In an article entitled “Business leaders say climate for startups worse than ten years ago”, the Guardian points out that, according to the British Chambers of Commerce, “British business thinks it is harder to start a new venture now than 10 years ago in spite of the government’s talk of creating a dynamic, entrepreneurial and competitive economy.”

The New York Times reports that Microsoft and AT&T are “urging regulators to consider scuttling Google’s plan to buy DoubleClick, an online advertising company” because the deal would “hurt competition in the fast-growing market for advertising on the Web and raises questions about how much personal information would be collected by Google, already a dominant player in online advertising.”

According to the Register, “Support Intelligence, the firm whose research on honeynets revealed that the networks of at least 28 Fortune 1000 companies contained malware-infected spam-spewing PCs, has found evidence of bots running behind military networks.”

In an interesting piece entitled “New direction for next generation internet”, the Mercury News predicts that “

[c]ommercial and policy interests will probably play a bigger role this time as researchers explore ‘clean slate’ designs that scrap the Internet’s underlying architecture to better address security, mobility and other emerging needs.”

Internetnews.com reports that “Microsoft is launching the SaaS Incubation Center Program to help ISVs make [the] leap” from on-premise, perpetual license businesses to the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model.