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RALEIGH, N.C., March 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Bulk TV & Internet, a leading provider of DIRECTV services for commercial properties nationwide announces the addition of Vice President of Sales, James H. Jessel to their management team.

Jessel has over 20 years of experience selling and marketing to the hospitality sector. Prior to joining Bulk TV & Internet, Jessel was at the helm of DIRECTV's Commercial Division from 1998-2007 increasing subscriber activations and revenue within the segment culminating in exponential growth both regionally and nationally.

"I am extremely excited to be joining the Bulk TV & Internet team," says Jessel. "Our organization is the fastest growing in our industry because of our effective marketing focus on the lodging, institutional and commercial segments. We are laser focused and skilled at managing a large volume of varied business segments and customers, while still catering to the specific needs of each property or facility."

Jessel's understanding of the industry and prior growth performance within the commercial market makes him the perfect match for Bulk TV & Internet's rapidly growing business. With Jessel's expertise, Bulk TV & Internet expects to maintain the exponential growth that has pushed them to the forefront of commercial satellite providers, while continuing to strategically expand their sales footprint on a local, regional and national basis.

Bulk TV's growth has been recognized by INC 500 List of Fastest Growing Companies, Triangle Business Journal's Fast 50 and they have been named DIRECTV's Free-to-Guest Provider of the Year for the past four years.

Jessel is married to wife Kirsten and has two children, Julia (14) and Zachary (11). Originally from Toronto, Canada, he holds degrees in Political Science and History from the University of California, San Diego.

About Bulk TV & Internet Bulk TV & Internet is a leading provider of DIRECTV services designed to meet the unique needs of hospitality, long-term care, healthcare and multi-dwelling unit properties as well as small businesses, bars and restaurants. Bulk TV & Internet provides service to more than 200,000 units nationwide including free-to-guest television programming, digital satellite TV systems, high-speed Internet access and managed data network services. For more information, please visit http://www.bulktv.com.

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Wednesday he wants "Internet giants" to pay tax in France, shortly before he was due to meet the founder of the micro-blogging site Twitter.

"It is unacceptable that they have a turnover of several billion euros in France without paying tax," he told Le Point magazine, adding that the French government should consider taxing online advertising revenues.

French lawmakers last year rejected plans for a proposed tax on online advertising revenues, fearing the project would hurt small local companies more than global internet giants like Google, Facebook or Twitter.

A spokesman for Google hit back, arguing that "the internet offers a wonderful opportunity to generate growth and jobs in France."

Google cited a report from management consultant McKinsey that said internet companies contributed 60 billion euros ($78 billion) to the French economy in 2009, or 3.2 percent of output, and could create 450,000 jobs by 2015.

"This positive contribution would have a better chance of coming about in an environment that is supportive of the web in France and of investment in the sector. Public policy should support this," the spokesman argued.

The president's comment came as Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey was in Paris to meet with French presidential candidates, including Sarkozy.

Earlier Dorsey had met the front-running Socialist candidate Francois Hollande and with centrist Francois Bayrou, and he was due to meet Sarkozy later in the day.

Hollande's campaign team said the candidate and Dorsey discussed the development of innovative companies in France and the Internet sector.

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Avast's free antivirus proved to be the most-installed antivirus product worldwide in a recent study of OPSWAT's user base. The company's security suite, avast! Internet Security 7 ($69.99 direct for three licenses), isn't quite as widespread. It offers the same malware protection as the standalone antivirus and adds firewall, spam filtering, and a sandbox virtualization feature that will appeal to tech-savvy users.

Like the standalone antivirus, this edition adds cloud-based streaming updates and reputation lookup. There's a new summary page showing status and statistics for the eight real-time protection "shields." Built-in remote assistance makes it very easy for any other Avast user to help out if you run into trouble. And the new Avast Market page offers other Avast products for sale.

Installation is quick, if you choose Express Install. After a required reboot and initial update, the product is ready to go. The suite's malware protection is exactly the same as what's found in avast! Free Antivirus 7 (free, 4 stars); please read that review for full details. I'll summarize here.

Good Malware Protection Avast includes the ability to clean up malware upon reboot, before Windows has fully loaded. It requested a boot-time scan either before or after the full scan on each of my malware-infested test systems. Avast scored 6.8 points overall in my malware removal test, just behind Webroot SecureAnywhere Complete ($79.95 direct for three licenses, 4.5 stars), which earned 6.9 points. Norton 360 Version 6.0 ($79.99 direct for three licenses, 4.5 stars) earned the top score in this test, 7.4 points.

Avast detected all rootkit and scareware samples; scored 7.6 for rootkit removal and 9.5 for scareware removal. Norton 360 and Norton Internet Security 2012 ($69.99 direct for three licenses, 4.5 stars) shared the top rootkit removal score, 8.9 points while Comodo Internet Security Pro 2012 ($4.99/year direct, 4 stars) ran close behind with 8.6. For a full description of how I derive these scores, see How We Test Malware Removal.

Avast did a decent job keeping malware out of my clean test system, but the majority of its competition did better. Avast's web shield component did prove particularly effective when I tried to re-download my sample set. However, in my standard malware blocking test Avast detected 89 percent of the threats and scored 8.1 points. Comodo and Webroot detected 100 percent; Webroot aced this test with a perfect 10 of 10 points. The How We Test Malware Blocking explains my testing technique.

The Web reputation browser plug-in, also present in the free antivirus, rates the current site based on users' votes. Its icon reflects an overall good or bad rating, as well an indication of how many votes went into that rating. You can also tag a site with any of five good and five bad attributes.

All of the independent antivirus labs that I follow include Avast in their tests, which is a good sign. It generally earns good scores, typically better in static tests than dynamic ones. In a dynamic real-time test by AV-Comparatives.org it rated STANDARD, the lowest passing grade. And in AV-Test.org's latest whole-product certification tests it averaged 13 points, with 11 of 18 necessary to pass. The chart below summarizes recent independent lab tests. For more details about the labs, see How We Interpret Antivirus Lab Tests.

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United Internet AG (UTDI) may more than double its dividend to as much as 44 cents a share from 2013 earnings as investment in rolling out new products will no longer hold back profit, Chief Executive Officer Ralph Dommermuth said.

If things work out as planned, our dividend should be between 25 cents and 44 cents next year, Dommermuth said in an interview in Frankfurt today. Of course we still need to look at what our investments are and how much cash we have.

The proposed dividend for 2011 will be maintained at 20 cents, the CEO said. The company generally aims to pay 25 percent to 40 percent of earnings per share, he said, adding that EPS will probably be in a range of 1 euro to 1.10 euros next year after 80 cents to 90 cents in 2012.

United Internet, a German provider of phone and Internet services, will probably boost revenue by at least 15 percent next year after targeting about 15 percent in 2012, the CEO said in a press conference today. The loss from starting new business areas such as do-it-yourself homepages and the expansion into new countries will be lower in 2013 after marketing costs again limit earnings growth this year, he said.

At 15 percent growth a year, revenue in 2013 would be 2.77 billion euros, according to Bloomberg calculations. That exceeds an average analyst estimate of 2.37 billion euros in a Bloomberg survey.

Revenue rose 9.8 percent last year to 2.09 billion euros, the Montabaur-based company said in a statement late yesterday. The 2012 sales target, which would amount to about 2.4 billion euros, compares with an average analyst estimate of 2.24 billion euros in a Bloomberg survey.

The company is expanding its offering of applications such as homepages, e-shops and to-do lists to more markets, including Italy. The company also offers access services such as mobile and broadband connections.

Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization rose 2 percent to 364.8 million euros as profit was held back by smartphone subsidies to win customers, product development expenses and spending to add business abroad, United Internet said.

United Internet fell 0.4 percent to 13.99 euros as of 3:55 p.m. in Frankfurt trading.

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