The Pentagon is planning to build a cyber security arm of the military–both for offensive and defense tactics. This announcement rides on the back of a message by President Obama that the US would overhaul the way overhaul the way it safeguards its computer networks. This new government agency announced by President Obama will find new ways to restrict access to government computers and protect systems that run the stock exchanges, track global banking transactions and manage the air traffic control system. The Pentagon cyber arm ( the military side ) would confront the thousands of attacks that bombard US computer systems. Currently there is debate whether the National Security Agency ( NSA ) is the appropriate overseer of the cyber security operations.
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Top Policy Exec. From Google Joins Obama Team
Friday, May 29th, 2009
Andrew McLaughlin, Google’s head of global public policy, is joining the Obama administration to be the deputy chief technology officer. This has raised concerns with some critics who fear that Google is gaining too much influence within the US Government.
High Tech Moves Into Unexpected Cities
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
Grant money and tax breaks have attracted high tech start-ups to move to towns across the US that aren’t normally associated with high-tech. Cities such as Kalamazoo, Michigan and Toledo, Ohio have taken inspiration from Silicon Valley to create incentives for such business to move in. Hard times have paved the groundwork for such relationships–and may prove greatly beneficial to both the businesses and the cities into which they move.
Russian Investment Firm Spends Big To Buy Small Stake In Facebook
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
Russian Investment Firm, Digital Sky Technologies, Spends 200 Million For A 1.96% Stake In Facebook.
Including this latest round of financing, Facebook has raised about $600 million since it was founded (2004).
Digital Sky Technologies claims to own sites that comprise 70% of all pageviews in Russia, and targets a potential audience of over 300 million people. They own stakes in industries such as social networking and communications, e-payment solutions, online marketplaces, MMO and social games and vertical specific websites.
Intel’s Open Source Risk
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
Microsoft has been a long time partner of the chip maker, Intel. Now that Intel is trying to push beyond the personal computing, chip business into business processing, they are looking into the world of open source. In what may be interpreted as a direct assault on Microsoft, Intel has embraced a version of the Linux operating system, a project called Moblin. This push on the part of Intel will help it dive into the world of mobile devices and netbooks with the help of Moblin.
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Data.gov standardizes data formats making info more accessible
Monday, May 25th, 2009
Vivek Kundra had argued the value of the Government using off-the-shelf software in addition to custom built software. Now this concept of management simplicity will be extended to data as well: with the advent of data.gov and the push for standardization of data formats. Data.gov is different from many other government resource sites. It is primarily for machines, not people–at least in the first phase (although there will be many interesting things that will be useful to people as well). It is a catalog of various sets of data from government agencies. From XML to TXT, this site will initially be used by other government agencies as a centralized data bank.
Organic Search Grows At Expense of Paid Traffic
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
From April through May, paid links represented 7.25% of search engine traffic as opposed to 9.84% from the same time last year for general search category (representing a 26% decline in the share of paid clicks). Organic search traffic ( non-paid searches ) has continued to climb indicating a cut-back in spending.
Source: Hitwise, “Paid Search Traffic Share Down 26%”.
Search Market Share Competition: March to April
Monday, May 18th, 2009
From March 2009 to April 2009, Google gains .5% market share for search query volume ( Core Searches ), whereas both MSN and Yahoo lose search volume ( -.1% search market share for each company ). ASK.COM remained the same from March to April of 2009. AOL lost the largest piece of search market share from March to April at a rate of -.3%.
Google’s search market share for the month of April is 64.2%.
Source: ComScore, searchenginewatch.com
Could Amazon’s Kindle Help Save The New York Times?
Monday, May 18th, 2009
There has been a lot of debate about how and if the internet is killing the New York Times and the newspaper industry in general. Google has been close to the center of the blame–by absorbing millions of advertising dollars while distributing content from the news industry in general. Others may blame the emergence of blogs and blog technology on the internet, which may have pushed some readership away from the larger publishers.
Silicon Valley has been looking for solutions to help prop up the newspaper industry–as they are the spearheads of investigative journalism–a form of checks and balances for politics and business corruption.
The Kindle, Amazon’s electronic reader (a software and hardware platform for reading electronic books), may be one of many solutions that could help the industry. Amazon has been partnering with the New York Times to lower the cost of Kindle when purchased alongside a long-term NY Times subscription.
Obsessable.com went so far as to say that the Times should give away a free Kindle to all its subscribed readers, since it would reduce production and delivery costs overall–and outweigh the cost of the Kindle. The idea proposed by obsessable.com would only work for subscribers who have memberships longer than two years, and it would have to replace their paper delivery.
Telecom Companies Are Biggest Display Advertisers In March
Sunday, May 17th, 2009
Telecom companies are the biggest display advertisers in the month of March, according to ComScore. Telecom companies filled four of the top six spots for ad views. AT&T, followed by Verizon, lead the charge, with Vonage and Sprint also in the running.