PSIOS

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Newsnet International Ltd. (www.ios.st) is an Israeli corporation and internet technology developer and free webhosting service founded by Philip Hubert, Moshe Cohen and Arik Ziv. Newsnet was first incorporated as a privately held company on February 2004 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

PSIOS is the name brand of their mainstream technology and is based on the Greek letter PSI and OS which stands for Perfectly Simple Internet Operating System.

Newsnet technology is being used by over 10% of the Israeli internet surfers and reaches over 15% of the entire population daily. According to Web trends companies Alexa Internet (rank: 7,463 15th Nov. 2006) and Netcraft (rank: 1,986,390 15th Nov. 2006) Newsnet has more than half a million unique users per month and the their Israeli websites received half a million page views per day on average as of July 2006.

Newsnet started to reach out to multi language groups and concentrated on the Arabic speaking world. It now hosts sites from every Arabic speaking country worldwide and 50% of all its new sites opening daily are from Arabic speaking countries or Arabic speakers worldwide.

Newsnet is also Israel's internet provider for leading political news services and includes internet news sites for all the major political parties and is cited daily by the entire national conventional media news services. Newsnet holds an official Press status from the Israeli Government Press Office.

Newsnet also holds a registered patent pending in OS language management systems.

Outside Sources

Ynet [1] Haaretz [2]

History

Newsnet was incorporated in February 2004 after buying the webhosting technology created by Koral Holding Ltd. A small Tel Aviv based internet news and business service technology developer using the sites www.koral.co.il and www.qpon.co.il and www.likudnik.co.il.

Newsnet first created its internet web hosting technology under the name Baby IOS, this held until September 2005 whereupon it was changed to PSIOS based on requests made by the USA investor group. [3]

The company developed a multi-lingual webhosting service that offered free technology in 12 languages; English, Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, T-Chinese, S-Chinese, Japanese, German and Korean. During 2005 the interface was changed and the company concentrated on three main language groups that were important for its geographical marketing area; English, Arabic and Hebrew. Whilst the other languages still exist in the back office, they are not see in the initial surfer interface of their site PSIOS[4].

The company started out by offering a multi modular web technology with free webhosting including: a news module, forums, blogs, photo, video and music albums, file download section, free html editor board, special front page whiteboard for intros, e-commerce/i-shop, forms generator, index system and many more add-ons. The company utilized an interactive help site in Hebrew that allowed its many users to be actively involved in the daily development of the system and in time many ideas were incorporated into the technology.

Newsnet started to develop a community style page to attract the many users they have and branched out into numerous areas including online gaming. A joint venture between Newsnet and OBL-Compunet, an Israeli gaming technology developer will offer its members the world's first access to online casino technology as a casino manager and not an affiliate. This new technology was delayed due to the current changes in various country laws and will only be available in 2007.

During 2006, Newsnet developed a unique patent in the area of language management in windows based operating systems. The technology released in 2007 allows all PC users worldwide automatic transfer between two languages on their PC's where the second language is always English. This enables users that forget to switch between languages ease of mind as the system recognizes the "must be English" sections and changes the cursor to English input automatically.

Newsnet was reviewed by many Israeli media providers and was also written up in the Philippines by the Philippine Star in June 2005.