Inc.com points its readers to an interesting Kauffman Foundation study on entrepreneurship.  The publication writes that “

[a]mong more than 500 U.S. technology firms recently analyzed by [Kauffman], a Kansas City, Mo.-based entrepreneurship advocacy group, twice as many founders were in their 50s than in their 20s. The average age of a company founder was 39.  The study also found that more than 90 percent had bachelor’s degrees, while slightly less than a third had master’s degrees. Nearly half studied science, technology, engineering or mathematics, while only a third majored in business or related fields. Those who attended an ivy-league school had higher sales, with an annual average of $6.7 million, compared to $5.7 million among the overall sample.”

The Register reports that “[h]undreds of thousands of examples of a new Trojan that poses as a media file have flooded onto P2P networks.  Since Friday 2 May more than half a million instances of the Trojan have been detected on consumer PCs, according to net security firm McAfee. The anti-virus firm reports the spread of the Downloader-UA.h Trojan as the most significant malware outbreak in the last three years.  The Trojan is being used to serve ads onto contaminated PCs as part of an apparent money-making scam.”

According to the International Herald Tribune, “Microsoft will sell television shows on the Zune Marketplace, bringing its selection of content for the digital media player a step closer to what the iTunes site from Apple offers for the iPod.  Microsoft also said Tuesday that it planned to provide software updates that add new features to Zune devices and to the PC software used to buy and manage digital content.  Microsoft ventured into downloadable video sales for the Zune in October when it released its second-generation players and software, but the content was limited to music videos.  As of Tuesday, Microsoft was selling episodes of TV shows, including Comedy Central’s ‘South Park’ and Sci-Fi Channel’s ‘Battlestar Galactica,’ for $1.99 each.”

Silicon Valley Watcher’s Tom Foremski reveals that “Elliot Schrage, head of Google’s corporate communications team, has left the building. He has joined Facebook. This is one of the most significant departures from Google even though there has been a long string of them. I say that because if the minister of propaganda doesn’t believe the message then something must be going wrong inside Google [BTW my Goebbels reference is completely inappropriate.]”

CNetNews.com writes that “[a] Republican congressman who has sponsored legislation banning access to social-networking Web sites in schools and libraries has found a new target of displeasure: Second Life.  Rep. Mark Kirk, who is seeking re-election this year, staged a press conference at a library in his suburban Chicago district on Tuesday to highlight what he called the ‘dangers’ of the virtual world to children. Flanked by local officials, he also released a letter asking Federal Trade Commission Chairman William E. Kovacic to ‘take action to warn parents of the similar dangers and sexually explicit content found on Second Life.’”