SAVVIS, a worldwide leader in IT infrastructure services for business applications, has decided to make key management changes to ameliorate the company’s technological and functioning groups, client services & support, product technology and development.

Michael Tardif and Timothy Caulfield have been given novel ranks as Senior Vice Presidents reporting directly to Phil Koen, SAVVIS Chief Executive Officer.

Mr. Caulfield was nominated as Senior Vice President of Operations and he looks after the company’s technical and operating groups comprising hosting and network services, delivery services, customer support, security services, carrier management, corporate quality, and capacity management.

Public Interest Registry (PIR), a non-profit group managing .org TLD announced a novel international public awareness campaign aimed at defending .org domain name holders from the imminent detrimental effects of permitting their .org domain names to terminate.

The company said its novel campaign ‘protectyour.org’ focalizes on conserving the importance of .org domain, aspires to instruct persons regarding its value whether they are specialized or novices.

It also provides gradations for placing, administering, strengthening and procuring domain names to minimize the possibility of disorders that may happen when domain names tumble either purposely or because of expiration.

STRATO, the market leader among European Internet service providers, makes announcement of its new data backup solutions - BackupManager and BackupControl. It provides web hosting packages for novices, advanced and expert users at competitive rates.

The company says that its novel solutions provide all STRATO customers to backup data continuously from their PC hard drive and web space content without charging any additional costs.

On the other hand, BackupControl mainly works in the background to seize back up replications of the customers’ web space in a sporadic manner. These BackupManager and BackupControl are available along with web hosting packages.

Optimus Solutions, a complete IT products and solutions provider declares the instigation of IBM System i managed hosting.

The company says that the customers will get the computing power of System i and 99.9% system uptime assurance at a reasonable monthly charge.

This offering individually locates Optimus to assist clients to achieve high-availability through a flexible and cost-effective mode, generate a software development test environment, increase their recovery power and business stability arrangement.

Mark Metz, Chief Operating Officer of Optimus Solutions said, “Managed hosting enables customers to achieve faster time-to-value and greater return on investment on projects by eliminating the need to purchase an otherwise costly capital asset. Customers can now take advantage of the benefits of IBM System i architecture at a much lower price point.”

Web hosting services provider, StreamlineNet publicized the launch of its support site, StreamlineSupport.net.

StreamlineSupport.net permits clients to explore a highly developed data base. It also appends and suggests alterations to the subject in a wikipedia style.

Andrew Dollamore, the company’s Chief executive Officer stated, “I'm extremely excited about the launch of this new service as it marks the beginning of a new phase in the company's growth. We have always prided ourselves on developing cutting edge products at the lowest prices but now with over 90,000 sites hosted we understand the importance of investing heavily in to our most prized asset, our loyal customers.”

Google Book Search has got updated including the Information and Viewing pages. For the Information page, Google has added sections displaying “keywords and phrases” of book, Related books, References from book, and References from other scholarly works.

On the Viewing pages, zoom in/out of the digitalized text to suit the choice, select a one-page or two-page view, use full screen mode, and scroll thru the content rather than clicking on the arrows for moving to a new page. You can see new logo on the Book View pages.

According to the report of both Google Webmaster Central and the Official Google Blog, English language publishers can now easily develop XML sitemaps, to aware the Google News about the pages to crawl.

Publishers would be able to see reports on error, and detailing the information on the types of inquiries of visitors that have made to find their news stories.

Google Webmaster Tools is enabled with the news features for the websites currently included in Google News. Google includes the sites according to its rules. In the beginning of this year, Google News dropped the Blogoscoped wi

An ICANN accredited registrar, 4Domains, launched Domain Auction site DotPound.com. 4Domains is possessed and operated by SEInc, which has been in the hosting business since 1997.

John Palmer, CTO of 4Domains said it’s crucial to stimulate the demand for promoting and purchasing domain names for an industry providing successfulness for both the buyer and seller.

“We look at this site as a monument to the industry for providing a free service maintained by an ICANN Accredited Registrar to benefit the entire registrar and web hosting industry,” said Chuck Steinberger, CEO of 4Domains said.

Leading provider of global domain name registration and Internet services, Register.com has nominated ‘Larry Kutscher,’ as its new Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Kutscher holds a political science degree from Brown University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Mr. Kutscher has identified himself as an online business constructor, which productively reach large amounts of small to medium sized organizations.

Before Dun and Bradstreet, Mr. Kutscher worked as Managing Director of Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs and Co., where he spent twelve years at American Express.

According to the company, Mr. Kutscher establishes numerous Internet-enabled businesses comprising Hoover’s acquisition and development. He was a member of Dun and Bradstreet’s worldwide leadership group since 2001.

EURid has reduced the domain registration and renewal charges for .eu domains from 10 to 5 euro with effect from January 1st 2007.

The overall credit of this substantive fall goes to the huge interest in .eu and the rising number of registrations. The fee set by the company is charged to the commissioned .eu registrars and which in turn locate the prices for their clients.

Numerous registrars roll up their services to integrate web hosting and email packages. But, EURid is confident that the price decline will be carried over that will also benefit the end users.

Van Wesermael, Managing Director of EURid said, “EURid is now following up on its promise to reduce the fees after one year of operation. We hope this will stimulate more users to see the advantage of having a true European Internet presence by choosing a .eu domain name.”