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Microsoft polishes Office Live offering
Office Live, which is a set of small business services such as email, web hosting and contact-management software rather than an online version of Office, has a few new tricks and is heading out of beta. Microsoft says it's not opposed to the idea of expanding into online document creation but that's not what small businesses are asking for, according to Marja Koopmans, the software company's director of channel and business strategy for Office Live. She said: "They are saying 'I'm not looking to replace my desktop." Businesses are more interested in software to close sales and add online marketing. "That's really what we are focusing on with Office Live. We don't rule out anything for the future," she added. The company has been exploring the idea of online or ad-supported versions of its core word processing and spreadsheet programs, largely within its Works unit.
SonicWALL and Easynet Agree to Offer Expanded European Hosting ...
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SonicWALL, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNWL) , a leading provider of network, Web, email security and backup and recovery solutions, today announced that it has reached agreement with Easynet (LSE: ESY) , the leading pan-European broadband networking company, to provide reliable, secure, high-performance offsite data backup services as part of the SonicWALL CDP Backup and Recovery solution set. The deployment is based on Easynet's network of hosting and co-location data center facilities across ten European countries in 250 cities providing small- and medium-sized organizations the ability to backup and recover their data both locally and offsite. SonicWALL Continuous Data Protection (CDP) is changing the way organizations protect their businesses by providing a comprehensive backup and recovery solution in a single appliance.
Website Hosting Provider, Hostopia, Upgrades dotCanada.com ...
Fort Lauderdale, Florida - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - November 3, 2006 - Web hosting and Internet services company, Hostopia.com Inc., has been selected by dotCanada.com, to provide web hosting and related services to small businesses, with an upgraded suite of services. Richard Madison, President of dotCanada.com remarked, ''We are very pleased to be working with Hostopia, says Our rapid growth in business customers has created a significant opportunity to not only continue our expansion but to offer enhanced and new applications to our users. Hostopia has provided all the new services we require on a very efficient operating model.'' As part of a five year exclusive agreement, Hostopia will provide dotCanada.com enhanced web hosting, email, and applications, together with managed ordering, provisioning, and customer support services.
Yahoo! Web Hosting Services Revised
October 18, 2006 - (HOSTSEARCH.COM) - Recognizing the growing potential of web hosting and ecommerce solutions for small and medium sized businesses, Yahoo Small Business (http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com) has initiated a major upgrade focusing on establishing immediate sales results for merchants. The companys Yahoo Merchant Solutions ecommerce platform has received the first of a number of planned upgrades which will make it easier to establish web stores on the Internet.
In a discussion with E-Commerce Times, Director of E-Commerce Products at Yahoo Small Business was quoted as saying, The changes come from a new focus on getting merchants up and running faster. The catch phrase for the upgrades is results in 30 days. A lot of work has been done to make the process of getting started easier, but a lot of merchants still spend too long up front designing their sites and loading products and that delays them reaching their real goal, which is to start generating sales and getting the money flowing."
According to the company Yahoo caters to around 40,000 merchants and about 1 million sites use Yahoo's hosting and web design services.
Web.com Announces Free Trial of MS Exchange Hosting
Will offer features including e-mail, task management and anti-virus security protection without upfront hardware investments or maintenance costs. Web.com, an ICANN accredited registrar and a provider of web hosting services, recently announced that they are offering a free 30-day trial of its premium e-mail service for Microsoft Office Outlook based on Microsoft Hosted Exchange designed to increase productivity, efficiency and reduce costs.
The company says that they can offer small business customers a communication service including e-mail, calendaring, contact, task management, anti-spam and anti-virus security protection without the upfront hardware investments or maintenance costs.
Microsoft Exchange Hosting by Web.com offers features designed for small businesses to maximize resources and run critical communication tasks more efficiently.
BuyHTTP Unveils E-Commerce Hosting Packages, Integrates ...
BuyHTTP, LLC., a privately-held provider of shared, reseller, semi-dedicated and dedicated Web hosting services, announced today it is now offering specialty e-commerce hosting packages. The company, which hopes to reach a wider assortment of small to medium sized businesses with the new packages, had previously offered e-commerce services to select customers, but had never specifically advertised or promoted the offerings. Its new packages focus on support for the VirtueMart shopping cart system and Joomla! content management system (CMS), and start at only $26.95/monthly. "As increasing numbers of small to medium sized businesses move toward Web-based sales platforms, there will be a heightened demand for specialty e-commerce hosting solutions," said Doyle Lewis, BuyHTTP owner.
November 2006 Web Server Survey
There are now more than 100 million web sites on the Internet, which gained 3.5 million sites last month to continue the dynamic growth seen throughout 2006. In the November 2006 survey we received responses from 101,435,253 sites, up from 97.9 million sites last month. The 100 million site milestone caps an extraordinary year in which the Internet has already added 27.4 million sites, easily topping the previous full-year growth record of 17 million from 2005. The Internet has doubled in size since May 2004, when the survey hit 50 million. Blogs and small business web sites have driven the explosive growth this year, with huge increases at free blogging services at Google and Microsoft. Domain industry juggernauts Go Daddy (U.S.) and 1&1 Internet (Germany) have also seen strong demand for low-priced domain names and shared hosting accounts.
Microsoft to ship Office Live November 15
Microsoft has been beta-testing both Windows Live and Office Live ever since they were first announced last November. Now, a year later, Microsoft is saying that they will release the final version of Office Live on November 15. Office Live is a bit of a misnomer—it is not a replacement for Office, but rather a set of web hosting tools provided by Microsoft for small businesses. It offers domain, e-mail, and web site hosting, as well as tools for document collaboration and customer relations management (CRM). Office Live has been free for the duration of the beta period, but will cost $39.95 per month for the premium version following release. That gets you 2GB of online storage and 20 workspace users. There will also be a free, ad-supported, stripped-down version called Office Live Basics, and a lower-cost version called Office Live Essentials (10 workspace users and 1GB of storage) which will cost $19.95 per month.
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