Memo to web users with “Do Not Track” enabled: You’re being tracked anyway.
For anyone who thinks he or she is circumventing web tracking via enabling Do Not Track (DNT) functionality … think again. A recently released study from researchers at KU Leuven-iMinds, a Dutch-based...
View ArticleThe hybrid car sizzle is fast becoming the hybrid car fizzle.
Well, that sure didn’t last long. Hybrid autos: Already riding off into the sunset? News reports this week are stating that the market share of hybrid vehicles is now on the decline. That is correct:...
View ArticleGet Ready for Internet Sales Taxes
Are sales taxes finally coming to the Internet? After years of fruitless attempts, it would seem so. On July 15th, five senators introduced legislation on a bipartisan basis to make taxation of...
View ArticleThe “Snowden Effect”: The U.S. cloud computing industry is getting hammered.
I’ve blogged before about the fallout from the Edward Snowden affair and its effects on the U.S. cloud computing industry. In fact, back in the summer of 2013 I read an interesting thought piece...
View ArticleDoes Social Media Buzz Actually Win Elections?
Wes Green, one of the faithful readers of the Nones Notes Blog, posed a question as part of a comment on my recent post about the disconnect Gallup has observed between social media marketing promise...
View ArticleIn the U.S. Postal Service’s own words: “Letters are going away.”
Actually, the pronouncement isn’t really all that earth-shattering. But the fact that “letters are going away” has been stated by a spokesperson for the United States Postal Service speaks volumes. The...
View ArticleAmerica’s small businesses: Quite bullish on 2015 … but with no thanks to the...
Recent reports on economic activity appear to show a continuation of a rather wobbly recovery of the U.S. economy since coming out of the Great Recession. It’s a repeating pattern of one quarter of...
View ArticleGallup’s CEO Calls the Official U.S. Unemployment Rate a “Big Lie”
I’ve blogged before about how the American public doesn’t seem to be responding to the news that the country has been out of its economic recession for a number of years now. It’s not for lack of...
View ArticleThe Affordable Care Act: Still unpopular with physicians after all these years.
One of the predictions we’ve heard about the admittedly controversial Affordable Care Act is that acceptance of it will grow over time, as people become more familiar and comfortable with its...
View ArticleGallup’s Payroll-to-Population Rates Pinpoint the Go-Go Metro Areas
Commuters in New York City. The Gallup polling organization’s P2P measurements (payroll-to-population employment rates) are an interesting metric and add an extra dimension of understanding as to...
View ArticleState of the States: CNBC’s take on the best ones for business.
In CNBC’s recently published scorecard, don’t look to the Northeast or California to find the states that are best ones for business. L’Etoile du nord: Just as in its state motto “Star of the North,”...
View ArticleHave we become too complacent about cyber-security threats?
The scandal involving the security risk to U.S. State Department e-mails is just the latest in a long list of news items that are bringing the potential dangers of cyber-hacking into focus. But of...
View ArticleHow China’s economic woes will affect the United States: A view from East Asia.
It’s only natural for Americans to be somewhat spooked about what’s happening in the financial markets, what with thousand-point drops on the stock exchanges and all. It’s even more disconcerting to...
View ArticlePhishing Expeditions: How Effective Are They?
According to poll of consumers conducted for Google, more people are concerned about their identity being stolen or their accounts being hacked than someone breaking into their home. Clearly, people...
View ArticleChina’s controversial product supplier pledge: An “on the ground” view from...
The business world is abuzz about the latest moves by China to regulate the behavior of U.S. and other foreign companies that choose to do business in that country. What’s the real skinny? While much...
View ArticleIn the “right to be forgotten” battles, Google’s on the defensive again.
Suddenly, the conflict between Google and the European Union countries regarding the censoring of search results has taken on even wider worldwide proportions. This past week, the courts have upheld...
View ArticleAs the U.S. Postal Service girds for processing 15 billion pieces of mail...
Considering the many dire predictions about the perils of the out-of-date business model of the United States Postal Service, one might surmise that its very future is in doubt. But then we read the...
View ArticleThe Sanders/Trump phenomenon: A view from outside the United States.
This past Tuesday evening as I watched Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump vanquish their rivals handily in the New Hampshire presidential primary election, I received an e-mail from my brother, Nelson...
View ArticleSea change: Today, Americans are receiving their political news in vastly...
Where are Americans getting their political news in this very intensive Presidential election year? There’s no question that the season is turning out to be a news bonanza, beginning with the string of...
View ArticleOSHA names the Top 10 most frequent workplace violations — some of which may...
What hazards represent the biggest threats to employees at worksites across America? We all may have our own suspicions … but the federal government has been keeping records about them for years. In...
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