Category Archives: Technology and innovation

Do Not Even Consider Using the Voice Over Internet Service Vonage

Vonage deserves to die as a business for what they have put me through.

Election-Rigging, CalPERS-Style: How Voting by Phone Was Designed to Favor Incumbent, Suppress Support for Challenger

CalPERS not only looks to have tried to throw the phone voting in a runoff election last year in favor of the incumbent, but it is acting awfully guilty by refusing to cough up records and data.

Airbnb Turns to Brussels for Help as Anti-Tourist Backlash Intensifies in Europe

Airbnb is on the run in Europe and desperate to find allies.

#TSBFail: MPs Barely Lay a Glove on CEO Pester, Who Discredits Himself All on His Own

Even with a mere wet-noodle lashing by MPs, TSB came off pretty badly in Parliament.

California Supreme Court Ruling Delivers Big Blow to Gig Economy Companies

Many gig economy firms will have to classify a big swathe of their workers as employees or radically change their business models.

Universal Basic Income and Minimum Wages: Progressive or Regressive?

How plans for a universal basic income differ, and what that means in terms of probable results.

TSB Are Using Their Own Customers to Alpha Test Their New IT Platform

The mess at TSB is even worse that the press would have you believe.

TSB’s IT Fiasco and Some Implications for Banks’ Legacy Systems

A hard look at the continuing IT disaster at UK bank TSB.

TSB Train Wreck: Massive Bank IT Failure Going into Fifth Day; Customers Locked Out of Accounts, Getting Into Other People’s Accounts, Getting Bogus Data

An epic IT disaster at the UK’s TSB illustrates how fragile banking systems are.

Disruptive Finance Huffing and Puffing Won’t Blow Big Bank Houses Down

Why newfangled finance will not have much impact on the banking industry.

Facebook, Privacy, and the Use of Data

The US press and punditry has been tip-toeing around the real problem with Facebook: that it has monopoly power.

The Curious Case of the F-35

Hilarious examples of the F-35 program’s ongoing difficulties, and imperialism vs. militarism as an appropriate frame.

Monopoly Capitalism: At The Breaking Point?

Michael Hudson discusses monopoly capitalism on the Laura Flanders show.

Remote-Controlled Self-Driving Cars: Unworkable Technology for Unproven Technology

Debunking a scheme to reduce the risk of self-driving cars: remote control operators.

Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Fourteen: The New Yorker Lays Out the Template for Pro-Uber Propaganda

Dissecting the New Yorker’s fawning profile of new Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi.