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Berto Jongman: Millimeter Waves May be the Future of 5G Phones

Millimeter Waves May Be the Future of 5G Phones Samsung’s millimeter-wave transceiver technology could enable ultrafast mobile broadband by 2020 By Ariel Bleicher IEEE Spectrum, 13 Jun 2013 Clothes, cars, trains, tractors, body sensors, and tracking tags. By the end of this decade, analysts say, 50 billion things such as these will connect to mobile networks. …

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Neal Rauhauser: Transcript of Meeting Between Julian Assange and Eric Schmidt with Department of State Staff

All sort of stuff popping up today.  Worth a complete and careful reading. Transcript of secret meeting between Julian Assange and Google CEO Eric Schmidt Friday April 19, 2013 On the 23 of June, 2011 a secret five hour meeting took place between WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, who was under house arrest in rural UK …

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2013 Robert Steele Reflections on Alternative Command & Control (AltC2) — Five Questions and a Game Plan 1.1

1.1 Adds contribution “An API for NATO” from Innovation Hub participant laukner, and adds Open Source Everything (OSE) graphic that most of us agree is the necessary technical transformation that must take place for the UN, EU, NATO, BRICS, and others to be effective at M4IS2 and creating a prosperous world at peace, a world …

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Chuck Spinney: Imperial Idiocy Wrecks Middle East (Fruits of Treason) — End of Sykes-Picot Betrayal, Five Inter-Mixed Conflicts, Return of the Tribes

Patrick Cockburn has written a very important essay on Syria in the London Review of Books (attached below).  The essay is aptly titled but has only a few oblique, albeit important, references to Sykes – Picot Agreement, a document some readers may not familiar with.  Let’s begin with a little background. The Sykes-Picot agreement (it …

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Marcus Aurelius: SOCOM Working on Global Network — Comment by Robert Steele

Well worth reading between the lines. Socom Officials Work on Plan for Global Network By Donna Miles American Forces Press Service MACDILL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla., June 3, 2013 – About 100 people are hard at work at the U.S. Special Operations Command headquarters here on a new plan that will operationalize the way the …

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John Robb: Iran, Cyberwar, and the Perils of Lazy (or Corrupt) Thinking

Iran, Cyberwar, and the Perils of Lazy Thinking For those of you that don’t know, the US doesn’t spend much time/energy/effort on military strategy and theory.  They do spend money on political scientists and engineers to provide a substitute.  Regardless, this deficit means the US continually falls victim to strategic errors due to stale military …

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Stephen E. Arnold: Open Source Security a Corporate Concern

Open Source Security Remains Corporate Concern Posted: 22 May 2013 06:15 AM PDT When it comes to enterprise information technology concerns, security is usually at the top of the list. Some say that using open source software leaves an organization more susceptible to security risks, while others argue just the opposite. This very debate continues …

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