Intel has already publicly declared that Meego was launched because the company was frustrated by the lack of support from Microsoft for the Atom platform and it remains a mystery as to why Microsoft did not adapt Windows 7

to suit Intel’s requirements.

It looks therefore increasingly likely that Microsoft and Intel, the two parties that made up Wintel, have tacitly agreed to let each other flirt with other companies.

Microsoft has historically supported other x86 manufacturers (VIA, AMD, Cyrix etc) and non-x86 (Alpha, MIPS) while Intel supported Mac, Linux and many others.

But they always avoided stepping on each other toes because the consequences would be disastrous for both of them. However, circumstances forced Intel and Microsoft to change their strategies radically.

Chicago, IL (PRWeb UK) July 16, 2010

Only about 23% of Europeans own a credit card, and those that do are reluctant to use them online. This means that without a direct debit solution, over 75% of the European market is inaccessible to your business. With Netpays new Direct Debit Solution, you will be able to significantly increase your revenue from Europe. Direct Debit is the most popular European payment solution, because of its ease of use for customers. Money is withdrawn directly from ones bank account, and there is no expiration date.

“We are looking to apply over 10 years of experience in innovative payment solutions to help our customers increase their profits for the markets they serve”, asserts Elena Bouhaniche, Netpay International’s Marketing Manager.

Until now, Netpay almost exclusively worked with credit cards. The new solution is essentially a bank wire with an instant “approve or decline” reply, as opposed to regular bank wires which take 24 to 48 hours.

“In an increasingly complex business landscape, Netpay is constantly trying to expand innovative payment solutions with a major strive to become a “One Stop Shop” that delivers a broad range of payment options to merchants and reliably manages their payments, decrease costs, and maximizes their competitive edge,” remarks Alon Elbaz, Netpay International’s CEO.

There are two main kinds of solutions called Push and Pull. With the Pull solution, merchants work with Netpay to reach into customer’s bank account and pull the money from their account. Using this solution customers can still chargeback. With the Push solution, customers are redirected to their own bank accounts, log in and wire the money to Netpay. The customer is pushing the funds from their bank account, making it almost impossible for a chargeback to occur.

Regardless of whether you use Push or Pull, Netpay’s new Direct Debit Solution has enormous potential to transform your European business.

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(PRWEB) July 4, 2010 — WebHosting.am, a web hosting company with offices in London, Montreal, and Dallas, Texas, announces it is now easier for businesses to succeed through reseller hosting plans. WebHosting.am’s new Reseller Plus packages offer double the server space, double the bandwidth, and triple the resources, like server speed and RAM memory. Reseller Plus also takes the stress and confusion out of web hosting.

Many people want to start a web hosting business, but they also want to avoid all of the technical responsibilities that come with it. With a new Reseller Plus hosting plan, businesses get the best of both worlds. They are now allowed to sell even more web space and bandwidth, without the hassles that come with maintaining a server.

So what exactly is reseller hosting? With a new Reseller Plus hosting account, web hosting companies can sell WebHosting.am’s server space as if it were their own. With Reseller hosting, web hosting companies can sell server space and bandwidth, domain registrations, FTP accounts, email accounts, and databases. And, there are several other advantages to Reseller hosting:

- Thanks to the new Reseller Plus, no one needs a vast technical background to get into the web hosting business. With Reseller hosting, web hosting businesses become the middle-man. They get to take advantage of WebHosting.am’s live 24/7 technical support and customer service department, and pass the services onto customers. That means businesses do not have to hire their own technical support employees, which can save hundreds of thousands of dollars every year.

- Reseller Plus makes it easy for web hosting companies to focus on other aspects of the business. With Reseller Plus, WebHosting.am handles all of the server maintenance, security updates, and software upgrades.

- Reseller Plus allows web hosting companies to accommodate any client, big or small. All of the extra server space can be divided into different-sized pieces. Businesses have the option of selling small portions of the server space to smaller clients, or bigger portions of the server spaces to larger clients.

- Reseller Plus is an affordable web hosting plan – making it easy for any business to take advantage of the benefits. For a limited time, WebHosting.am is offering Reseller Plus at a discounted price. Web hosting companies can now get all of the features of Reseller Plus for just pennies a day, making it easier to turn a profit. Plus, there are no contracts to sign, and no waiting for a setup. With any of the Reseller Plus packages, the initial setup happens instantly.

WebHosting.am has created several reseller hosting packages that allow web hosting businesses to choose something that works best for them:

- With Reseller Basic Plus, web hosting companies now have 20Gb of storage to sell and 200Gb of bandwidth. Plus, Reseller Basic Plus offers unlimited domains, sub-domains, POP3 accounts, and MySQL databases.

- With Reseller Business Plus, web hosting companies now have 40Gb of storage to sell and 400Gb of bandwidth. Plus, Reseller Business Plus offers unlimited domains, sub-domains, POP3 accounts, and MySQL databases.

- With Reseller Deluxe Plus, web hosting companies now have 60Gb of storage and 500Gb of bandwidth to sell. And, like the other two plans, Reseller Deluxe Plus also offers unlimited domains, sub-domains, POP3 accounts, and MySQL databases.

You do not need a strong technical background to take advantage of shared or reseller hosting. In fact, WebHosting.am offers live 24/7 technical support if you have any questions or issues.

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(PRWeb UK) June 25, 2010 — The sister website of the already successful boilerguide.co.uk offers a complete list of nationwide engineers for the installation of solar PV and solar water heating panels.

Solarguide.co.uk is free of charge for homeowners to search and obtain quotes from solar engineers within their vicinity. Futhermore, the site is also free for heating engineers with solarguide.co.uk only charging for leads generated – alerting installers to new opportunities via SMS messages and emails as they arise.

MCS registered solar installers are added on a regular basis upon application so that Solarguide.co.uk can offer homeowners the best mix of professional regional and local engineers to quote them.

David Holmes, Founder of Solarguide, commented: “With the recent introduction of the Government’s Feed-in Tariff and subsequent influx of new Solar installers it’s more important than ever that companies stay ahead of the game and maintain an online presence.”

Installers who sign up to Solarguide.co.uk will get a search listing, extended option for the personalisation of the company’s profile, and the use of a handy lead generation tool, giving installers access to the consumers looking for a variety of jobs, from solar PV installation to solar panel maintenance, to be completed.

The new website is a UK-wide service and acts as a resource for both industry professionals and consumers alike, containing a vast depth of knowledge on solar-related issues and highlighting the benefits of switching to solar PV electricity or solar thermal water heating.

As well as informative articles, Solarguide.co.uk also has a regularly updated news section bringing you the latest developments with the solar industry, updates on incentives and news focussed directly on solar PV and solar water heating.

For more information, please visit www.solarguide.co.uk.

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Hertfordshire, UK (PRWEB) June 15, 2010 — Shadow Technology announced today that they had reduced the cost of the 5 Channel User Licence, for their market leading Call Management Software, Call-Shadow, by $454, with a new end user price of $1,916, including 12 months support. The price reduction is for their most popular SIP and Skinny protocol products.

“Call Recording is now mandatory for many organisations, not only for compliance, but also security”, said Shadow’s Director of Marketing, Alex Kafkarides. “It effects companies of all sizes, and we hope to reduce the financial burden on companies, in these difficult times”. “We are also finalizing a new subscription option, that will allow companies to spread the cost of acquiring Call Managerment, over several years. We will be putting out a separate release in the next few days”, he ended.

Call-Shadow is compatible with Cisco and all products using the SIP protocol, and can downloaded from www.shadow-technology.co.uk. For 30 days free evaluation.

Shadow Technology is actively looking for Resellers worldwide for Call-Shadow and Call-Shadow. Please email sales(at)shadow-technology(dot)co(dot)uk if you would like to become a Reseller.

About Call-Shadow
Call-Shadow is an easy to use call recording solution that implements the corporate call record keeping policy and provides secure, easy access to call records.

It allows managers to review phone calls according to their workgroup.

Users are empowered by providing them with accurate records of their calls.

Call-Shadow can be used in mission critical implementations, because it has a clustering system with an advanced fail-over system, with no single point of failure. Should a server in a cluster become unavailable, its workload is divided between its peers without operator intervention. Such a clustering system is much superior to a simple hot-swap standby system because all servers are working, providing scalability and redundancy at the same time.

All access to replays is logged and can be audited by authorized users.

Call-Shadow is highly integrated with Cisco CallManager, having an XML phone service which allows replaying calls directly on the phone, and being integrated with CallManager’s user directory (LDAP DCDirectory) for unified authentication.

It is available in two configurations, to facilitate application in a call center or company-wide.

Try Before You Buy - Download a fully-featured evaluation version with a friendly configuration wizard from www.shadow-technology.co.uk, and use for 30 days.

About Shadow Technology

Shadow Technology was founded in 1998 and is self funded. The company has remained focused on helping our customers derive significant value technology products in the IP and Call Centre arena.

Culture
We pride ourselves on delivering a quality experience and in providing expert services. The Shadow Technology team has been recruited through personal contact and we therefore maintain high standards and excellent communication. The ability to share expertise is frequently invaluable.

Software Products
Call-Shadow is a state-of-the-art IP call-recording solution for SME companies. It provides Enterprise level features and scalability at less than half the price of traditional Call-centre products.

Vision
Shadow Technology will remain focused and continue to grow its reputation as a solutions provider and to increase its value through the development of software IPR.

People
Shadow Technology is privately held and based in Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire , UK and MA, USA, with global coverage through their resellers and partners. For more information contact +44-1279-755247 or visit the Shadow Technology Web site at www.shadow-technology.co.uk.

Press contacts:

Alex Kafkarides - Shadow Technology
Tel: +44 - 560-114 - 1253
Email: a(dot)kafkarides(at)shadow-technology(dot)co(dot)uk
Web: www.shadow-technology co.uk

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London, UK (PRWeb UK) June 4, 2010 — London Web has been appointed by Miniframe, supplier of innovative desktop virtualisation software SoftXpand, as the exclusive distributor for supplying its award-winning multi-user solution to the UK and Eire markets.

This announcement comes several days after MiniFrame was awarded the Frost & Sullivan 2010 European Desktop Virtualisation Product Innovation Green Excellence Award. The award is the latest in a series of Green IT Industry awards given to MiniFrame in recognition of the company and its product as leaders in Green IT initiatives across all market sectors.

London Web Managing Director, Jamie Easterman stated, “SoftXpand is a natural choice for any organisation that is serious about its green commitments and is striving to make a significant impact on its carbon footprint and implement cost savings based on reduced power consumption. We have never seen technology like SoftXpand that benefits as many organisations with significant, tangible reductions in IT purchasing and running costs. We have implemented SoftXpand with a variety of public and private sector clients and the total savings in cost and ownership are compelling without sacrificing performance for end users. Verifiable 80% energy savings are easily achievable.”

MiniFrame Marketing and Sales VP, Emmanuel Boutboul, commented: “The UK is one of the major markets for MiniFrame and working with the right partner is essential. We are delighted at the new partnership with London Web and look forward to a successful business relationship in the coming years. We strongly believe that, together with London Web, we will significantly increase our activities in the UK.”

MiniFrame’s innovative SoftXpand Xpress software enables sharing of Windows-based machines. The software converts a single desktop PC into a system capable of supporting up to 8 users simultaneously - each logged on with their own desktop, monitor, keyboard and mouse. Since SoftXpand is not based on thin client technology, it delivers high-performance video options to each user. Video support is provided by installing additional video cards into the PC or by connecting low-cost Plug and Play display adapters via USB.

Implementing MiniFrame’s technology offers other benefits such as reducing e-waste generation and disposal costs by more than 80%. Heat output from PCs is reduced significantly - decreasing air-conditioning system consumption. IT departments can significantly cut costs in deploying software and hardware upgrades as well as reducing switch and cable requirements.

SoftXpand Xpress is already being used by over 100,000 organisations across the globe and has immense potential to become a leading desktop virtualisation solution on the market owing to its “green” credentials and cost effectiveness. The solution is ideal for applications in a variety of industries including education, call centres, manufacturing companies, small and medium - sized businesses (SMBs), financial institutions, government organisations, hotels and Internet cafes.

SoftXpand is now available from London Web for immediate 30-day trial and purchase from http://softxpand.londonweb.net

About MiniFrame:
MiniFrame founded in 2003, adheres to its commitment to provide more for less software-only, multi-user solutions at a fraction of the cost of standard PC solutions. SoftXpand enables extensive reductions in computing costs and up to 70% in TCO, in addition to improving PC management. SoftXpand is distributed worldwide through regional resellers.

MiniFrame’s vision is to play a leading role in desktop virtualisation. The company intends to leverage SoftXpand software technology and to develop product suites that address various vertical markets, while providing smooth migration from any computing environment to a complete “Cloud Computing” solution.

About London Web:
London Web is a provider of global IT, Internet solutions and services to all sectors. The company provides software, secure hosting, systems integration and technical support services to organisations of all sizes including the NHS and Government sectors. London Web is the exclusive distributor of software used by the NHS for connecting BlackBerry devices to the national NHS mail system.

London Web services markets directly and through reseller partners around the Globe and is continuously seeking to expand its international and local reseller network, offering a unique window of opportunity to its partners.

For sales or partnership inquiries visit http://www.londonweb.net or contact London Web as below:

London Web Limited
Tel.: +44 208 349 4500
http://softxpand.londonweb.net
softxpand (at) londonweb (dot) net

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(PRWeb UK) May 27, 2010 — IT Experts On Call, a new IT start-up is putting small to medium size businesses on an even footing with their larger counterparts with a pay-per-use service offering. SME’s with smaller IT departments and smaller budgets who don’t wish to be tied into long term contracts can now contact a team of CCIE and JNCIE experts around the world, to assist with support, design and projects. The IT Experts On Call (IEOC) idea was the brain child of founder Scott Sierra who himself worked as an IT consultant in the UK and Africa for 13 years.

“Don’t get me wrong service providers and contractors both have their benefits, having worked for service providers as a contractor. IEOC isn’t trying to replace either. We are providing a service whereby our customers can get to speak to technical experts fast whether it is a design qualification or troubleshooting an issue. I remember working for an energy company a while back and we recently had Cisco Nexus switches installed into our new data centres. We often ran into problems with the design and configuration of the environment which were both outsourced to a large UK telecoms company. It took days to get an engineer allocated to help us and once one problem was resolved we ran into another and the process started all over.” IEOC engineers are located globally which means they can support companies and remote offices from Australia, Asia, Europe, Africa and the US 24/7. At present, IEOC offers onsite and remote support in the UK and most parts of the US and only remote support to other regions.

With companies cutting back on IT support staff around the world this has led to IEOC filling a gap in those IT departments by providing a team of techies with a range of technologies and skills from routing & switching, VoIP, wireless, design, storage, security and support as and when required. This not only provides relief for IT managers but also helps with the skill transfer to the customer’s engineers. Customers simply give us a call, tell us their requirements and we arrange the necessary resources. If the problem is ongoing we will then add resources to assist free of charge.

“Currently we only offer experts in Juniper and Cisco technologies but are looking to expand into other areas within the IT arena as demand grows for these services.”

“Customers deal directly with a techie, so no sales pitches or purchasing of services your business won’t ever use. We believe it’s a fantastic idea and see the business having a strong year as demand for faster access to high level support grows, especially with the current boom in the data centre area.”

If you would like more information or would like to discuss our services in detail please call IEOC on 0845 604 4997 or visit us at www.itexpertsoncall.com

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The government also says it can get another £95m in savings by cutting public-sector IT spending, although a breakdown of these savings has not yet been made available.

Some of Becta’s information and communications technology (ICT) policy and procurement functions will now transfer to the Department for Education, Whitehall sources said on Monday. The scrapping of Becta will not lead to the loss of benefits of the scale that had been gained by centralised negotiation with vendors, the sources suggested, adding that individual educational establishments would now get more control over their implementation of ICT.

“Naturally we are very disappointed at the government’s decision,” Becta chairman Graham Badman and chief executive Stephen Crowne said in a joint statement on Monday. “Becta is a very effective organisation with an international reputation, delivering valuable services to schools, colleges and children.

“Our procurement arrangements save the schools and colleges many times more than Becta costs to run. Our Home Access programme will give laptops and broadband to over 200,000 of the poorest children.”

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Tokyo, Japan (PRWeb UK) May 24, 2010 — The Bioinformatics And Systems Engineering (BASE), a division of RIKEN, Japan’s flagship research institute, is holding its first ever International Rational Genome Design Contest (GenoCon) on the semantic web. The contest makes use of an information infrastructure for life science research known as the RIKEN Scientists’ Networking System (SciNeS*2) and will take place between May 25 and September 30.

GenoCon: An international science and technology competition supporting future specialists in rational genome design for Synthetic Biology

First-ever contest in rational genome design based on semantic-web technology

Summary:

- A challenge for green innovation: rational genome design of a plant with an environmental detoxification function.

- Collection and sharing of genome-design theories and programs from researchers around the world.

- Web-based contest aimed at supporting a future generation of scientists – including a category for high-school students.

The Bioinformatics And Systems Engineering (BASE), a division of RIKEN, Japan’s flagship research institute, is holding its first ever International Rational Genome Design*1 Contest (GenoCon) on the semantic web. The contest makes use of an information infrastructure for life science research known as the RIKEN Scientists’ Networking System (SciNeS*2) and will take place between May 25 and September 30.

Built upon semantic web technology, GenoCon is the first contest of its kind, offering contestants the chance to compete in technologies for rational genome design. To succeed, contestants must make effective use of genomic and protein data contained in SciNeS database clusters to design DNA sequences that improve plant physiology. In the first GenoCon, contestants are asked to design a DNA sequence conferring to the model organism Arabidopsis thaliana the functionality to effectively eliminate and detoxify airborne Formaldehyde.

For their part, contestants are constrained to so-called bioinformatics activities, designing DNA sequences from genomic-related information in a browser-based programming environment provided by SciNeS (Fig.1). RIKEN and other research institutes are then responsible for inserting these DNA sequences into genomes and evaluating experimentally the functions of the resulting Arabidopsis thaliana plants.

A new web-based framework for collaboration in synthetic biology, referred to as “open-optimization research*3″, is provided to GenoCon contestants to help make effective use of DNA information resources in creating improved bio-resources. Genome design theories and programs submitted by contestants from all over the world will be compiled within RIKEN SciNeS and shared under a Creative Commons Public License, contributing to advancements in biomass engineering and other fields of Green Biotechnology.

GenoCon also offers, in addition to categories for Japanese and international researchers and university students, a category specifically for high-school students. Just as ROBOCON (Robot Contest), GenoCon thus provides opportunities for young people to learn about the most cutting-edge science with a sense of pleasure, bringing intellectual excitement to the field of Life Science and supporting a future generation of scientists.

GenoCon will be accepting entries to the contest starting May 25, 2010 at the official GenoCon website: http://genocon.org/sw/wiki/en/cria196s1i/.

For more information, please contact:

Dr. Tetsuro Toyoda
Director, Bioinformatics And Systems Engineering(BASE) Division
RIKEN Yokohama Institute
Tel: +81-(0)45-503-9610 / Fax: +81-(0)45-503-9553

Planning Section
Yokohama Research Promotion Division
RIKEN Yokohama Institute
Tel: +81-(0)45-503-9117 / Fax: +81-(0)45-503-9113

Ms. Tomoko Ikawa (PI officer)
Global Relations Office
RIKEN
Tel: +81-(0)48-462-1225 / Fax: +81-(0)48-462-4715
Mail: koho(at)riken(dot)jp

*1 Rational Genome Design

“Rational Design” is a methodology for finding the optimal structure of substances introduced into target organisms for the purpose of conferring new functions to them. The methodology uses an algorithm that determines the optimal structure logically based on data obtained from the organism.

“Rational Genome Design” is a methodology for finding optimal DNA sequences that confer new functions to a target organism. “Rational Drug Design” is a methodology for finding optimal compound chemical structure which confers a desired function to an organism.

*2 RIKEN SciNeS

RIKEN SciNeS (Scientists’ Networking System) is a web system built upon the “Semantic Web”. Making use of the latest cloud computing technology, the system is capable of simultaneously hosting upwards of thousands of virtual laboratories, providing every individual user with access control to each data item. The system is being developed and operated by the Bioinformatics And Systems Engineering (BASE) division of RIKEN (http://scines.org).

Virtual labs on the RIKEN SciNeS system enable each lab owner (researcher) to easily create and publish databases without the need to maintain individual web servers. This information infrastructure can be beneficial for researchers in implementing international collaborative research. In addition, each virtual lab can also organize competitions or initiate open participatory research.

GenoCon is to be organized using one of the virtual labs on RIKEN SciNeS. Each contestant in GenoCon establishes a workspace (named “My Page”) in the virtual lab (named “GenoCon”). Virtual labs on RIKEN SciNeS are used as an integrated life science information infrastructure incorporating functions including a programming environment, a digital lab notes system, and information resources for biomass engineering research activities. By releasing some of these functions, GenoCon offers an environment for open-optimization research in which contestants can submit more optimal DNA sequence designs, potentially conferring to the plant Arabidopsis the target function assigned by the GenoCon organizers.

*3 Open Optimization Research

RIKEN SciNeS provides a new framework for collaboration called “Open Optimization Research” in which the process for optimizing an invention is carried out by numerous contestants/participants in an open manner, rather than by members of the closed group of inventors.

It is often the case that a DNA sequence is initially synthesized by researchers in order to verify a given idea in the easiest way possible. However, this initially-tested DNA sequence may not be optimal among the patented DNA sequences that are claimed to confer a desired function to a living organism.

Optimal design of DNA sequences requires that researchers conduct enough tests to find optimal examples among patented DNA sequences, which demands securing research financing. Designing optimal sequences also requires bioinformatics specialists with the skills to make use of existing knowledge and data while keeping in mind the genetic background of each organism. As a result of these requirements, many DNA sequences, while protected by patents, are never actually put into practical use by their inventors due to a lack of necessary resources (in a phenomenon referred to as the “Valley of Death”).

We propose Open Optimization Research as a way to overcome this problem by providing opportunities to optimize the design of DNA sequences with the help of external participants to the research process (Fig. 2). GenoCon offers incentives for researchers and sponsors that make it attractive for them to join the contest. (Fig.3)

Open Optimization Research is also a framework for “Open Innovation”, in which a company or a university with a desire to develop a practical use for its patented invention is matched with potential partners that have their own original technologies. A successful match can help propel an invention toward practical applications.

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The paper quotes “someone with direct knowledge of the investigation” as saying that the hackers managed to steal Google’s Gaia password system, described as one of the company’s “crown jewels”.

The system controls access to all Google log-in accounts, including webmail and the firm’s business applications.

It was previously believed that the hackers took individual log-in details but, if the report is true, the breach was considerably more severe.

Google is notoriously secretive about Gaia and rarely discusses it in public, which may provide a clue as to why the company has been so tight-lipped about the incident.

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