Software Industry Announcements and News
Microsoft Will Be Running a ‘Windows Azure’ Worksho
[ Comments Off ] Posted on 02.05.10 under Development
Microsoft Will Be Running a ‘Windows Azure’ Workshop at the Cloud Computing Congress – 16th March 2010
Cloud Computing Congress 2010
LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Microsoft Corporation, the world’s leading manufacturer of software for business and personal computing, announced today that they will be hosting a workshop presentation on their cloud platform offering ‘Windows Azure’ at the Cloud Computing Congress, http://www.cloudcomputingcongress.com/ taking place on the 16th March at Olympia, London.
Eric Nelson, Microsoft’s Developer Evangelist will be giving an introduction to one of the leading cloud platforms that is at the cutting edge of the Cloud Computing Age. Attendees will learn what Windows Azure is capable of doing and why, how and when you should adopt the Azure platform that went into production on the 4th January 2010.
The free to attend workshop session is a must attend for resellers, developers, the IT community and independent software vendors (ISV) who can explore the potential to increase revenues and decrease its costs.
The session will demonstrate Windows Azure PaaS offering that enables applications built in .NET, Java, Ruby, PhP, SQL Server, MySQL and more to be run on Microsoft Data Centers.
“For the past decade we have relied on Microsoft for underpinning technologies in our foundational SaaS, infrastructure services and innovations in the Media & Entertainment and Enterprise markets’’, said Darcy Lorincz, CEO of Origin Digital. “Integration with the Windows Azure platform is another market leading, evolutionary step for our company and we expect that Origin Digital and our customers will benefit from performance and cost benefits for years to come.’’
“The Cloud Computing Congress is an event designed for building partnerships across the board, and providing a good networking environment for those to communicate and take the cloud debate forward.” commented Ian Johnson, Managing Director, Six Degrees Events. “I’m especially interested in heading the latest in the demand for mobile devices and mobile cloud computing, and the challenges this presents.”
The Cloud Computing Congress will run simultaneously with other conferences including; Enterprise Social Media (http://www.enterprisesocialmedia.net , Social Media World Forum http://www.socialmedia-forum.com , Mobile Social Media – http://www.mobilesocial-networking.com
About Window’s Azure
Windows Azure is the cloud services operating system that serves as the development, service hosting, and service management environment for the Windows Azure Platform. Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale and manage web applications on the Internet through Microsoft Data Centers.
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/
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.
SharewareRadio.com interviews PayPal
[ Comments Off ] Posted on 12.22.09 under ASP Member Companies, Development, Web Sites
SharewareRadio.com interviews PayPal
News Reports:
Facebook gives users more control of privacy
AOL goes it alone, at last
Twitter to host developer conference
Google debuts news story experiment
The Kiss My Butt Award of the Week
This week it goes to French President Nicolas Sarkozy
This week’s Interview
This week’s guest is Sven Kappel. Sven is a merchant services sales engineer at PayPal.
This interview was held in Berlin at ESWC 2008
Outlook Recovery by SoftAmbulance: Smooth Outlook Data Recovery
[ Comments Off ] Posted on 12.19.09 under Development
December 18, 2009 – SoftAmbulance Data Recovery announces the release of SoftAmbulance Outlook Recovery. This new solution recovers deleted or corrupted Microsoft Outlook files and databases, first providing the user with the preview of repairable data. Outlook Recovery is able to repair as much data as possible: messages, attachments, address books and calendar entries. The straightforward step-by-step interface is the example of clarity and convenience.
The new recovery tool by SoftAmbulance Data Recovery is designed for smooth and comprehensive recovery of Outlook databases, which have been deleted, lost, or damaged due to hard drive crash or power failure. SoftAmbulance Outlook Recovery is able to locate the databases automatically on any drive or memory device, even if it is damaged and, consequently, not readable. Corrupted databases go through careful repair process, so that all messages, attachments, address books, etc. are repaired.
Besides, Outlook Recovery supports export of Outlook data to .PST, .OST, .DBF and .EML formats, so that the recovered databases can be used with programs other than Microsoft Outlook (e.g. Outlook Express or any e-mail application supporting .EML files).
To check if Outlook Recovery is powerful enough to recover necessary files, one should use the preview feature: it displays all that can be recovered including archive contents and pictures. Before purchasing the license it is recommended to download the trial edition and to try it out.
Pricing and Availability
SoftAmbulance Outlook Recovery is compatible with Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, 2003 and 2008 Server. It can also recover databases in Microsoft Outlook 2003 and 2007 formats. A single-user license costs 79.95 USD. Further information on the product, as well as its free trial edition, is available at http://softambulance.com/outlook_recovery_pst/outlook_recovery_features.php
About SoftAmbulance
Founded in 2005, SoftAmbulance Data Recovery Company is a software developer specializing in convenient yet powerful recovery tools for home users. The major products by SoftAmbulance are Partition Doctor, File Recovery and Photo Undelete. For more information on the company and its products please visit http://softambulance.com
Digital River Introduces Advanced Online Subscription Solution for Software and Game Publishers
[ Comments Off ] Posted on 11.17.09 under ASP Member Companies, Business, Development
Offers more sophisticated tools for building more predictable revenue streams
MINNEAPOLIS–Digital River, Inc. (NASDAQ:DRIV), a leading provider of global e-commerce solutions, introduced an advanced online subscription solution for software and game publishers. The new Digital River Subscriptions solution, which builds upon the existing subscription capabilities of Digital River’s global commerce engine, includes more sophisticated marketing capabilities and deeper administration functions. The new subscription features are designed to help publishers grow their global e-commerce businesses with a steadier, more predictable revenue stream.
Digital River Subscriptions offers more options to control and customize subscriptions and market renewals, more detailed performance data on subscription campaigns, and increased opportunities to raise renewal success rates. The enhancements are designed to reduce the costs of extending and retaining subscriber relationships as well as provide subscribers even more custom and localized experiences.
“The shift from offline to online subscriptions is happening in earnest among software and game publishers – and Digital River has the infrastructure and expertise to help publishers make this technology leap,” said Joel Ronning, Digital River’s CEO. “We’ve taken a familiar and traditional service model and brought it online with automated and advanced capabilities that enable publishers to run their businesses and service their customers with a whole new level of efficiency. And because we’ve integrated our best-of-breed subscription technology with our e-commerce platform, publishers can now manage reoccurring revenue business models in a single construct. What we have created is yet another lucrative way for publishers to monetize their products.”
With Digital River Subscriptions, publishers can:
* Customize their subscription model based on time and units;
* Save on administration costs with subscriber self-service tools that allow them to fully manage their account information and functions;
* Maximize renewal rates and preserve subscriber bases with comprehensive, global renewal marketing capabilities;
* Enhance customer loyalty by taking automated pre-orders of upcoming application or game launches; and
* Drive greater administrative efficiencies with back-end processes that automatically handle changes in service levels and suspending or re-instating subscriptions.
Digital River Subscriptions is an integrated part of the comprehensive, global Digital River® e-commerce solution. The e-commerce solution includes localized e-commerce store building and hosting, international transaction and payment processing, digital and physical product fulfillment, and e-marketing and site merchandising programs, among others.
About Digital River, Inc.
Digital River, Inc., a leading provider of global e-commerce solutions, builds and manages online businesses for software and game publishers, consumer electronics manufacturers, distributors, online retailers and affiliates. Its multi-channel e-commerce solution, which supports both direct and indirect sales, is designed to help companies of all sizes maximize online revenues as well as reduce the costs and risks of running an e-commerce operation. The company’s comprehensive platform offers site development and hosting, order management, fraud management, export controls, tax management, physical and digital product fulfillment, multi-lingual customer service, advanced reporting and strategic marketing services.
Founded in 1994, Digital River is headquartered in Minneapolis with offices across the U.S., Asia, Europe and South America. For more details about Digital River, visit the corporate Web site at www.digitalriver.com or call +1 952-253-1234.