GSC Blogs from January 2009 (8)Friday Relief: weekly interactive short story about "Max the Spy"2021-01-30 In cooperation with www.spuukie.com, each Friday we will feature one segment from an interactive short story, called “Max The Spy”. this funny and somewhat poignant story of Max the British spy trapped in post-ww2 Berlin. A world within ... Apple's attempt at face recognition systems2021-01-29 Walt Mossberg just reviewed the new iLife software available as a bundle to Mac users. He talks about the ups and downs of the programs which isn't normally of particular interest to this blog. Where it beocme interesting is when he talks abou... Hackers break into Monster.com and steal data of 4.5 million users2021-01-27 As the UK Times reported today, hackers stole the personal details of 4.5 million users in an attack on the Monster jobs site. In The Times' words: “Names, passwords, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, birth dates, sex and ethnicity data as well ... You know we had to...Security and Phones2021-01-22 We might be the only ones but as crackberry addicts ourselves we've been following the debate of which phone (secure or not) Obama will be using to send emails. Popular consensus in the press seemed to be that General Dynamic's Sectera Edge at ... Lord Drayson Says Competitions Add Immense Value | MET names its technology needs2021-01-20 Yesterday, the GSC Team went to the SITC event at RUSI in London where we heard interesting presentations from government and industry about emerging security challenges and approaches to overcome them. Cressida Dick, the Deputy Assistant Commissioner fro... Growth predictions for 20092021-01-15 Looking at the NVCA's number for 08, things look pretty sad. Six IPO's with only one currently trading above its offering price. Rumours of calls not being made and 35-50% year on year decrease in investment dollars for 09 - makes everyth... VCs are (relatively) Hungry for Security Start-Ups: $88 million in 4th quarter of 20082021-01-12 During winter 2008, we tracked $88 million worth of venture deals in security technologies. This is not too bad, given the gloomy state of the world's economies. Notably is also that In-Q-Tel for the first time invested in a startup from Germany. See bel... Happy New Year from GSC Team - What is Changing in Security Industry in 2009?2021-01-06 Happy New Year from the Global Security Challenge Team in London! Our New Year's resolution is to continue and improve our role as trustworthy partner for researchers, investors and entrepreneurs in the security space. As usual, at the beginning of ever... |