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Hosting.com Announces Holiday Promotion to Donate Laptop Computers to Children in Developing Countries Through Non-Profit Group OLPC(Market Wire Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) LOUISVILLE, KY, November 1 / MARKET WIRE/ -- Hosting.com, Inc., a leading provider of managed web hosting and colocation services, today announced a holiday promotion to benefit children of developing countries. Working in conjunction with the non-profit group One Laptop per Child (OLPC), Hosting.com will donate the funds necessary to deliver one laptop to a child for every server the company sells during November and December. Guided by the mission to "ensure all school-aged children in the developing world are able to engage effectively with their own personal laptop networked to the world," OLPC provides children specially designed XO Laptops. The XO Laptop contains a wireless router, can be re-charged by human power, is the size of a textbook, weighs less than a lunch box, and was designed to be highly durable. Current countries participating in the program include Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Central America, Ethiopia, Libya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Pakistan, and Thailand. "As a high-tech company with clients all over the world we realize the value of ensuring all parts of the world have access to the latest in technological advancements. It is through efforts like OLPC that we can help spread the culture of learning through technology to even the most remote corners of the world," stated Darren King, Hosting.com President and CEO. Every $200 donation to OLPC pays for and delivers one XO Laptop. Through this holiday promotion, Hosting.com anticipates donating at a minimum $10,000 or 50 XO Laptops. About Hosting.com Hosting.com provides award-winning dedicated hosting, managed hosting, colocation, virtualization, disaster recovery and business continuance services to a global customer base demanding a high level of security, reliability and responsiveness. Hosting.com monitors, manages, and enhances the web based platforms of Web 2.0 companies, Software-as-a-Service providers (SaaS), content distribution networks (CDN), and medium to large enterprises whose web presence is crucial and high availability mandatory. Hosting.com currently owns and operates its proprietary content delivery grid (CDG) via data center facilities in Louisville, Kentucky; Irvine, California; San Francisco, California; and Boston, Massachusetts. For more information, please visit www.Hosting.com or www.cdg.com or call 800-446-7627. Add to Digg Bookmark with del.icio.us Add to Newsvine Contact: Angela Davenport Tel: (800) 446-7627 x102Email Contact Copyright 2007 Market Wire, Incorporated |