Software Industry Announcements and News
eCommerce Provider Avangate Announces Strategic Plan for 2010
[ Comments Off ] Posted on 01.23.10 under ASP Member Companies, Business, Development
Focus on software sales channel integration, optimization and expansion into emerging markets
AMSTELVEEN, The Netherlands–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Avangate, full service provider of electronic software distribution and reseller management solutions for software vendors, sets strategy for 2010 with focus on sales channel integration: direct online, affiliates and reseller partner network.
“Our approach regarding sales channel integration will enable software vendors to leverage each available channel while reducing overall management costs.”
Furthermore, Avangate will bring in even more services and tools in the areas of localized search engine marketing, web usability, shopping cart optimization, web analytics & multivariate testing, social media and email marketing to proactively help clients maximize revenues through optimization of software sales related processes and marketing campaigns.
“Avangate has seen significant growth in 2009 despite the economic crisis and we have great confidence in our 2010 evolution”, mentioned Carmen Sebe, CEO at Avangate. “Our approach regarding sales channel integration will enable software vendors to leverage each available channel while reducing overall management costs.”
Sebe added, “Continuing on the successful cooperation with Intel for the Intel® Business Exchange Store in Europe and with partners such as TrialPay, Uniloc or Alipay -, Avangate will establish additional strategic integrations with key players in the industry. The aim is to enhance exposure and sales opportunities as well as to increase return and reduce effort for our clients’ sales and marketing departments.”
Avangate will keep on expanding its offering to cater for key global regions such as the BRIC countries. This is in line with the current strategy to support software vendors’ expansion plans and to assist them implement more effectively their eCommerce and channel distribution strategies on targeted local markets.
About Avangate
Avangate provides electronic software distribution and reseller management solutions assisting software vendors worldwide sell and promote their software online as well as through channel and distribution networks.
Tailored for software sales, the company’s offer includes a full-featured, secure eCommerce platform, results-driven web marketing services, an affiliate network and the ARMS reseller management system. Avangate’s expertise in the software business can help vendors increase their visibility on the Internet, maximize access to additional selling channels and generate software sales online and offline.
More information can be found on the corporate website, at www.avangate.com, and on the company’s blog, at http://blog.avangate.com/
Taxes, Refinancing and Mortgage Modification: Four Useful Tips
[ Comments Off ] Posted on 01.23.10 under Business
If you’re like most Americans, April 15 is not your favorite day of the year. The day the tax forms are due. With all of the economic upheaval, filing this year may be trickier than others, which weren’t all that easy in the first place. If you are a first –time buyer refinanced your home or had your mortgage modified, though, the extra complexity could work in your favor.
Ryan Boyajian is President of We Save Homes, Inc., a software company whose eTurboMod package makes applying for a loan modification as easy as filing your taxes with any of the programs that have become so popular lately. He offers some advice for homeowners who want to take advantage of the many changes to the tax code that were recently passed.
“First off,” he says. “get an expert opinion if you are unclear about whether you can take certain deductions or claim various credits. That doesn’t mean you need a lawyer or accountant. The IRS will let you know your status. The key is to call them now because it April, you’ll probably get a busy signal.
“Second, to get most of these deductions and credits, you’ll have to itemize your deductions by filling in Schedule A. That’s extra paperwork, but we’re talking about saving thousands of dollars. And there are plenty of other deductions that you can claim beside mortgage-related items that make this worthwhile.
“Third, pay special attention to recent innovations. For example as of 2007, cancelled or forgiven mortgage debt doesn’t count as income that you have to report. So, it you had more mortgage modified in 2009, the amount forgiven won’t count against you. Your lender will have to send you a 1099-C form. If you don’t get one soon, call and ask for it. In most cases, this applies to refinancing situations. And if you paid points for a refi, that’s deductible as well.
“Fourth, remember that your state may have different rules than the federal government. Check with your local tax authority to see if there is a special part of your local tax code that can save you even more.”
Get Organized With the Powerful Information Manager
[ Comments Off ] Posted on 01.22.10 under Business
CSoftLab has announced the release of C-Organizer Professional 4.0, the new major version of the advanced information manager providing the tools to organize and conveniently store all the important info in one place. The new version supports the Standard, Mixed and Ribbon interfaces, various color schemes, ensuring that a user will get comfortable with the program in no time.
If you store the important information in several places, you most likely suffered the inconvenience of this method. Retrieving contact info, looking for a sketch or in a pile of assorted papers, remembering all the appointments and scheduling meetings can come as a quite complicated task. What you need in this case is an integrated solution for information management that will store all the necessary info, so that you would always know where it is and be able to find it with just a few clicks. To meet this need, CSoftLab has developed C-Organizer Professional.
Designed to make information management quick and easy, C-Organizer Professional enables a user to plan and organize business and personal life, thus helping to save time and improve productivity. The comprehensive software offers a planner, an address book, password and bookmark managers, a notebook and a calendar of events all rolled into one PIM that smoothly integrates with your default e-mail client and web browser.
C-Organizer Pro features built-in Calendar to schedule tasks, appointments and meetings. And you can be sure that you don’t miss anything: the smart program will remind you of an upcoming deadline, holiday, birthday and other important events. The PIM allows you to make To-Do lists for your employees and teammates, group them and share over the network.
The program also offers the Address Book that allows storing pictures along with the usual contact info and features easily configurable database structure. To prevent information leaks, your sensitive data can be password protected and encrypted. You, on the other hand, will be able to access your info anytime, even while on the go, thanks to the support for synchronization with Pocket PC and Palm devices.
Pricing and Availability
C-Organizer Professional runs under Microsoft Windows 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, Vista and Windows 7, and costs $49.95 for a license. Licensed users are entitled to unlimited technical support and free lifetime updates. Further information on the product as well as its free 30-day evaluation version is available at http://www.csoftlab.com/C-OrganizerPro.html.
About CSoftLab
Founded in 2000, CSoftLab is an independent software development company focused on providing information management solutions. C-Organizer Professional edition remains the company’s bestselling title since the product launch in 2001. Originally developed in 2001, the program has since gained wide recognition from media and enjoyed popularity among customers. For more information, please visit www.csoftlab.com.
E-Mail Recovery: the Mighty Solution to Fix Lost and Corrupt E-mail Databases
[ Comments Off ] Posted on 01.21.10 under System Utilities
January 20, 2010: E-Mail Recovery company announces the release of a new solution of the same name, quickly and comprehensively recovering deleted or corrupted e-mail databases. E-Mail Recovery supports such popular e-mail clients as Outlook, Outlook Express, Vista Mail, Thunderbird and The Bat!, recovering every single message, attachment, address book contact or calendar entry. In case of a hard drive crash or an accidental deletion, the program will automatically locate all supported files and provide the user with the pre-recovery preview of their contents.
E-Mail Recovery is an easy and effective way to recover lost or corrupted e-mails and e-mail databases. It should be noted that the decided advantage of this solution is that it performs comprehensive recovery, not missing anything – e-mails, attached files, address book entries, etc. All relevant files on all storage devices are detected automatically due to careful scanning carried out by E-Mail Recovery.
Any frequently accessed database is in danger of corruption; therefore, now and then e-mail databases get unreadable for e-mail client. But that is one of the problems E-Mail Recovery has been developed to solve. The program repairs the corrupt files so that they could be operable again.
E-mail databases may also get accidentally deleted, as well as hard drive may crash. In both cases E-Mail Recovery is able to recover the supported files, even if the hard drive is severely damaged. However, it is always possible to get a full preview of what will be recovered and to see if the solution is powerful enough.
As for the supported formats, E-Mail Recovery supports recovery of .PST, .DBX, .TBB, .DBF and .OST files and is able to export them to EML/MSG format for using such databases with Outlook Express, Vista Mail, The-Bat!, etc.
What can be recovered by E-mail Recovery?
- E-mails, attachments, contacts, calendar entries;
- Corrupted or deleted databases;
- MS Outlook, Vista Mail, Outlook Express, The Bat!, Mozilla Thunderbird databases.
Pricing and Availability
E-Mail Recovery is compatible with Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, 2003 and 2008 Server, and supports databases produced with Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Vista Mail, The Bat!, Mozilla Thunderbird. A Personal license costs $99.95. Further information on the product, as well as its free trial edition, is available from http://e-mail-recovery.com.
About E-Mail Recovery Company
Founded in 2008, E-Mail Recovery is a software development company, specializing in e-mail recovery tools able to retrieve as much data as possible. Its major products are E-Mail Recovery, Outlook Repair and Outlook Express Repair. For more information on the company and its products please visit http://e-mail-recovery.com.
An Offline Stock Icon Catalog
[ Comments Off ] Posted on 01.20.10 under Development, Graphic Apps
SibCode announces the release of Sib Icon Catalog, a free Windows tool to help webmasters, Web and software developers find and purchase ready-made graphics. Indexing hundreds of royalty-free icon collections and thousands of tagged individual icons, Sib Icon Catalog makes it easy to locate, preview, and buy icons for almost any project.
About Sib Icon Catalog
Sib Icon Catalog makes it easier to find, preview, and order graphics without spending hours in Google. Indexing hundreds of ready-made icon collections and thousands of royalty-free icons, Sib Icon Catalog will help webmasters, designers, Web and application developers find graphics they need in just minutes. All icons indexed by Sib Icon Catalog are carefully tagged, allowing to find just the right images in no time. Instant icon previews are included with Sib Icon Catalog. Unlike online sources, Sib Icon Catalog previews icons in full size and with no watermarks.
All images indexed by Sib Icon Catalog are coming directly from the source, with royalty-free licenses that make it possible to use images as many times as needed without paying extra in licensing fees. Sib Icon Catalog greatly simplifies searching and buying icons.
Thousands of previews with no watermarks are included with Sib Icon Catalog download. The tool offers a choice of individual icons or discounted icon sets. All icons can be ordered immediately, and will be delivered in just a few minutes to help customers meet the tightest deadlines.
Stock icons indexed by Sib Icon Catalog are available in numerous formats, sizes and color depths. ICO, GIF, PNG, and BMP formats are indexed. Images of 16×16 to 256×256 pixels, in 256 colors or 32-bit True Color with alpha channel can be purchased.
About SibCode
Founded in 2005, SibCode specializes in delivering a variety of graphic-related products and services to businesses and end users. The company’s products range from lightweight font and graphic editors, image viewers, and watermarking software to a variety of ready-made icon collections. In addition, SibCode offers royalty-free icons as well as graphic design services.
Anti Tracks 7 Guarantees: What Is Private Remains Private
[ Comments Off ] Posted on 01.19.10 under ASP Member Companies, Security & Privacy
January 19, 2010: Giant Matrix, a software development company specializing in security solutions and system utilities, announces the release of Anti Tracks 7, a new version of its award-winning program, which now combines secure tracks erasing, data security, internet security and disk cleanup. This four-in-one solution guarantees data security, peak system performance and protection of user’s privacy both online and offline.
Anti Tracks was originally developed to protect user’s privacy by securely erasing applications tracks, browsers and Windows history and shredding unwanted files. Today Anti Tracks 7 offers its users more value added features, which are to help them protect their privacy, online identity, and valuable data and keep their system performance at its peak!
“During the last year we listened attentively to our users’ needs and have carefully built Anti Tracks 7 with its new value added features in order to help our users protect their privacy against the dramatically increased online threats,” – says Metwally, Giant Matrix CEO.
Anti Tracks 7 can protect users’ important files and folders in two secure ways: either by locking them with the help of reliable encryption algorithms or hiding them steganographically – inside images and audio files. Both features can be easily accessed through Anti Tracks GUI or Windows Explorer right-click menu!
In addition to this, Anti Tracks 7 protects users’ online identity through IP Hider feature, which disguises the real IP address, thus providing anonymity. The fake IP hides all the information that could be tracked and employed criminally.
To top it all, Anti Tracks 7 is able to boost system performance by cutting down the number of startup programs as well as by erasing junk files and unnecessary duplicate files impairing the performance and wasting valuable disk space.
Anti Tracks 7 Features at a Glance:
- Secure erasing of browsers, Windows and third-party applications tracks;
- Secure locking of files and folders;
- Secure hiding of files and folders in pictures and audio files;
- Stealth browsing using IP Hider;
- Secure file shredder;
- Junk and obsolete files cleaner;
- Duplicate files cleaner;
- Disk wiping;
- Full cookies management;
- Scheduler to automate tracks erasing process;
- User-focused interface, detailed documentation;
- And much more!
Pricing and Availability
Anti Tracks is compatible with Windows 95/ 98/ Me/ NT 4/ 2000/ XP/ 2003/ Vista/ 7 and costs 34.95 USD. Further information on the product, as well as its 15-day fully functional evaluation version, is available from http://www.giantmatrix.com/products/anti-tracks/.
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About Giant Matrix
Founded in 2004, Giant Matrix a leading software company, specializing in system utilities and security software solutions for home and corporate users. The major products of Giant Matrix are Anti Tracks, Registry Washer, Memory Washer, iSurfer Shield and Giant Disk Cleaner. For more information please visit the company website at http://www.giantmatrix.com.