DALLAS/EWORLDWIRE/Dec. 3, 2003 --- C I Host, a global leader in Web hosting, Internet infrastructure and software development, today announced its e-Memories On The Web(TM), e-Business In A Box(TM) and e-Files(TM) software have been selected for in-store and online distribution by J & R Music and Computer World of New York, one of the world's premiere computer/electronics megastores. "This announcement comes at the most wonderful time of the year for retailers," said Christopher Faulkner, CEO of C I Host. "We expect a huge sales volume. Getting placed on the shelves at J & R is a benchmark of quality."
Faulkner continued, "J & R has one of the best retail distribution models. New York City is the heart of holiday retail, and we can't think of a better place to feature our software titles than J & R."
J & R is heralded throughout the industry, including accolades from Forbes magazine, which chose J & R as the best website for computers and electronics.
"We're stocking e-Memories because it is a perfect complement for all of the digital cameras that will hit the streets this season," said Abe Brown, a spokesman for J & R. "We can move e-Memories and digital cameras, hand-in-hand."
"The business applications e-Business In A Box and e-Files are perfect selections for entrepreneurs, and small- and medium-sized enterprises," Brown added.
e-Memories, for the price of most single-faceted programs, is a suite of multimedia-capable applications which includes online photo albums, slide shows, blogging, chat, IM, e-postcards, video streaming and a digital family tree.
With the advent of cell phones with built-in digital cameras, e-Memories enables the consumer to easily build a Web site to which photos to can be uploaded, via e-mail, on the fly.
e-Business In A Box is a turnkey, five-page, custom Web design kit, complete with a shopping cart and a marketing search engine package.
e-Files is an Internet file sharing and online document storage application that allows users to store and share files securely, quickly and simultaneously from anywhere.
Based in the Dallas-Fort Worth market and ranked #1 in speed by the Adoloma Web Hosting Guide, C I Host (www.cihost.com) is a Web hosting and Internet solutions provider, domain name registrar (C I Host is accredited by ICANN to register domain names) and application service provider (ASP) serving 200,000 individual consumers and businesses in 182 countries worldwide. Consistently ranked among the Top 5 Web hosting companies out of 16,000 around the globe by c|net's Ultimate Web Host List, HostPulse, WebHostsOnline.com, HostChart.com, C I Host was named among the Top 25 Web hosting companies by HostIndex.com.
With the broadest portfolio of managed hosting and value-added services in the industry, C I Host creates business-class Web hosting solutions for the small- and medium-enterprise (SME) market. The company offers turn-key services ranging from initial domain name registration to custom dedicated servers for e-commerce on today's Web.
C I Host operates three diverse data centers across the United States, with its main facility and Network Operations Center in Bedford, Texas. The company has offices in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and London.
All telco-grade, tier-1 data centers are wholly owned and operated by CI Host and consist of redundant diesel generator backups and a temperature-controlled secure environment with fully redundant UPS capability. All server hardware is fully tested and configured for optimal performance. Daily Web server backups and full fire protection guards against data loss. To deliver speed and reliability, C I Host servers are connected to two OC-12 fiber connections, five DS-3 and two OC-3 lines from five diverse Internet backbones for a total of more than 2.6 Gigabits of available bandwidth.
C I Host is sponsoring two Web site call outs at www.jandr.com, featuring e-Memories on the camera "landing page". e-Business in a Box and e-Files on the Web can be found among Internet and Web applications.
C I Host is HIPAA-compliant and has passed the SAS70 audit.
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