Stories about: In-Q-Tel

Venture capital investment in network companies hit another low during the first quarter, with the total number of investments dropping to its lowest point since the third quarter of 2004.

The lights go down, the noise comes up, and Demo 07 is underway.

Candera Inc. this week plans to go public with a storage virtualization device after two years of development, joining the race to provide users with technology that can combine different storage subsystems into virtual pools of data.

Businesses looking for ways to protect data in networked storage arrays might be interested in a start-up that has unveiled appliances designed to encrypt and decrypt storage data without hurting network performance.

SafeWeb Inc., formerly best known for its free online privacy tool, has completed its transition to a focus on enterprise customers. The company has released its first Secure Extranet Appliance (SEA), called SEA Tsunami, SafeWeb said in a statement.

After being deluged with phone calls and e-mail messages from concerned users, SafeWeb Inc. is considering resurrecting its anonymous Web surfing service, which it suspended last month.

When John Lambert wanted a position that challenged and improved on his broad knowledge of technology, finding an employer that encouraged and financially supported professional certification topped his list of priorities.

Computer crimes are escalating at a rate consistent with the growth of the internet, said Dominique Brezinski, technical guru at In-Q-Tel, a nonprofit technology incubator in Menlo Park, California, formed by the CIA. "The ability to steal small items such as digital assets is extremely attractive."

In a roundtable discussion held here Friday, California Attorney General Bill Lockyer joined with several heads of high tech companies to access the impact of the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, or E-Sign, which was signed into law earlier in the day.

From helping the CIA securely send messages to cutting through the red tape of getting a mortgage, the digital-signature bill that President Clinton signed into law Friday will have a profound impact on Internet business - eventually.

The U.S. federal government is struggling with ways to accommodate revolutionary advances brought about by the convergence of science and technology, a NASA expert told a U.S. congressional subcommittee here today.