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New Dell Laptop Exceeds Military Specs for Durability, Ugliness
It can survive a three-foot drop and withstand water sprayed from a fire hose. It’s sea fog-resistant. It meets military specifications for thermal shock and explosive environments. And if you hit...
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A Problem Has Been Detected With Your Classified Mission. Windows Has been...
How slow are government agencies at adopting new technologies? So slow that the U.S. Army is planning a major upgrade of its information systems– to Microsoft’s (MSFT) Windows Vista OS. Though Windows...
View ArticleChina's Defense Ministry Goes Online
China’s normally secretive Ministry of Defense launched its first Web site for trial operation on Thursday, in Chinese and English versions, as part of an effort to promote the transparency and improve...
View ArticleChina's Cyberwars
China’s military is under attack. At least its Web site is…from hackers. In a sign that China’s Ministry of National Defense faces the same kind of Internet security challenges that militaries around...
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Project Alesia: News Corp.'s Roman Battle Cry–Does That Cast Googlers as the...
While Internet companies such as Google use baked goods as names for their key strategic initiatives–recent ones related to its Android mobile operating system were called Donut and Eclair, for...
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PBS's "Frontline" Considers the "Digital Nation"–A Lot of Handwringing Over...
Earlier this week, the reliably erudite PBS public affairs program, “Frontline,” aired a documentary called “Digital Nation,” which I caught on television in one of the rare moments I find myself...
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World War WAN: Google Hack Traced to Schools in China
The online attacks that inspired Google’s (GOOG) “new approach to China” have been traced to computers at two educational institutions in the country, including one with ties to the Chinese military....
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Chinese Schools Tied to Attacks on Google? Where'd You Read That, Mad...
UPDATE: The Financial Times reports that U.S. investigators believe an unnamed Chinese freelance security consultant is the author of at least a portion of code used in the alleged attacks on Google....
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Viral Video: Dancing Soliders in War Zones Meme Gets a Little Creepy
Like the Hitler meme and others, the dancing soldiers of Afghanistan have set off a lot of military moves of the hip-swaying kind in online video. Case in point, the latest one from a group of Israeli...
View ArticleDignitaries Come on Board to Ease Huawei Into U.S.
A little-known company working to open the U.S. market to telecommunications gear made by China’s Huawei Technologies Co. has added a pair of dignitaries to its board in an attempt to address the...
View ArticleWebsite for Leaked Data Shines Spotlight on WikiLeaks
WikiLeaks publishes top-secret documents about government and corporate intrigue. Then there is John Young, who publishes documents about WikiLeaks. From his apartment on New York City’s Upper West...
View ArticleChina Telecom Denies U.S. Government Report That It Hijacked Web Traffic
China Telecom issued a statement today denying that it hijacked Internet traffic, in response to a report issued yesterday by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, which claims that...
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Full Metal iPhone
Air strike? There’s an app for that…. The U.S. military may soon add another item to the standard-issue field and garrison furnishings it issues to every soldier: The smartphone. Come 2011, the Army...
View ArticleEgypt.com: Is It Time to Invest in Egyptian Start-ups?
“We will create a new corps of business volunteers to partner with counterparts in Muslim-majority countries. And I will host a Summit on Entrepreneurship this year to identify how we can deepen ties...
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Seven Questions for Iridium CEO Matthew Desch -- Yes, That Iridium
More often than not, the Iridium satellite phone system is remembered as one of the great telecom flameouts of the 1990s. It almost became a literal one: At one point following a 1999 bankruptcy, the...
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Defense Contractor Booz Allen Is Latest Target of Hacker Group Anonymous
The latest target for the hackers formerly known as LulzSec: U.S. defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. Yesterday, Booz Allen confirmed that its network had been attacked. On Monday, the hacker group...
View ArticleCyberwar Plan Has New Focus on Deterrence
The military must move from defending against major cyberattacks to deterring assaults by letting enemies know the U.S. is willing to retaliate with its own virtual weapons or military force, a top...
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Cyberwar: It's Not Just Fiction Anymore
After surviving numerous devastating wars throughout history, humanity is well acquainted with war in the physical realm. But we’re still unfamiliar with the concept of cyberwar. In 1998, John...
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Terror-Fighting Start-Up Palantir Technologies Just Raised $68 Million -- But...
Few tech start-ups have a more mysterious brief than that of Palantir Technologies. I first encountered the company while still working for Businessweek and I’ve tried to keep track of it since. That’s...
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One More Reason Not to Sell Fake Chips: Prison
To the list of things including handbags, booze and pharmaceuticals that you can go to jail for counterfeiting, you can now add silicon chips. Today a federal judge in Florida sentenced a woman to...
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2012: Siri Is a Stunner, Amazon Is Amazin' and Security Gets Spendy
On Thursday night, I attended a dinner at New York’s Waldorf Astoria Hotel, hosted by Mark Anderson, the CEO of Strategic News Service, a newsletter that many senior tech execs subscribe to. At this...
View ArticlePentagon Digs In on Cyberwar Front
The U.S. military is accelerating its cyberwarfare training programs in an aggressive expansion of its preparations for conflict on an emerging battlefield. The renewed emphasis on building up...
View ArticlePetraeus Competency
The scary thing about the Petraeus affair: The CIA director and a Phd in counterterrorism are too incompetent to secure their own email. – Greg Koenig, via Twitter
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Commercial Drone Platform Company Gets $10.7 Million From Andreessen Horowitz...
Airware, a startup that is creating a software platform for commercial drones, said it had raised $10.7 million in a Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Google Ventures also...
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A Contrarian Futurist
The Churchill Club recently asked a handful of VCs to share a couple of non-obvious technologies that we expect to disrupt markets over the next five years. Here are my two predictions. EyePhones Will...
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