Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Chicago – April 22, 2010 Toronto – May 20, 2010 Boston – June 17, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Terremark Buys 27 Acres of Land at NAP of the Capital News: Symantec Considers Buying VeriSign’s Authentication Division: WSJ Report News: Web Host Peer 1 Names New VP of Sales News: Rackspace to Expand Cloud Services into UK Articles: 7 Tips for E-Commerce Websites To Boost Their Sales This Summer! (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — According to a Wall Street Journal report , security giant Symantec ( www.symantec.com ) is putting the finishing touches on a deal to buy VeriSign’s security division for around $1.3 billion, just weeks after the company announced plans to buy encryption firms PGP ( www.pgp.com ) and GuardianEdge ( www.guardianedge.com ), for $300 million and $70 million respectively. According to WSJ sources, Symantec is considering the acquisition of VeriSign’s authentication services unit, which provides widely used encryption technology that generated $410 million in revenue last year — making up nearly half of VeriSign’s $1.03 billion in sales, the New York Times points out .

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Chicago – April 22, 2010 Toronto – May 20, 2010 Boston – June 17, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Terremark Buys 27 Acres of Land at NAP of the Capital News: Symantec Considers Buying VeriSign’s Authentication Division: WSJ Report News: Web Host Peer 1 Names New VP of Sales News: Rackspace to Expand Cloud Services into UK Articles: 7 Tips for E-Commerce Websites To Boost Their Sales This Summer! (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Rackspace Hosting ( www.rackspace.com ) announced on Wednesday it plans to bring two cloud infrastructures including SMB public cloud services and VMware-based enterprise private cloud to the UK by the end of the year. The company will offer a Xen-based cloud service for the SMB market, and VMware-based hybrid public-private services for enterprise customers. Due in the fourth quarter, the cloud services will be comparable to the ones Rackspace currently offers in the US, but will be delivered from Rackspace’s two data centres in the UK

Mobile World Congress — Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) News Facts Today, Oracle announced availability of the latest release of Oracle® Database Lite , a comprehensive solution for developing, deploying and managing applications for mobile and embedded environments. With Oracle Database Lite, mobile users gain continuous access to data unconstrained by mobile network bandwidth and coverage, allowing them to access enterprise data even in the absence of a network connection. New in this release of Oracle Database Lite is the ability to bi-directionally synchronize data between the open source SQLite database and Oracle Database .

Steve Henty is an experienced IT Project Manager who has specialized in Web technologies since 1996.