The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Whither the Bing Thing in 2014? I found the data in the “2013 Bing Infographic” surprising. I continue to think of Bing as a search and retrieval system. I don’t use the system directly. I prefer to run queries on metasearch systems that use Bing as one source of content. The reason for my indirect …
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These Ogre Companies are Anti-Their-Customers “Some of America’s largest technology and telecoms companies, including Facebook, Microsoft and AT&T, are backing a network of self-styled “free-market thinktanks” promoting a radical rightwing agenda in states across the nation, according to a new report by a lobbying watchdog. The Center for Media and Democracy asserts that the State …
Innosight Business plans should start with the value to the customer not Microsoft fiction–Scott Anthony’s latest in HBR. Business Plans and Other Works of Fiction Scott D. Anthony The purpose of a business, Peter Drucker famously said, is to create a customer. Yet, rather than creating customers, many innovators create a fantastical piece of what …
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Microsoft has collaborated closely with US intelligence services to allow users’ communications to be intercepted, including helping the National Security Agency to circumvent the company’s own encryption, according to top-secret documents obtained by the Guardian. The files provided by Edward Snowden illustrate the scale of co-operation between Silicon Valley and the intelligence agencies over the …
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Open Enterprise Glyn Moody How Can Any Company Ever Trust Microsoft Again? Irrespective of the details of the current revelations about US spying being provided by Edward Snowden in the Guardian, there is already a huge collateral benefit. On the one hand, the US government is falling over itself to deny some of the allegations …
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Academic Corruption Judge the Work By Its Quality This methodology causes false facts to be considered truth. Briggs brings up the “Trust In Science Would Be Improved By Study Pre-Registration” signed by more than eighty signatories and for the scientific community to require pre-registration for publishing before results are in. The idea is that journals …
The listed alternatives at the link below are organized as follows: Operating System . Web Browser . Web Browser Plug Ins . Web Search . Online Transactions . Email Services . Email Desktop Clients . Email Encryption . Maps . Cloud Storage . Social Networking . Instant Messaging . Video-Teleconferencing . Media Publishing . Document …
