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Friday, October 6. 2006
- Government programs to jump-start small businesses typically fail terribly. This is true for practically every program that I have seen so far. Politicians either do not understand what they are funding or have their own buddies in these projects. Now the US is trying something new, it seems. NASA is sponsoring a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program for which they have selected 120 proposals for negotiation of phase 2 contract awards in the US. The selected projects have a total value of approximately $72 million. The contracts will be awarded to 103 small high technology firms in 27 states. Now this is America. Cash rules. If these programs are more successful than the ones in other countries has yet to be seen, of course.
- Four Russian Internet DoS attackers have been sentenced to 8 years in prison each by a Russian court. In September 2004 the British High-Tech Crime Unit, Interpol, and the FBI together with a Russian minstry were able to arrest 3 of them.
- In Germany discussions about BenQ's insolvency and Siemens "chaos days" (as the FAZ reports them) are keeping outsiders amused and insiders scared to death. I read an interview in Switzerland with the BenQ CEO saying that this type of PR would have cost them a fortune to generate and they are now getting it for free. "No news like bad news." Hope this news is fake though...
- NOKIA announced a new technology called Wibree for short-range wireless communications, so a replacement for Bluetooth. Low energy consumption, a pain in the neck with Bluetooth, is the driving force behind it. On one hand the world number one mobile phone manufacturer needs to be taken seriously over such things; on the other hand it took ages to finally get Bluetooth off the ground, so this will not be different here. The "threatened" other short range wireless technology proponents are reacting quite relaxed so far.
- The Skype founders are in non-public beta testing with their new upcoming secure TV peer-to-peer service called The Venice Project. Public beta is expected in December as The Register seems to know.
- And the rumour of the day: Google is said to have started discussions buying YouTube for $1.6bln.
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