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Web hosting tutorial provider DemoWolf (http://www.demowolf.com/) has added Outlook 2007 to its “Configuring Email” series of tutorials, it was announced yesterday. The addition means there are now 11 tutorials in the series, showing users how to configure email accounts in 11 key email programs.

Microsoft has reached a virtualization milestone, with the release of its Hyper-VFeature-complete version of Windows Server 2008 virtualization technology.

Web hosting provider, EstHost, Inc., is relocating its virtual hosting service to a new, more powerful platform, using the CentOS Supermicro servers, with advanced capabilities.

Environmentally friendly, solar-powered web hosting company, AISO.Net, recently chose to implement a major wireless network upgrade, with NextPhase Wireless.

Web host The Planet (http://www.theplanet.com) will offer customers IPv6, the “next-generation Internet protocol”, it was announced yesterday. NTT America Inc. (HTTP://www.nttamerica.com), a US subsidiary of NTT Communications Corporation, will facilitate the technology across The Planet’s network. Work on developing the capability has begun and its expected availability is late 2008.

Web hosting provider Advanced Internet Technologies, Inc. (AIT –http://www.AITDomains.com/) is offering a promotion for “Virtual Registrars”, it was announced yesterday.

Web host Go Daddy has committed against outsourcing its staff, bucking what it sees as a trend to move staff and functions off-shore. The company quotes information and technology research and advisory company Gartner, Inc. to support its view of the trend. In December 2007 Gartner predicted offshore spending in the United States would grow [...]

Website template provider, Template Monster, has debuted spring bonus offers that will last during the holiday period in late March, giving its customers a 20% discount for a product category of Religious Templates.