Google Moves Voice into Cloud, Offs the Telecomms

Google Voice discovered allowing pure VoIP calls Google Voice users learned late Monday that the service now has a way of making purely Internet-based phone calls. Making a SIP call with a “sip:” prefix, the Google Voice phone number and @sip.voice.google.com skips the conventional phone network entirely, saving users cellphone minutes. Disruptive Telephony tested it …

AFIO Selected Headlines: Google, Woolsey, Hayden

Google Comes Under Fire for ‘Secret’ Relationship with NSA. Consumer Watchdog, an advocacy group largely focused in recent years on Google’s privacy practices, has called on a congressional investigation into the Internet giant’s “cozy” relationship with U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration.  In a letter sent Monday, Consumer Watchdog asked Representative Darrell Issa, the new chairman …

Journal: Palantir, Flush with Cash, Sued for Industrial Espionage and Racketeering

Snapshot of the Case with Links Palantir according to Palantir: How Team of Geeks Cracked Spy Trade Palantir: The Next Billion-Dollar Company Raises $90 Million Hysterical.   Silicon Valley fell for a front job.  Too much money, not enough due diligence. The Fit or Fat Startup Nails it.  Limited technology, rotten user interface, dumb current audience will not …

Definitions: “Self-Radicalized Militants”

DuckDuckGo Results Bing Results Google Results When we first heard the term, “self-radicalized militants,” we thought they were talking about Lori Wallach, the tom-boy agitator now depicted in pearls with style.  Above are three over-lapping sets of coverage on this term.  We have just two questions: 1)  Is “self-radicalized” like “immaculate conception,” one just “radicalizes” …

Who’s Who in Peace Intelligence: Robert Young Pelton

Robert Young Pelton is one of just two speakers demanded by the international audience attending the annual conference on National Security & National Competitiveness: Open Source Solutions.  The other was Stephen E. Arnold.  RYP is the single most sensible, qualified, courageous, and plain honest journalist we know, across the creative and investigative spectrum. See Also: …