Here’s your Friday roundup of (hopefully!) interesting tech news. Have I missed one you’d include? Drop a comment and let me know.
Stephanie Condon of CNET on a new DHS study that finds that private sector companies that operate key part of the nation’s infrastructure need to do more to protect against cyber attacks:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10066318-38.html?tag=nl.e703
Daniel Lyons in Newsweek about how the slowing economy is dragging some Silicon Valley companies with stronger traffic than business plans down to earth:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/163443
Alistar Croll of GigaOm on how carriers can use their DNS to block objectionable content on the Internet. Which is good, but may be a slippery slope as well.
http://gigaom.com/2008/10/15/forget-net-neutrality-isps-to-serve-up-address-not-found/
Dan Farber of CNET on Yahoo‘s progress towards making all of its services one big social networking platform. Could be life in the old girl after all.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10067445-2.html
Tom Claburn of InformationWeek reports on security researchers documenting vulnerabilities in Google Apps that could lead to login credentials being stolen.
Mary Mosquera of Federal Computer Week reports that OPM has pulled the plug on a $290 million, 10 year contract called RetireEZ. Apparently, retiring from federal service is still hard.
http://www.fcw.com/online/news/154105-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS
Olga Kharif of BusinessWeek tells us that Kevin Martin, Chairman of the FCC is now supporting so-called “white space” to be used for free. Yes on white space, broadband as a right for every American — it’s amazing all the realizations this guy is having on his way out the door.