Lexar Media announced the introduction of its new ExpressCard SSD with auto-backup software. Roughly half the size of current PC Card solutions, the Lexar ExpressCard SSD is a high-capacity removable solid state drive that promises to set a new standard for delivering high-performance, lower-cost storage expansion to notebook computers. The Lexar ExpressCard SSD comes bundled with auto-backup software, an innovative solution for protecting laptop computer files and data that allows for automatic regular (daily, weekly, or monthly) backup without user intervention after the initial setup. During this setup, the user will be able to set the folder and specific file types to be included or excluded from the backup process. In addition, this automatic backup software can also support multiple computers by recognizing the computer name and the appropriate backup setting for each computer.

According to research released by Microsoft, mobile working is on the rise and businesses need to sit up and take notice or risk losing out to companies with attractive flexi-working policies.

The research, commissioned by Microsoft to support the People Moving Business Awards in partnership with the Chartered Management Institute, Business Link and Management Today, revealed that 73% of people consider the ability to work flexibly a deciding factor when choosing a new job; while 52% of workers believe they would enjoy a less stressful working life as a benefit of working remotely.

In big business, stealing customers for an incremental increase in market share against competitors happens all the time; after all, when there aren’t new customers to be had, you can only attract existing ones. Times are rough for some antispyware vendors now that the market includes big-name vendors CA, McAfee, Microsoft, Symantec, Trend Micro, and ZoneAlarm–all of them providing antispyware solutions within their antivirus products or Internet security suites. And with Microsoft bundling its Windows Defender product free within Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2, pure-play antispyware vendors such as PCTools, Sunbelt, and Webroot are all scrambling for a bigger piece of the pie, and some of that scrambling has turned downright nasty.

You may already know that "deleting" a file does nothing of the sort. But did you know that your disk drive has a built-in system for the secure erasure of data? No? Then read on.

The Hacker Academy and Mitnick Security have teamed up to deliver a two day Applied Hacking and Social Engineering workshop to be delivered first at the Techno Security Conference in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, June 6th and 7th.

In this two day workshop Kevin Mitnick will go deep into social engineering tactics and countermeasures using real world examples and hands on exercises while Ralph Echemendia will do the same within the realm of applied hacking.

Only about 14 percent of all corporate email accounts are currently being backed up and archived for future access, but that number is going to shoot up to nearly 70 percent by the year 2011, according to a new storage industry study.

The Radicati Group also reported that worldwide revenues for email archiving vendors and service providers are expected to reach almost $1.3 billion in 2007, and grow to more than $6 billion by 2011.

Officials at IBM are throwing verbal haymakers at Oracle as Big Blue touts its successes in the database market. The two database heavyweights alternated between offensive and defensive postures recently after IBM questioned Oracle’s claims of database dominance.

"The rapid adoption of DB2 9 would seem to call their claims into question and analysts are starting to question their numbers as well," said Bernie Spang, director of IBM data servers.

We’ve all heard the tech support stories. The CD cup holder, the mouse foot pedal, but the last story on Silicon Glen’s Joke page takes the cake. If that disk won’t come out, maybe you just need to butter it up a bit.

This white paper from eWeek looks at the differences between PDF and XPS and advantages of each format. It will also look at ways to create either one of these formats and end up with some recommendations about which format to use in particular situations.

Corporate brands face multipronged assaults from fraudulent online attackers, according to a report published Monday that quantifies the scope of the most common threats.

MarkMonitor, which supplies Internet brand protection services to companies, said its new "Brandjacking Index" found cybersquatting–in which illicit sites usurp popular trademarks–false association, phishing and click fraud as major threats.

A four-week survey of public Web sites completed early in April found cybersquatting posed the greatest threat to brands. Phishing–the criminal use of e-mail to trick consumers into divulging passwords, credit cards and other personal details–and domain "kiting"–the rapid registering and dropping of similar-sounding Web site names–are on the rise.