The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Drones: In the Sky for Sure The US Federal Aviation Authority has decided the concept of drone deliveries is safe enough to grant Amazon Prime Air permission to fly beyond visual line of sight. But did the agency consider everything? Diginomica discusses some concerns in the article, “More Drones in the Sky in One Day …
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Amazon: A Burr under a Presidential Saddle? This may just be an example of how a national scheme plays out on the local level. The Portland Press Herald reports, “Amazon Gets Priority While Mail Gets Delayed, Say Letter Carriers.” Mark Seitz, a Portland postal service veteran and president of the Maine State Association of Letter …
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Amazon Policeware: Fraud Detection This is RIVETING, especially since Amazon can charge companies like Goldman Sachs for “protection” (i.e. counter-programming). A one hour lecture is available. Read full post and get contact information.
Amazon Cost Control Insights Amazon’s AWS is a fascinating business case. On one hand, AWS reduces some of the hurdles to modern solution development. On the other hand, it is easy — even for an experienced Certified AWS expert — to forget what’s running, whether a particular service is unnecessary, or what processes are tucked …
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Amazon: Zooming Toward Google Hangouts? DarkCyber spotted this Thomson Reuters’ story: “Amazon Tests Screening New Merchants for Fraud via Video Calls in Pandemic.” The news story reveals that yes, indeed, Amazon has its own Zoom-type service. There are a number of interesting Amazon patents related to video communications. These range from facial recognition to active …
Google Free Product Listings: A Free-for-All The battle royale is one of the keys to Fortnite’s success. There will be one winner. Google, if the information in the article “In Major Shift, Google Shopping Opens Up to Free Product Listings” is accurate, has declared war on Amazon’s digital catalog of products. The Google-Amazon dust up …
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About Those Cloud Services? Okay, Amazon can’t deliver. Microsoft can’t scale. Now Google Cloud Engine just falls over. What were the techno experts saying about those cloud services? Navigate to to “Google Cloud Engine Outage Caused by Large Backlog of Queued Mutations.” The article reports: Read full post.
