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How we manage people has changed forever and we need to take a good look at what we’re going to do about it. I’ll be asking for your input because, heaven knows, if we wait for others to come up with solutions, we’ll be in for a world of hurt.
Managing a team may be as [...]
October 28th, 2009 | Posted in Project Management & Research | 3 Comments
How many times have you said, “I wish I knew then what I know now”? Many a project manager has had the same thought. We asked the managers behind big ventures, including the development of the battery for General Motors’ Chevy Volt, Facebook’s home page redesigns, and Method’s growing line of green cleaning products, for [...]
October 28th, 2009 | Posted in Project Management & Research, Social and Neworking | No Comments
By official definition, a project manager is a professional who plans, organizes, directs, and controls company resources to complete specific objectives.
Hey, wait a minute. That’s your job — but no one has ever called you a project manager. More to the point, no one has ever trained you to work like a project manager. They [...]
October 26th, 2009 | Posted in Project Management & Research | No Comments
[STICKY POST] The Apple iPhone 4G
• 80GB or 120GB flash drive
• Widescreen 1540-by-480-pixel resolution at 163 ppi
• Camera with 8.0 megapixels
• Adobe Flash Player
• Video recording (pre 3.0 release bogus feature)
• Text editing with copy/paste (pre 3.0 release bogus feature)
• MMS messaging (pre 3.0 release bogus feature)
• Spa massaging (post 3.0 release bogus feature) - [...]
October 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Communication and Mobility | 3 Comments
Windows 7 is now for sale around the world. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is officially kicking off the Windows 7 launch at an event in New York City. Microsoft’s partners will be unveiling new hardware and OEMs are now no longer recommending Vista to consumers and are switching their default choice to Windows 7. Today [...]
October 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Latest News, Shopping and Monetization, Softwares and Applications | No Comments
It’s been an eventful day: among all the breaking news about Microsoft signing a search deal with Facebook and Twitter, Google doing the same with Twitter and later announcing social search, one can easily forget that today is the day that Vista gets replaced by something better: Windows 7.
As we wrote earlier, the interest for [...]
October 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Latest News, Shopping and Monetization, Softwares and Applications | No Comments
Source: DisplaySearch 2009 Touch Panel Market Analysis
Thanks to the success of the iPhone, touchscreen technology will see explosive growth in the next few years.
The touchsreen market will nearly triple in the next few years, growing from $3.6 billion now to $9 billion in 2015, predicts a new report by market research firm DisplaySearch.
“With the [...]
October 22nd, 2009 | Posted in Communication and Mobility, Project Management & Research, Softwares and Applications, Valuation and Statistics | No Comments
This rumor simply has to be taken with a grain of salt, but word has it that Verizon and Apple are testing a version of the iPhone on Verizon’s upcoming 4G LTE network.
For those unfamiliar with the landscape, 4G is essentially the next-generation of cellular networks, designed to carry data and increase the speed and [...]
October 22nd, 2009 | Posted in Communication and Mobility, Latest News, Social and Neworking | No Comments
The Wall Street Journal reports that the Walt Disney Company is close to unveiling new technology to allow entertainment companies to distribute media to consumers using computers and cell phones, rather than on DVD and television.
The technology is code-named Keychest and sounds like its the for-pay web service that Disney CEO Bob Iger announced back [...]
October 22nd, 2009 | Posted in Latest News, Music and Videos | No Comments
Microsoft’s latest effort to gain relevance in the search wars is about to get a whole lot more interesting.
According to All Things Digital, the company is set to announce deals with both Twitter and Facebook (Facebook) to integrate status updates into its Bing (Bing) search engine.
Details are expected to be announced later today at the [...]
October 22nd, 2009 | Posted in Advertising & Online Media, Communication and Mobility, Latest News, Social and Neworking, Web and Search | No Comments