iWeb Communities: Blog

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news and is published at 8.00am EST. For March 6th, here are the highlights:

• Barack Obama Names Vivek Kundra Chief Information Officer. The CIO position is new in the White House, and shows how important technology is for the new US president. Vivek Kundra says he wants a web2.0 government, adopt consumer technology, cloud computing, etc.
• Zimbra has 40 million paid users. It’s more than GMail or any other email service, although they can’t be really compared since the Zimbra service is white-labelled by very large partners such as ISPs, large entreprises, and brands
• For those of you who publish on the Internet, or if you have a website and consider subscriptions, here’s an interesting article which analyzes the Wall Street Journal’s business models. The WSJ is one of the very rare newspaper which charge for access to its content.