Billions of Reasons Facebook Data Will Continue to be Sold

  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:  …

Data Harvests, Facebook Apologies, and Worldwide Elections

  Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg took out full-page ads in several high-profile newspapers Sunday, March 25th       …including the UK’s The Observer, The Sunday Times, Mail on Sunday, Sunday Mirror, Sunday Express and Sunday Telegraph, along with American newspapers The New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal.  Zuckerberg apologized for the…

Handwriting, History and the Unreliability of Paper Documents

Ah, paper.  It’s been used for centuries.  But a lot of the documents created on paper?  Most of them didn’t last.  Paper is fragile.  Paper deteriorates. The Paper Conservation Department at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is responsible for the preservation of works of art for the Museum.  Works of art on paper such…

Kids and Vintage Technology

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…

Salesforce Reaches New Heights

Salesforce.com Inc. (NYSE: CRM)  is a cloud computing company based in San Francisco, California. It has become highly successful in the customer relationship management (CRM) software arena; Salesforce software helps companies to manage the tasks, relationships, and ‘buying funnel’ of new and existing customers.   How successful?  Salesforce is currently the largest American cloud computing…

Where’s the Beef?

Where’s the Beef? Today’s Highest Achieving Enterprises and Their Surprising Lack of Product Consider an intriguing recent TechCrunch.com opener: Uber, the world’s largest taxi company, owns no vehicles. Facebook, the world’s most popular media owner, creates no content. Alibaba, the most valuable retailer, has no inventory. And Airbnb, the world’s largest accommodation provider, owns no…

Catastrophic Dam-age: Are you ready in the case of a disaster?0

It goes without saying that you don’t want to be in the news for the wrong reason. And if you lived in the California towns of Marysville, Hallwood, Olivehurst/Linda, Plumas Lake, Gridley, Live Oak, Yuba City, or Wheatland you got that unfortunate experience recently. If those names don’t sound familiar to you, here’s one that…

The Smart City of the Future… Today

Singapore is a relatively small place—an island city-state just 30 miles across. Politically speaking, it has been governed by the same party for decades. Its geography and political stability have allowed Singapore to position itself for the future rather uniquely as the world’s first “Smart Nation.” This is a truly ambitious set of programs designed…

Digital Innovation in Industry & Government: Happening…Where?

London’s Daily Telegraph said this country is “perceived as a place where the future happens faster than in other parts of the world.” Tech Radar reports it has “almost as many tech startups as Silicon Valley.” It’s the home of internationally successful giants like Spotify, Skype, Linux, Candy Crush and Minecraft creator Mojang. Still wondering…