Welcome ConvergeSouth New Sponsors - 2007

Current, which launched Current TV in August 1, 2005, is the first network created by, for and with an 18-34 year-old audience. The network shows young adults what¹s going on in their world, in their voice.

Current is also the first network in history whose programming is supplied in part by the very audience who watches it. It has developed the television industry¹s leading model of ³viewer created content² (VC2), which comprises roughly one-third of Current¹s on-air broadcast, and allows the audience to submit short-form, nonfiction video ³pods,² ³viewer created ads² (V-CAMs), and mobile video. Its award-winning programming ranges from the hottest trends in technology, fashion, music and videogames, to pressing issues such as the environment, relationships, parenting, finance, politics and spirituality. Current is available in 50 million households worldwide via the five largest distributors, including Comcast (channel 107 nationwide), Time Warner Cable, DirecTV (channel 366 nationwide), Dish Network (channel 196 nationwide), BSkyB (Channel 229) and Virgin Media Cable (channel 155).

For more information, please visit the website: www.current.tv.

Returning Sponsors

Back for the third time, Firelace.com has donated the services of two programmers to build and maintain the back-end of the Web site. John Mark Brown and Ben Hwang are also maintaining the ConvergeSouth media server.

Carolinanet returns as a ConvergeSouth sponsor for the third year in a row! Carolinanet provides the huge bandwidth and media server for ConvergeSouth throughout the calendar year. We at Carolinanet are committed to providing excellent server colocation, managed servers, and web site hosting, web site development services and at competitive prices. The founders of this company are local to the Piedmont Triad and have been in computer and internet related businesses for more than 30 years. Our company focuses our efforts exclusively toward providing the most reliable web hosting at the best prices. Our experts have years of experience developing and hosting mission critical web applications on the all platform, and we are experienced with and support the latest technologies.

For the third year in a row, TechTriad loans an executive, Sue Polinsky, to the conference as the volunteer conference administrator. In addition, TechTriad is sponsoring the conference breakfast Saturday morning. TechTriad designed and are maintaining the ConvergeSouth Web site and provides server space and bandwidth for site hosting. In addition, the email list is built and maintained by TechTriad staff.