The Mercury News points out that “

[w]ith a boost from the new Democratic leadership, Congress this spring is starting to approve key elements of the ‘innovation agenda’ that tech leaders and House members from the Bay Area have sought for years, including more spending for basic science education and research.”

TechWorld writes that “Microsoft will release the source code to part of its Silverlight technology at MIX 07 this week, according to sources familiar with the company’s plans.”

According to Yahoo!News, “China, Russia and 10 other nations were targeted by the Bush administration for failing to sufficiently protect American producers of music, movies and other copyrighted material from widespread piracy.  The Bush administration on Monday placed the 12 countries on a ‘priority watch list’ which will subject them to extra scrutiny and could eventually lead to economic sanctions if the administration decides to bring trade cases before the World Trade Organization.”

In another article, Yahoo!News reports that “Google has rooted out a scam that delivered malware via the search engine’s AdWords advertising system, and even added extra sections to specific banking websites to gather additional information. The scam was a particularly dangerous example of a trend that has become a significant problem for search engines such as Yahoo and Google: hackers using search engine results and advertising links to attack users’ systems.”

InfoWorld has an interesting article today entitled “Innovation, startups hot again in the enterprise”.  The publication has declared May the Month of Enterprise Startups and each day this month “will profile a different startup company in the enterprise space. By the end of May, [they] hope to have catalogued some of the promising new technologies that will be working their way into your cube in the coming years.”