WM Morning Wire: 10-20-08

Welcome to Monday, October 20th, 2008! Below are a few press release that caught our attention this morning that you too might find interesting. We'll be covering some of these releases throughout the day, but if you have a news announcement you would like to share with the Website Magazine community, please contact Website Magazine editors now. If you're not yet a subscriber to our print or digital edition, sign up now - it's free and is the smartest thing you can do as a Web professional.

Rackspace Hosting Holds Live Webcast to Discuss the Cloud and What’s Next: Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE: RAX) and its cloud hosting division, Mosso®, will hold a customer event and live webcast including Q&A entitled ‘Live and Unplugged: A Conversation with Rackspace Cloud Hosting and What’s Coming.’ The webcast and event will offer attendees the opportunity to hear corporate and product announcements from the company’s managed and cloud hosting businesses about the future of the hosting cloud. Rackspace Cloud Hosting solutions are creating new competitive advantages for fast-growth companies and developers.

Web Analytics Consultants Technology Leaders Offers Deep Insight into Viral Video Usage with divinity Metrics: The world's most experienced Web analytics consulting company, Technology Leaders, today announced a licensing agreement with divinity Metrics, a peer-to-peer video analytics software and services provider, for its Scope 3 platform, an important new measurement tool offering deep insight into usage patterns of online video across over 150 videos sites such as YouTube and MySpace, and thousands of websites, blogs and other traditional and nontraditional sites.

Sun Microsystems Launches Identity Compliance Manager: Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced the availability of Sun(TM) Identity Compliance Manager, a simple and cost-effective solution to help customers better manage business and compliance risks, as well as the costs associated with certifying, auditing and reporting user access to data and applications.

Hostway Showcases Mobile Email with its "Go Mobile with Exchange" Giveaway: Hostway Corporation, the global Web solutions leader, launched the Go Mobile with Exchange Giveaway, a prize drawing that allows winners to select one of the hottest smart phones on the market. Anyone who orders one or more Exchange email accounts during the promotion is automatically entered into the drawing. Winners get to choose a free BlackBerry Bold, HTC Touch Diamond or Apple iPhone 3G.

Advtise Brings Pay Per Click to Local Towns: Advtise, online pay per click advertising company presented its new product portfolio. Advertisers can now select which town or city in the world that they want to target. With Advtise you may now target your customers worldwide by local city and town, using different keywords per city allocating your own price per city.