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WSO2 has entered the open source SOA field with a slate of veterans from Web services specifications, application server design and lightweight framework development. The company’s latest offering to the market came June 11 with the arrival of WSO2 ESB 1.0, based on Apache Synapse and targeted at both developers who want to use enterprise service buses quickly, as well as operations architects seeking lightweight and high-performing components.

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This past May, the country of Estonia was hit hard by what its authorities called a “virtual war.” This war took the form of an attack on the country’s computer infrastructure. Many governmental and commercial sites were hit. The attacks on the country’s commerce seemed to focus on the country’s media — television stations and newspapers. Additionally, other commercial sites were hit, such as banking institutions. Estonia is probably one of the most computer literate countries in the world.

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If you have a super brand, then let the whole world see it. If you have absolute 100 percent global ownership of that brand, then prove it. A quick search on Google will get you started. Many of today’s best-known brands may still be threatened by a lack of exclusivity. They may have logos, unique designs, colorful executions, banners and billboards, but as long as there are similar and identical name brands in the marketplace, they do not have 100 percent ownership.

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EU regulators said they would expand their ongoing probe into the privacy issues first raised about search engine giant Google to include other major search tools. The decision of the European Commission’s data watchdog group to broaden its probe into the privacy implications of rapidly evolving search technologies means Google will have to wait longer to find out whether it will face any sanctions from European regulators. The group will “deal with search engines in general, and scrutinize their activities from a data protection point of view,” it said.

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The Pentagon took an undisclosed number of computers offline on Wednesday after it detected a cyber-attack on its systems earlier this week, Pentagon spokesperson Navy Lt. Cmdr. Chito Peppler told the E-Commerce Times. This resulted in some of the Pentagon’s e-mail systems being taken down. Peppler declined to say how many computers were affected, but he also added that he’s “not disputing” widely circulated reports that the number was in the vicinity of 1,500. He declined to offer any details about the attack, or to estimate when the computers might be brought online again.

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