When computer cloud services become essential, any failure is a sensitive PR issue for the providers. Consider Microsoft’s cloud service outages for the past week. Those dependent on the software company can’t do something else while it wrangles its wide area network over changes that have gone bad. The internet has become central to the […]
Posted on October 8th, 2020 by admin
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Congress is after the big four of tech — Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple. A new report of 450 pages proposes to break them up because they have monopoly power. This means the quartet has no time to lose in explaining to the public and Congress how they are beneficial and a service to society […]
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Boeing released a dour and downbeat report for the sale of new airplanes over the next decade, and it attributes the shortfall to COVID. The company is telling it like it is to the best of its ability at this juncture of the disease and plummeting passenger travel. Would that the White House were so […]
Posted on October 7th, 2020 by admin
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A Walter Reed physician has accused President Trump of an insane act for taking a car ride while still positive for COVID. Others have cited “toxic masculinity” for the reason Trump did it. It is clear the President is going to boast of beating the virus when he is released from the hospital. There won’t […]
Posted on October 5th, 2020 by admin
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Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin, has denied responsibility for the poisoning of dissident Alexei Navalny. Putin can get away with that because there is no free press in the country to call him to account. And, as a dictator with the army under his control, he squelches protestors at will. China is doing the same in […]
Posted on October 2nd, 2020 by admin
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Google is salving its relations with news publishers by announcing it will pay $1 billion over the next three years for content. Putting money on the table is a marketing and PR gesture that commands attention. It is a public statement that the search giant is not trying to take away business from content publishers. Still, […]
Posted on October 2nd, 2020 by admin
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