Acutely aware of the vulnerability of their oil infrastructure, Saudi Arabia’s ruling family has decided to "spend what it takes" to protect it, spawning a $14 billion oil industry security market over the next six years.

The Homeland Security Research Corp. (HSRC) report, titled Saudi Oil Industry Security Market 2009-2014, provides a detailed roadmap to the Saudi Kingdom’s spending on procurement of security systems and services over the next six years to harden their oil infrastructure defenses. More...

Have you ever needed to collaborate with colleagues on various parts of a spreadsheet? Socialtext of Palo Alto, CA, provider of enterprise wiki and social software solutions, recently announced SocialCalc^®, a multi-user, wiki-based spreadsheet program that simplifies version control and reduces errors.

Through its integrated editing, discussions and version control, SocialCalc prevents errors from centralized aggregation because the user always has the correct and current content accessible. Compared to a traditional spreadsheet sent via e-mail or a sheet on a shared drive, this program can break work into workable increments and provide a serial process that is much closer to being synchronous. Individuals can work on their own section and have a roll-up dashboard, an audit trail of changes and simple notification updates. More...