The United States woke up on January 1, 1984 to discover that its telephones worked just as they had the day before. But AT&T started the day a new company. Of the $149.5 billion in assets it had the day before, it retained $34 billion. Of its 1,009,000 employees it retained 373,000. Gone even was
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In my previous post \”The Damage is Irreversible – Closed Captioning\” I relay the position I found myself in after my post on The MGM Grand Opening. The other part of that story has to do with the communication with the tech company in trying to resolve the issue. The tech company believes sending a
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What started as a routine location shoot to cover the Grand Opening of the MGM at National Harbor has turned into a two-year nightmare against one of America’s top technology leaders. The fact that I might be subjected to deleting my body of works because of a strategic assassination of my character is deplorable. Out
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It was a grandiose occasion at the Rayburn Building to welcome the biggest data collectors in America\’s history to share some insightful information on consumer data use. Not sure if Sundar Pichai, Google\’s CEO arrived by autonomous driving vehicle or plane, but the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee was ready to hear what Google has
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The Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2018 in Orlando, Florida last week was like a petri dish to understanding a number of emerging technologies. Blockchain, robotic process automation (RPA), and edge computing to name a few. If you\’re not familiar with these terms now, you will be in the coming years. These technologies will change the way we
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In today\’s \”look at me\”, \”I need to be seen\” world it\’s easy to get trapped in the noise around us. Sometimes we have to stop and listen. There\’s a lot that can be learned in 30 minutes or less. It can come from the news, people around you, industry experts, or any number of
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Is there a reasonable way to adjusting your privacy settings in your smart phone? Sort of similar to the automatically unreasonable censorship standards on social media lately? Suppose Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) wouldn\’t have been subject to giving a scenario for America\’s Tech Giants to explain during the \”Examining Safeguards for Consumer Data Privacy,\” hearing. The
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The 21st century can be classified as the \”Technology Industrial Revolution Era,\” with data being the market\’s driving force. Companies leading the driving force must now generate a starting point from which to shape laws designed to protecting consumer\’s privacy. The Dirksen Senate Office Building was where the hearing \”Examining Safeguards for Consumer Data Privacy,\”
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What\’s the one word which is always talked about in some aspect every day, and people can\’t get enough? It also requires multiple updates, and apps to function? Technology. That\’s right! Not too bad, except when the device battery your operating loses charge. Technology is changing the world around us and our dependency has
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is a growing technology drawing a lot of attention and investment from the major tech giants. Much like the race to space, mastering AI is a multibillion-dollar industry. All the usual tech giant suspects; Alphabet, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, etc., are all major players in this technology. Mastering A.I. it is
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