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Cloud services are vying for government business

Susan Wilson — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:33:48 +0000

While many people are still trying to figure out what “cloud computing” really means, [...] Related posts:

Twitter belittles Wikipedia blackout

John Lister — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:56:50 +0000

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.

The blackout will last from midnight to midnight tomorrow (Wednesday) Eastern Standard Time, with [...] Related posts:

Israel and Saudi Arabia in hacking battle

John Lister — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:06:37 +0000

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 attacks began last week when a hacker using the name [...] Related posts:

Road blunders prompt sat-nav summit

John Lister — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:09:29 +0000

The British government is to hold a special event to tackle the problems of outdated information on satellite navigation (GPS) systems.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.

The summit, to be hosted by the Department of Transport, will [...] Related posts:

Verizon axes ‘convenience charge’

Ronald O Carlson — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 23:02:17 +0000

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 [...] Related posts:

Senators: Something fishy in the state of Google

John Lister — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:57:36 +0000

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.

The letter to the FTC comes [...] Related posts:

Twitter takes Saudi cash (Shh – don’t mention the human rights)

John Lister — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:57:51 +0000

Twitter has just made $300 million. And so what if it’s from a source that contradicts everything it stands for?

The cash comes from selling an ownership stake from the Kingdom Holding Company: in other [...] Related posts:

Patent trolls cost innovators $500 billion

Ronald O Carlson — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:31:23 +0000

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.

Boston University Law School’s [...] Related posts:

US claims China and Russia are stealing data on the economy and technology

Susan Wilson — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 19:15:14 +0000

The United States has finally [...] Related posts:

Which corporations pay tax, which don’t

Ronald O Carlson — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:16:16 +0000

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.

When you hear Republicans or one of [...] Related posts: