Monday, June 08, 2009

CyberSecurity, Netbooks, Wave, and Bing

Experts: Obama cybersecurity plan short on details

U.S. President Barack Obama's new cybersecurity report is short on details and creates a federal coordinator position that may have limited power, some cybersecurity experts said Monday. The new cybersecurity coordinator will report both to the U.S. National Security Council and the National Economic Council, raising concerns that whoever Obama names will have split priorities.

Netbooks on verge of big shake-up

As the Netbook sector enters its third year, new chips and operating systems hold the potential for massive change

Digital TV conversion figures: 5 percent switch to cable, 8 percent buy new HDTV

As the transition to a 100-percent digital TV landscape officially comes at the end of the week, market research firm Knowledge Networks has crunched some numbers to find out that about a quarter of TV households were impacted by the switch.

Bing Beta Review, Part 1, The Making of a Decision Engine

According to Microsoft - "For general searches, you can use Google or whatever. But if you want to make a decision with more confidence--related to travel, health, shopping, and some other key scenarios--try us first. Because we can actually save you time and money." And they may be correct.

Hands-on with Wave: Weird and quite wonderful

Google just opened up to a limited audience its very interesting communications experiment called Wave (news stories). Our hands-on evaluation: there's a lot to like. It really is a more contemporary take on communications. But it will knock many e-mail users off-balance.

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