[Reposted from my personal blog: www.sjl.us]

I happened to hear from Peter Wayner that he's got new editions of both his Disappearing Cryptography (third edition) and Translucent Databases (second edition) now available.

Disappearing Cryptography is available from Amazon while it looks like Translucent Databases, for the moment anyway, is only available on the publisher's web site.

Amazon Payments will be holding a webinar this Tuesday, January 13th, beginning at 10 AM Pacific exploring Checkout by Amazon.

In an article titled "What Wells Fargo plans to do on a bigger stage", James Temple writes for the San Francisco Chronicle about the Stagecoach's plans based on an interview with John Stumpf, CEO of Wells Fargo. "Both companies have a deep respect for their employees, a passion about serving customers, are very involved in their communities and want to (provide) above-average and great returns for shareholders."