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We take a regular look through new job postings on our associated site Web Hosting Jobs (www.webhostingjobs.com) and post a summary here in the WHIR news section incorporating some of the newest openings. Lithium Technologies (Emeryville, California) Last week, Lithium Technologies (www.lithium.com), a company that develops solutions for building online communities, posted two openings - a demand generation manager (a marketing position), and a chief systems architect. Both jobs are located in Emeryville, California. The company posted a third listing for an online moderator, which would be handled remotely.

Hostway Corporation, the global Web services leader, launched its Hybrid Exchange email platform this week. Now all new customer accounts will automatically be placed on this platform at no extra charge, allowing them to mix and match email plans for the perfect fit. "Using proprietary routing technology, we've done away with the all-or-nothing approach to hosted Exchange," said John Lee, senior vice president of small business hosting."Hostway's new Hybrid Exchange helps bridge the gap between traditional POP3/IMAP and hosted Exchange email. The synergy of our new platform will allow our customers to create their own email solutions."

The Planet, the global leader in IT hosting, today announced the addition of two new Cisco firewalls to its product catalog. The new firewalls enhance server performance and security for the company's dedicated server hosting and virtual and private rack customers.

Minnesota is working with Vivisimo (vivisimo.com), a leader in enterprise search, in a multi-pronged effort to improve usability and findability in state web sites and to develop a new web hosting service for state agencies. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080626/NEW046LOGO ) The Minnesota Office of Enterprise Technology's web site will be the first to utilize the integration of Vivisimo's Velocity Search Platform(TM: 65.66, 1.96,

Triple Fiber Network (http://www.3fn.net) is proud to announce the launch of its All-In-One Services Portal (http://virtual.3fn.net), which will grant the access to all services provided by the company from one place. The new All-In-One Services Portal allows to enhance the connection between our customers and the company by providing access to the comprehensive management tool. Providing web hosting services information, statistics and new offers in one secure place on the web, 3FN is creating a place to manage almost entire online business operations. By registering on the portal customers can obtain control over shared hosting services, dedicated servers, domain registration, data backup, DDoS protection, and have access to the new reselling partner program.

Google has launched Google Ventures, a new venture capital fund that will invest in innovative startup companies, including health care, IT, consumer Internet products and biotechnology firms, Healthcare IT News reports. Rich Miner - co-founder of Android, a mobile platforms company acquired by Google in 2005 - and Bill Maris, who founded Web hosting pioneer Burlee.com, will serve as Google Ventures' managing partners. Miner and Maris, wrote on the Google Blog, "This is Google's effort to take advantage of our resources to support innovation and encourage promising new technology companies." They added, "Economically, times are tough, but great ideas come when they will. If anything, we think the current downturn is an ideal time to invest in nascent companies that have the chance to be the 'next big thing,

Web Hosting News - LOS ANGELES, CA - InMotion Hosting, Inc. one of the fastest growing business web hosting providers in the U.S., announced today the opening of a new data center near Washington, D.C. Along with their data center located in Los Angeles, CA, this additional data center dramatically reduces the time it takes for clients to perform functions such as the sending and receiving of email and the uploading of web pages and other online content. 3rd party performance tests report an up to 6x improvement in speed when accessing websites from locations within one of InMotion Hosting's Max Speed Zones.

Web hosting tutorial firm, DemoWolf, has released 300 new tutorials in 14 new tutorial series. This includes 178 new voice tutorials, standard tutorials, and tutorials in other languages including French, Greek, Brazilian and Bahasia. In addition, DemoWolf is currently offering all tutorials at 50% off, as well as "bundles" of tutorial series for even greater savings, through March 31, 2009.

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Easyspace, one the largest web hosting providers in the UK, has this week added a new range of low cost, feature rich, shopping cart solutions to its product portfolio. With the ability to accept payments via a number of the most popular methods already built in (including Paypal and Worldpay), as well as exporting options allowing you to easily list your products on sites such as ebay, Google Base and Kelkoo as well as on your own site, the new eCommerce solution from Easyspace offers an intuitive way for users to start or improve their business online.

http://www.webhosting.uk.com, a provider of Shared, Reseller, VPS and Dedicated Server hosting solutions, today announced that it is now providing Windows shared as well as reseller hosting on Windows 2008 server platform. Windows Server 2008 is the most recent release of Microsoft Windows' server line of operating systems. It delivers valuable new functionality and powerful improvements to the core Windows Server operating system in the form of new web tools, virtualization technologies, security enhancements, and management utilities that help save time, reduce costs, and provide a solid foundation for information technology (IT) infrastructure.

In what is believed to be an industry first for professional web design, ScaleUp Solutions announced today that they, for a limited time only, will provide one-year Free Web Hosting and Free Domain Registration for new web design customers. With this new special, customers can now obtain a professional and custom designed website at a very affordable and all-inclusive rate.

Reseller Zoom, a provider of reseller hosting solutions and a division of Hosting Zoom, today unveiled a new lineup of hosting plans for resellers. The company says that Hosting Zoom has also launched new plans for customers of every budget, including shared, semi-dedicated, new hybrid servers, and dedicated servers.

With many of the best .COM domains already taken, .BZ offers fresh opportunities for niche marketing to today's social consumers. Add video, chat and RSS feeds and start your own internet buzz. Now HostDomainZone.com offers the new ccTLDs - .BZ, .COM.BZ and .NET.BZ.

There are many new web hosts every single day, and they all want to have their minds put at ease when it comes to security for their sites. Any new website or online business is subject to being invaded by hackers looking to steal valuable information like account numbers, invoice records, personal data and other usable information. The best way for a merchant to ensure a protected site is to have the best security software working hand-in-hand with comprehensive daily security practices

EyeWide Hotel Internet Marketing Services, a company providing web hosting, construction, development and Search Engine Optimization of web pages, launched the brand new internet site of Kalypso Hotel in Plakias, Crete. Welcome to the land of the legends in Plakias Rethymno Crete - Kalypso Hotel: According to the myth, Zeus, father of the gods of Olympus, chose the island of Crete for his "human" residence. Taking the form of a white bull, he abducted his beloved Europe and hid her in the marvellous beach of Preveli and its nearby palm grove before consecrating her into a goddess. Later on, Odysseus, hero of Troy and the one who imagined the Trojan Horse, on his return journey from Troy was captured by the magnificence of the landscape and the beauty of the mythical queen Kalypso. He spent seven whole years in the area before continuing his return journey.

Host Color said to web hosting media that it now runs a series of web hosting coupons and instant rebates which gives its new customers a good opportunity to cut their annual costs for IT hosting and data storage with 10% to 15%.

"Oxite is an open source, web standards compliant, blog engine built on ASP.NET MVC. Oxite supports all the features we consider essential to a blog engine, including the MetaWebLog API (to allow you to use LiveWriter or similar tools to add/edit your posts), trackbacks, pingbacks, Sitemaps (for search engines), RSS and ATOM feeds (at the site, blog, tag and post level … plus feeds of all new comments… great for the site owner), tags, integrated search, web based admin features (including editing posts, your site settings, etc.), email subscriptions for new comments, basic support to publish 'pages' (non-blog content) and more," said Tom Heinrich, General Manager of ASPHostCentral.

UK hosts 2020MEDIA is offering a new range of Virtual Private Servers, it was reported recently. Each account runs its own operating system in a secure and private environment and cannot be accessed or interrupted by its neighbors. The system offers the same level of root access as a dedicated server whilst sharing the cost of the hardware.

The Planet, the global leader in IT hosting, today announced the general availability of its new Storage Cloud service. The company offers globally dispersed locations to meet their customers' requirements, wherever they are located around the world. Customers can choose from an on-premise local node in The Planet's Dallas D2 data center, or from locations on the East or West Coasts, Europe or Asia, through its partnership with Nirvanix. The company also offers Storage Cloud options for organizations that do not require hosting solutions.