At Crooked Timber, Clay Shirky wonders: in the wake of the "Twitter revolutions," do our tools have agency?
Travelocity's campaign, its third since 1999 by the Richards Group of Dallas, focuses on the many tools the agency offers to help travelers plan their trips.
After wasting hundreds of millions of dollars on failed modernization projects that would have replaced the basic air traffic tools, the agency is having more success with its Free Flight strategy, which uses stand-alone systems that represent more manageable technological leaps.
The trove released by Spiegel shows the specific tools the agency used to go about this.
Dubbed "Vault 7, Year Zero," the 8,761 leaked documents show the range of hacking tools the agency uses to spy on targets.
The U.S. intelligence community is scrambling to find the source of the massive leak of classified CIA documents, which lay out, in detail, the tools the agency uses to conduct covert monitoring of electronic devices — everything from iPhones to smart televisions.
We are also providing technology tools so agencies can find the right small-business vendor to meet their particular need, and putting more S.B.A. people on site with federal contractors.
The software so excited C.I.A. officials that, for a few months at least, it was considered "the most important, most sensitive" intelligence tool the agency had, according to a former agency official, who like several others would speak only on the condition of anonymity because the technology was classified.
The second wave consisted of social publishing tools and agencies like Buddy Media and Vitrue, which were "acquired en masse".
A simple search of Techmeme reminds us that confused marketers are searching for tools mot agencies and Teradata bought marketing automation software company aprimo for $525 million.
