Maryland, MoCo to work with NIST on cybersecurity center
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: February 21, 2012
Tags: gaithersburg, Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, maryland, memorandum of understanding, Montgomery County, montgomery county executive isiah leggett, national cybersecurity center of excellence, national institute of standards and technology, patrick gallagher, U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski
GAITHERSBURG — Maryland and Montgomery County have signed a memorandum of understanding to create a National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski and Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett took part in an event in Gaithersburg with Patrick Gallagher, director of the NIST [...]
Frederick airport to be first in Maryland to use new FAA technology
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: February 21, 2012
Tags: ADS-B, air traffic control tower, aircraft, airport, faa, federal aviation administration, frederick, frederick municipal airport, general aviation, GPS, maryland, u.s. senator ben cardin
FREDERICK — U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin says Frederick Municipal Airport will be the first general-aviation airport in Maryland using new technology to track aircraft.
Cardin made the announcement Tuesday at the airport, where he also toured a new, $5.3 million air traffic control tower.
The technology called ADS-B relies on global positioning satellites instead of radar to [...]
FCC plans to nix wireless network that may jam GPS
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: February 15, 2012
Tags: at&t, clearwire corp., commerce department, dish network, federal communications commission, gps devices, harbinger capital partners, high-speed wireless network, LightSquared, national telecommunications and information administration, personal-navigation, public knowledge, radio waves, signals, subprime mortgage, verizon
NEW YORK — Federal officials plan to kill a proposal to build a new national high-speed wireless network after concluding it would in some cases jam personal-navigation and other GPS devices.
The Federal Communications Commission sought comments Wednesday on revoking LightSquared’s permit after a federal agency that coordinates wireless signals, the [...]
Grants OK’d to aid Maryland technology projects
BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: February 8, 2012
Tags: chesapeake bay, grants, maryland, Maryland Industrial Partnerships Program, Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute, MIPS, mtech, projects, Technology
The Maryland Industrial Partnerships Program announced grants for 16 technology product development projects worth $4.1 million.
The projects include: floating islands to clean the Chesapeake Bay; an electronic baseball home plate; pest-resistant soybeans; low-inertia running shoes; and a synthetic filtration system for stormwater runoff.
They also include treatments for anthrax, esophageal cancer, stress and autoimmune disease. Grants [...]
Status update: Facebook to go public, raise $5B
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: February 1, 2012
Tags: advertising, facebook, farmville, google, google plus, ipo, linkedin, mark zuckerberg, securities and exchange commission, social media, social network, wall street, Zynga
NEW YORK — Facebook made a much-anticipated status update Wednesday: The Internet social network is going public eight years after its computer-hacking CEO Mark Zuckerberg started the service at Harvard University.
That means anyone with the right amount of cash will be able to own part of a Silicon Valley icon [...]
Google and Facebook teaming up to combat phishing
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: January 30, 2012
Tags: Domain-based Message Authentication, facebook, google, LinkedIn Corp., phishing, Reporting and Conformance, Return Path, tech, Trusted Domain Project
Google, Facebook and other big tech companies are jointly designing a system for combating email scams known as phishing.
Such scams try to trick people into giving away passwords and other personal information by sending emails that look as if they come from a legitimate bank, retailer or other business. When Bank of America customers see [...]
Tech companies team up to combat email scams
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: January 30, 2012
Tags: american greetings corp., AOL, Bank of America, domain-based message authentication reporting and conformance, email, facebook, fidelity investments, google, linkedin, microsoft, paypal, phishing, scams, sender, spam, yahoo!
NEW YORK — Google, Facebook and other big tech companies are jointly designing a system for combating email scams known as phishing.
Such scams try to trick people into giving away passwords and other personal information by sending emails that look as if they come from a legitimate bank, retailer or other business. When Bank of [...]
Report: Facebook IPO filing could come next week
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: January 27, 2012
Tags: amazon, Bank of America, facebook, google, initial public offering, ipo, larry wu, mark zuckerberg, mcdonalds, visa, wall street journal
LOS ANGELES — Facebook could file regulatory papers as early as Wednesday for its highly anticipated initial public offering of stock, according to a newspaper report.
Facebook’s expected launch as a publicly traded company is the most hotly anticipated tech IPO in more than a decade. It would vault it into [...]
O’Malley seeks to boost technology transfer 
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: January 24, 2012
Tags: college park, gov. o'malley, Government, innovation, maryland, Maryland Innovation Initiative, Maryland Technology Development Corp., Technology, transfer, University of Maryland
ANNAPOLIS — Gov. Martin O’Malley will call for more than $6 million to spin research conducted at university labs into new companies, aides said Tuesday.
The proposal seeks to address the gulf between the state’s strong track record in attracting research dollars and relative lack of success in turning that funding into commercial ventures, an issue [...]
Apple doubles iPhone sales in 1Q
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: January 24, 2012
Tags: Apple, apple inc., apple iphone, cupertino, factset, iphone 4, iPhone 4s, nextel corp, samsung, smartphones
NEW YORK — After uncharacteristically tepid sales in the July-to-September quarter, Apple came back with a vengeance in last three months of 2011, vastly exceeding analyst estimates and setting new records.
Apple Inc. on Tuesday said it sold 37 million iPhones in the quarter, double the figure of the previous quarter and more than twice as [...]
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