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Cyber czar position will be announced this week
President Obama has signed off on the creation of a cyberczar, someone who will have access to the president and the broad authority to strategize on how to protect America's public and private networks, The Washington Post reports.
Judge issues TRO in Craigslist case against South Carolina
A South Carolina judge has issued a temporary restraining order blocking the state's Attorney General from pursuing criminal charges against Craigslist, according to press reports.
White House launches Data.gov
Federal CIO Vivek Kundra has launched Data.gov, serving up federal datasets in standard formats like XML, CSV and geo-formats KML/KMZ and ESRI.
Obama picks Bolden for NASA
So, it looks like manned spaceflight may yet have a future at NASA, with the selection this weekend of former astronaut Charlie Bolden to head the troubled agency. Bolden would be the agency's first black Administrator.
The case for a Global Digital Public Library Network policy
This guest blog is penned by Bill Kallman, CEO of Scayl, a direct, unlimited secure email solution, a longtime VC and real estate investor. He was a founding director of Streamcast, one of the defendant’s in the landmark MGM v Grokster ruling.
MSFT passed on chance to speak to EU's top antitrust official
Hmm - makes you wonder what they're afraid of. The New York Times - reporting on the news (this blog) that Microsoft would not make oral arguments in the small matter of whether the embedding of Internet Explorer in Windows constitutes anticompetitive behavior - revealed that Neelie Kroes, the competition commissioner for the European Union and ranking executive, would have attended the hearing.

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