This is straight out of Ripley’s Believe it or Not.

Remember those clowns in the U.S. intelligence services who failed to see the 9/11 attack coming but managed to see non-existent weapons of mass destruction.

Yes, those dodos now want to launch an internal communication tool called A-Space modelled on the popular social networking sites MySpace and Facebook. 

No, we swear we are not making this up.

We got this from the Financial Times.

Thomas Fingar, the deputy director of national intelligence for analysis, believes the common workspace – a kind of “MySpace for analysts” – will generate better analysis by breaking down firewalls across the traditionally stove-piped intelligence community. He says the technology can also help process increasing amounts of information where the number of analysts is limited.
“Burying the same number of analysts in ever higher piles of hay would no more increase the number of needles,” says Mr Fingar.

The FT story says that the Director of National Intelligence will open the site to the spooks in Continue Reading…

Following in the footsteps of its larger rival TCS, Indian IT services provider Infosys has crossed the U.S. border to set up its first Latin American subsidiary in Monterrey, Mexico as part of its nearshoring strategy.

The Mexican subsidiary, which includes a development center, will let Infosys provide services in time zones that are more convenient to its large clients in North America, Latin America and Europe.

Infosys Technologies S. De RL De CV - the Mexican subsidiary - is supposed to provide the full range of business consulting and IT services in all industries including banking, financial services, retail, consumer packaged goods, resource, energy and utilities.

Infosys said the Mexican unit would provide Continue Reading…