There are reports that Microsoft’s new search engine known as Kumo is about to be released (ultimately it may be called “Bing”) which will replace “Live Search.” Apparently Microsoft leaked copies of Kumo recently and from all reviews there’s nothing too radical, but what is radical is the Wolfram|Alpha search…
Continue Reading SEARCH ENGINE WARS!!! – Microsoft, Yahoo! and Wolfram|Alpha vs. Google
Since Google accounts for more than 63% of all Internet searches, it’s no wonder that Google’s stock fell last week when Google users had significant problems when Google’s servers were overloaded and Google services were operating at a crawl. Google claims that there were problems in 3 of their…
Continue Reading Google’s Future – Outage, Self-Defense, and More Services
Recent reports from the EU potentially impact a number of Internet and IT industry issues of great import, including plans for new laws to protect consumers from IT security breaches, Microsoft’s strategy to defend antitrust claims regarding the Internet Explorer (IE) browser, and a ruling that Intel violates antitrust laws.…
Continue Reading EU Update- IT Security Breaches, Microsoft, and Intel
After a three-year study a panel (of former military leaders and IT professionals) from the National Academy of Sciences reported that the US has no clear military policies for cyberattacks. Notwithstanding a recent blog about the NSA exceeding its authority to intercept email, we are not much safer from…
A report that the National Security Agency (NSA) exceeded its authority by intercepting emails and phone calls of Americans make some people feel safer, and others wary. Many speculate that these massive email and phone call interceptions are systematic and intentional. For instance the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and…
Continue Reading Are We Any Safer Because the NSA Exceeded its Authority to Intercept eMails?
Ted Ullyot, Facebook’s General Counsel, reported the governance vote results that 74.37% of the 665,654 cast ballots in support of the new Statement of Rights and Responsibilities and Principles (Statement). The new Statement was adopted with less far than 1% even of Facebook friends casting ballots. It’s refreshing that there…
Continue Reading .00332827% of Facebook Friends Cast Governance Votes
From April 16 through 23, 2009 the 200 million Facebook users have a chance to vote on their own governance, but the new governance will only be adopted if 30% of the Facebooks friends vote. This vote follows a virtual town hall meeting that allowed comments on the proposed governance…
Continue Reading Web 2.0 Democracy- Vote on Facebook Governance before April 24, 2009
Merely spending $19B to spur the use of electronic health records (EHR) does not guarantee that the plan will succeed. A study funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation reports that only 9% of the US hospitals have EHRs. As well, the American Medical Information Association reports that there…
Continue Reading Will $19Billion Actually Buy Digital Health?
Speculation that Wikipedia has run out of ideas is an amusing headline. It’s hard to believe that in 8 years Wikipedia has more than 2.8 million English articles since the Encyclopedia Britannica started in 1768 and has about 250,000 articles. Wikipedia’s growth is quite astonishing since in March 2006…
After teaching the Law of eCommerce since 2000 I have established my own perspective of 5 Big Bangs which propelled the Internet, three of which were described in a recent blog:
1st Big Bang- Invention of the punch card for the 1890 census by Dr. Herman Holerith (which led…
