Friday Tech Roundup

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.

http://tinyurl.com/4b8nh6

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.

http://tinyurl.com/5p5cgm

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