Identity-theft is the fastest growing crime in the U.S. Senior security professionals like you at major corporations and government agencies are building application security programs to protect their customers, their employees and the business. Join in on this Xtalks.com interactive webinar with experts from HP Software.

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Software developers gathered in Copenhagen, Denmark for the European DataFlex User’s Conference 2008. The event delivered the latest product information about Windows and Web application development with Visual DataFlex from Data Access Worldwide and the Dynamic AI business intelligence suite from Cintac AS.

Responding to customer demand 3FN Inc., announced new web backup hosting plan and backup dedicated server.

In March of 2007, WTB Group Limited, the UK’s leading supplier of civil engineering and building materials, decided to use Databarracks to provide fully managed online backup services in order to safeguard nearly 3 Terabytes of their valuable emails, databases, and files on 21 servers. On Wednesday, 23 January 2008, Disaster struck at WTB. A SAN with one Terabyte of data and eight virtual servers experienced massive problems. Databarracks’ staff achieved recovery of sufficient systems to enable WTB to be up and running the following day.

Clearpace has released NParchive, its new archive data store. NParchive enables IT teams to reduce storage consumption and guarantee long term immediate access to structured data that must be archived. This is a task which RDBMS and data warehouses are not designed for or suited to as they are optimised for transactional processing or high performance analysis.

The NParchive software compresses structured data from databases, data warehouses or log files into archives that are 95 per cent smaller than the data source, time-proofing the data and ensuring immutability.

Just a week after President Bush signed into law the most expansive GI Bill since World War II, Drexel University Online announced it will begin offering tuition assistance before the new bill takes effect in 2009.

Trusted Tours.com, a discount tour and attraction ticket company is offering summer travelers and bloggers the chance to win a $150 iTunes gift card in their new July contest.

Equifax ID Patrol combines Internet scanning tools, 24/7 identity theft resolution, credit file lock, and credit monitoring in one comprehensive product.

The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) is the audit, evaluation, and investigation arm of the United States Congress. This month, the GAO released a 74-page report entitled "National Archives and Selected Agencies Need to Strengthen E-Mail Management". After reading the report, we made three key observations. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has completely abdicated responsibility for investigating records management in the U.S. government, putting all U.S. government record-keeping at risk. The four agencies investigated by the GAO aren’t doing all that bad by government standards, but by corporate standards, oh boy! And, it wouldn’t be a new article with a new security risk, this time there’s a whopper at the Department of Homeland Security and another at the Federal Trade Commission.

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This is the first in a four-part series about using XForms, IBM DB2 pureXML, and Ruby together to more easily create Web applications. In this series you will get a taste of the individual strengths of each technology, but you will also see how to integrate them together. In this first part of the series, you will examine how XForms, DB2 pureXML, and Ruby on Rails can all help more rapidly build XML-centric Web applications.