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Meet LoveFooty.net – Football Blog Launches New Look Site

LoveFooty.net one of the webs oldest and most popular football blogs has launched a new look website with improved community & social features.

LoveFooty.net was initially launched at the start of 2007 and features all the latest news, gossip, opinions & football videos from the world’s most popular sport.

The new changes include a fresh design which is fast loading and easy to navigate. This is coupled with close integration with the internet’s top social networks including Facebook, Twitter and Google+ which makes it easier than ever for fans to share their views and content with other fans from across the globe.

Lead project designer James Scott who was in charge of the overhaul had this to say about the new look LoveFooty.net: “We had to completely overhaul the site design and we gave it a fresh lick of colour as the old site was rather bland, just in time for the African Cup of Nations 2012.”

Scott also had this to say about the social networking integration “The staggering growth in social networking sites and huge audiences available for popular topics like sports means we can tap into a huge audience very quickly.”

Not only does LoveFooty.net closely integrate their site with the top social networks but they also participate and engage with football fans worldwide using their social networking accounts on Twitter and Facebook.

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brightsolid and The British Library Publish 4 Million Pages Of Historical Newspapers Online

brightsolid and The British Library have announced the launch of a website that will transform the way that people use historical newspapers to find out about the past.

The British Newspaper Archive website will offer access to up to 4 million fully searchable pages, featuring more than 200 newspaper titles from every part of the UK and Ireland. The newspapers – which mainly date from the 19th century, but which include runs dating back to the first half of the 18th century – cover every aspect of local, regional and national news.

The website offers a wealth of material for people researching family history, including family notices and announcements and obituaries, while the ability to search by keyword/s, location, date and newspaper title means that people can search across hundreds of thousands of pages at a time as they track down that elusive ancestor. Searching the website generates free preview snippets of results found but users wishing to download full articles and images can pay to do so with a range of payment options available, including pay-per-view access for 48 hours or 30 days and a subscription package for a year. The website is free to use in the British Library’s reading rooms.

“The launch of the British Newspaper Archive website opens up the British Library’s newspaper collection as never before,” said Ed King, the British Library’s Head of Newspapers. “Rather than having to view the items on-site at the Library, turning each page, people across the UK and around the world will be able to explore for themselves the gold-mine of stories and information contained in these pages – and the ability to search across millions of articles will yield results for each user, that might previously have been the work of weeks or months, in a matter of seconds and the click of a mouse.”

The British Newspaper Archive is the result of a ten-year partnership between the British Library and brightsolid, announced in May 2010. Over the past 12 months, brightsolid’s digitisation team, based at the British Library Newspaper Library at Colindale, has been digitising up to 8,000 pages of historic newspapers every working day. The project is expected to scan up to 40 million newspaper pages over the next ten years. The site also offers high quality A1 prints.

Welcoming the new website, Ed Vaizey MP, Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, said: “The British Newspaper Archive is a rich and hugely exciting resource, packed with historical detail. It’s a great example of the public and private sectors collaborating to deliver something that neither party could have delivered by themselves. I searched for my own constituency of Wantage and within seconds had 42,000 results – an indication of the breadth and variety of material featured.”

The launch and further expansion of the British Newspaper Archive website will help the British Library to fulfil its strategic goals of long-term preservation of and access to the national newspaper collection, including old London newspapers. The Library’s newspaper strategy aims to secure the future of this unique resource by moving the hard-copy collections from the current building at Colindale to a purpose-built storage facility in Boston Spa, West Yorkshire. Access to the collection will be provided via microfilm and digital copies made available at the Library’s main site at St Pancras.

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BT Offers Small Businesses A ‘Kickstart’

BT Business has launched a finance scheme offering start-ups the chance to lease up to £15,000 worth of technology and telecommunications solutions. Under the ‘Kick Start Scheme’, in conjunction with Shire Leasing, new businesses trading for under three years will be eligible for funding subject to credit vetting.

BT’s ‘KickStart Scheme’, available through BT Local Business, aims to help small businesses raise funds in a challenging economic climate and to avoid having to rely on bank loans, overdrafts or credit cards.

‘KickStart’ offers start-ups the opportunity to purchase a range of technology and communications products and services including business telephone systems, business mobiles, handsets, connection charges, software licences and IT equipment such as laptops, as well as small business IT support. The scheme is open to all industry types and has very flexible underwriting, aimed at delivering higher acceptance levels for new-start companies. An average £3,000 loan will cost less than £20 per week and can be added to as the business grows.

Declan McGlone, general manager of BT Finance, BT Business said: “The UK has an average of 270,000 start-up businesses every year. In light of the current economic climate we want to help these businesses access the products and services they need to get their new venture up and running. Our ‘KickStart Scheme’ offers finance over a fixed term, at a fixed rate, making it easier for customers to budget.”

One business that has already benefitted from a similar scheme with Shire Leasing is A.I. Global Media Ltd. The publishing company, established in November 2010, needed funding to purchase a technology and communications solution for its eight staff working on a new corporate finance publication.

Jane Peter, director, A.I. Global Media Ltd, said: “When starting out, it was crucial to launch the business in the most cost effective way possible. We needed to install a BT Versatility phone and broadband system, so that staff could work on the magazine straight away, but couldn’t afford any major spend. The leasing scheme allowed us to get the equipment we needed at a fixed rate and also meant we keep what capital we had in the bank to ensure we had some cash flow. This scheme really helped us get our business off the ground and we now have over 53,000 subscribers to our magazine.”

Karina Knudsen, Head of Business Development at the British Chambers of Commerce also welcomed the launch: “The BCC has long called for more support for small businesses. Financing that specifically helps start and grow new ventures will considerably reduce the current credit difficulties that owners face.”

New and existing BT Business customers will be able to take up the ‘KickStart Scheme’ offers as long as they have been trading for under three years, subject to a credit check. For more information about ‘KickStart’ and other BT products and services, interested parties can contact BT Local Business at www.btlocalbusiness.co.uk.

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Cycleharmony.com Announces Release Of Mood, PMS Symptom & Lifestyle Tracker

Most people know that unhealthy lifestyles are the cause of many of their personal challenges in life, from being overweight to chronic fatigue to PMS/PMDD symptoms, just to name a few – challenges which can determine the very quality of their lives.

Yet few succeed in breaking free of these unhealthy lifestyles. Why?

According to Jing Jin, the founder of cycleharmony.com , “It’s because they’ve taken on an impossible task. An unhealthy lifestyle is almost impossible to break because it takes vigilance and an energy that few of us have. Think about the chocoholic who has to resist the temptation to eat a chocolate bar every minute of every waking hour. Talk about exhausting!

“If you want to break a bad habit, the key is not to focus on getting rid of it, but to develop a new healthier habit to replace it.

“I suffered from PMS and severe mood swings for years, and was in a lot of pain. It took a serious toll on the quality of my life and relationships. I wondered if what I was suffering from was rare, if I was alone – or if I was just crazy. I was neither, but I didn’t realize any of this until I made the decision to tackle the issue head-on. Now I’m living a happy, fulfilled life.

“The first big difference-maker for me was the series of small rituals I incorporated into my life – self-care routines including a balanced diet, regular exercise, sufficient rest and recovery, and better stress management. I believe most women can turn their situations around, whether they’re suffering from PMS/PMDD, depression, mood swings, fatigue or weight issues, by incrementally adding healthier routines to their lives. And it’s not a daunting task – if you know how to make them work for you effectively.”

That’s the reason Jing Jin founded cycleharmony.com, to share what she’s learned on her journey and help women discover their own PMS relief to create healthier, happier and more fulfilling lives. She also created a simple, intuitive and easy-to-use online tool called the Mood, PMS Symptom & Lifestyle Tracker to help women track their lifestyle factors such as diet, exercise, sleep, stress and self-love, and monitor how these factors affect their moods, energy level, sex drive and PMS/PMDD symptoms. A simplified version of this tool is also available as an iPhone app called Mood Runner.

“It’s a great tool for anyone who wants to create a healthier and more balanced lifestyle,” says Jing. “If I can do it, you can do it too. The most important thing is to believe that you can accomplish whatever you set out to do. Because you truly can – if it’s really important to you.”

For more details, please visit

http://www.cycleharmony.com
www.facebook.com/cycleharmony
www.twitter.com/cycleharmony

Video 1 – Jing’s Personal Battle with PMS and Three Steps to PMS Relief http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_profilepage&v=Bya8CQqWLFw

Video 2 – PMS/PMDD Assessment; Mood, Lifestyle, Period & PMS Trackers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU5agAcisAg&feature=player_profilepage

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The Xlibris Launched New Websites For ‘The Islands Historia De Amor’

The Islands Historia De Amor. The English Book of Poetry, recently published by Xlibris publishing company launched new websites for the author Abdul Haye Amin, The Islands Historia De Amor. The English Book of Poetry, recently published by Xlibris publishing company launched new websites for the author Abdul Haye Amin, The websites allow individual’s directly to take advantage of author newly published Book of Poetry in Language English and browse and order by click searching offer the most up to date websites by Xlibris Corporation. The Well known Book publishing Company in the USA.

Author born in Sylhet District age of ten brought up in the United Kingdom, The Bilingual’s Poetry writers in Language Bangla and in English, a Historic, Cultural, Romantics, Romance, Love, Sorrow, Friendship, Friend, Religious, which believes to be cultivated domiciles soil of holy Saint ‘British India’ trace since 1734 the first conflict of Language Bangla, written by European Country, Portuguese ‘Manoel Da Assumpcam’

Then Partition of Bay of Bengal and Language ‘Bangla’ the true tastes of original ‘British India’ without “Red” colour ‘Chicken Tikka Masasla’ requires no peppers and salts to digest 163 years the Cultural and Religious poems. Probably second to none- as American Library ‘Shefari’ and search Engine ‘Google’ claims the first poetry Book contain name “Bis-Mil-La-Hir-Rak-Ma-Nir-Ra-Him”—786. In Language Arabic mean out of ninety nine name of God.

The Book of poems contain valuable foreign Protocol tastes of tourist in Bilingual’s Language which represent to all size, class, cast, origin, and nationalities Poetry book is destined to be a ‘British India’ symbol of forgotten Love. Should you want to experience the newly published Book of poems ‘The Islands Historia De Amor’ and websites for your self please kindly visit www.abdulhaye.com.

The bilingual’s readers will eventually enjoy the moment of per blinks of eyes as ray of light, medically known ‘Visual Hallucination’. Unfortunately, the author nor Foreign Secretary of States accept no Liability, Responsibility, nor Trust Should by any mean members of readers ever fall in love with the poems as Language “Bangla” the first E.E.C. Portuguese man to written in 1734. It a sign of shame Instead of by British Government.

Today nation celebrate with packets of condoms the favourites Country by name “Bangla—Desh” the seeds of Holy Saints the Roots of “He-Sa-Ru-Hu-Lul-La-He” –(R.A), (Jesus Christ), therefore kind request in advance to keep British N.H.S. Free packet of Condoms instead of tablet ‘Seroxat’ or ‘Ritual’ before any Foreign Bilingual’s Diplomatic ever intent read ‘The Islands Historia De Amor’. The English Book of poems.

http://www.abdulhaye.com
http://www.xlibrispublishing.co.uk/bookstore/bookdisplay
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Skype brings video calling to Android phones

Skype has announced an updated version of its Skype for Android app – Skype for Android 2.0, bringing Skype Video Calling to the currently fastest growing mobile OS.

With the new version, users will be able to make and receive free 1-to-1 video calls over Skype between their Android phone and other Skype contacts on the iPhone, Mac, Windows PCs and even TVs. The Android video call app works over Wi-Fi or 3G data connections and can be downloaded for free from the Android Market or the Skype website using any phone browser.

“We are committed to bring Skype Video Calling to as many platforms as possible and are delighted to deliver on this with our new updated Android video chat app,” said Neil Stevens, Skype’s vice president and general manager for product and marketing.

“With approximately 30 million concurrent users logging into Skype at any given time and making up to half a million simultaneous video calls, the Skype video chat on Android app makes it even easier for users to share moments with their contacts wherever they are.”

In addition to video chat, users can also make calls to landlines and mobiles around the world, as well as send SMS’s to friends and family anywhere in the world at great Skype rates. All this comes with a complete redesign of the Skype for Android user interface. There’s a new main menu on the Skype app for Android where users can navigate easily through their contacts, access their Skype profile to change personal details or see the balance of their Skype Credit. Finally a new mood message box at the top of the Skype app menu makes it easier than ever for users to share how they are feeling, what they’ve seen, or what they’re up to.

For this first phase of launch, handsets that support video calling include the HTC Desire S, Sony Ericsson Xperia neo, Sony Ericsson Xperia pro and the Google Nexus S.

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BT Openzone to enhance Internet services across Hilton Worldwide’s UK and Ireland hotels

BT Openzone has entered into a strategic agreement with Hilton Worldwide to provide a fully-managed suite of Wi-Fi and Internet services across hotels in the U.K. and Ireland. The new technology will provide a tenfold increase in bandwidth and an even more consistent, high-quality online experience for guests at nearly 100 Hilton Worldwide properties beginning in Autumn 2011.

This agreement provides guests with BT Openzone Wi-Fi access, high-speed broadband, conference and event services in more than 17,000 bedrooms, public areas and meeting and conference spaces, including 24-hour customer support. The new Wi-Fi service will be available free of charge to all Gold and Diamond Hilton HHonors members and over five million BT Total broadband customers. BT Openzone users and customers from iPass, AT&T and other BT Openzone roaming partners can also use the super-fast broadband when visiting the hotels.

“We are committed to providing our guests with access to the very latest technology, complementing our world class hospitality, and are delighted to collaborate with BT Openzone to deliver an outstanding service in the U.K. and Ireland,” said Robert Webb, Chief Information Officer, Hilton Worldwide. “This deal builds on last year’s agreement with AT&T in the United States and Canada as we look to partner with the very best technology providers around the world.”

Chris Bruce, CEO, BT Openzone, said: “The growing number of travellers with mobile devices such as tablet computers and smartphones, means guests increasingly expect to be able to log on wherever they are and with a fast and reliable connection. BT currently has 2.8 million Wi-Fi hotspots across the U.K. and Ireland. By expanding our coverage at Hilton Worldwide’s portfolio of hotels, we are demonstrating our commitment in providing leading edge technology services to partners in a very demanding service environment.”

BT Openzone will use an ‘above property’, centralised cloud computing architecture, and will oversee network operations, guest Internet support, network engineering, software development and 24/7 network monitoring for Hilton Worldwide’s business Wi-Fi and Internet services.

Hilton Worldwide’s portfolio of six brands in the U.K. and Ireland includes Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts, Conrad Hotels & Resorts, Hilton Hotels and Resorts, Doubletree by Hilton, Hilton Garden Inn and Hampton by Hilton.

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Who will be the prize winner of 1 Billion Won (around 1 Million Dollars) miracle?

WEmakePRICE kicks off its special promotion, “Finding the Miracle of 1 Billion Won”, granting up to 1 billion won to a final prize winner.

– WEmakePRICE is calling a nation-wide promotion, [Miracle of 1 Billion Won], granting a total prize amount that can be determined by the proportion of incremental numbers of participants.

– Whoever signs up in the company website, www.wemakeprice.com and apply for this promotion can be eligible to be the winner of prize up to 1 billion KRW. The promotion will be held through May 31st.

– The company executes an unconventional marketing campaign such as “1 Billion Won Worth Men and Women” guerilla communications or unique ad campaign that is appeared one of the hottest girls group members, Koo Ha Ra.

May 12, 20011, Seoul – WEmakePRICE.com (www.wemakeprice.com, President: Lee Jong Han), said it has started an unprecedented promotion [Miracle of 1 Billion] that will deliver 1 billion in cash to a finalist from May 2 till the end of May. The company presents the motto of ‘We Make Price’ in the emerging social commerce market as a dark horse in IT industry.

[Miracle of 1 Billion] is granting 1 billion in cash to a finalist who will be drawn randomly from the participants registered online and offline during May. The principle of the promotion is similar to ‘social commerce’: the value of prize is calculated in proportion to the number of new members. It is started from 10 million and increased by 10 million per a hundred thousand of new members. Thus, if more than 1 million members are participated, the maximum value of prize 10 billion will be delivering to a finalist.

[Miracle of 1 Billion] is the largest promotion among the ‘public sweepstake’ which has no limitation to the value of giveaways. Anyone is eligible to participate in the promotion once by registering as a new member without hassle to purchase any coupons or products. If already a member of WEmakePRICE, you are qualified from participating once in the promotion automatically. In addition, the more you recommend this promotion to new members, the higher you have the possibility of winning the promotion by earning more qualifications of participation in proportion to the number of new members you recommended. In order to win the promotion, it is necessary to recommend to your friends, and make them register as a new member. If willing to register offline, you can visit WEmakePRICE building at Sam Sung Dong, Seoul, from the 2nd of May.

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IGXE Adds Black Prophecy Gold to sell list before other trade platforms

Here is a great news to Black Prophecy’s fans. As one of the biggest trader among virtual currency market, IGXE decide to add Black Prophecy Gold to sell list before other trade platforms.

Black Prophecy is a free to play fast-paced 3D real-time combat space MMO with state of the art visuals. Both the Player-versus-Players combat and an exciting storyline in a rich universe are important aspects of the game. It’s focussed on fast and exciting real-time combat space battles. Many experts regard Black Prophecy as the second Eve Online due to the background and story of Black Prophecy is almost seemed as the former. “There is no doubt that success of Eve Online made a contribution to Black Prophecy’s development.” Said Harry, professional MMORPG player. Shortly after the launch of the European version of Black Prophecy, the U.S. closed beta has been officially started and that the first thousand invites have been sent out. It can believe that Black Prophecy as a new blood of combat space games will certainly start a warfare wave in the MMOPRG world. With the officially started days is fast approaching, IGXE has already got ready to welcome this black storm due to Eve Online had enriched experience to deal with these difficulties. A series products related to Black Prophecy will launch at MMOXE follow the step, such as CD Key, expansion pack, game currency just like WoW Gold and even power leveling service.

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New Social Network Site for the Fashion Industry

WorkinFashion the professional network for people working or seeking work in the fashion industry has just launched; attracting thousands of fashion professionals and jobseekers.

WorkinFashion combines all the best features of a social network like Facebook or LinkedIn with a sophisticated job board and candidate search system. The network offers specific profiles for fashion professionals, models, companies and recruitment agencies.

Start a career profile on the network to search for jobs, get scouted or simply to network with other professionals and companies working in the industry. Models start a profile and upload your portfolios browse casting calls and build up your fashion network.

Start a company profile to promote your brand, recruit new staff for permanent or temporary jobs.

Recruitment agencies advertising vacancies in any area of the industry from retail to design can have a profile on WorkinFashion and benefit from unlimited job advertising and candidate searching.

Search candidates, view their career profile and CV’s then connect with them to offer them employment.

To celebrate our launch, we are offering a whole year of recruitment advertising on WorkinFashion absolutely FREE to fashion and retail recruiters that sign up before the 1st April 2011.

We hope to see you joining us on the network, register your free personal, model, agency or company profile online at www.workinfashion.com.

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New Website Launched For ‘Monkey See Monkey Do’

Smartoonz® has launched a new website for Monkey, based on the successful TV show “Monkey See Monkey Do™”.

Monkey See Monkey Do™ is a colorful, upbeat CG animated kid’s series which encourages children to engage with the show’s characters through dance. The show is successfully broadcasted by major TV channels, including Playhouse Disney LATAM, PBS Kids Sprout, France5, TVA, TVO, Knowledge, Minimax, Hop!, PBS Thailand.

The new website keeps you updated with all of Monkey See Monkey Do™ Latest News. Kids can enjoy seeing all the favorite characters, watch clips from the show, printout coloring pages, and send a message to Monkey. Parents can use the Forum to ask questions and give feedback. Through the site, users can access to “Monkey See Monkey Do™“ Youtube channel and the Facebook Fan Page.

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BalkansTravelGuru.com – Free Balkans Travel Assistance

Balkans Travel Guru announced today the successful release of its FREE Balkans travel assistance website, balkanstravelguru.com. The site was created to assist travelers in the Balkans with where to go, what to do, where to find products or services and what they need to know for each and every country in the Balkans. Whether it is planning before your trip, or during your trip, Balkans Travel Guru has the information needed to make your travel easier.

Tourism has fallen sharply throughout the Balkans. Experts believe that a well-informed traveler is a return traveler. Balkans Travel Guru is not a travel agent but an online resource to travelers or potential travelers. Its mission is to increase travel in the Balkans by having well informed travelers and inspire them to travel throughout. The company is currently working on an IPhone and IPod application to further assist the traveler.

“It is a unique tool; there is nothing more frustrating than going to a city and not being able to find what you need. As a business traveler, I need to know so I can do more. You can even find where the local stationary is in Tirana” Said Michael Velop.

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BT Business Direct Confirms Top Industry Names Ahead Of UC & IT Live Conference

Communications specialist BT Business Direct has confirmed the line-up of keynote speakers for this year’s UC & IT Live conference, which includes a raft of industry-leading firms.

Top names from the communications sector will take part in the free, one-day event including unified communications specialists Cisco, Microsoft, BT and Tandberg.

Representatives from the companies will join together to deliver the event’s keynote seminar which is set to focus on all elements of unified communications and how they should work together to create a robust, reliable and cost effective solution.

The conference will also be attended by world-renowned IT vendors including HP, Toshiba and Microsoft. Representatives from these businesses will be available to discuss emerging technologies with delegates, along with their company’s product roadmaps. It is also possible to pre-book one-to-one sessions with your vendor of choice or with BT Business Direct, a leading supplier of voice and data solutions including laptops androuters, to discuss a specific project or IT challenge.

A spokesman for BT Business Direct said: “UC & IT Live is the latest in a series of events from BT Business Direct specifically geared to appeal to IT decision makers from UK businesses and public sector organisations.

“This free event will bring all the world’s leading IT vendors together under one roof, making maximum use of the time invested by delegates.”

The conference takes place on Friday, September 24 at Twickenham rugby ground. Delegates can choose to attend either the morning session which is being held between 9am and 12.30pm, or the afternoon session which takes place between 1pm and 4.30pm.

To finish off your visit to the home of English rugby, take a behind the scenes mini-tour of Twickenham, which will take in the England players’ dressing room, royal box, hospitality suites, medical room, players’ tunnel, president’s suite and include a pitch side walk and stunning views from the top of the stand.

To register as a delegate for this free BT Business Direct event visit:
http://www.businessdirect.bt.com/articles/…

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Waveform Technology Provides Marian High School with Fastest Private School Internet Access in Michigan

For the 2010 school year Troy based Internet Service Provider Waveform Technology is completing new fiber optic construction to provide gigabit Internet access to Marian High School in Bloomfield Hills, along with Brother Rice High school and St. Regis School. Gigabit Internet access is more than 160 times faster than Marian High School’s old Internet connection and 650 times faster than a T1, giving Marian High School faster Internet access than any other private school in Michigan.

The new Internet access is provisioned over privately owned fiber built by Waveform Technology. “This is as a pilot project for a larger community oriented construction schedule,” said Waveform Technology representative, Noel Montales.“Private schools don’t have access to the same purchasing power as public school districts. We want to see how we can help these schools overcome this and have access to the bandwidth they need in a cost-effective manner. Fifteen years ago we helped break the price barrier on T1 circuits, making Waveform Technology the first to provide always-on dedicated Internet access to private schools in Metro Detroit. We hope to do that again for extremely fast Internet access.”

Marian High School will use the faster Internet access to move to hosted solutions for both school management systems and educational resources. “This will allow us to access more state-of-the-art technology for schools,” said Mark Hallman, of Marian’s Technology department, “letting us explore video, simulations, and virtual educational technology opportunities.” Hallman also said he used to tell teachers to limit their Internet use in the class room for fear of bogging down the old connection, but now the access to additional bandwidth will allow more concurrent use of interactive resources.

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New Boating Web Site Puts Buyers Together With Sellers

A new boating Web site aims to put boaters and boater wannabes in touch with the people that can fulfill their wishes. The site, www.allboatingads.com, features boats for sale, equipment for sale, as well as services such as insurance, boat service, and marinas.

Pete Riopel, a financial planner based in Larkspur, started the site after 20-plus years as a sailor.

“It seemed like a fun and interesting thing to do,” he said.

The site allows users to do a key-word search to find what they want, and also allows the search to be e-mailed to the user if new matches turn up. It also allows up to eight photos to run with a listing.

“The advantage of my site.” Said Riopel, “is that you can narrow down your search.” As with many Web sites, users are required to sign up to use the site. There is no fee to sign up.

While Riopel is computer literate, he had to learn new things to get his Web site up and running. He had to learn HTML, and about boating throughout the Bay Area. He also plans to paint with a broad brush on the site.

“I tried to cover basically everything.” Riopel said, “Everything that is boating is here, and what is here is about boating.”

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Waveform Technology Applies to SolarCurrents Utility-Owned Program

Waveform Technology, a leading Metro-Detroit Internet service provider and data center operator, announced today their application to Detroit Edison’s SolarCurrents Utility-Owned Program. Detroit Edison is looking for multiple businesses with suitable rooftops or level ground area to provide space for solar power generation plants. Waveform Technology is one of several applicants to the program.

If selected by Detroit Edison to participate, Waveform Technology will allow Detroit Edison to install a solar power plant on the roof of Waveform’s Troy, Michigan Data Center. Waveform Technology plans to use the SolarCurrents program to increase the amount of renewable energy used to power the Michigan Data Center, one of Metro Detroit’s largest public data centers.

“American businesses are increasingly reliant on Internet services which need data centers: f r o m E-Mail and websites to mobile applications and disaster recovery,” said Waveform representative Noel Montales. “The problem is that we need a tremendous amount of electrical energy to power those services, and more often that not that electricity comes form ‘dirty’ sources, like coal and oil.”

“If Detroit Edison chooses the Michigan Data Center as one of the sites for the SolarCurrents Program then we’ll ensure that a fair portion of our electricity comes f r o m a completely clean and renewable source: the sun,” continued Mr. Montales. “It makes us greener, but more importantly, it makes the IT departments of our clients a whole lot greener!”

SolarCurrents is one of the largest distributed programs in the country, and Detroit Edison will generate 15 megawatts of renewable electricity through the Utility-Owned portion. More information about the SolarCurrents program is available at http://www.dteenergy.com/solar.

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Waveform Technology Installs Metro Ethernet Service for Macomb County

Waveform Technology, a leading Metro Detroit area commercial data center operator and Internet service provider, is now supplying fiber optic Internet access to Macomb County. The new connection serves both Macomb’s 2,500 County Employees and MACnet, the county’s own private network, by providing redundancy to the current Internet circuit.

Macomb County is among the first customers to connect to a recently constructed expansion of Waveform Technology’s southeast Michigan fiber optic network.

Macomb County chose Waveform Technology for numerous reasons, but primarily because Waveform’s metropolitan fiber optic network provides complete path redundancy from the county’s primary Internet connection. “Owning our own network allowed us to meet the specific route stipulations that Macomb Country required,” said Waveform Technology representative Noel Montales. “It provides us more flexibility than
other ISPs that are just reselling local phone company assets.”

Price was also an important consideration, and Waveform’s independent network allows for Internet connections, and other metropolitan data services, for a fraction of the cost that other carriers charge.

Waveform Technology provisioned a 100Mbps fiber optic Metro Ethernet circuit for Macomb County. Metro Ethernet was chosen for its versatility and simplicity of design.

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BT Business Connects CAN Media With Schools And Surgeries Across The UK

BT Business and CAN Media have announced a new deal which means two million viewers in schools and GP surgeries across the UK will have access to a private TV information service. The three-year,£20 million+ contract will see BT take over the delivery, installation and operational management for the Life Channel Service from CAN Media.

The Life Channel Service, the UK’s largest private television network with over seven million viewers, is used by local government agencies to showcase and promote health and educational initiatives to the local community. Research* has shown the channel is more than twice as effective as posters and up to three times more than leaflets in communicating health and well-being messages.

Life Channel campaigns help schools improve their Ofsted ratings, and the NHS in achieving the national priorities set out by the Department of Health and measured by the Care Quality Commission. Independent research** has shown that 1 in 2 primary school and 1 in 3 secondary school pupils positively modify their behaviour as a result.

Working with partner Croft Technology plc, BT Business will take over the operational management of the existing Life Channel network. It will also install and manage the service in 5,000 schools and 4,000 GP surgeries, provide broadband, PCs and up to four large panel TV screens at each site.

Mike Darcy, chief operations officer, CAN Media, said: “We needed a supplier that would not only support our hardware, software and helpdesk requirements today but could also support us as we develop the service in the future. BT offered us a wealth of technical experience and expertise at a competitive price.”

Humphrey Penney, director custom solutions, BT Business said: “Communicating important information to local communities in this innovative way needs high bandwidth. As the market leader in digital out-of-home television, CAN Media were looking for a reliable supplier when taking the decision to outsource the delivery and management of their Life Channel Service.”

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Skype Becomes The Largest Provider Of Cross-Border Communications In The World

Skype’s international phone-calling traffic has accelerated at a time when international telephone traffic has slowed, according to a new report by TeleGeography.

Skype traffic has been soaring despite the background of slowing growth by conventional phone companies, according to the report. Where international calling volumes from telephones was growing at a compounded annual rate of 15% for the past 25 years, over the past two years it has slowed down to only 8%. Skype however has seen its international cheap calls volume sky rocket.

In a press statement from TeleGeography, analyst Stephan Beckert commented, “Demand for international voice has been remarkably robust, but it’s clearly not recession-proof”. However the statement went on to highlight that Skype was managing to very successfully buck the trend, with on-net international Skype-to-Skype traffic growing by 51% in 2008, and a projected growth of 63% in 2009, to a massive 54 billion minutes. “The volume of traffic routed via Skype is tremendous,” said Beckert.

This increase in international calling minutes experienced by Skype has brought its market share up to 12% in 2009, and made Skype the “largest provider of cross border communications in the world, by far”, according to Beckert.

The success experienced by Skype can be further demonstrated by a recent company journal report which showed that on the 19th January 2010 the service experienced an all-time record number of concurrent logged on users with over 22 and a quarter million clients signed in to Skype at the same time. This record comes only shortly after the previous record of 21.5 million concurrent users was logged the previous Monday.

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Bizwiki.com Goes Live, Delivering Wiki-power To Small Business

The wiki-powered business website Bizwiki.com announced its American version went fully live today. Bizwiki was launched as an Alpha in the USA in December 2008, promising to change the way local search works by enabling its users to build up the most detailed and up-to-date index of business in the United States.

Bizwiki.com Goes Live, Delivering Wiki-power To Small Business

The new fully live version features over 5,000 categories of business, and in contrast to traditional Yellow Pages websites invites business owners and representatives to add and improve their companies’ records with everything from contact details to prices and opening hours, completely free of charge.

“We are also launching new functionality today that allows the site’s users to‘Watch’ any business, receiving an email notifying them of any additions and edits,” said Bizwiki co-founder Matt Aird. “This is useful for anyone who is interested in following changes, but is primarily designed to empower people to get involved in claiming their own businesses and ensuring the information the public sees stays as accurate and relevant as possible.”

Creating a ‘Watchlist’ of businesses on Bizwiki is free. Representatives are invited to sign up with Bizwiki.com and look up the companies they are interested in, then simply click ‘Watch this business’ to receive notification of any changes to the record. They are also able to add more information and details to records while doing so.

“We’ve tried to take ideas and concepts from some of the most successful user-created websites in the world, such as Wikipedia and the Open Directory Project, and improve them to where the ‘anyone can edit’ principles of a wiki can be used in a business-environment,” continued Matt Aird. “The biggest single difference is probably that our site is built in a consistently structured format, allowing us to rapidly scale-up the amount of information and also give our users an easy way to search the site.”

The Bizwiki difference:

• It’s free – Unlike many established publishers that charge for inclusion, Bizwiki is free to search, free to edit and free for companies to list on.
• It’s editable – The ‘anyone-can-edit’ approach is a challenge to the frequently out-of-date records in conventional printed Business Directories.
• It’s a wiki – The wiki approach allows far more depth of information about each business to be compiled than anything conventionally available.
• It’s structured – Bizwiki is built using structured data, allowing reusability of information, bulk updates from chambers of commerce or webspiders, and an easy search experience for users.

Bizwiki was built by industry-veterans with years of business directory and meta-search experience behind them, including Keith Hinde, Matt Aird, Craig Sefton and Arthur Jenkins who between them have helped develop directory and search products for Infospace, local directory publisher Thomson Directories, TradePage and Webcrawler.

Visit www.bizwiki.com to add or edit your company or create a Watchlist of businesses.

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