April 9, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Network equipment provider Cisco announced this week its plans to fully acquire Nuova Systems, a switch start-up it funded.

April 9, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Hosted Solutions announced on Tuesday that the company has been acquired by media and communications private equity firm ABRY Partners for $140 million.

April 9, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — VIA Networks announced it has launched its Intelligent Platforms solution, an integrated solution that includes platform-level support and expertise to help customers improve the reliability and performance of their business applications.

April 9, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — IT security services provider GlobalSign announced on Wednesday it has launched its new affiliate program for SSL referrals.

April 9, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Domain registry Affilias announced on Wednesday its roll-out plan for .ME, a new domain name extension that is anticipated to be used as a personalized Web address and a business marketing tool.

April 9, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider co cPanel recently announced it released cPanel VPS optimized, a new version of the hosting control panel software, cPanel / WHM.

April 9, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — After launching the preview version of its Google App Engine yesterday, the company was forced to pull one of the applications offered in the tool after receiving complaints that it bares similarities to another real-time chat application

April 9, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Jamcracker announced it is offering the Jamcracker Integration Toolkit, which enables software as a service vendors of all sizes to make their applications available within the Jamcracker services delivery network.

April 9, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Domain registrar and Web hosting provider Go Daddy announced on Wednesday it is offering internationalized domain names in more than 100 native languages for .com and .net domain names.

April 9, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Host Color announced on Wednesday it has added ColorSEO, a free SEO consultation service, to its hosting plans.