About: William Holstein

Companies such as IBM, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Oracle, Google and others have made billions of dollars by persuading their corporate customers to migrate their computing functions (meaning data as well as software on demand) to “the cloud.” The cloud allows the big IT providers to manage a company’s IT systems, either offsite or onsite […]…

Yahoo Pulls Out of China, Ending Tumultuous Two-Decade Relationship From the Wall Street Journal. Article behind paywall. It is the second well-known U.S. tech firm to downsize China operations in less than a month Yahoo’s departure was largely symbolic, as the company had already begun shutting down its main services in China in 2013. PHOTO: DAVID […]…

Is the U.S. military really just now waking up to the Chinese challenge as this AP article suggests? Xi Jinping has been working on this for years. What the article does not even mention: –The Chinese have deeply penetrated the Pentagon’s IT systems, stealing details about weapon systems and even uniforms. See my two books, The […]…

The Federal Communications Commission today gave China Telecom 60 days to shut down its operations in the United States. It acted because of an increasingly strong consensus in the U.S. that every Chinese company that touches American data is using it against the interests of the United States. It’s the same reason the Trump Administration […]…

China has just launched a hypersonic missle that orbited the Earth before plunging through the atmosphere toward a target. The fact that such a missle can essentially come straight down out of the sky renders our radar system useless. And the missile can shift course, making it further impossible to defend against. In effect, the […]…