In the New York Times, Robert Cryan and Martin Hutchison of Reuters BreakingViews suggest that Microslft sell its Bing search engine, either outright or in exchange for stock in a company that can do more with it than rank a distant #2 to Google while…
Big Data from McKinsey – but you have to ask what are they selling
19 July 2011 by
This McKinsey report (sorry you have to trade your identity to get it) calls big data “the next frontier for innovation, competition and productivity.” We can answer questions with big data that were beyond reach in the past. We can e…
Big Data from IBM
19 July 2011 by
According to IBM, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day. Ninety percent of the data we have has been created in the past two years and the amount of data is expected to increase exponentially. The data we create is expanding r…
Nothing to Hide?
12 July 2011 by
I had not heard of Truth-Out until Matt pointed me at this article.
Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security
by: Daniel J. Solove, Yale University Press | Book Excerpt
I have often questioned the tangled semantics and interpreta…