While many people are still trying to figure out what “cloud computing” really means, various businesses specializing in cloud services are going after the U.S. government’s business. Companies like Box and Amazon Web Services are looking to pick up federal government business by providing extra security and specialized “cloud areas”.
Wikipedia has narrowly decided a site blackout to protest against laws billed as combating piracy should be international rather than US only. That’s prompted Twitter’s chief executive to call the move foolish.
Forces appearing to come from Israel and Saudi Arabia have engaged in a tit-for-tat round of attacks. But these aren’t physical engagements: rather the field of battle is stolen credit card details.
The British government is to hold a special event to tackle the problems of outdated information on satellite navigation (GPS) systems. It’s designed to deal with high-profile blunders that have even damaged houses.
This little tidbit comes from the bass-ackwards school of business where the customer is stupid and exploitable until proven otherwise. That said, Verizon didn’t get to get to be the largest wireless and wireline carrier in these oddly dysfunctional United States by knowing when to quit, so gird your loins Joe and Jane Sixpack — they will be back.
Senators who questioned Google executives in September have passed on their findings to the Federal Trade Commission. The gist of it is that they can’t prove anything illegal but something doesn’t smell quite right.
Twitter has just made $300 million. And so what if it’s from a source that contradicts everything it stands for?
Everybody hates patent trolls, but no one’s ever put a number on how much they cost innovators and society in general. Moreover, NPE or non-practicing entities — a new age acronym for scumbag — aren’t targeting innovation in general, they’re going after software companies that have created real products.
The United States has finally accused China and Russia of stealing data that threatens the economic security of the US. Up until now the US has been ignoring the problem that has been happening for years. Just as with most things that threaten ones health, ignoring it only means it is harder to manage once you acknowledge the problem.
Who gets big bailouts and even bigger subsidies? America’s biggest corporations, that’s who. Surprisingly or not, a list of the biggest scumbags includes Google, Hewlett-Packard, Yahoo, Wells Fargo and — you just keep laughing, Jeff — Amazon. Of course, it’s all perfectly “legal,” but galling nonetheless.
The United States made the most government demands for Google to hand over user details during the first half of this year. But it also had the highest percentage of claims Google considered legally valid.
If you’re a software or hardware engineer, it might be worth sticking in an application to the official federal government vacancies site. For all other professions, it looks like you’ll have to hope luck is in your side.
DNA testing is used in proving paternity, CSI investigations, the Innocence Project, food safety testing and infectious disease determination. You can even trace your genetic ancestry. New testing hardware can give you PCR results in less than three minutes. That advancement could mean DNA results in as little as five to ten minutes.
The Federal Communications Commission’s rules on net neutrality will take force in less than two months. But November 20 may also be the starting date for the next round of court challenges.
An Internet service provider is offering tools to help parents stop children using Facebook when they are meant to be doing homework. The words chocolate and fireguard come to mind.
Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google, recently told the Edinburgh Television Festival that his company would pay higher British taxes but said that the weak British tax laws prevented his company from doing so. This disingenuous comment seems more mockery than sincerity considering that this billion dollar company only pays 2.4 percent in United States taxes by making exhaustive use of off shore tax havens.
Israel has been in the midst of a nationwide protest for four weeks. The protesters are using Twitter, Facebook and YouTube to organize and report on this peaceful ongoing event. So far, the government has not issued threats of violence or shutdown social media access or the internet. The rest of the world could really learn something from how the Israeli people and government are handling the situation.
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