Ipanema Technologies and RAD Data Communications Join Forces to Bring High-Margin Application-Aware Services to Existing IP and Ethernet VPNs

Ipanema Technologies and RAD Data Communications Join Forces to Bring High-Margin Application-Aware Services to Existing IP and Ethernet VPNs

Ipanema Technologies and RAD Data Communications Join Forces to Bring High-Margin Application-Aware Services to Existing IP and Ethernet VPNs. Co-Developing Joint System to Provide a Larger Universe of Enterprise Users with an Integrated VPN Optimization Solution and Quality of Experience Guarantees.

Paris, France (PRWEB) February 11, 2009 -- Ipanema Technologies, the leader in application traffic management systems for wide-area networks (WANs) and RAD Data Communications, the leading international manufacturer of intelligent access devices, today announced plans to co-develop a joint system for enhancing added value services in Layer 3 and Layer 2 VPNs while laying the foundation for future business services. This cooperative solution will be based on RAD's intelligent customer premises equipment (CPEs) and Ipanema's Autonomic Networking System (incorporating advanced application-awareness capabilities).

The joint product offering will pave the way for service providers to extend existing WAN optimization services to more IP VPN enterprise sites, as well as assure end-to-end application performance guarantees over increasingly popular Ethernet VPNs. The integration of these two best-of-breed components into a unified platform is also expected to deliver significant OpEx reduction gains for service providers.

"Building on RAD and Ipanema's respective market leadership, the R&D and commercial partnership will make end-to-end network control and optimization as well as Quality of Experience guarantees an affordable reality for deployment at all of the enterprise VPN's customer sites," explains Dr. Daniel Kofman, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at RAD Data Communications. "Service providers will not only be able to roll out higher-margin, added value services for both IP and Ethernet services, but will also benefit from better management of their network resources," he adds. "Moreover, this unique solution will help usher in a new era of business process-centric (instead of network-centric) Business Aware VPN services, which are 'technology agnostic,' sparing end users from the network complexity and technological diversity of L3 and L2 network connectivity".

"This collaborative effort is of strategic importance for both Ipanema Technologies and RAD because it places our companies in the forefront of industry efforts to address the critical challenge of offering application based managed service capabilities for end-to-end network optimization, applications performance control and application SLAs," notes Thierry Grenot, CTO at Ipanema Technologies. "The partnership represents a natural evolution for our industry leading solutions for IP VPN, logically expanding their scope into a broader market and easily accelerating the deployment of highly affordable value-added services in the near- term."

The RAD-Ipanema system concept has already been validated by several of the world's leading tier 1 carriers and trials are now being scheduled for 2009. In addition, the companies are working closely with telecom operators and the managed service provider community to define what the business services of the future will be.

ABOUT RAD

Established in 1981, privately owned RAD Data Communications has achieved international recognition as a major manufacturer of high quality access equipment for data communications and telecommunications applications. These solutions serve the data and voice access requirements of service providers, incumbent and new carriers, and enterprise networks, by reducing infrastructure investment costs while boosting competitiveness and profitability. The company's installed base exceeds 10,000,000 units and includes more than 150 carriers and operators around the world. These customers are supported by 21 RAD offices and more than 300 channel partners in 164 countries.

RAD is a member of the RAD Group of companies, a world leader in networking and internetworking product solutions.

RAD Data Communications site: www.rad.com

ABOUT IPANEMA TECHNOLOGIES (www.ipanematech.com)

Ipanema develops next-generation solutions for application traffic management and WAN optimization which drastically improve the quality of user experience. Ipanema's Autonomic Networking System brings intelligence to the network, enabling enterprises to align the network with their business objectives dynamically. The Ipanema Autonomic Networking System is designed to manage up to very large enterprise Wide Area Networks (WAN). It empowers enterprises, telecom operators and network service providers to go Beyond the Network TM. With Ipanema's Autonomic Networking System, you can create repeatable and industrialized application-SLA based services that bring the best benefits with the lowest Total Cost of Ownership (TCO): intelligent visibility, intelligent optimization and intelligent acceleration. Ipanema is used extensively by many large telecom operators as well as by large multinationals across all market segments, including banking and finance, public sector, energy, pharmaceuticals, automobile, IT and so on. For more information, go to www.ipanematech.com.

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Contact Information BEATRICE DURAND

IPANEMA TECHNOLOGIES

http://www.ipanematech.com

+33 1 55 52 15 37

Great Expectations: CFOs See SaaS as Critical and Core to Business Improvement

Great Expectations: CFOs See SaaS as Critical and Core to Business Improvement

Saugatuck Technology Releases First Finance-centric SaaS Executive Research Study

Westport, CT (PRWEB) February 11, 2009 -- CFOs and other senior Finance executives within all types and sizes of user firms expect to use Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) to improve their abilities to meet critical business goals, including Finance's abilities to play a more strategic role in business. In fact, Finance executives expect SaaS to enable improvement in all aspects of core and non-core Finance systems and operations.

This significant shift in the attitude and actions of senior Finance executives toward SaaS as strategic to business is a key aspect of Saugatuck Technology's newest research study on SaaS, titled "Great Expectations: SaaS Strategies in the Finance Organization," and released today via Saugatuck's web site at www.saugatech.com/561order.htm.

"Today, it is not just Sales and Human Resource departments taking advantage of SaaS. Finance organizations see SaaS as increasingly critical to their evolving business goals, and is increasingly investing in SaaS for both point financial processes as well as core systems of record," according to Saugatuck founder and CEO Bill McNee, one of the study's lead authors.

McNee's statement is borne out by the study's key findings, including the following:

* While starting from a much lower account penetration base than payroll, SaaS adoption within key financial functions and processes such as electronic billing, cash management, core financial accounting, tax management (both state and sales), budgeting, governance risk and compliance (GRC) and business intelligence (BI) will experience explosive growth of between 40 percent to more than 100 percent by the end of 2010.

* CFOs see SaaS as a way to bridge many of the "effectiveness gaps" that exist relative to how well current on-premise systems address their evolving mission and goals.

o The four business goals that CFOs believe SaaS can most improve the effectiveness of Finance include improving ROI, managing performance in the context of risk, reducing process inefficiencies, and optimizing business processes.

* SaaS is seen by CFOs not as a cross-Finance panacea, but as a means to enable better, more cost-effective operations.

* Finance executives see SaaS as a cost-effective means of getting their organizations out of software and systems management, and enabling them to focus more on their core competency - Finance.

The report presents data, analysis, and recommendations from two research programs, both of which included web surveys focusing on buyer requirements and demand (Saugatuck's 2008 annual SaaS web survey of business, finance and IT user executives' related to their SaaS and business strategies and activity; and a 2008 web survey of senior finance executives conducted by Saugatuck in partnership with Finance Executives International / FEI and the Finance Executives Research Foundation / FERF). Both research programs also included briefings with leading and emerging SaaS solution providers, and follow-up deep-dive interviews with survey participants.

In addition to the dozens of Research Alerts and Strategic Perspectives research deliverables that Saugatuck publishes each year focused on SaaS, this is the sixth major Research Report to be released in this topic area by Saugatuck since 2006. Previous studies include the following:

* Transition to SaaS: An ISV Cookbook ( SSR-545, 12-29-08, 26 pages)

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is increasingly considered "enterprise grade" by many IT buyers, and a viable choice to achieve reduced costs, improved service, and ongoing timely functional currency. As a result, many established independent software vendors (ISVs) are faced with strategic questions that will determine the future of their companies: Will buyers continue to purchase and deploy new perpetual licensed-based software? Should our company begin developing SaaS-based offerings? What is the best roadmap to follow to "SaaS-ify" my business?

* Different Wavelengths: SMBs, Change, and SaaS Adoption (SSR-510, 09-30-08, 22 pages)

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is often touted by SaaS providers and others as a key competitive advantage for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) worldwide. Unfortunately, SaaS providers' approaches and offerings too often fail to resonate with SMB executives. Saugatuck's new study of SMB SaaS acquisition, adoption, and management focuses on the business and technological challenges that are unique to smaller firms, and how these translate to business value for SMBs.

* Enterprise Ready, or Not - SaaS Enters the Mainstream (SSR-460, 07-10-08, 42 pages)

The explosive growth of software-as-a-service (SaaS) may be netted down to two core realities that will shape SaaS markets for years to come:

o Users want SaaS throughout the enterprise, whether their enterprises are ready for it or not; and

o SaaS is spreading throughout the enterprise, whether the vendors - or their offerings - are ready to support and deliver what users want, or not.

This 42-page study details the disruptive evolution, status, and future of SaaS within user enterprises, from basic applications to cloud-based computing - including the effects of these changes on vendor strategies, offerings, and business models.

* Three Waves of Change: SaaS Beyond the Tipping Point (SSR-342, 05-03-07, 34 pages)

In the span of less than a year, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) went from point-solution curiosity to mission-critical applications for user enterprises. And the next wave of SaaS is already being absorbed by user enterprises as platforms for multiple, critical business applications and processes.

* SaaS 2.0: Software-as-a-Service as Next-Gen Business Platform (SSR-239, 04-26-06, 34 pages)

Saugatuck's 2006 SaaS Strategic Research Report shows that SaaS is at a fundamental "tipping point" between the current generation of software functionality delivered as a service (what Saugatuck calls SaaS 1.0), and the emerging generation of blended software, infrastructure, and business services arrayed across multiple usage and delivery platforms and business models (what Saugatuck calls SaaS 2.0).

About Saugatuck Technology

Saugatuck Technology Inc. provides market strategy consulting and subscription research services to senior executives, information technology vendors, and investors, combining strategy development, business planning, and market intelligence with first-hand research of executive technology buyer trends.

Founded in 1999, Saugatuck is headquartered in Westport, Connecticut (USA), with offices in Silicon Valley and in Germany. For more information, go to www.saugatech.com, or call +1.203.454.3900 in the US, or +49.6123.630285 in Germany. To request a briefing with our analysts, contact Chris MacGregor at chris.macgregor(at)saugatech.com.

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Contact Information CHRIS MACGREGOR

Saugatuck Technology Inc.

http://www.saugatech.com

1-203-454-3900

FooMojo Celebrates 1 Year Anniversary with Free Virtual Valentine's Gift Package For All FooPets Users

FooMojo Celebrates 1 Year Anniversary with Free Virtual Valentine's Gift Package For All FooPets Users

With newly released application features, FooPets owners can use special edition love-themed gift items to create custom rooms for their virtual pets and give virtual goods as gifts to friends

Redwood City, Calif. (Vocus) February 11, 2009 -- FooMojo, Inc (http://www.foomojo.com/)., creator of the world's most realistic and emotionally engaging virtual pets, today announced it will mark its 1 year anniversary on Feb. 14, 2009, by making a free, Valentine's Day Virtual Gift Package, available to all users. The FooPets Valentine's Day Package will include a love-themed background; a heart shaped oak tree; a pair of white doves; a red heart pet bed; and a vase of purple tulips. With newly released features in the FooPets (http://www.foopets.com/) application, owners can show love by designing a custom room especially for their pets using the package items or giving these special-edition items as Valentine's gifts to their favorite friends.

"When we initially released FooPets on Facebook last Valentine's Day, we didn't expect the overwhelmingly positive reaction to the puppies and the widespread global engagement in the application that continues today," said Dr. Ron Hornbaker, veterinarian, founder and chief executive officer of FooMojo. "Our user community has been extremely dedicated to making FooPets the best virtual pets application on the Internet. We wanted to spread the love to FooPets owners everywhere with some virtual gifts created just for them and take special care to make this occasion a fun milestone that truly honors their support."

With feature updates to the FooPets (http://www.foopets.com/) application released on an ongoing basis, FooMojo recently launched the new FooPets Designer, a feature that enables users to create custom rooms with virtual items purchased from the application's online store, called the FooMart. Once purchased, virtual goods such as backgrounds, pet beds, furniture and other accessories are placed in a personal inventory a FooPets owner can access. Using the FooDesigner feature, virtual items available in a personal inventory can be hand placed throughout a room to design the exact environment a FooPets owner wants to create for their puppy or kitten.

The FooMart is updated frequently with new virtual goods and accessories and owners are welcome to add items to their inventory whenever they would like. FooMojo will also offer FooPets owners, the new FooGift feature. With FooGift, users can give any item in their inventory to a friend as a gift. All items in the Valentine's Day Virtual Gift Package will be available in owners' inventories and can be used with either the FooDesigner or FooGift features beginning on Feb. 12, 2009.

FooPets (http://www.foopets.com/) are the world's most realistic and emotionally engaging virtual pets for users of all ages. Easy to recognize due to their lifelike appearance and behavior, FooPets take on their own individual lives and develop unique personalities. Once adopted, they need daily care and attention and rely on their owners for food, water, playtime and affection.

Availability and Pricing:

Many different breeds of FooPets puppies and kittens are now available for adoption on different locations across the Internet. For Facebook and MySpace users, FooPets can be adopted free-of-charge through the FooPets application. FooPets also can be adopted free-of-charge on the newly launched FooPets.com Web site. On iPhone and iPod touch, FooPets are available for $.99 from Apple's App Store or at http://www.itunes.com/appstore/. The FooPets Valentine's Day Virtual Gift Package will be available free to all users beginning on Feb. 12 through Feb. 15, 2009. Please visit http://www.foopets.com for additional information, detailed pricing and adoption instructions.

About FooMojo, Inc.:

FooMojo (http://www.foomojo.com/) is the creator of FooPets, the world's most realistic and emotionally engaging virtual pets. The 3D puppy and kitten FooPets are "real" in nearly every sense, growing, playing, learning tricks, developing personalities, and requiring regular feeding and care. Users of all ages can adopt a FooPet on Facebook, MySpace, and the FooPets.com (http://www.foopets.com/) Web site, with more locations coming soon.

Aimed at enriching the lives of real people and animals with engaging, educational game play, FooMojo was founded in 2007 by Dr. Ron Hornbaker, a veterinarian who believes the special bond between people and their pets could be recreated online. FooMojo's creative and development efforts are led by a talented group of web developers, along with artists and animators from the feature film and gaming industries. Most importantly, FooMojo is committed to supporting real pets in need, and through its non-profit FooPets Foundation, works with leading animal-related charities such as the ASPCA and The HSUS.

Located in Redwood City, Calif., FooMojo is backed by notable investors including Softbank Capital, Softbank Corp. Japan, Mike Maples, Jr., Ron Conway and Baseline Ventures. For more information, visit http://www.foomojo.com.

CONTACT:    

Lynne Cox

BlackBelt Strategies for FooMojo, Inc.

925-321-5285    

lynne (at) blackbelt-strategies (dot) com

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Contact Information Lynne Cox

BlackBelt Strategies for FooMojo, Inc.

http://www.foopets.com

925-321-5285

BoldChat and iContact to Demonstrate Integrated Solution Co-hosted Webinar to be Held February 19th

BoldChat and iContact to Demonstrate Integrated Solution Co-hosted Webinar to be Held February 19th

Bravestorm, makers of BoldChat, along with iContact, today announced a joint webinar designed to help businesses maximize sales as well as generate more leads. The webinar, titled, "Before, During and After the Click: Integrating Live Chat and Email Marketing" will take place on Thursday, February 19th at 3 p.m. ET.

Wichita, KS and Durham, NC (PRWEB) February 11, 2009 -- Bravestorm, makers of BoldChat, along with iContact, today announced a joint webinar designed to help businesses maximize sales as well as generate more leads. The webinar, titled, "Before, During and After the Click: Integrating Live Chat and Email Marketing" (https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/675301407) will take place on Thursday, February 19th at 3 p.m. ET.

"We designed this informative live session to help businesses understand how live chat (www.boldchat.com) and email marketing can work hand in hand," said Bravestorm President and CEO Steve Castro-Miller. "When customers integrate the BoldChat and iContact capabilities, they gain an effective way to manage the entire communication lifecycle with prospects and customers."

Live chat experts from BoldChat will discuss the benefits and best practices related to live online customer engagement (www.boldchat.com). iContact, a leading provider of email marketing solutions, will share insights into how to get the most from their email marketing offering. The session will culminate with a live demonstration of an integrated solution wherein chat contacts can be easily added to permission-based email lists with iContact.

"As we've said before, there's a natural synergy to our businesses," said Ryan Allis, CEO of iContact Corporation. "After becoming mutual customers of each other, we started to see that we could develop offerings that would benefit both sets of our customers. Following up on the plug-in we announced in November, this webinar will explain to our customers in detail how they can put the plug-in to work for them."

Participants in the webinar will receive special offers from each presenting company and a co-authored whitepaper entitled, "Before, During, and After the Click: Integrating Live Chat & Email Marketing." For more information or to register for the event, please go to: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/675301407

In the coming months, Bravestorm and iContact will continue to co-develop resource and marketing materials - such as webinars and white papers like this - to provide more details on the benefits of the plugin.

About Bravestorm and BoldChat (www.boldchat.com):

Bravestorm, makers of BoldChat, offers live communication software, including live chat, click to call and email management tools which enable businesses to take control over customer interactions and drive sales for businesses conducting sales and support online. Bravestorm's suite of offerings is designed with a flexible breadth of capabilities that allow clients to customize and manipulate the software to meet their specific needs. The company is headquartered in Wichita, KS, with customers around the world. For more information about BoldChat, please visit www.boldchat.com or call 1-866-753-9933.

About iContact:

With more than 33,000 customers, iContact is the first on-demand application in the world to allow businesses to manage all their online communications in one central platform. iContact allows for easy creation of email newsletters, blogs, RSS feeds, surveys, and autoresponders. Market leaders like Bank of America, Ford, Intuit, Vonage, Symantec, International Paper, LG Electronics, ReMax, United Colors of Benetton, and Centex Homes, use iContact to build stronger relationships with their customers and prospects at a fraction of the cost of traditional marketing methods. iContact, designed for the SMB market and iContact Enterprise, designed for mid-sized to large organizations, are both available at www.icontact.com.

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Contact Information Jill Monahan

BoldChat

http://www.boldchat.com

484.244.5300

SilkRoad technology Sponsored Report Indicates Growing Uptake of Onboarding in 2009

SilkRoad technology Sponsored Report Indicates Growing Uptake of Onboarding in 2009

Aberdeen Group report surveys 600+ HR executives; Complimentary copy made possible in part by SilkRoad sponsorship

Winston-Salem, NC (PRWEB) February 11, 2009 -- Sixty-eight percent of corporate human resources executives recently surveyed indicated that their companies have a formal onboarding process in place, according to a recent Aberdeen study sponsored in part by SilkRoad technology, inc., the leading provider of talent management solutions (http://www.silkroadtech.com/products/index.htm). The study, "Fully On-Board: Getting the Most from Your Talent in the First Year," found that top-performing companies with formal onboarding procedures in place saw a 31 percent average improvement in new employee engagement and a 24 percent average decrease in time-to-productivity for new employees.

Effective onboarding of new employees is so crucial that more than half of the 600 human resources, talent management, and line of business executives surveyed and interviewed in December 2008 and January 2009 for the study indicated that the current state of the economy would increase the importance their organization placed on onboarding in 2009.

Two-thirds of survey respondents also indicated that their organizations start the onboarding process even before the new employee's start date of employment to smooth the transition process. Top concerns related to onboarding included retaining new employees, increasing their productivity and improving the reputation of the company as an employer of choice.

A complimentary copy of the Aberdeen report has been made available by SilkRoad and other sponsors at: http://www.aberdeen.com/link/sponsor.asp?cid=5729.

"We have long joined others in the HR industry to tout the importance of formalized onboarding programs, and this study underscores how they can contribute to improvements in efficiency and engagement," said SilkRoad technology CEO Andrew J. "Flip" Filipowski. "One of our products, RedCarpet, provides massive increases in new hire satisfaction and day one readiness for many of our clients, ultimately keeping employee morale and productivity high while automating time-consuming HR tasks."

SilkRoad provides a suite of Web-based talent management solutions, including RedCarpet™, an onboarding and life events management solution (http://www.silkroadtech.com/products/employee__onboarding/index.htm) that automates the socialization and transition of employees into their new roles while alleviating the burden and cost of paperwork and task management, saving companies time and money. Other SilkRoad products include OpenHire™, a market-leading recruiting management solution (http://www.silkroad.com/talent_management/recruiting_management.html), WingSpan™ for flexible employee performance management (http://www.silkroad.com/talent_management/employee_performance_management.html), GreenLight™ for learning management, and Eprise™ for employee intranets and content management.

"It is very clear that for a majority of Best-in-Class organizations, onboarding is the continuation of the recruitment process well into the first year of a new employee's tenure with the company," noted the co-author of the report, Kevin Martin, vice president and principal analyst, Human Capital Management at Aberdeen. "If they haven't done so already, these organizations seek to integrate onboarding with recruitment and performance management. At these companies, onboarding not only improves hiring quality and efficiencies, but also increases the new employee's ability to contribute productively in a timely manner."

About Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company

Aberdeen is a leading provider of fact-based research and market intelligence that delivers demonstrable results. Having benchmarked more than 30,000 companies in the past two years, Aberdeen is uniquely positioned to educate users to action: driving market awareness, creating demand, enabling sales, and delivering meaningful return-on-investment analysis. As the trusted advisor to the global technology markets, corporations turn to Aberdeen™ for insights that drive decisions.

As a Harte-Hanks Company, Aberdeen plays a key role of putting content in context for the global direct and targeted marketing company. Aberdeen's analytical and independent view of the "customer optimization" process of Harte-Hanks (Information - Opportunity - Insight - Engagement - Interaction) extends the client value and accentuates the strategic role Harte-Hanks brings to the market. For additional information, visit Aberdeen http://www.aberdeen.com or call (617) 723-7890, or to learn more about Harte-Hanks, call (800) 456-9748 or go to http://www.harte-hanks.com.

About SilkRoad technology, inc.

SilkRoad technology, inc. provides software as a service (SaaS) solutions that significantly improve the talent within its more than 1000 customers across the globe. Through SilkRoad's Life Suite™, an integrated talent management solution, companies are able to hire better employees, identify high and low performers, drive a pay-for-performance culture and improve employee tenure. The SilkRoad Life Suite includes OpenHire™ for recruiting management, RedCarpet™ for employee onboarding and life events, WingSpan™ for flexible employee performance management, GreenLight™ for learning management, and Eprise™ for employee intranets and content management.

SilkRoad technology is headquartered in Winston-Salem, NC with offices in Bedford, MA; Chicago, IL; West Long Branch, NJ; Jacksonville, Florida; Alberta, Canada; Singapore, Republic of Singapore; Sydney, Australia and Hamburg, Germany. More information is available on the Web at www.silkroad.com or by phone: U.S. toll free at 866-329-3363 or internationally at +1-336-201-5100.

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Contact Information Sabrina Vito

SilkRoad technology

http://www.silkroad.com

310-689-7223

Avalanche Introduces Virtual Gifts in Time for Valentine's Day

Avalanche Introduces Virtual Gifts in Time for Valentine's Day

Singles on Date.com, Matchmaker.com and Amor.com Embrace Fun, Flirty and Inexpensive Ways to Show Interest in Other Members

Miami Beach, FL (PRWEB) February 11, 2009 -- In time for Valentine's Day, Date.com (http://www.date.com), Matchmaker.com (http://www.matchmaker.com), and Amor.com (http://www.amor.com), leading Online Dating (http://www.date.com) websites with more than 10 million members worldwide, has launched Virtual Gifts to its community. Beginning this week, singles can show interest, affection and even friendship by purchasing fun and flirty online gifts. And, as the recession continues to impact spending, sending a $1 virtual gift is an extremely inexpensive way to make an impression with a potential date.

"Online Dating (http://www.date.com) is flourishing in this recession, and while it's free to join our sites, create a profile and search through profiles, communication via e-mail, Instant Messenger and in the chat room requires a paid subscription. For those reticent about committing to a subscription, the Virtual Gifts option enables them to take the first step in showing and receiving interest for a fraction of the cost. Once they get the response they're hoping for, they can communicate with the potential date by become a paying member," said Avalanche CEO Meir Strahlberg. "This Valentine's Day, our members have the option of showing affection and interest by spending $1 on a virtual bouquet of roses which will digitally last forever. Compared to $75, the average cost of a dozen roses, which only lasts one week, it certainly seems like a viable option for millions of online daters who may have brought a bouquet of roses to a first date in healthier economic times."

Introducing Virtual Gifts is a recent example of Avalanche's commitment to providing its members with new and exciting features that help enhance their online dating experience. From a business perspective, this feature will serve as another revenue stream for the Company; according to leading analysts, Virtual Gifts is an estimated $1.5 billion industry.

How it Works

Members purchase tokens that can be converted immediately, or at a later date, into Virtual Gifts. Online gifts, which range in price and start at $1, run the gamut from romantic to flirty. Everything from roses, hearts, Cupids and boxes of chocolates to martini glasses, food, stuffed animals, and even a shiny red sports car are available for purchase. Specialty items and limited edition items will be introduced in future updates of the feature.

Branded Virtual Gifts will also be available to advertisers that are looking for innovative ways to market products to online daters. Singles do not have to be paying subscribers of the sites to purchase, send or to receive Virtual Gifts. Virtual Gifts can be purchased using all major credit cards as well as via PayPal.

About Avalanche, LLC

Avalanche operates several leading online dating websites, including Date.com, Matchmaker.com and Amor.com. Date.com launched on Valentine's Day 1997 and has become one of the world's most popular dating websites. First started as a Bulletin Board System in 1986, Matchmaker.com is the oldest online dating site. It was acquired by Avalanche in 2006 and targets those singles seeking serious relationships. Amor.com, launched in 2007, is a rapidly growing destination for Hispanic singles. Avalanche hosts more than 10 million members worldwide, with the sites adding over 100,000 members each month. Additional information is available at http://www.date.com.

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Contact Information SHIRA ZWEBNER

Avalanche, LLC

http://www.date.com

212-721-3440

Fpweb.net Offers SharePoint Design Services

Fpweb.net Offers SharePoint Design Services

Leading SharePoint hosting provider Fpweb.net now provides a SharePoint design service including logo placement, custom colors, theme implementation and custom homepage setup.

Saint Louis, MO (PRWEB) February 11, 2009 -- Managed hosting provider Fpweb.net (http://www.fpweb.net/) now offers SharePoint Express Design, a custom SharePoint design and development service, for their hosted WSS and MOSS customers.

SharePoint Express Design is Fpweb.net's most basic SharePoint development package. It can be applied to Fpweb.net Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) v3 hosting (http://www.fpweb.net/sharepoint-hosting/) or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 hosting (http://www.fpweb.net/moss-hosting/). "We've designed this service to be a quick turnaround for custom branded SharePoint sites," said Rob LaMear IV, Fpweb.net CEO. "Express Design allows customers to roll out sleek SharePoint sites, complete with their corporate look and feel, in less than 24 hours."

This offer includes company logo placement, custom color palette, theme selection / implementation, custom home page setup and more for only $995. If the customer requires additional services beyond what's included in this SharePoint design package, Fpweb.net offers free consultations and quotes on custom tailored SharePoint development projects.

For more information on SharePoint Design Services (http://www.fpweb.net/sharepoint-hosting/sharepoint-development-services.asp) or custom SharePoint development projects from Fpweb.net, visit their site or call 866.780.4678.

Founded in 1996, Fpweb.net provides managed hosting services for SharePoint, MOSS, Exchange and Project Server. Their worry-free solutions offer clients the ability to focus on their core business, while cutting IT costs 60%. With more than 1 million SharePoint users around the world, Fpweb.net strives to become the leading customer service organization in the hosting industry. As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with 24/7 US support, they've earned the trust of over 5,000 enterprise clients including the NY Yankees, U.S. Air Force, IBM and DOW Chemical.

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Contact Information Lori Henrichs

Fpweb.net

http://www.fpweb.net

636.600.8960