The Economist points out that Europe’s economic recovery can last only if “if its governments take advantage of sunnier times to make deeper reforms. […] European countries that have introduced radical reforms have usually done so in times of serious economic crisis: Britain in 1979, the Netherlands in 1982, Ireland in 1987, Denmark, Finland and Sweden in the early 1990s. Yet as all these countries found, it is easier to change when times are good, not when they are bad. That is a lesson that Germans, French, Italians and other Europeans should ponder as they bask in today’s sunshine.”
The Washington Post reports that “[a] Swiss Internet start-up is raising the ire of the computer security community with the launch of an online auction house where software vulnerabilities are sold to the highest bidder. The founders of WabiSabiLabi.com (pronounced wobby-sobby-lobby) say they hope the new service offers a legitimate alternative for security researchers who might otherwise be tempted to sell their discoveries to criminals.”
According to the International Herald Tribune, a host of new search engines are emerging in the shadows of Google. There is, for example, “Megaglobe, an international search engine that comes in 45 languages whose claim to fame is that it is designed to fight ‘click fraud,’ where advertisers get ripped off when hits on their ads are not from genuine consumers.”
SmallNetBuilder.com writes that “[o]n July 5, a workshop was held by Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) to consider imposing a ‘Radio Utilization Fee.’ The fee would apply to radio devices that operate in license-free spectrum, which includes Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Zigbee, and UWB technologies.”
Internetnews.com points out that “[t]he never-ending game of whack-a-spammer-mole continues, with spammers now adopting PDF files as the new mechanism for delivering their junk mail.”