United States Cyber Command is now in action — proactively protecting you by thwarting the ethereal outsider threats from terrorists, rogue actors, and other nations wishing to do us harm — but that lockdown protection travels two ways: In and out. We know the in — but the out is you — and your local internet connectivity.
I am currently beta testing Docs.com — the new online writing and collaboration website using your Facebook login and contacts and Microsoft’s stripped down version of Office.
Continue reading → Failing the Facebook Microsoft Office Docs Beta
See the Black Man in the top image? Ooops! Now you don’t see him in the same image below. Both images are Microsoft advertising. The grinning “Black Man” is for the American market, while the goofy “White Faced Dude with the Black Hand” is for advertising market in Poland.
I’m not a tremendous fan of Microsoft Surface. The technology feels 20 years old to me and if I want to move things around in space in time, I want to do it in a 3D hologram and not on my kitchen table.
Total Information Awareness is now possible thanks to Microsoft and the NSA’s new Texas Cryptology Center in San Antonio, Texas:
“No longer able to store all the intercepted phone calls and e-mail in its secret city, the agency has now built a new data warehouse in San Antonio, Texas,” writes author James Bamford in the Shadow Factory, his third book about the NSA. “Costing, with renovations, upwards of $130 million, the 470,000-square-foot facility will be almost the size of the Alamodome. Considering how much data can now be squeezed onto a small flash drive, the new NSA building may eventually be able to hold all the information in the world.” …
Continue reading → Microsoft and the NSA and the Texas Cryptology Center
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