The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Amazon: Some Trouble Down Under? DarkCyber noted “Case Study: Why the Australian Electoral Commission Migrated to Microsoft Azure.” On the surface, the write up is another PR output. When considered in terms of the competition between Amazon and Microsoft for juicy non commercial jobs, the article provides a check list of what’s lacking in Amazon …
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Procurement Bias Alleged in Amazon Microsoft Procurement Competition DarkCyber noted “Trump Ordered Mattis to “Screw Amazon” Out of Pentagon Contract, Book Alleges.” If the allegation is accurate, the Federal procurement process is not above influence. If the allegations are not accurate, firing people who get quoted may be a bad idea. Maybe both statements are …
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Phi Beta Iota editor created above title. Below is original title and an extract. Talking Down: A Specialty of High-Tech? What problems? First, Microsoft has warned 800 million users to install a specific patch in order to avoid terminating with extreme prejudice one’s computer. You can get ore information from the capitalist tool here. Will …
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Microsoft and Oracle: Fear Helps Make New Friends I found “Microsoft, Oracle Team Up on Cloud Services in Jab at Amazon” amusing. The real news outfit Thomson Reuters reported this unusual big company relationship when I was making my way through torrential rain in lovely West Virginia coal country. The mist did disguise the land …
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Amazon: Policeware Capability Microsoft May Not Be Able to Duplicate New partners, new data, and new outputs — Amazon is moving forward, and I am not sure Microsoft as well as fellow travelers like Google and Oracle can match Amazon’s forced march in its effort to reword the intelligence and law enforcement intelligence ecosystem. Read …
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Microsoft Says That AI Is Stupid I know there is a difference among: What senior managers believe about their minions’ innovations What marketers say about the technology the engineer wizards are crafting in the innovation microwave What “real” journalists angling for a job with some tailwind write What the reality of an innovation is, right …
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Microsoft Puts Machine Learning in the Cloud Machine learning is ascending to the cloud. The Register asks, “Do Data Centers Dream of Electric Sheep? Microsoft Announces Machine Learning Cloud.” As competition in the world of SaaS and remote hosting continues to escalate, this move may set Microsoft ahead of Amazon and Google (for now). Our …
