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ATLANTA and NEW YORK, March 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Cloud Sherpas, recently named the Google Enterprise 2011 Partner of the Year, has merged with GlobalOne, a salesforce.com platinum consulting partner. The new company, to be called Cloud Sherpas, has also received a $20 million investment from Columbia Capital, which last year invested $15M in GlobalOne. David Northington, who was CEO at GlobalOne and previously was COO of CapGemini's North American Applications Services group, will be CEO of Cloud Sherpas. Former Cloud Sherpas CEO Douglas Shepard will be president of Cloud Sherpas' Google business unit.

The investment from Columbia Capital, a prominent enterprise-focused venture capital firm with over $2.5 billion under management, will be used by Cloud Sherpas to solidify its position as a leader in the Cloud Service Provider market (CSP). The funds will allow Cloud Sherpas to extend its reach into new geographic regions, further development of vertical market solutions, and continue to expand its portfolio of cloud-based applications that unify cloud interoperability.

"Both GlobalOne and Cloud Sherpas were born in the cloud as pure-play cloud service providers," said Northington. "The combined firm further enables our singular missionto help customers transform their businesses by leveraging the power of the cloud. The new Cloud Sherpas has the talent, domain expertise and geographic reach to help businesses improve IT agility and lower costs through a series of cloud consulting, integration and support services."

Founded in 2008, Cloud Sherpas was among the first Google Enterprise partners devoted to Google Apps. In less than four years, the company has transformed the IT foundation of businesses, governments, organizations and educational institutions large and small, by replacing legacy, on-premise email systems with messaging, collaboration and security solutions in the cloud. The company was recently named the Google Enterprise 2011 Partner of the Year, based in part on their deep-rooted commitment to Google technologies and customer success, as evidenced by the number of Google Apps Certified Deployment Specialists throughout its organization.

"The CSP business model is different than traditional professional services," said Jon Hallett, Chairman of Cloud Sherpas. "The merger broadens our capabilities, enabling us to help our customers capture the benefits of continual technology innovation provided in the cloud. Partnered with a CSP like Cloud Sherpas, customers can make incremental bets over time to consistently align technology to their business, reduce risk and deliver significantly higher value."

Meanwhile, GlobalOne, which started in 2007, has been a fast growing salesforce.com consulting partner. Based in New York with offices throughout the U.S. and Asia, GlobalOne has helped hundreds of enterprise clients deploy and realize tremendous value from salesforce.com. As one of the companies on the salesforce.com International Technical Architecture Review Board, GlobalOne is highly-respected for its CRM expertise and well-known for its vertical solutions.

In addition, GlobalOne has developed an offshore delivery center based in the Philippines and recently acquired a mobile app development team from Vodafone. These teams have helped transform how customers interact with technology at their organizations. Leveraging the power of the Salesforce platform, the GlobalOne team has built custom applications and award-winning social and mobile apps for businesses around the globe.

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Douglas Shepard, president of Cloud Sherpas, says, "Bringing together a dominant salesforce.com partner with a leading Google Enterprise partner enables us to provide customers around the globe with a more comprehensive range of enterprise cloud solutions."

"The demand for cloud services in Asia-Pacific continues to grow at breakneck speed," added John Orrock, founder of GlobalOne and senior vice president for Asia-Pacific, at Cloud Sherpas. "Our cloud consultants in Australia and New Zealand, combined with our newly acquired mobility practice and offshore development capabilities in the Philippines, sets the new Cloud Sherpas apart from other cloud service providers in the region."

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06-03-2012 05:43 http://www.presstv.com Despite its historic and international reputation for heralding free speech, the United Kingdom has the second strictest censorship of the internet in the European Union. The UK has a number of laws and policies that restrict the way information can be made public, including some that make it illegal to report on information that the government or corporations are trying to keep secret. During the London riots, David Cameron ordered the censorship of social networking sites, and his censorship plans have been applauded by China. Western governments are attempting to put forward laws that further restrict the freedoms of internet usage such as the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), Protect IP Act (PIPA) and Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). These are all argued to be internet filtering systems and policies on a national and international level that stifle the ability of internet users to discuss, question and critique and risks the internet becoming a tool of political and economic power for the ruling elite. In this edition of the show we talk to British public about the Freedom of Information in the West and ask; why do you think Western governments engage in censorship and make it illegal for the public to share certain information?

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MEDINA, Ohio, March 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Security firm Thirtyseven4, LLC creates a solution for millions of users worldwide to avoid Internet loss when the virus DNSChanger takes effect on Thursday, March 8, 2012. DNSChanger is a Trojan that targets Internet devices such as routers or home gateways. DNSChanger spread to millions of users worldwide through a highly efficient botnet. An estimated four million PC's in over one hundred countries have been compromised.

The DNSChanger attack directs a system's Domain Name System (DNS) server settings to rogue DNS servers controlled by malware authors. DNS is an Internet service that converts domain names into Internet Protocol (IP) addresses that allows computers to communicate with one another.

As a result of this attack, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) launched Operation Ghost Click and set up a temporary solution to ensure users didn't lose DNS service. Their fix expires this Thursday at which time infected users will lose Internet service.

"Lost Internet connection due to DNSChanger remains a serious threat to millions," said Thirtyseven4 Owner Steven Sundermeier. "Our virus lab team has reported over 70 variants of this malware and we're still seeing hundreds of thousands of live infections. If you have a factory set or weak password for your router, there is a good chance your system was compromised."

Over half of Fortune 500 companies have at least one PC or router still infected with DNSChanger.

"Thirtyseven4 developed a free DNSChanger detection tool for users who find themselves at risk. The tool was created to help users determine if their system's DNS settings have been compromised," added Sundermeier. "The best solution to ward off vicious attacks in the future is for consumers to make sure that they go with a reputable antivirus provider and that their protection is up-to-date," concluded Sundermeier.

For more information about this virus or to check your system and avoid losing Internet service, please visit http://www.thirtyseven4.com/dnschanger.html.

Thirtyseven4 also offers a 30 day trial of its flagship product, Thirtyseven4 Antivirus which cleans machines and protects them from future attacks at http://www.thirtyseven4.com/downloads.html.

About Thirtyseven4: Born out of a desire to better connect antivirus protection solutions with premium customer support and service, Thirtyseven4, LLC seeks to protect schools, universities, businesses, governmental agencies and home-users with the best antivirus products available.

CONTACT: Steven Sundermeier, President Thirtyseven4, LLC steven.sundermeier@thirtyseven4.com p: 877-374-7581

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Lawrence LessigWe're pleased to announce that Lawrence Lessig, Roy L. Furman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, will be speaking at Mashable Connect, our signature conference.

During his talk, Lessig will share his vision on the future of digital creativity and technology innovation in a post SOPA and PIPA world.

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Mashable's largest conference, Mashable Connect, is returning to Orlando, FL from May 3-5, and this year we will explore the future of digital with some of the brightest minds in the industry.

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Lawrence Lessig is a global pioneer and leading expert in the area of contemporary copyright law and Internet privacy. His passion for freedom of creativity, particularly in the realm of digital technology, has resonated with a diverse community of professionals ranging from artists to computer scientists.

Prior to Harvard, Lessig was a professor at Stanford Law School, where he founded the schools Center for Internet and Society, and at the University of Chicago.

He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court.

Lessig is a founding board member of Creative Commons, an organization whose core mission is to advance digital creativity, sharing and innovation on the internet. One of his primary goals with Creative Common is to build a culture of free and legal online sharing, which is vital for the survival of the content industry.

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