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News and Events for July 27th, 2007 |
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Vegas Web 2.0 Design, Hosting Firm Launches New Site
" Vistion Media Group, an up and coming design, development
and hosting company, introduced their new website today featuring
an array of Web 2.0 elements. The new site features a range
of “Web 2.0” elements such as Ajax animated content displays,
high tech streaming video, crafty Flash image galleries, and
a massive amount of informational articles, research and information.
The company says the new site clearly reflects how far they’ve
come in the last year" |
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New Custom Email and Image Hosting from Benchmark Email
"Benchmark Email launched their new custom email and image hosting
feature, allowing clients to upload photos, company logos, store
them online and add them to newsletters and emails. Their new
image hosting feature will enable clients to upload their photos
or company logos, store them online, and add them to their newsletters
and email layouts. Through the new custom email element, clients
can decide where their email or newsletters will originate from.
“These new features, image hosting and custom email addresses,
are just two more solid additions to our robust set of online
tools,” Curt Keller, CEO of The Benchmark Internet Group, said
in a PRWeb release. “Now clients can store their images online
and drop them into their layouts or decide which email address
they want customers to see when they send their email newsletters
and campaigns. By using the semi-custom email option, Benchmark
clients can personalize their campaigns by creating an address
that combines their company name and Benchmark’s email domain
name. Through the custom email feature, clients have the power
to put their own company or personal email address in the “from”
field when they send email marketing campaigns. Clients must
pay a one-time fee of $29.95 to use the semi-custom option,
and a one-time fee of $34.95 for the custom option. The image-hosting
feature starts at $5 a month, while Benchmark’s email plans
start at** $9.95 a month" |
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eBiz News: Google Analytics Makeover Complete
"Google officially completes the migration to its new Analytics
interface, a free mobile version of an eBay price comparison
service from WipBox debuts, a new line of product photography
lighting kits from Sharpics is now available, and Network Solutions
and iPrint partner up to offer marketing design solutions. Also,
analysts are predicting a very successful back-to-school online
shopping season this year.Google unveiled a new interface for
its Analytics program about two months ago, and since then has
been migrating users over to the new platform, alerting them
with e-mails to their Gmail accounts as they make the switch.
According to the company's blog, the swap-out is officially
complete as of yesterday. Analytics users should have no problem
adapting to the upgrade, according to Google's blog: We've changed
the interface to be more intuitive and navigable while keeping
the functionality of the product the same. The small amount
of learning involved can be easily picked up by interacting
with the new interface. Also, the Report Finder tool will help
you see how to do common tasks in the new interface, and the
Product Tour highlights the changes in the interface for you."
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Potential lawsuit to hit Google news site
"Google went ahead with its news website, despite threats of
legal action and allegations by local media of copyright infringement.The
controversies arose after the launch of Google’s Hong Kong news
on Thursday. The website for Hong Kong news cites news summaries
and uses photos from local Chinese language media, including
newspaper, radio and television, and provides hyperlinks to
their websites.In its own news report yesterday, Ming Pao said
it had issued a letter through lawyers to ask that the US search
engine giant stop such practices. Ming Pao said Google had not
sought consent from the newspaper before using its news summaries,
which it said might infringe copyright" |
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MSN
Beta is now live
"MSN search which has been in beta testing for a while is live
now in the main MSN homepage, www.msn.comMSN introduced a beta
version of its MSN Search service, providing browsers with more
specific answers to their questions and more control over their
search experience. This has dramatically reduced the time needed
to find relevant information and eliminating the need to sift
through thousands of links. The innovative features in MSN Search
with Beta version provided an enhanced search experience by
providing relevant answers to direct questions.
The following features and benefits of MSN Beta version:
The MSN Search engine provides vast index of information increasing
the browser chances of finding the information he wants. MSN
Search engine aim to give the most up-to-date information minimizing
frustrating dead links.
MSN Search enables to search for specific information using
search tabs such as web, news and images.
MSN Search help users to sample music at the first click and
a second click let them purchase and download it. Users can
ask the search engine a direct question and get a specific answer
without wasting time. Direct answers are provided in a number
of categories, including definitions, facts, calculations, conversions
and solutions to equations." |
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GIC
Offers Free Hosting Service
"Internet services provider Global Internet Consortium
(globalinternetconsortium.com) announced on Tuesday it has introduced
a free Web hosting service, Freehosting100.com (freehosting100.com).The
new service offers several features not typically found on a
free Web hosting package, such as FTP, Web site promotion tools,
Web site statistics and many add-on tools and scripts. Improve
the performance of your mission critical applications! DataPipe
delivers the best network & support; top tier data centers,
New York metro, Silicon Valley, London, Hong Kong. DataPipe
- Personal Touch, Global Reach.
Freehosting100.com says it is one of the only free Web hosting
providers to offer FrontPage Extensions with its service. The
service enables users to design a Web site in Microsoft's popular
FrontPage program, and then upload it to a Web server, while
also using FrontPage to r manage it. |
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Sify
to Report First Quarter 2007 Fiscal Year Financial Results
"Sify Limited a leader in Consumer Internet and Enterprise
Services in India with global delivery capabilities, today announced
that it will report its financial results for the first quarter
of fiscal year 2007 ended June 30, 2007.
In conjunction with the earning release, Sify will host a conference
call at 8:30am EDT hosted by Mr. Raju Vegesna, Chairman of the
Board and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Suri Venkat, Chief Operating
Officer and Mr. Pijush Kanti Das, Chief Financial Officer. Interested
parties may participate in the conference call by dialing 877-407-8031
(U.S. or Canada) or 201-689-8031 (international), which will
also be simultaneously broadcast live over the Internet at www.sifycorp.com
or www.vcall.com. Please allow extra time prior to the call
to visit the site and download the streaming media software"
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Partner
of the Year Award Winners Announced at Microsoft Worldwide Partner
Conference
"Microsoft Corp announced the winners of the 2007 Microsoft(R)
Partner of the Year Awards .
The awards recognize Microsoft Registered, Certified and Gold
Certified partners that delivered exemplary solutions for their
customers during the past year. Award winners were chosen from
a group of finalists from around the world. Winners were announced
at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2007, the company's
premier annual event for industry partners, held this year in
Denver" |
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Tata Indicom's 'web
protect now on VSNL
"Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL) today said it has
launched Tata Indicom 'Web Protect', an innovative product that
helps manage the Internet access of children and employees.Tata
Indicom Web Protect has been launched in collaboration with
Netsweeper Inc of Canada and is a web-filtering solution enabling
users to block access to specific websites, chatrooms or any
other unwanted content said a press release" |
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Yahoo
buys stake in Indian online ad company
"Yahoo hopes Tyroo Media will help it capture more
of India's fast-growing online ad market. Yahoo acquired between
35 percent and 50 percent of Tyroo for an undisclosed amount
of money, said George Zacharias, managing director of Yahoo
India,Tyroo, based in Gurgaon, places advertisements on a network
of about 1,200 Web sites. Its service is suitable for smaller
businesses, allowing them to design graphic or text-based ads
and choose Web sites that will bring them a targeted audience,
said Harish Bahl, CEO of Smile Interactive Technologies Group,
of which Tyroo is a part.. The advertisers do not need to have
their own Web sites -- which small Indian businesses often do
not have since buyers can contact them via e-mail or SMS (short
messaging service), he said.
Yahoo started its search-based advertising business in India
about eight months ago and so far has a few thousand small advertisers,
Zacharias said. There are millions of potential advertisers
in India, which all the search companies and advertising networks
are chasing .
The deal with Tyroo will allow Yahoo to grow its business with
third-party publishers in India while it prepares to bring its
revamped advertising system, code-named Panama, into the country,
along with technology it acquired from Right Media, Zacharias
said. Yahoo announced in April that it would buy the remainder
of Right Media,an online exchange where advertisers and publishers
can buy and sell display advertising on Web sites. The relationship
with Tyroo will continue after the Panama and Right Media technologies
are introduced to India, Zacharias said" |
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Technical
problems bug Internet TV design
"Computer, STB and Web companies share a vision of
a system that brings to consumers, in an easy-to-use way, the
benefits of video on the Web. But thorny technical problems
that range from silicon to software hamper efforts to design
successful Internet TVs. The Web lacks the QoS expected for
TV viewing. It spawns a rapidly changing array of codecs and
rights-management schemes.
What's more, there are no dedicated chipsets, applications software
or open Web video portals to guide an iTV system,many designers
hold fast to a belief that the Internet will be the future of
TV. Detractors say big cable and telephone carriers—not Web
TV wannabes—will define the future of TV. "Networked TVs are
coming, and all CE guys will eventually make them," said Leonard
Tsai, a senior consumer systems engineer at Hewlett-Packard
Co., speaking at the Internet Television Technology Conference
in the United States this week. Nevertheless, he said there
are currently many uncontrolled variables that make networked
TVs hard to develop, and these devices are not yet capable of
providing quality user experience.
"Internet TV is probably going to outstrip telco TV eventually,"
added Paul Fellows, another presenter and chief technology officer
for England's Amino Technologies plc, which makes set tops for
telephone companies providing TV service. "The lack of a quality-of-service
standard is probably the biggest problem we have," said Fellows.
Closed telco networks can get packets delivered predictably
with latencies of 300ms, a fact that lets them squeeze memory
buffers in their set tops to tiny proportions" |
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