iCoffee Table Stands Tall (- InftekHosting.Com)

iCoffee Table Stands Tall

Back in May, CoM published a phone cam shot of a table that looked like an iPod found in a Milan hotel. We tracked down the guy who made it, Mirko Ginepro, an industrial designer, graphic artist and photographer. His iTable is made from Corian (frequently the stuff of kitchen and bathroom counter tops), [...]

Back in May, CoM published a phone cam shot of a table that looked like an iPod found in a Milan hotel.

We tracked down the guy who made it, Mirko Ginepro, an industrial designer, graphic artist and photographer.

His iTable is made from Corian (frequently the stuff of kitchen and bathroom counter tops), the “screen” is glass and the necessary add-on to make the original design furniture-worthy, the legs, are steel.

Ginepro built three iTables for an installation at Milan’s design week this year, then sold one to the hotel and another to an art gallery.

“I like to take inspiration from everyday objects and as Mac user, those designs are the ones I see all the time,” Ginepro told Cult of Mac. “The idea was to take an object that didn’t start out as furniture and turn it in into something useful.”

The iTable is about 47 inches long by 29 inches wide (original measurements: 120 x 75 centimeters) and about 13 inches high.

It comes in classic white, black or sunny yellow. Each table is a one-of-a kind, made-to-order piece of art (read: workaround to wrangling a licensing agreement with you-know-who for mass production). More info on availability, cost etc. through his website.

Colocation, Dedicated Server Provider, DediPower, Selected by JancisRobinson.com

Reading, United Kingdom - (The Hosting News) - December 3, 2008 - Managed dedicated hosting provider, DediPower, has been chosen to provide services for global wine writing, broadcasting and Financial Times wine correspondent since 1989, Jancis Robinson.

Jancis Robinson qualified as a Master of Wine, the first from outside the wine trade, in 1984, and regularly judges and lectures about wine around the world. She is also responsible for many of the standard reference books on wine including The Oxford Companion to Wine and, with Hugh Johnson, The World Atlas of Wine and has presented several award-winning television programmes including Jancis Robinson’s Wine Course and Vintners’ Tales. Winner of many international awards, she was awarded an OBE in 2003.

The Jancis Robinson firm explained, ”JancisRobinson.com is my principal outlet and it therefore goes without saying that my hosting partner needs to deliver. Our readership base relies on JancisRobinson.com to keep them informed on developments in the wine world. So we needed a reliable, stable environment to host our website which I hope DediPower will provide. With the team at DediPower managing the back end technology, I don’t have to worry and it enables me to focus on my core business and what I enjoy, wine writing.”

DediPower’s Managed Hosting provides enterprises with business server solutions delivering custom built high-specification dedicated servers. This is underpinned by a world-class hosting infrastructure that has been designed to ensure the highest levels of network uptime, availability, flexibility and security. Focused on delivering support with passion, DediPower offers one of the best service level agreements in the industry today and is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and RedHat Ready Hosting Partner.

Craig Martin, CEO, DediPower explained, ”The internet is changing the way we engage and interact with people around the world, we are very pleased that Jancis Robinson has selected DediPower. DediPower’s enterprise class data centres enable small to medium size enterprises to expand their footprint and deliver innovative business models to go to market.”

DediPower, one of the UK’s fastest growing managed hosting providers delivers a range of managed hosting solutions including: dedicated servers, application and exchange hosting, high availability multi-server clusters and co-location. DediPower is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and a RedHat Ready Hosting Partner. A winner of numerous awards, hosted sites include Sony, Sam Learning, Institute of Physics, Coca-Cola, Capita, First Great Western and Carphone Warehouse. Established in 1998 and self-funded, DediPower runs its own purpose built data centres totalling over 22,000 sq ft situated in Reading, UK.

For further information, please visit: www.dedipower.com.

Anya Hindmarch Geekifies Gift Hamper with iPod

Anya Hindmarch is the handbag designer who made women club each other to proclaim to the world: “I’m not a plastic bag.” She was tapped by UK department store Selfridges to fill their famous holiday hampers with goods. Her credit-crunch defying “Ultimate Girl’s Hamper” (price tag: £1,000 or a staggering $1,475), includes some [...]

Anya Hindmarch is the handbag designer who made women club each other to proclaim to the world: “I’m not a plastic bag.”

She was tapped by UK department store Selfridges to fill their famous holiday hampers with goods.

Her credit-crunch defying “Ultimate Girl’s Hamper” (price tag: £1,000 or a staggering $1,475), includes some of the usual fare: Ruinart Champagne, 40 bottles of nail polish, Marshmallow Fluff and a “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” DVD.

You’ll notice from the image that just above the Fluff, however, is an iPod nano.

How did electronics creep into a holiday gift hamper?

Says Hindmarch: “I have always been fascinated by hampers, their history and Britishness. But am always disappointed by yet another basket whose contents I don’t actually want to keep.”

We hear you. The nail polish and Fluff will always run out, but the iPod will remain.

Kerio Announces Partnership with Sonian to Offer Enhanced Email Archiving Service
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Future Web Hosting Company, Premieres GlobalSign SSL

London, United Kingdom - (The Hosting News) - December 3, 2008 - Web hosting company, and Internet Solutions provider serving small to medium sized businesses internationally, Future Hosting, has added GlobalSign SSL certificates to services offered for customers.

The new services will be offered through the dedicated website “TotallyGlobalSign.com”. The newly formed partnership will allow Future Internet Services customers to easily purchase highly trusted SSL technology to secure their websites, online transactions, web mail and other next generation online services.

Paul Tourret, Managing Director, GlobalSign Ltd. remarked, ”With the ongoing success of our SSL Partner Program we are delighted to welcome Future Internet Services on board as our latest prestigious partner. Future Internet Services is showing creditable dedication to providing high quality, affordable web site and transaction security to its customer base. We anticipate a long and mutually beneficial partnership with this leading service provider.”
As a provider of SSL Certificates since 2005, Future Internet Services selected GlobalSign due to its high quality and simplified product range, marketing support, competitive pricing and excellent customer service. Future Internet Services is promoting GlobalSign SSL through a value-add, competitively priced, dedicated retail website. In particular TotallyGlobalSign.com will be heavily promoting GlobalSign Extended Validation (EV) SSL Certificates that activate the new Green Address Bar in the IE, Firefox and Opera browsers and improve the trust that consumers can place into the web sites they visit.

Vince Bashforth, Managing Director, Future Internet Services remarked, ”GlobalSign is one of the few SSL Providers to already meet the industry standards recommended by NIST, regarding the issuance of Certificates from trusted roots of 2048 bit strength. Strong SSL is very important to our customers. As we believe GlobalSign EV SSL to be the most suitable offering for online retailers looking to increase trust in their brand without incurring a large unwanted expense, offering GlobalSign solutions perfectly fits our commitment to providing the best grade of SSL to our customers.

Through TotallyGlobalSign.com, Future Internet Services will offer GlobalSign SSL Certificates worldwide, accepting payment in 16 popular currencies and will provide strong first line support to SSL customers by telephone and email around the clock, seven days a week. They also have the capabilities of providing SSL to specialist industry sectors including local authority and government organisations via their Purchase Order option.

TotallyGlobalSign.com will offer all main types of GlobalSign SSL, including fast issuance Domain Validation and EV SSL Certificates. All SSL Certificates are inclusive of Server Gated Cryptography (SGC) (to step up weak 40 bit browser to server connections to strong 128 bit) and are issued from GlobalSign’s widely distributed 2048 bit Root CA Certificate.

GlobalSign’s Partner Program is designed for ISP’s, Web Hosts, Integrators, Domain Registrars and VARs and enables SSL Certificates to easily be integrated into product ranges as value add options. Brands can become more competitive, new revenue streams are opened and the amount of revenue received per customer is maximised - all with minimal costs and a fast go-to-market. GlobalSign’s Pay As You Go, no commit purchasing scheme, web based certificate management interface or API and comprehensive marketing support furthermore enhance the SSL reselling opportunity.

GlobalSign SSL Certificates are now currently available through Future Internet Services’ dedicated SSL website.

Established in 1996 and as a WebTrust accredited public certificate authority, GlobalSign offers publicly trusted SSL, including EV SSL Certificates, S/MIME and Code Signing Certificates for use on all platforms including mobile devices. Its Trusted Root solution uses the widely distributed GlobalSign Root CA certificates to provide immediate PKI trust for Microsoft CA and enterprise CAs, eliminating the costs associated with using untrusted Root Certificates. Its partnership with Adobe to provide Certified Document Services (CDS) enables secure digitally signed PDF e-documents. These core Digital Certificate solutions allow its thousands of customers to conduct secure online transactions and data transfer, distribute tamper-proof code, and bind identities to client certificates for email security and remote two factor authentication. The company has a history of innovation within the online security market and has offices in the US, UK, Belgium, Japan, and China.

GMO Internet Group, headquartered in Japan, is a leading force in the Internet industry offering one of the most comprehensive ranges of Internet services worldwide. The group holds top domestic market share in domain registration, web hosting, and payment processing and provides a host of other Internet services including global online security services, e-commerce solutions, and Internet advertising to both businesses and individuals. At the centre of the group is GMO Internet, Inc. a company listed on the prestigious first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE: 9449).

Established in 2004, Future Internet Services Ltd is a managed Internet services specialist headquartered in Derby, UK. Offering a range of competitively priced hosting and security solutions, as well as high levels of quality, service reliability and customer support, Future Internet Services is growing in size and strength within the Internet market.

To learn more about GMO Internet Group, please visit: www.gmo.jp/en.

For more information about Future Hosting, please visit: www.futurehosting.biz.

Is Apple Seeking Psystar’s Backers?

With Mac clone maker Psystar potentially on the legal ropes, Apple may now be looking for the South Florida company’s unknown backers identified Tuesday as only “John Does 1 through 10.” In an amended complaint against Psystar, Apple refers to the new defendants as “various individuals and/or corporations who have infringed Apple’s intellectual property rights” and [...]

With Mac clone maker Psystar potentially on the legal ropes, Apple may now be looking for the South Florida company’s unknown backers identified Tuesday as only “John Does 1 through 10.”

In an amended complaint against Psystar, Apple refers to the new defendants as “various individuals and/or corporations who have infringed Apple’s intellectual property rights” and the Cupertino, Calif. company’s user licensing.

Miami-based Psystar’s emergence and its retainer of antitrust experts Carr & Ferrell has “always been a bit puzzling,” wrote CNET’s Tom Krazit Wednesday.

Psystar failed to make its monopoly charges against Apple stick, with federal judge William Alsup in November rejecting the claim.

Tuesday, Apple added piracy charges, claiming Psystar violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by offering a disc permitting the OS X operating software be installed on non Macs.

Data Center Virtualization Services by Peak 10, Support Transoft Saas Services

Cary, North Carolina - (The Hosting News) - December 3, 2008 - Independent data center operator and managed services provider, Peak 10, has been chosen by cash management solution for financial institutions firm, Transoft International, for its data center virtualization services.

Peak 10 will provide Transoft with a secure hosting solution utilizing a virtualized platform within its state-of-the-art facility in Raleigh, N.C.

Bo H. Holmgreen, President at Transoft remarked, ”We recognize that SaaS is growing rapidly across all industries, and we are investing in our infrastructure to bring these proven options to our valued clients. Peak 10’s infrastructure and services combined with their expertise in compliance allowed us to receive the perfect solution to meet our needs and further increase the reliability of our SaaS solutions.”

With more than 16 years of experience in the financial industry, Transoft provides banking institutions with quality software solutions for cash management. The Optisuite solutions offers banks the ability to anticipate cash demand at all locations and manage the distribution of funds to meet those demands, whether on-site or remotely. The nature of Transoft’s products requires a high level of security and infrastructure integrity.

In an effort to integrate Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions to bring their proven services to independent financial institutions while maintaining maximum security, Transoft turned to Peak 10 to host its SaaS offerings on a virtualized platform within its secure data center facility.

Greg Rollet, regional Vice President of market operations for Peak 10 and general manager of Peak 10 Raleigh remarked, ”Transoft required an extremely secure hosting provider to support its customers highly sensitive data as well as a team knowledegable of compliance and auditing regulations. Because our team is so versatile and we have flexibility to tailor our services to meet customers needs, we were able to customize a virtual solution for Transoft that enhances the availability of their application, providing financial institutions with a state-of-the-art cash management solution.”

Peak 10 Raleigh’s virtualization services allow businesses to optimize their system utilization, achieve truly high availability for the company’s IT infrastructure and reduce their hardware and space requirements - ultimately cutting costs. The company combines its secure network, high-tech data centers and portfolio of managed services with localized engineering and support to serve market-leading companies nationwide. The company owns and operates data centers in nine key U.S. markets that include Cincinnati, Ohio; Atlanta, Ga.; Raleigh and Charlotte, N.C.; Tampa and Jacksonville, Fla.; Nashville, Tenn.; Louisville, Ky.; and Richmond, Va.

Transoft International, Inc. is a leading provider of currency supply chain management software solutions for the banking industry. Transoft products, OptiCash, OptiNet, OptimizeCF. OptiVLM OptiVault, have been developed by experienced cash management professionals to efficiently and cost-effectively handle all aspects of the complex cash management process. In use worldwide by banks, ATM networks and armored car service providers, Transoft solutions are generating significant recurring cost savings for ATM, branch, and vault networks.

Peak 10 is an independent data center operator and managed services provider delivering scalable, economical and reliable solutions for hosting and managing complex information technology infrastructure. The company owns and operates twelve data centers in nine key markets that include Cincinnati, Ohio; Atlanta, Ga.; Raleigh and Charlotte, N.C.; Tampa and Jacksonville, Fla.; Nashville, Tenn.; Louisville, Ky.; and Richmond, Va. It combines its facilities and portfolio of managed services with localized engineering and support to serve market-leading companies including LendingTree, Rivals.com, Global Knowledge, Pergo, Churchill Downs, The Fresh Market and the Jacksonville Jaguars. Peak 10 is SAS 70 Type II compliant and helps companies meet the requirements of various regulatory compliance acts such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), HIPAA, PCI and Gramm-Leach-Bliley (GLBA).

For more information about Transoft International, please visit www.transoftinc.com.

To learn more about Peak 10, please visit: www.peak10.com.

iPhone App Developers Get Promo Codes for Free App Distribution

Apple has given iPhone developers an early Christmas present, freeing them (somewhat) from the convoluted mess of ad hoc distribution. Once an application has been accepted to the App Store by Apple, developers can now issue up to 50 promotional codes. The codes allow the recipient to download a full copy of the application for free. [...]

Apple has given iPhone developers an early Christmas present, freeing them (somewhat) from the convoluted mess of ad hoc distribution.

Once an application has been accepted to the App Store by Apple, developers can now issue up to 50 promotional codes. The codes allow the recipient to download a full copy of the application for free. Presently, these codes can only be used in the U.S. iTunes Stores by using the “Redeem” link in the App Store. The 50 code limit is reset for each new version of an application, according to a report at MacRumors.

Presumably developers may continue to use the ad hoc model, wherein a special version of their app can be sent, along with a mobile provisioning file, to up to 100 users (beta testers and/or reviewers) who provide the unique device identification number of their iPhone or iPod Touch, for giving out copies of apps prior to their acceptance in the AppStore.