Companies Fight Endless War Against Computer Attacks
by STEVE LOHR, New York Times
The recent computer attacks on the mighty Google left every corporate network in the world looking a little less safe.
Google’s confrontation with China — over government censorship in general and specific attacks on its systems — is an exceptional case, of course, extending to [...]

by Cecilia Kang, Washington Post

The Federal Communications Commission is considering aggressive moves to stake out its authority to oversee consumer access to the Internet, as a recent court hearing and industry opposition have cast doubt on its power over Web service providers.  The FCC, which regulates public access to telephone and television services, [...]

by Galen Moore MHT, Mass High Tech
This morning, World Wide Web Consortium Director Tim Berners-Lee laid out his vision for how linked data will change the web, before a roomful of about 100 MIT students. Berners-Lee’s slide presentation kicked off a week-long lab in which participants are challenged to “build the next killer app” using [...]

by Carolyn Duffy Marsan, Network World
As they imagine the Internet of 2020, computer scientists across the country are starting from scratch and re-thinking everything: from IP addresses to DNS to routing tables to Internet security in general. They’re envisioning how the Internet might work without some of the most fundamental features of [...]

Cordis (European commission)
Networked sensors and devices have huge potential but how can we ensure that they can all talk to each other? The answer, according to a European consortium, is to link them seamlessly through a common ‘middleware’.
In these energy conscious times, the old idea of home automation is being revived to give the householder [...]

by James Kobielus, Forrrester Research
Crafting a truly comprehensive analytics environment is a bit like staring deeply into the night sky. When you try to absorb the billions of celestial objects out there—all of them at different ages and stages in their respective life cycles–you risk driving yourself insane. Your complex field of view contains the [...]

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