Geekcertified.com, a new quality assurance certification organization announced Friday that it has successfully implemented a new web-host certification system. The organization, which was launched in early 2004, is founded on the premise of “Trust, Honesty, Integrity.” Geek Certified staff have developed a unique system of assigning a certification based on a three-tier certification platform.

Opera Software today announced it will deliver Opera's port for the BREW (Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless) application development platform with KDDI, Japan's second largest mobile operator. KDDI has enjoyed tremendous success in the mobile services market, and has surpassed NTT DoCoMo, a unit of Japan's former phone monopoly, winning more than three times as many subscribers to their 3G mobile service.

Diorio Associates, a member-owner of the Proforma family of printing and promotional product distributors, announced today that it has launched its new web site, and has expanded its offerings to include marketing, creative, and web site services.

Yahoo! Inc., a leading global Internet company, today announced a new domain product, which is designed to make it easier for individuals and small businesses to establish their online presence for $9.95 per year. Additionally, Yahoo! has significantly enhanced its current e-mail and web hosting products with industry-leading bandwidth, storage and customer support.

PayPal, a leading global online payment service, today introduced its services on eBay France and announced the availability of a fully localized Web site (https://www.paypal.fr) designed exclusively for French users. PayPal France is fully integrated on eBay.fr, allowing online buyers and sellers to securely, conveniently and easily send and receive payments to more than 50 million PayPal member accounts in 45 countries around the world.

VeriSign, Inc., the leading provider of intelligent infrastructure services for the Internet and telecommunications networks, today announced it will work to integrate Microsoft’s Sender ID Framework specifications into VeriSign’s Email Security Service. This move is part of the industry-wide effort to implement authenticated email solutions to combat the growing problem of spam.

FraudGate, a service of Web Scribble Solutions, Inc., today announced the release of an official integration of its services with the Whois.Cart()software package.

IRG Syndicate has launched IRGSyndicate.com, a new portal for editors, journalists and webmasters to download royalty-free content and photos for their publications and websites. The site features articles in business, health, lifestyle, trends and technology.

Macromedia today announced a new, affordable site license for elementary schools that is designed to help introduce multimedia and web tools to teachers and young students. This is the first product entry from Macromedia that specifically addresses grades K-6. The robust solution includes software, teacher training, and curriculum resources specifically designed to help get students started using digital tools in core academic subjects, and to give teachers the resources they need to learn and integrate the projects into their teaching curriculum.

Host Color, a Houston based web hosting company now offers its customers a completely new service - the Design Pack. It will cover the whole website creation process as well as its hosting, featuring: domain registration, a hosting plan, and an original design solution. The price of the designer pack is $495.

Web.com, a leading Web hosting and services provider, announced today that it has launched an online affiliate marketing program offering lucrative revenue-generating opportunities to affiliates and raising awareness among consumers for cost-effective Web hosting, e-mail and web design services.

VeriSign, Inc. a leading provider of intelligent infrastructure services that make the Internet and telecommunications networks more reliable and secure, today announced an agreement with Singapore International Airlines (SIA) to enable customers to check-in to flights from their mobile devices, using global, two-way Short Message Service (SMS). SIA expects that this service will dramatically reduce airport wait-times, and plans to extend this service to all Star Alliance partner flights, as well as to flights on other carriers with whom SIA has agreements.