Penguin: Forbes on Internet and Tim Berners-Lee “Take the Power Back”

Enough Is Enough: The World Wide Web’s Creator Is Taking The Power Back In an interview with Fast Times, Berners-Lee demonstrated an early version of an app running on Solid. Author Katrina Brooker describes it as “a mashup of Google Drive, Microsoft Outlook, Slack, Spotify, and WhatsApp.” The difference, she explains, is that every every …

Stephen E. Arnold: Excitement at Oracle — Amazon Effect

After reportedly butting heads with Larry Ellison, Oracle’s top cloud executive is leaving the company Kurian’s departure comes just weeks after Oracle announced he was taking a break from his position overseeing Oracle’s cloud efforts, and after Bloomberg reported that a conflict with Oracle co-founder, executive chairman, chief technology officer, and person whose opinion seems …

Stephen E. Arnold: Amazon Ramps Up Police State Big Data Offering

Amazon: Accommodating Big Chunks of Data Our research into Amazon’s capabilities caused us to note the information in “Amazon Rolls Out High Memory Instances for In-Memory Databases.” Many companies want to munch on Big Data. I would point out that certain US government organization have a healthy appetite for the capability as well. I noted …

Phil Giraldi: Shutting Down Free Speech in America: Government and Lobbyists Work Together to Destroy the First Amendment

Shutting Down Free Speech in America: Government and Lobbyists Work Together to Destroy the First Amendment As most genuine independent journalism is currently limited to the alternative media, and that media lives on the internet, the ADL and those who are acting in collusion with the Israeli government are focusing on “cyberhate” as the problem …

Penguin: Has Oracle of Oracle Lost His Mojo?

Oracle’s Autonomous Database Cloud is a Huge Technological Advantage vs. Investors Are Losing Patience With Oracle’s Opaque Cloud Growth ROBERT STEELE:  ORACLE has enough cash flow to beat Amazon (which at this time is poised to destroy IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft as well as Google and others). ORACLE appears to lack  the imagination and incentive …

Ellen Brown: Central Banks Gone Rogue — Rigging Markets

Central Banks Have Gone Rogue, Putting Us All at Risk …central banks are now buying individual stocks as investments, with a preference for big tech companies like Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft. Those are the stocks that dominate the market, and central banks are aggressively driving up their value. Markets, including the U.S. stock market, …