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White House Cyber Czar: There Is No Cyberwar

Source: All About Jazz
March 5, 2010

Howard Schmidt, the new cybersecurity czar for the Obama administration, has a short answer for the drumbeat of rhetoric claiming the United States is caught up in a cyberwar that it is losing. There is no cyberwar, Schmidt told Wired.com in a sit-down interview Wednesday at the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco. I think that is a terrible metaphor and I think that is a terrible concept, Schmidt said. There are no winners in that environment. Instead, Schmidt said ...

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Apple Finally Notices Amazon MP3 and Declares War

Source: HypeBot
March 4, 2010

iTunes has always done things its own way. What its competitors did was not Apple's concern. After all, ITunes controls the vast majority of the download market.

But that's starting to change and Amazon MP3's Daily Deal is the target. The Daily Deal usually prices a current release for $1.99 - $3.99 for a single day. Sometime last year according to Billboard, Amazon began asking labels to give it a 1 day exclusive and digital marketing support as part of ...

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Guess What? Google Fears the Next Google

Source: All About Jazz
March 4, 2010

There are millions of entrepreneurs who want to come up with the next Google. Maybe you are one of them. You almost certainly know one. Guess what? Google is afraid of you haunted that the same disruptive forces which transformed the company from a garage project by two kids maxing out their credit cards into a global superpower in 10 short years could render them irrelevant. Just like that. The fear is the next Sergey and Larry will come up ...

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U.S. Declassifies Part of Secret Cybersecurity Plan

Source: All About Jazz
March 4, 2010

The Obama administration declassified part of the governments cybersecurity plan Tuesday, publishing parts of it that discuss intrusion detection systems for federal computer networks and the governments role in securing critical infrastructure. The declassification announcement was made by Howard A. Schmidt, a former Microsoft security executive who in December was appointed cybersecurity coordinator by President Barack Obama. Schmidt was speaking at the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco, an annual industry conference for computer security professionals. The governments Comprehensive National ...

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New Round in Apple and Amazon Music Fight

Source: Michael Ricci
March 4, 2010

Billboard is reporting that Apple has started to push back against music labels that have worked out exclusive deals with Amazon in exchange for being featured on the online retailers MP3 Daily Deal. In some cases, the labels provide Amazon with new music a day before its sold elsewhere, and the labels push marketing around the Web. The music then gets promoted at the top of the Amazon music download page. The tiff between the media giants reportedly goes back ...

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Are Fans Turned Away at Your Virtual Front Door?

Source: HypeBot
March 4, 2010

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Google Hackers Had Ability to Alter Source Codes

Source: All About Jazz
March 4, 2010

Hackers who breached Google and other companies in January targeted source code management systems, security firm McAfee asserted Wednesday, manipulating a little-known trove of security flaws that would allow easy unauthorized access to the intellectual property it is meant to protect. The software management systems, widely used at businesses unaware that the holes exist, were exploited by the so-called Aurora hackers in a way that would have enabled them to siphon source code as well as modify it to make ...

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New Stats Show Music Tops YouTube Viewing

Source: HypeBot
March 3, 2010

Watching music videos is the most popular activity on YouTube according to research company Sysomos  accounting for 30.7% of all views. The study was based on measuring the tags on uploaded videos.

The study also shows that 20-35 year olds are the primary drivers of YouTube traffic. Embedding and linking to videos on social network and blogs by fans 20-35 accounted for 57.3% of all YouTube links.

Going Gaga

Last week at the Digital Music Summit, Vevo announced that 25% ...

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