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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.
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