📅 - Computing giant Microsoft (microsoft.com) announced this week that it will be hosting an evening reception during the HostingCon 2007 conference next week in Chicago.
Microsoft's event will take place on Tuesday, July 24, from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at the Riva Navy Pier, 700 Grand Ave., sporting views of the Chicago skyline and Lake Michigan.
According to Microsoft, food and drink will be provided at the party, and by leaving a business card at the door, guests can enter to win an XBOX 360.
Microsoft will be handing out Invitations to the party at its booth, number 309, in the HostingCon exhibit hall.
Reads: 2158 | Category: General | Source: TheWHIR : Web Host Industry Reviews URL source: http://www.thewhir.com/marketwatch/072007_Microsoft_Plans_HostingCon_Event.cfm Want to add a website news or press release ? Just do it, it's free! Use add web hosting news!
Other news
📅 - SherpaHost Offers WebSite Tonight - Web hosting provider SherpaHost (sherpahost.com) announced on Wednesday it is offering WebSite Tonight product, enabling users to design and create a .mobi-compliant Web site easily and affordably. Pages designed for .mobi are optimized for on-the-go devices, making them easy to load and navigate from the smaller, more limited screens of wireless phones and PDAs. Recent reports show that 500,000-plus .mobi domain names have been registered to date in over 104 countries since the domain's commercial launch in October 2006. Additionally, industry analyst Yankee Group reveals that the mobile data services market could reach $698 billion in annual sales by 2009, acco
📅 - SunGard Acquires VeriCenter - Disaster recovery solutions provider SunGard (sungard.com) announced on Wednesday that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire managed hosting and colocation provider VeriCenter (vericenter.com). VeriCenter will become part of SunGard Availability Services, the pioneer and leading provider of information availability and business continuity services. By acquiring VeriCenter, SunGard increases its economies of scale, as well as broadens the company's service offerings of dedicated and shared resources designed for specific customer information availability needs. The VeriCenter resources complement SunGard's business continuity and production hosting solutions that
📅 - Exabytes Launches HostingCon Promo - Web hosting provider Exabytes Network (exabytes.com👉 Total Reviews: 115 🙌 Average Rating: 8.9 / 10 👍 Good Reviews: 110 👎 Bad Reviews: 5 👈 Official Responses: 115) announced on Wednesday that it is offering 30 percent off on every new hosting account purchased between July 17 and 31 in conjunction with this year's HostingCon (hostingcon/2007). Exabytes says this is a one-time-only discount and is applicable to all EBiz Windows, Linux, ColdFusion, Gold, EBox and Semi-D hosting plans. Starting from 5.36 per month with no setup fee and 300GB of disk space and 300GB of bandwidth, Exabytes EBiz Gold hosting plan comes with a free gifts pack that includes free domain for life, free backup mail server, free 90 days Submitnet SEO and free 150 Web site templates."This 30 percen
📅 - groupSPARK, Helm Make Exchange Deal - WebHost Automation (webhostautomation.com) announced on Monday that it has integrated its Helm control panel with the groupSPARK (groupspark.com) private label software as a service platform. Following the partnership, WebHost Automaton customers can now sell hosted Microsoft Exchange Server, Windows SharePoint Services, Dynamics CRM and other mobile device services.The companies say internal estimates see the growth for hosted Exchange Server creating more than $600 Million in new revenues for hosting providers. Because of the demand, they are looking for ways to offer hosted Microsoft Exchange Server as an additional service. Integrating help with the groupSPARK
📅 - Verio Offers eStorefront Packages - Managed services provider Verio (verio.com👉 Total Reviews: 28 🙌 Average Rating: 2.2 / 10 👍 Good Reviews: 4 👎 Bad Reviews: 24 👈 Official Responses: 0) announced on Monday it is offering new eStorefront e-commerce Web hosting packages to help small and midsize businesses get their online stores up and running quickly with ShopSite shopping cart. Designed to meet the needs of a wide range of online businesses, the new functional e-commerce hosting plans are part of Verio's Signature line of hosted solutions. Verio's packaged e-commerce solutions are based on shopping cart solution ShopSite 8.3, which offers customers improved usability and additional functionality to get their business online. ShopSite features recent innovations in online transactions and security, including int
📅 - HostingCon 2007 Starts Today - Nearly 800 professionals in Web hosting and related industries gather at the beatufiul Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois today for Web hosting conference and trade show HostingCon 2007 (hostingcon.com/2007). The three-day event features 40 conference sessions covering various hosting topics, as well as three keynotes. Kicking off the keynote presentations, Richard Rosenblatt, co-founder, chairman and CEO of Demand Media, will deliver "Next Generation Web: What Lies Ahead For Hosting", where he will examine current Internet trends and how they impact the hosting and domain registration markets. Tuesday will bring "The Future of Service Enablement", where moderator Da