch provides customers who search through T-Mobile's web2go with access to what they are looking for - from news, financial information, weather conditions, Flickr photos and Web images, to Web and mobile web sites. Yahoo! oneSearch will also display relevant ringtones, wallpaper, games and other content available in the T-Mobile Store within search results.
Yahoo! oneSearch is designed for the needs of the mobile user, intuitively returning results grouped around the user's query intent. For instance, when users search for a sports team, Yahoo! returns the latest scores, schedules, team profiles, roster, news, images and a link to the team's Web site. Alternatively, if a user searches for a movie, Yahoo! returns show times at local theaters, reviews, news articles and information on the cast. Consumers no longer need to surf through a sea of links to find the information they want while on-the-go. Yahoo! oneSearch delivers relevant information on virtually any topic -- including up-to-date airline flight details, integrated information from Wikipedia and Yahoo! Answers, and much more.
Also beginning today, Yahoo! will deliver mobile sponsored search results and in some cases display advertising within the search results presented through T-Mobile's web2go. With a focus on creating the monetization engine for the mobile Internet, Yahoo! is enabling advertisers to reach their target audiences at large scale and with impact. Yahoo! is delivering a compelling consumer service via Yahoo! oneSearch that will help marketers connect with consumers on the go.
David Ko, senior vice president, Connected Life, Yahoo! Inc. noted, ''Yahoo! oneSearch revolutionized the mobile search experience, by delivering relevant answers to queries that mobile users have while on-the-go. More than 70 leading mobile operators around the world selected Yahoo! to power the mobile search experiences, providing us with an enormous opportunity to connect mobile consumers. With our innovative products and global partnerships we are a leader in mobile search and are incredibly excited to bring Yahoo! oneSearch to more and more users every day. Together, T-Mobile and Yahoo! are providing users with compelling mobile services, while creating unique opportunities for advertisers to reach the rapidly growing audience of mobile consumers.''
Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide. Yahoo! is focused on powering its communities of users, advertisers, publishers, and developers by creating indispensable experiences built on trust. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
Posted by editor on Friday, November 21 @ 11:13:51 EST (464 reads)
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News: Web Hosting Tutorials Discounted, Updated, at DemoWolf
Nova Scotia, Canada - (Website Hosting Directory) - November 20, 2008 - Web hosting industry tutorial firm, DemoWolf, has launched four new tutorial series, including Magento Commerce series (19 tutorials), Joomla Installation series (9 tutorials), Joomla Administration series (14 tutorials), and Joomla Content Management series (10 tutorials).
DemoWolf is also currently offering all tutorials at 50% off, as well as "bundles" of tutorial series for even greater savings. Sale prices end on November 30, 2008.
Rob Moore, President of DemoWolf noted, ''The production of these new tutorials marks the first time DemoWolf has used its new home-page polling script to find out what tutorials their consumers wanted DemoWolf to produce the most. Joomla was the most voted-for application, while Magento Commerce was voted for second most often. Since these tutorials have now been produced, they've been removed from the poll. DemoWolf will shortly be releasing tutorials for WordPress 2.7, the next most voted for application.''
Magento Commerce is a popular open-source ecommerce solution that provides merchants unprecedented control over store operations. DemoWolf has created a series of 19 tutorials for Magento Commerce that help users in everything from installation and setup, as well as management of your store. This series of tutorials can be branded for any hosting company for $34.97 for all 19 tutorials.
Joomla is an award winning Content Management System (CMS) offered to end-users by many hosting companies. It enables users to easily build web sites and powerful online applications. DemoWolf has created three (3) separate tutorial series for Joomla, addressing installation, administration and content management issues. These tutorials can be branded with any hosting company's logo for $24.97 (9 installation tutorials), $29.97 (14 administration tutorials), and $24.97 (10 content management tutorials).
DemoWolf offers over 2200 flash tutorials for hosting companies, including over 700 voice tutorials (flash tutorials that include voice audio narration). Available tutorials include cPanel, Plesk, Helm, H-Sphere, Virtuozzo, Direct Admin, Email and FTP applications, Domain Registrars, Private Nameservers, phpMyAdmin, SmarterMail, RVSiteBuilder, Fantastico, Drupal, Gallery, WordPress and many more. There are several hundred more tutorials at various stages of development. New series to be released shortly include PayPal VOICE, H-Sphere 3.1 (end-user and reseller series, voice and non-voice), DotNetPanel (end-user and reseller series, voice and non-voice), and Plesk 8.3 for Windows (end-user and reseller series, voice and non-voice).
For more information about DemoWolf, please visit: www.demowolf.com.
Posted by editor on Thursday, November 20 @ 11:59:21 EST (418 reads)
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