April 4, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — IBM and Swiss IT company GBI-Services announced on Wednesday it is opening a new “green” data center in Switzerland that will help heat a local public swimming pool.

April 4, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — UnitedLayer announced on Friday it is once again expanding its turn-key data center space at the Digital Realty Trust facility located at 200 Paul Avenue in San Francisco, California.

April 4, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith announced on Friday plans to imprison pedophiles who give police false email addresses, or fail to disclose any new addresses they register, reports The Register.

April 4, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Aplus.Net announced on Friday it rolled out a series of new promotions designed to give customers “an advantage in the competitive online marketplace.”

April 4, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — SRA announced on Friday it has signed a five-year agreement with the US federal government to supply IT support services to the Defense Data Manpower Center in a contract valued at $48.1 million.

April 4, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — IBM and Swiss IT company GIB-Services announced on Wednesday it is opening a new “green” data center in Switzerland that will help heat a local public swimming pool.

April 4, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Hackers broke into a Welsh government website to install a malicious JavaScript in an attack that mirrors the vicitimized pages of the Trend Micro website in mid-March, as reported Friday by computer security analyst firm Sophos.

April 4, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — IBM announced on Friday it has completed a tender offer valued at approximately $845 million for the shares of technical systems and enterprise architecture provider Telelogic.

April 4, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Lawsuits and legal pressures were unmistakably the trend that kept popping up in this week’s Web hosting news, but along with the legal matters were several interesting takes on data center building and marketing.

April 4, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — A North Potomac, Maryland man has sold ‘pizza.com’ for a whopping $2.6 million this week in an online auction run by domain online marketplace, Sedo.