2012 will be a big year for TV, voice recognition and Amazon.com.

Strategic News Service publisher Mark Anderson has issued his list of top 10 technology predictions for 2012.  He shares some of the highlights on The Digital Future with KPLU’s Dave Meyer.

Listen to the interview here and read the full set of predictions here.

Let’s hear from two fellows who are unabashed capitalists and acolytes of Adam Smith… just like Warren Buffett and Bill Gates (and me!)… starting with one of the world’s top/respected pundits on technology industry, Mark Anderson, CEO of the Strategic News Service:

“For me, there is no more poignant example of the Bush 9.11 era, and the need to get beyond it now. Like two slides, I picture, first: an army of soldiers surrounding bin Laden in the mountains of Tora Bora, and then being ordered by Team Bush to wait until the locals can get there and participate, at which point the enemy has escaped.

“I compare that slide to the story of this year: after a year in secret investigation and preparation, Team Obama finds a likely target compound in Pakistan, orders in Seal Team Six via stealth choppers, uses overwhelming force, and shoots to kill. DNA samples are taken to confirm ID, and the body is dumped ignominiously in the ocean, with no propaganda pics for the enemy, and no burial process or site to rally round.” What a difference.  And yet, which man is called a “wimp”?”

(I will soon put up an essay appraising the different ways that democrats and republicans use military might and wage war.  You’ll be astonished by how stark it is, like night and day. Almost like two different species.)

Read the complete post at Contrary Brin

It’s official: China and Russia are the two biggest sources of cyber espionage attacks against the United States.

The Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive singled out those two nations in a recent report to Congress (coincidentally, it’s been difficult to reach the counterintelligence website since the report came out and those links may not work).

Our technology commentator, Strategic News Service publisher Mark Anderson, has been warning about this threat for several years. Although the news is no surprise, Mark thinks the official acknowledgement will encourage governments and corporations to more closely guard their secrets.

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Strategic News Service publisher Mark Anderson is predicting the technology sector will end the year on a relatively high note. But, as he tells KPLU’s Dave Meyer on The Digital Future, he’s worried about the first quarter of 2012.

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Microsoft is appealing a $1.3 billion fine from European antitrust regulators. But its antitrust worries in the United States appear to be over. The consent decree with the US Justice Department expired May 11th. A lot has changed since Microsoft crushed Netscape in the browser wars of the 1990s. This month on The Digital Future, Strategic News Service publisher Mark Anderson says Microsoft has transformed itself into a much better corporate citizen.

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There’s no end in sight to Japan’s nuclear crisis. More radioactive water is leaking from Japan’s crippled nuclear complex, and traces of plutonium have been detected in soil outside the plant. Tokyo Electric Power says the amount is small and isn’t a danger to public health.

Our technology commentator, Strategic News Service publisher Mark Anderson, is keeping a close eye on the situation in Japan. He tells KPLU’s Dave Meyer it’s like watching a train wreck in slow motion, and this crisis is a major setback for the future of nuclear power.

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Mark Anderson, noted technology visionary, will present the Whatcom County business and technology audience his view of what’s to come.

The presentation begins at noon on Friday, Jan. 21 at Syre Auditorium at Whatcom Community College.

Anderson has a weekly newsletter, Strategic News Service and is regularly interviewed on CNN, NPR, the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Wall Street Review and the New York Times. He writes the “Future In Review” technology column for Fortune magazine, and chairs the annual FiRE Conference and SNS Project Inkwell.

Read more: http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2011/01/10/1809486/futurist-mark-anderson-to-present.html

The presentation is put together by the Technology Alliance Group of Northwest Washington.

By Jenny Lee, Strategic News Service

Over 130 leaders in the fields of computer and Internet technology, telecommunications, policy, and marine sciences gathered at the Fairmont Hotel in Seattle for the 2nd FiReGlobal : West Coast conference on November 11, 2010, produced by Strategic News Service (SNS) and designed to reach across disciplines to encourage technology-based solutions to a range of economic and social issues. SNS founder Mark Anderson, a highly respected prognosticator and opinion leader in the computer and technology industries, was the host and chairman of the one-day event. The conference featured Oracle president Mark Hurd, who took the stage as the subject of a Conversation Centerpiece interview in his first external speaking engagement since joining Oracle.

After leaving Hewlett-Packard, Hurd described receiving many offers from companies that needed turnaround assistance. However, he chose to join Oracle because of its strong strategic position, and based upon the company’s “abundant intellectual property.”

“We just don’t want to be compared to anybody,” said Hurd. Oracle will have spent over $4 billion in research and development this year, driven by CEO Larry Ellison. Hurd told the FiReGlobal audience that the “industry is all about IP [intellectual property],” and that he foresees Oracle using its extensive IP to provide homogenous solutions that serve various markets. In particular, there will be an emphasis on applications and a transition back to vertical integration of software, hardware, operating systems, and applications.

“I don’t know what it means,” Hurd replied when asked about hype surrounding “the cloud.” “I have nothing against the word ‘cloud’,” he added, but pointed to using the term with caution because it could mean any number of things. While many companies express concern for the hardware and software utilized in their own supply chain networks, they often do not ask the same questions about cloud services. “When we talk about some issue or some opportunity, people tend to insert the word ‘cloud,’ and that’s going to be the answer to whatever question — or it’s magic. Somewhere in this cloud is
hardware, software, and intellectual property, and it has to come from somewhere to somewhere else; basically someone else is doing it.”

“I think Larry Ellison and Mark Hurd working together have the opportunity to be one of the legendary management teams in technology history,” Anderson said later. He expects Oracle to have a breakout year in 2011.

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What’s the best way to attract more high-tech companies to the Northwest? That’s one of the key questions being raised at next month’s FiReGlobal conference in Seattle. Strategic News Service publisher (and KPLU commentator) Mark Anderson is hosting the technology conference. He spoke with KPLU’s Dave Meyer.

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KPLU’s technology commentator, Mark Anderson [of Strategic News Service], has just returned from Down Under, where he took part in the Australian American Leadership Dialogue, and met with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. Mark tells KPLU’s Dave Meyer that Australia’s economy is healthy, and the country is about to pull ahead of the US on the Internet.

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