IT Support and IT Outsourcing Company

National, July 12^th, 2010 – With the Internet binding the world closer and closer together, IT support and outsourcing company Spirinet Technology Services is proud to announce their partnership with Translation Services USA.  “The world gets smaller every day,” explains Spirinet co-founder Kirill Bensonoff, “and we want to make sure our clients have every tool at their disposal to compete on the world stage.  That’s why we felt our partnership with Translation Services USA was such a strong direction for our combined companies.”

Translation Services USA will primarily augment two areas of Spirinet’s service offerings.  First, they will provide website translation.  Secondly, they will provide software localization services, which is the process of adapting existing software platforms to fit the needs of specific language and cultural groups.  “Spirinet has always been international in scope, but our partnership with Translation Services USA will allow us to serve an even broader group of clients, and make sure that cutting edge technology is available to all, no matter what language they speak.” From words of Alex Buran, President and CEO of Translation Services USA: “Partnership with Spirinet will open up many possibilities never seen before. Sometimes, when we are serving the needs of our large companies, we have to scale up our IT solutions rather quickly in order to accommodate the most demanding needs. This is where Spirinet comes handy and we look forward to working with them”.

Spirinet Technology Services was founded in 2005, and is a premiere provider of IT outsourcing and consulting services for small and medium-sized businesses all over North America.  They are headquartered outside Boston, Massachusetts.  The partnership with Translation Services USA is just the latest in a long line of innovative technology solutions.  One such solution is AppsOnDemand, which leverages cloud computing to deliver applications to SMBs, anywhere, anytime, on a pay-per-user model.

Translation Services USA was founded in 2002 as LeoSam Translations.  They are based in New York City, New York, and count many Fortune 500 companies as their clients.  Like Spirinet, they are international in scope, and can translate to and from over 150 languages.

For more information, please visit Spirinet’s website at ComputerSupport.com, or Translation Services USA’s website at Translation-Services-Usa.Com.

I recently upgraded from exchange 2007 to 2010. I followed a nice easy to use upgrade guide found here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/exdeploy2010/default.aspx#Home .

So you might be wondering why upgrade to Exchange 2010? On the surface it looks awfully similar to Exchange 2007 but comes packed with some nice new features. The following are some of the features I like best.

Online Mailbox Move– You can now move mailboxes during  business hours without any interruption to the users.

Database Availability Groups – You can now have  up to 16 Mailbox  servers that host a set of databases and provide automatic database-level recovery from failures that affect individual servers or databases.   

Archiving – You can now preserve email data with archiving policies while seamlessly giving users access to the through either Outlook or Outlook Wepp App.

This was going to be my first blog written from an iPad, unfortunately, it seems Safari does not yet like WordPress. Oh Well.

I wanted to write a brief review of my new iPad. The short of it, as you may have already heard elsewhere – is it a cool toy? Yes. Is it a laptop killer? No.

The iPad is a 9.7″ touch-screen with a 1024×768 resolution. My model came with Wi-Fi only but there will be a 3G model available soon. The cost for this model was $499 and the cost for the 3G model will be $629.The iPad can play a variety of audio and video formats, and can run apps from the iTunes app store. There are specific apps written for it or ported from the iPhone, but you can run iPhone apps on it directly, albeit with a smaller size or poorer resolution.

As always, Apple makes the experience pleasant, from shipping (and arriving on time) in an easy t   open container, to quick setup. I had my Exchange email and calendar syncing within 2 minutes. I am not an iPhone or a MAC user, but can definitely get used to the smooth display, great graphics and fast Internet (compared to my Blackberry Storm2).

Some downsides – weight is a major one for me. It comes in at about 1.5lbs, which does not seem like a lot, but when you are trying to hold it, type and do other things, it feels heavy. I personally don’t care much for a camera, but would be nice to have for the sake of video conferencing, if this was to be a true “laptop replacement”. Also, my recommendation would be to not bother with the 3G model – 3G is too slow anyways. Wait for Verizon to roll out 4G, and by that time I think the iPhone and the iPad will be available on that network. And AT&T still hasnt earned its’ stripes as a carrier for businesses.

To sum up, iPad is a nice device to have laying on your couch in case you need to look something up, watch a quick video or send an email. But it will not replace a laptop for small businesses or knowledge workers in corporations. At least not until iPad 2.0 is out.

Microsoft Exchange 2010 new Outlook Web Access (OWA) features will surely make the latest installment of OWA a more appealing way for users to access their email. OWA packs new features such as :

Side-by-side comparison of calendars:  You can now open up a shared calendar and view it right next to your own calendar. This makes It easier to compare and coordinate schedules.

Ability to attach messages to messages: This is a nice feature especially useful if you are concerned about a message and would like an administrator to look at the message prior to opening.

Access to mailbox archives: Allows users to access archived mailboxes from within the OWA interface so you can view your archived messages no matter where you are.                                              

Support for multiple browsers such as Firefox and Safari: OWA fully support Safari and Firefox to get the OWA premium experience.                             

This newest installment of OWA has some out there believing that you could use this as a full time mail client. I wouldn’t go that far but it seems like a huge improvement over its predecessors. As Microsoft continues to move into the cloud concept, I believe you will start seeing more and more people switch to OWA as their go to mail client.

Continuing on from Part 1, I am going to list some more SEO rank factors, in the order of importance. I have covered topics such as age of the domain, inbound links, tags and keywords on pages. Here are the remaining factors:

6. Page load times: Google started looking at this more recently. Make sure your pages are optimized, and your server takes advantage of gzip compression. I would suggest you use Google Webmaster tools located here: http://www.google.com/webmasters/ to measure the load time and compare to other websites.

7. Hosting: this is important because google still uses IP addresses to track spammers, blackhat sites, etc..If you host your domain on an IP that has been linked to a “bad” website before, you can get penalized, through no fault of your own..I would recommend using a respectable web host that understand small businesses – try www.webmasters.com

8. Internal link structure: this is important..While I feel that inbound links are most important, internal links are as well. Make sure your pages are linked, and you have a site map so that google can crawl easier. Avoid using javascript when linking as much as possible.

9. URL Structure: last but of course not least, the URL strcuture is still important. While I feel that Google learned, and is always getting better at recognizing various URLs, I always recommend an SEO-friendly URL structure. For example, on my website, appplication hosting URL in this link is very clear, so when a search engine crawls this page, its that much easier for it to recognize what the page is all about…

I think most of the stuff about is just common sense..After all, Google is programmed by humans, and its made to think like a human as much as possible. So, if it makes sense to you, it probably makes sense to Google.