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(AP) ? NEW YORK - 'Saturday Night Live' has cut a cast member just a day after word of two new hires became public. Michaela (Mick-AIL'-lah) Watkins' publicist confirmed Friday that Watkins' c...

Contact: Don Pare 780-973-3299 Don.pare@wisenav.com WiseNav Users Create Multi-Media Rich Websites in Seconds Denver, CO and Edmonton, Canada -September 1 , 2009-GearHost and WiseNav announced today that they have established a joint partnership under which GearHost will be a premier partner for WiseNav in Western North America and will now offer WiseNav 3.0 with all hosting packages. WiseNav 3.0 opens the door for inexperienced or non technical users, with no programming knowledge, to build and maintain multi-media rich websites in seconds as opposed to hours or days. About WiseNav 3.0: - Allows users to drag and drop pictures, images, music, videos, animations, calendars & photo-gallery - Comes fully loaded for e-commerce - Has an innovative desktop feature that optimizes photo, audio and video content for the web in an automatic and transparent manner - Converts video files for streaming playback, loads quickly and can be seen without delay by site visitors - Novice users with

(September 3, 2009) DENVER, CO: HostWorks Inc, a Denver Internet web hosting and design company, launched their own redesigned web site www.HostWorks.com today. To celebrate, HostWorks announces their 2009 Internet Stimulus Contest. The contest winner receives a web site overhaul including: - QuickStart SEO service to jump start search engine visibility - one year of free web hosting - eight (8) hours of consulting time - site installation of HostWorks' proprietary SiteWorks Content Management System. SiteWorks enables site managers to independently manage web site content including updating, adding or deleting pages, text and photographs, developing e-newsletters and more any time, from any browser, with Internet access. All entries must be submitted online through http://www.hostworks.com/index.cfm/ID/116/Stimulus-Contest/. No contest entries will be accepted through US Mail or by telephone. Deadline to enter is 5:00 PM on Thursday, October 1, 2009. HostWorks, Inc is a privatel

PLANO, Texas - Sept. 2, 2009 - Layered Technologies, Inc. (Layered Tech), a leading worldwide provider of on-demand IT infrastructure, has ranked second on the 2009 Tech Titans Fast Tech Five-Year Listing by the Metroplex Technology Business Council (MTBC), the largest technology trade organization in Texas. The Tech Titans Fast Tech Award annually recognizes the fastest-growing technology companies in the DFW Metroplex, based on percentage of revenue growth during five-year or one-year periods. Layered Tech ranked ahead of several other leading technology companies in North Texas, a result of the company's explosive growth since 2004. To qualify for the ranking, companies must own proprietary technology; Layered Tech possesses a fully automated Web hosting platform called Astro that dramatically accelerates the availability and provisioning of servers for customers and channel partners alike. 'Layered Tech is proud to achieve such a high ranking on this prestigious annual list,

The top executive of The Hartford Courant is apologizing for the newspaper's plagiarism of other media organizations' work over the past several weeks. Richard Graziano, the Courant's chief executive...

Kenexa , a global provider of business solutions for human resources, today unveiled its newly updated and enhanced podcasting Web site, Kenexa PODS .

Printable Technologies Inc., a leading provider of software as a service web-to-print and marketing personalization solutions, announced today that Printable's SaaS web-to-print solution, MarcomCentral, can now produce dynamic content email campaigns through a unique integration with the renowned email service provider, ExactTarget.

Stewart McKie launched today the Vizitag Mobile Tagging and Content Delivery topic on Ulitzer. McKie has 25 years of IT industry experience. His education includes a MSc in Organization Consulting and a MA in Screenwriting. He was the Technology Editor of Business Finance magazine during 1995-2000 and also wrote regular features for Intelligent Enterprise magazine. He is the author of six books on accounting software and over 50 technology white papers. His current focus is his mobile tagging web app Vizitag.com and his scenewriting web app Scenewrite.com.read more

Google has announced the release of a new API for building Talk bots on top of Google App Engine, Google's product that lets developers create and host web apps on the Google infrastructure. Google has released version 1.2.5 of the App Engine software developer kit (SDK) for Python and Java. This happens to be the company's first simultaneous release for both. The API includes XMPP (also referred to as Jabber) support, which is an open standard for instant messaging. This comes in the form of the XMPP API for both SDKs. "Like the other APIs that App Engine provides for developers, XMPP is built on the same powerful infrastructure that serves other Google products," says Google on the App Engine Blog. "In this case, we take advantage of the servers that run Google Talk. This new API allows your app to exchange messages with users on any XMPP-based network, including (but not limited to!) Google Talk." Developers involved with the preview of Google Wave can also

What often used to be primarily a phenomenon of school reunions has now gotten a boost from social networking Web sites: Reconnecting with past loves.