New York Times:
Contractors Vie for Plum Work, Hacking for U.S.  —  MELBOURNE, Fla. — The government’s urgent push into cyberwarfare has set off a rush among the biggest military companies for billions of dollars in new defense contracts.  —  The exotic nature of the work, coupled with the deep recession …

New York Times:
Contractors Vie for Plum Work, Hacking for the United States  —  MELBOURNE, Fla. — The government’s urgent push into cyberwarfare has set off a rush among the biggest military companies for billions of dollars in new defense contracts.  —  The exotic nature of the work, coupled with the deep recession …

Sridhar / Zoho Blogs:
Microsoft Silverlight vs Google Wave: Why Karma Matters  —  Inevitable comparisons are made between the hugely enthusiastic developer response (including from us at Zoho) to Google Wave yesterday with the relatively tepid reponse to Microsoft’s new search engine Bing.

Gordon Borrell / Borrell Associates:
Are we NUTS?  —  We’ve had lots of questions about our numbers for email advertising — $12 billion - being wildly higher than other tracking companies’ numbers.  For instance, the Interactive Advertising Bureau, through Price Waterhouse, is reporting less than $500 million for e-mail.  Are we nuts?!

Darren Murph / Engadget:
Video: Sony’s PSP Go leaks out before E3, is obviously a go  —  Look up there, folks.  That’s the future of Sony’s hopes and dreams in the handheld gaming sector.  With just hours to go before the company’s official E3 2009 press event, it looks like the pieces are all coming […]

Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
Microsoft Update Quietly Installs Firefox Extension  —  A routine security update for a Microsoft Windows component installed on tens of millions of computers has quietly installed an extra add-on for an untold number of users surfing the Web with Mozilla’s Firefox Web browser.