By this point, the Cambridge Analytica news is starting to cool off—even as the heat continues to be turned up on Facebook and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg. At his Senate hearings, Zuckerberg’s testimony about Facebook’s data on 87 million members being used by Cambridge Analytica could be boiled down to two essential points: …
Rotary Phones Can you Imagine? Kids today will never know the pleasure of slamming down a phone in anger! For a look at how today’s kids interact with an old-school rotary phone, click on the video below: Rotary dial phones are the earliest user-controlled phone to be mass produced. Before them, a user…
‘FACEBOOK and FAKE NEWS’ Zuckerberg Asked to Answer Facebook felt significant backlash in 2017, with many expressing discomfort about the social media giant’s oversight measures in preventing inaccurate posts. With the cloud of potential Russian meddling in that most democratic of institutions—the 2016 Presidential election—2017 found Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg announcing changes, including: Stronger…
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] During my time in state government, I was part of many discussions about portals. When I worked on a portal for a small business in 1998, they were really seen as an indication of your tech grooviness and functionally. They looked a lot like electronic brochures or phonebooks.…
USA Today readers may have been surprised to see the story of a fired IT worker that took his revenge on his for-profit online college employer. Allegations were that the IT worker had access to an account that stored email and course material for 2,000 students. After his employment was terminated, he changed a password…
LAS VEGAS — Carnival isn’t the first company most people think of when it comes to high tech. But that might change – especially after Carnival CEO Arnold Donald took the stage Thursday, January 5th to kick off Consumer Electronics Show 2017 (CES) in Las Vegas Nevada. CES takes place each January and is one…
Delta Air Lines, the second largest airline in the world, was forced to ground many of their planes on Monday, August 8th after the company’s computer system went down. The following day, Delta COO Gil West said, “… a critical power control module at our Technology Command Center malfunctioned, causing a surge to the…
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive…and so in a sense it is all about potential. — Steve Ballmer, former CEO, Microsoft Corporation Steve Ballmer isn’t…