According to the Washington Post, “[s]everal leaders of Washington's technology community are creating an investment firm to back local entrepreneurs as they start up companies, the latest in a series of local organizations helping to turn promising innovations into businesses. LaunchBox Digital will provide up to $30,000 in seed money [...]
Internetnews.com reports that, according to research released this week by Computer Economics, “IT spending in 2008 will increase by only low single digit percentages and may be closer to flat. On the plus side, a solid majority – 66 percent – of organizations surveyed expect their IT budgets to increase [...]
Yahoo!News reports that “Microsoft Corp. and the GSM Association are promoting 3G (third generation) mobile telecommunications by asking companies to build laptop PCs that automatically connect to the Internet wirelessly over mobile phone networks. They're hosting a contest challenging companies to design mobile phone-like connectivity into easy-to-use laptops aimed at [...]
The Register reports that the “Russian Business Network (RBN) - the [c]ontroversial hosting firm fingered by many as a nexus of malware exploits and cybercrime more generally - has suddenly dropped offline. According to Trend Micro, the Register says, “the infamous network dropped off the net at around 0200 GMT [...]
According to the International Herald Tribune, Jerry Yang, the chief executive of Yahoo, apologized to the mother of an imprisoned Chinese dissident during testimony Tuesday at a heated U.S. congressional hearing on the company's role in jailing the man. Members of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs repeatedly attacked Yang [...]