Burlington, MA, April 15, 2008 – 123Together.com, the leading provider of hosted enterprise-class messaging and collaboration solutions such as hosted Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 and hosted Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, today announced the release of Service Pack 1 for hosted SharePoint 3.0 to small and mid-size businesses (SMBs). This first service pack release provides businesses with increased performance, added stability and security enhancements.

123Together.com’s hosted messaging and collaboration customers can now take advantage of new document libraries, lists, and meeting workplace sites and enjoy enhancements to search capabilities, web discussions and browser-based customization. Serving as a central point of data dissemination for such things as documents, task lists, and image libraries, employees can create, share and manage project timelines, data lists, updated files, corporate photography, newly created web pages and intranet sites.

This enterprise-class collaboration tool provides businesses with increased individual and team productivity, collaboration and document sharing. It has traditionally been used by larger organizations with national or international reach since Windows SharePoint Services is not limited by geographic boundaries and stands as a central location from which to store and manage information. SMBs can also benefit from SharePoint’s collaborative features but have, until recently, been unable to do so due to the high cost and deployment delays involved in setting up servers in-house.

123Together.com’s hosted SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 now enables SMBs to take advantage of best-in-class collaboration to increase team productivity and business process efficiency without the need to incur upfront expenses, conduct additional training of IT staff or purchase of new hardware and software. Customers can sign up and collaborate with coworkers immediately on a shared or dedicated server with guaranteed uptime of 99.9% on shared servers and 100% on dedicated servers. 123Together.com also provides its hosted SharePoint Services customers with phone, email and online chat technical support 24 x 7 from its corporate headquarters in the United States. Customers’ questions are answered by hosted SharePoint experts in real time.

“We pride ourselves on providing small and mid-size businesses with the most current versions of our hosted messaging and collaboration solutions, such as hosted SharePoint Services 3.0 with Service Pack 1, as soon as they are available,” said Ravi Agarwal, senior executive officer, 123Together.com division of mindSHIFT Technologies, Inc. “Our current customers can be assured that they are utilizing enterprise-class hosted services with the most robust capabilities. Businesses who have previously been hesitant to deploy Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 without the benefit of Microsoft’s service pack enhancements can also have immediate access to hosted SharePoint for a small monthly fee and with guaranteed uptime.”

In additional to hosted Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1, 123Together.com offers SMBs a full breadth of hosted services including hosted Exchange Server 2007 SP1, virus and spam filtering, archiving and 2-way wireless synchronization with BlackBerry Enterprise Server, Good Messaging Server and Windows Mobile.

About 123Together.com

Headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, 123Together.com, a mindSHIFT company, is the leading provider of hosted enterprise-class messaging and collaboration solutions including hosted Microsoft Exchange Server, Windows SharePoint Services and Dynamics CRM. These hosted services are offered on shared and dedicated servers to small and mid-size businesses and can be resold as a completely white labeled service. Full mobile access is also offered for BlackBerry, Treo, PocketPC, SmartPhone and Windows Mobile handheld devices. Exchange hosting customers receive free Outlook 2007, live 24×7 U.S.-based technical support, advanced spam and virus filtering and a 100% uptime guarantee on dedicated servers. A 30-day no obligation trial is available for shared customers. www.123Together.com

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Contact Info:

Lisa Masiello
123Together.com
781-273-6245 x652
lmasiello@123together.com

Jennifer Signorini
Weber Shandwick
617-520-7069
jsignorini@webershandwick.com

Burlington, MA, April 11, 2008 – 123Together.com, the leading provider of hosted enterprise-class messaging and collaboration solutions such as hosted Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Hosted Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, today announced the completion of the 123Together.com Exchange hosting affiliate contest and the winning participant.

123Together.com’s affiliate program enables it to expand its customer base through such companies as small IT consultants, web hosting companies and ISPs who have web site visitors or customers interested in hosted Exchange or hosted SharePoint and wish to increase incremental revenue. Affiliates are paid a commission or “finder’s fee” for every customer referred to 123Together.com. The commission varies based upon the sale of shared or dedicated hosted Exchange servers.

123Together.com’s just completed affiliate contest resulted in the payment of additional affiliate commissions and monetary prizes to the winners. One of the winners, Alan H. Jones, is a principal at Carr-Jones, Inc., a Boston, Massachusetts-based provider of concierge-level technology services to small businesses. Alan recognizes the importance of email as a critical component of any small business. By associating with 123Together.com he is able to refer his clients to an affordable and reliable provider of hosted enterprise-class email which requires little assistance from him and provides best-in-class service to his valued customers. “Before deciding to affiliate with any (hosted) Exchange service, I evaluated every firm I could identify,” said Alan. “I selected 123Together.com based on their responsiveness and focus, and have continued to recommend them because they have delivered. The affiliate program makes it easy to generate additional revenue, but my primary motivation for recommending 123Together.com is because it helps my customers to be successful – which makes me successful.”

In addition to offering hosted Exchange and hosted SharePoint, 123Together.com also offers its SMB customers full 2-way wireless synchronization for BlackBerry^®, Treo, PocketPC, SmartPhone and Windows Mobile handheld devices. Customers may also contact 123Together.com’s U.S.-based technical support team 24 x 7 via online chat, phone or email with any questions they may have.

“I want to congratulate Alan and all our affiliates who participated in our contest,” said Ravi Agarwal, senior executive officer, 123Together.com division of mindSHIFT. “We thank them for their belief in the quality of our hosted software services, technical support and customer service and their recommendation of our services to their customers. Our focus on and dedication to hosted Exchange and hosted SharePoint services for the SMB market is validated each day with the addition of new affiliates who enthusiastically recommend our company to their customers.”

About 123Together.com

Headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, 123Together.com, a mindSHIFT company, is the leading provider of hosted enterprise-class messaging and collaboration solutions including hosted Microsoft Exchange Server, Windows SharePoint Services and Dynamics CRM. These hosted services are offered on shared and dedicated servers to small and mid-size businesses and can be resold as a completely white labeled service. Full mobile access is also offered for BlackBerry, Treo, PocketPC, SmartPhone and Windows Mobile handheld devices. Exchange hosting customers receive free Outlook 2007, live 24×7 U.S.-based technical support, advanced spam and virus filtering and a 100% uptime guarantee on dedicated servers. A 30-day no obligation trial is available for shared customers. www.123Together.com

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Contact Info:

Lisa Masiello
123Together.com
781-273-6245 x652

lmasiello@123Together.com

Lisa Masiello
groupSPARK
781-273-6248 x.652
lmasiello@groupspark.com

Jennifer Signorini

Weber Shandwick

617-520-7069

jsignorini@webershandwick.com

DENVER – April 1, 2008 – Ciracom, an information technology consulting firm and woman-owned, 8(a) Small Disadvantaged Business, announced at the FOSE Exposition today that it was recently awarded a five year Information Technology (IT) Schedule 70 contract by the General Service Administration (GSA) to provide USA.NET Microsoft Exchange hosting services to the U.S. Government. GSA contract number GS-35F-0221U gives federal, state, and local government agencies the ability to conveniently purchase and deploy innovative IT solutions from Ciracom and USA.NET. Ciracom’s first government client for email hosting services is the Acquisition Services Directorate (formerly GovWorks^®), a line of business within the U.S. Department of the Interior’s National Business Center.

“We are pleased that the GSA has awarded us this hosted business email government contract,” said Amy Rutt, president and CEO, Ciracom. “Email hosting services are on the GSA schedule because we are starting to see a movement towards software-as-a-service (SaaS) even in the government. We consider USA.NET as the premium provider in this space, and our partnership with them enables us to provide our government customers with a Fortune 50 platform − ensuring top-quality security no matter the size of the agency. Along with the USA.NET brand comes all of the coverage for compliance, and an audit that is very important for a government client.”

A leading SaaS company and wholly owned subsidiary of Perimeter eSecurity^TM, USA.NET offers a fully integrated suite of secure email hosting services including its Microsoft^® Exchange Hosting and Commercial Messaging Solution (CMS) platforms and a suite of enhanced services including Anti-Virus/Anti-Spam, Content Filtering, Encrypted Email, Email Archiving, Unified Messaging and Mobile Messaging solutions. With a broad spectrum of corporate enterprise and SMB customers, USA.NET is the trusted provider of complex, mission critical, customizable email hosting solutions. With this GSA award, Ciracom is now able to deliver these same services and benefits to the government.

According to Doug Howard, President of USA.NET, “In the current climate of budget constraints, our SaaS offerings give predictable pricing and service levels over time without any upfront capital expenditures. The solution scales as an agency grows and the speed at which an agency can launch our service and start to see the benefits is much quicker than with traditional in-house implementations. As a part of our partnership with Ciracom, USA.NET continues to undergo rigorous network and host-based security audits in order to maintain the authority to operate its Exchange Hosting services for a government agency under the FISMA (Federal Information Security Management Act) compliance process.”

Ciracom will be showcasing the solution at booth #2424 during the FOSE Exposition April 1 to 3, 2008, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, in Washington, DC.

About Ciracom:

Ciracom, Inc. is a woman-owned, 8(a) Small Disadvantaged Business with offices in Virginia and Washington, D.C. The company provides commercial clients and Federal agencies with on-site support in the areas of IT, Telecommunications, and Professional Services. Our Government segment provides a wide array of technical services and solutions, primarily to the U.S. federal, state and local government agencies as well as foreign governments. More information is available at http://www.ciracom.com.

About USA.NET

Cited as the “Top Player” for the business email hosting market by The Radicati Group, Inc., USA.NET, The Global Secure eMessaging Service Provider®, is the only hosting provider that is SAS 70 Type II Audited, Microsoft Gold Certified, a member of the Microsoft Technology Adoption Program for Exchange, and winner of the 2006 Microsoft Excellence Award for Exchange Hosting Solutions. USA.NET eMessaging solutions are modular and infinitely scalable to ensure customers can grow their business without having to invest additional resources, time or capital into their mission-critical messaging infrastructure. USA.NET is a wholly owned subsidiary of Perimeter eSecurity. For more information about USA.NET visit http://www.usa.net or call 800-653-0179.

For further information contact:

Cathy Clarke
CNC Associates
617-527-2089
cathy@cncassocs.com

Fairfax, VA — April 1, 2008 — mindSHIFT Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of managed IT and VoIP services, has acquired Burlington, MA-based Collaboration Online, Limited Company, a privately owned, rapidly growing provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions to small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). Collaboration Online does business under multiple brands such as groupSPARK and AgileWave CRM selling hosted Microsoft Exchange Server, Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

“Collaboration Online dramatically expands our market reach,” said mindSHIFT Chairman and CEO Paul Chisholm. “We are now able to provide small and mid-size businesses with additional enterprise-class messaging and collaboration tools which will assist them in increasing growth and corporate productivity. It also enables us to expand our geographic reach considerably.”

“We are delighted to join forces with mindSHIFT, an East Coast powerhouse of managed IT and VoIP services,” said Ravi Agarwal, CEO of Collaboration Online. “Their considerable resources will enable us to more quickly become the market leader in hosted services, reach more customers, and offer additional industry-leading hosted software services.”

Founded in 2002, Collaboration Online provides hosted Microsoft Exchange Server, Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Dynamics CRM to partners and small and mid-size businesses (SMBs) under multiple brands.

The company also markets its hosted SaaS offering as a private label service through a strong reseller channel. These resellers are able to market the company’s hosted services under their own brands using the company’s state-of the-art Private Label Application Delivery (PLAD) platform. The PLAD platform enables channel partners to resell the services as part of their own product offering, saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in development and support costs.

The acquisition provides mindSHIFT with strategic value in three areas:

1. A high growth opportunity in the SMB market to provide a larger breadth of industry-leading enterprise-class hosted services.
2. An automated and scalable provisioning and support platform that dramatically lowers the costs of customer acquisition and support.
3. A successful and mature reseller program.

About mindSHIFT Technologies, Inc.

With operations in Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Washington D.C., mindSHIFT is a leading Managed Services Provider (MSP) offering managed IT services, software-as-a-service (SaaS), VoIP, compliance, e-business application development and professional services to small and medium-sized organizations. The company’s portfolio of managed services provides a comprehensive solution which includes such critical services as email management and administration, electronic backup for servers and desktops, virus and spam protection, desktop support, and server management – either at the customers’ premises or completely off-site. Managed services customers are supported by both a 24-hour Network Operations Center for proactive management support and a call center which diagnoses and resolves all end-user desktop issues. For advanced and larger businesses, the company provides business application migrations, storage area network upgrades and complex hosting applications. Additionally, mindSHIFT has superior expertise and experience in meeting the compliance requirements of financial services firms, as well as the complex demands of the legal community for the integration of applications such as document management. For additional information, visit www.mindSHIFT.com.

About Collaboration Online

Headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, Collaboration Online, Limited Company is the leading provider of hosted enterprise-class messaging and collaboration solutions including hosted Microsoft Exchange Server, Windows SharePoint Services and Dynamics CRM. These hosted services are offered on shared and dedicated servers to small and mid-size businesses around the world. Full mobile access is also offered for BlackBerry, Treo, PocketPC, SmartPhone and Windows Mobile handheld devices. Hosted Exchange customers receive free Outlook 2007, live 24×7 U.S.-based technical support, advanced spam and virus filtering and a 100% uptime guarantee on dedicated servers.

mindSHIFT Technologies is a registered trademark of mindSHIFT Technologies, Inc.

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Media Contacts:

mindSHIFT Technologies, Inc.

Vicki J. Brown
617-243-2729
vicki.brown@mindSHIFT.com

Collaboration Online, Limited Company

Lisa M. Masiello
781-273-6248, ext. 652
lmasiello@groupSPARK.com

BURLINGTON, MA – March 26, 2008 – groupSPARK, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and the leading provider of private label hosted software services including Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, today announced the availability of Service Pack 1 for hosted SharePoint 3.0 delivering additional stability and performance enhancements.

groupSPARK resellers can now offer their customers hosted Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 with all of the latest feature enhancements and upgrades. This industry-leading collaboration tool enables small and mid-size businesses to increase productivity, teamwork and efficiency. Acting as a central repository, employees can share project schedules, create lists of data, update files, and share ideas. Hosted SharePoint’s web-based interface enables departments, project teams and remote employees to work together by utilizing their hosted SharePoint site as a central location from which to disseminate data and information. Users can also launch and maintain web pages, intranets and photo libraries.

As businesses grow, open additional locations and even expand to other countries around the world, the need for a centralized location to store and manage data becomes increasingly important.

groupSPARK resellers will now be able to offer hosted Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 to businesses previously unwilling to use the initial version of hosted SharePoint. “Many businesses traditionally do not jump right into new versions of software. They wait until the first service pack is released to take advantage of the upgrades and enhancements that Microsoft makes available,” said Ravi Agarwal, chief executive officer of 123Together.com. “Our resellers now have the opportunity to offer hosted Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 to those companies who have previously been reluctant to use the earlier version.”

About groupSPARK

Located in Burlington, Massachusetts, groupSPARK is a leading provider of SaaS services, such as Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services v3.0, and Dynamics CRM, which can be completely private labeled and resold by partners as a part of their own product offerings saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in development and support costs.

Its partners utilize groupSPARK’s turnkey private label platform to provide hosted services to their users in minutes. Partners are able to address scalability and uptime concerns by leveraging groupSPARK’s 100% uptime SLA, private label 24×7 U.S.-based support and proactive hardware and software monitoring capabilities.

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Hosting Providers welcomes Apple’s announcement of support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync in the beta release of iPhone 2.0 software as it offers direct push technology whereby iPhone users can access email, contacts, calendar and IT administrators can do remote wipe if device is stolen..

iPhone is still sold through Mobile operators and unfortunately Apple is struggling to clinch a deal with other operators outside US.Though there is a limited availability in few countries in Europe.

How about Asia? Looks like operators in this region are still thinking about a best business model which suits to the users in this region. However, receiving a share of the revenue generated per handset is still Apple’s underlying business model. Whatsoever, this translate to lesser sale volume for Apple compared to Nokia..

Initially when Apple came to the market with iPhone, Nokia and others had little fear, but actually this gave them a hope of a new business model which many had never thought about it. Apple realized the potential of a converged mobile equipment and tactfully managed to negotiate a good deal with operators in US where it receives a percentage of the revenue generated per handset. In reciprocal to this deal, operators get a great deal of discount of iPhone from Apple when they sell it.

In Europe, there is a modest reception in Germany and UK. Apple is yet to formalize a deal in Asia where the mobile market is huge, especially China & India. Japan, Korea & Singapore users will be very keen to have iPhone because of the gadget love. iPhone synchronization with Hosted Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync allows companies to get the best from this device now.

What is the impact to Hosting providers?

Those customers who would like to standardize their mobile device with iPhone and have international presence especially in Asia will have impact. Alternatively, they can choose other devices which support ActiveSync. You can find more details about these devices in my previous post…

Apple’s recent announcement for its iPhone’s ability to synchronize with Hosted Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync enables the organization to achieve its best from wireless devices. IMAP feature in iPhone will not be that relevant for Exchange Server with the availability of true wireless synchronization using ActiveSync. So by having iPhone 2.0 and Hosted Exchange services, you are pretty much be able to synchronize emails, calendar, contacts, notes and tasks over various wireless medium such as Wi-Fi and GPRS network.

Exchange Hosting  Providers now can offer a bundle of choice to its Mobile business users between a Windows Mobile Device, iPhone, blackberry and Good Messaging Server for full wireless push email. There are also a number of other vendors got ActiveSync ready wireless devices in the market, namely, Treo, Nokia, Motorola etc. These protocol licensees are adding functionalities quite frequently.

DataViz’s RoadSync application provides secure, wireless and direct push synchronization with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 & 2007. Some of the key Exchange 2007 features has been added into Roadsync are email flags, Exchange Server Search, UNC file access from SharePoint etc. RoadSync offers broad range of mobile device coverage. Details can be found here.

Helio models are innovative and they have recently released “Mail for Microsoft Exchange”, a downloadable client for the Helio Ocean providing Direct Push of email, contacts, and calendar, GAL lookup and support for Remote Wipe. Ocean Device is the world’s first dual slider device with a full QWERTY keyboard and a separate numeric pad. Details can be found here.

Nokia recently released version 2.3.0 of its “Mail for Exchange” product - added functionalities are Task Synchronization, Global address list Lookup, and accept/reject meeting requests from calendar. Nokia keep increasing its support for “Mail for Exchange” to their N-series models, apart from the existing E-series models. Downloaded Mail for Exchange ver 2.3.0 from this link and more resources can be found here.

Sony Ericsson’s feature-rich mobile phones such as Z750i, P990 Smartphone and M600 now support the Exchange Active Sync protocol. Users can synchronize their e-mail, calendar, and contacts information while on the road. More details can be found here.

Palm’s decade of mobile computing experience now gets even better with built-in Microsoft’s direct push technology in its selected Treo models. It has recently added GAL lookup. Details can be found here.

..And goes on with BlackBerry Enterprise Server & Good Messaging Server…

Lisa Masiello
123Together.com
781-273-6245 x652
lmasiello@123together.com

MONTREAL, (March 10, 2008) – SherWeb, a leading hosting provider of Microsoft Exchange Server and BlackBerry Enterprise Server, proudly announces it will support the iPhone 2.0 wireless synchronization with its Hosted Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync Service. The iPhone synchronization service allows small, medium and large companies to wirelessly synchronize their devices to their Microsoft Exchange messaging system in real time, wherever they are.

In today’s business world, full mobile wireless synchronization of emails, contacts and calendar is a must! With Microsoft Exchange being the number one business class email solution on the market, phone makers have no choice but to allow their devices to sync with the most popular collaborative software. The iPhone, popular with the general consumer’s market, has now increased its appeal to the business community.

“SherWeb is excited to be able to offer iPhone lovers the rich capabilities of Hosted Exchange. With this new software, business users will now have the choice between a BlackBerry, a Windows Mobile Device or the iPhone for full wireless push email.” stated Peter Cassar, CEO of SherWeb

Advantages of the wireless synchronization

iPhone synchronization with Hosted Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync allows companies to get the most out of their wireless devices by avoiding the duplication of certain tasks. With wireless synchronization, there is no need to connect to the Exchange server using IMAP anymore. You can say goodbye to cables and waiting around to manually synchronize your Outlook to your mobile device. With the iPhone 2.0 and Hosted Exchange, emails, calendar, contacts, notes and tasks will synchronize wirelessly in real time over the Wi-Fi or EDGE network. ActiveSync provides users with true push technologies so that they stay connected and up to date wherever they go. This way companies can save time, be more productive and get a better return on their investment.

About SherWeb

Founded in 1998, SherWeb is a leader in Internet hosting solutions and provides shared Web hosting services, dedicated servers and hosted messaging and collaboration systems. The company is currently serving thousands of customers from more than 25 countries around the world. SherWeb’s hosting solutions are modular and scalable in order to ensure that customers can grow their businesses without having to invest additional time, capital or other resources into their Web and messaging infrastructure.

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Pierre-Olivier Descoteaux
Marketing Director
SherWeb Inc.
1-888-562-6610 extension 229,
(819) 437-5500 mobile,
www.sherweb.com/exchange