Monthly Archives: March 2012

China may be rigging its electronics, hardware and other products with “logic bombs”, Trojan horses, trapdoors, and other cyberbugs to help them steal information from American companies and governments. Former administration security advisor Richard Clarke said in Smithsonian magazine that … Continue reading →

Not to put too fine a point on it, but more information is emerging daily about not only China’s spying and theft of America’s wealth-producing industries, but their impending day of reckoning as a result of their over-confidence. A new … Continue reading →

Call it a guilty pleasure. Maybe not as pleasurable as the Bee Gees or Japanese monster films. But as you know from reading my blog, I’m a fan of propaganda: not what it says and does but the techniques these … Continue reading →

Following up my post yesterday about China’s continuous and growing cyberattacks on the United States, here’s former government aide and security expert Richard Clarke’s dire assessment. We can spend more and more money chasing down religious lunatics in the desert, … Continue reading →

“The more things change, the more they stay the same.” In the case of Facebook’s Timeline transition, businesses are finding out that can mean the opposite. So many businesses have bought heavily into Facebook for marketing and promotion. But the … Continue reading →

While the rest of the world’s economies struggled the past few years, it would appear that China’s was chugging along, growing dramatically as has become the expected norm. But looks, like the Chinese propaganda machine, are deceiving. The truth ultimately … Continue reading →

The premiere of “Mad Men” season five was about as predictable as I expected. Maybe not for a lot of people, especially those who did not live through the 1960s. For those who did grow up in the ’60s, “Mad … Continue reading →

Full disclosure: I shoot videos for Delcam. I’m not an expert in CNC and CADCAM but I know a lot of people who are. And the new roughing technologies from Delcam UK- Vortex and Machine DNA- promise to blow their … Continue reading →

Forget the latest “slut” utterance. Top-seed upset in the NCAAs? Who cares. The most shocking news of the week is that 51% of the traffic on the Internet is generated by automated software programs- in other words, not people. The … Continue reading →

The fallout of from an exiting Goldman Sachs manager’s bitter and vengeful resignation op-ed in the New York Times created a firestorm in the business world. But what does it say about human nature as a whole? Are we, as … Continue reading →