Nov 19, 2009
How to build a (strong) virtual team This article written by Anne Fisher is about IBM’s experience building a virtual team. They have found that 90% of workers in the U.S. work somewhere away from their company’s headquarters and 84% work in locations other than where their bosses work. We are becoming an [...]
Nov 12, 2009
IBM Draws criticism for job cuts, outsourcing IBM is in trouble with many people for their plan of and actually through with outsourcing many jobs to India. As they seek stimulus money for “projects updating power grids, creating electronic health care records and furthering the use of broadband”, they also are cutting jobs for [...]
Nov 6, 2009
I read an article entitled Modern medicine: How tech will transform healthcare delivery. It was talking about how technology like mobile devices and new wireless networks will change the way that we do medicine. The term ‘mHealth’ is used to describe how mobile health systems can help healthcare providers take care of their [...]
Oct 29, 2009
In his 1998 article entitled Is This Job Really Necessary? , Thomas Stewart discusses the role of a chief knowledge officer (CKO) 11 years before today. He examines to see if the role is actually necessary and what it actually is. He states that a CKO has two parts to his or her job: collection [...]
Oct 29, 2009
Elizabeth Landau’s article entitled Therapy online: Good as face to face? delves into the world of psychotherapy using artifical intelligence. She explains how it was started in the 1960′s with a computer program called ELIZA that was designed to actually mimic an actual therapist. It would ask questions and respond the way an actual therapist [...]
Oct 29, 2009
The Fortune Brainstorm Tech area of CNNMoney.com published an article entitled Meet “the world’s most annoying Web site”. It is about the social networking site Tagged.com. The article highlights how New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo plans to sue this social networking site for false advertising, deceptive business, and identity theft. Tagged.com is much like [...]
Oct 29, 2009
Hackers Like Christmas Best of All Robert McMillan’s 2009 article entitled Hackers Like Christmas Best of All is an article about hackers favorite time to hack into corporate networks. The article explains how many people think that summer (the time when the security guy might be on vacation) is the ideal time for hackers to [...]
Oct 29, 2009
Twitter message could be cyber criminal at work Kevin Voigt’s June 22 article entitled Twitter message could be cyber criminal at work is basically about the evolution of cyber criminals. With Twitter being one of the latest popular technologies, it is only fitting that criminals would take advantage of it. They set up links to [...]
Oct 29, 2009
Virginia Tech families win $11 million settlement from state A judge in Virginia ruled that $11 million would go to the families of those injured or killed in last year’s Virginia Tech shootings. In the settlement are the families of 24 killed and 18 injured. Compensation also extends to include the opportunity to meet with [...]
Oct 29, 2009
4G Hype: Time for a reality check Stephanie Mehta’s article entitled 4G Hype: Time for a reality check written for CNNMoney.com is about the hype of the new 4G networks being advertised. It starts out by talking about how Verizon Wireless has gotten back data on the development of a 4G network. It is a [...]
Oct 29, 2009
Making electric cars smarter Stephanie Mehta’s article entitled Making electric cars smarter is about a man named Shai Agassi that founded a company called Better Place. It is a company that is building a network of charging and battery-switch stations for electric cars. Agassi’s former job was a software engineer for a company called SAP. [...]
Oct 29, 2009
Steve McKee’s article entitled How to Generate Real Customer Loyalty is basically an article on five tips or principles to generating customer loyalty. The first principle that he talks about is roots of loyalty. If you serve your customers well and give them what they want in an “old fashioned” way, they will be [...]
