U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra and U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra today unveiled Challenge.gov, a new online site and digital platform to help mobilize American ingenuity to solve some of our nation s most pressing challenges. Challenge.gov is an online site where entrepreneurs, innovators, and citizen solvers can compete for prestige and prizes by providing novel solutions to tough national problems, large and small. Challenge.gov features over 35 challenges posed by more than 15 government agencies....Speaking at the Gov 2.0

"Now what happens is you have very sophisticated people whose primary objective is material gain," says Harvey Miller, a veteran bankruptcy lawyer at Weil, Gotshal & Manges. "You ve changed [bankruptcy] from at least the semblance of a rehabilitative approach to a casino approach of how do I make more money? " - WSJ

"In his new positions, Hurd will be in a situation in which he cannot perform his duties for Oracle without necessarily using and disclosing HP s trade secrets and confidential information to others," HP said in the complaint [PDF]. [PJ: Here s HP s press release. Hurd s employee agreement is attached to the complaint. It states he will not do conflicting work for a competitor for a year, which in California, it says, means no "conflicting business activities that result in unauthorized use

Back in 2007, we wrote about a startup that was trying to sneak its way through anti-online gambling laws by trying to squeeze through a loophole. The site, called Betcha, would let people bet each other on various things, but which let bettors renege on any bet if they lost. Of course, doing so would give you negative feedback on your profile. However, the site argued that because anyone could bail out of a bet, it wasn t

The most credible explanation I ve seen so far as to why HP fired Mark Hurd last month, even after it determined that he had not actually engaged in sexual harassment, was that the Mark Hurd help lead the investigation into the board over the infamous pretexting scandal, and that the whole story about the supposed harassment and fudged expense reports were just an excuse to get rid of a CEO the board didn t like -- even as he was performing

UK-based ISP TalkTalk, owned by the Carphone warehouse (Phone Warehouse in the EU) has been reprimanded by the Information Commissioner’s Office for failing to disclose enough information about a malware system it was launching, according to the BBC. The controversial system collected the URLs of websites visited by its customers and the ISP failed to [...]