United States' FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has led a vote to repeal the Open Internet Order, effectively killing net neutrality rules. While not officially complete, US advocacy groups are already well underway for the battle to defend the neutral internet once it's put down.

In the end it's about trust and perceived fairness.

It's pretty cool when Forbes agrees with something we've been saying for years.

In yet another case of features of convenience creating spin-off consequences, we now have money e-transfer "auto deposits" in question. Instead of enhanced security for customers, this actually opens up vulnerabilities that aren't very hard to spot whether your intentions are good or bad.

UPDATED: 2020 Oct 29

In the fight to combat the spread of COVID-19, governments throughout the world have been considering the use of digital contact-tracing apps. Contact-tracing apps seek to interrupt the onward transmission of the coronavirus by identifying and notifying recent contacts of an infected person in an anonymous fashion. Privacy issues have been central to the considerations of how such technology should be implemented to achieve this important public health objective with the least impact on the privacy of individuals.

There is no "Small" and "Large" business anymore in your customer's mind. You're just "there", or better…

Apple just shot across the bow of marketers. But did anybody notice?

The first, in a series of discussions on automation's place in workflow and its ever-evolving effect on business culture and innovation.

The Internet Was Supposed to be Decentralized and Resilient. So why all these Massive Outages?

It has been put-on-your-gloves scrap time for so many businesses in so many sectors.  The COVID-19 pandemic has forced an urgent soul-searching re-examination of how to connect with customers, how to deliver our products and services to customers, and also who our customers are now, and what, exactly we are even offering to them.

It's already started. The research was easy to see. Businesses with established and matured digital platforms, workflows, and cultures underpinning their businesses are in a place where they can continue operating, profiting, and generally keeping the lights on. Those that have not cultured their digital platforms and teams are in a place many can relate these days: disrupted or non-existent sales and sales-fulfillment processes that are separated from main marketing initiatives.

It's already started. The research was easy to see. Businesses with established and matured digital platforms, workflows, and cultures underpinning their businesses are in a place where they can continue operating, profiting, and generally keeping the lights on. Those that have not cultured their digital platforms and teams are in a place many can relate these days: disrupted or non-existent sales and sales-fulfillment processes that are separated from main marketing initiatives

As with all things business, Data Migration must be valued by all the standard benchmarks of productivity, business analysis, reporting, trends, and opportunity.

Imagine you have a warehouse. It has one front door for staff and customers and one loading bay in the back. You have a security company that rotates two security personnel to walk around the perimeter of the warehouse every hour and go inside the building to monitor the security system, cameras, and alarms.

In recent months it's come to our attention some of the various digital businesses we've come into contact with, worked with or had some level of dicussion or exposure to their business. And of these businesses one thing has stuck out; businesses that shy away from engaging a global customer base eventually shrink or wither away.