Uk.businessinsider. The Event Enabled Enterprise. The Riptide of Titstare. This Is How a Router Really Works. The evolution of the Internet is one of the biggest game changers in the way we interact with technology today.
As we’ve moved from the highly primitive ARPANet to America Online to browsing and streaming from a highly sophisticated wireless network, it’s hard to imagine life without going online. You can thank the router for that. Yes, that little box with all those ports that you plug into the wall is actually the magical gateway for all of your devices to connect simultaneously to the Internet. Without it, you wouldn’t be able to click through your beloved GIFs of cats, stream Netflix or even connect to Google.
Have you ever wondered how it really works? The Hardware. Will Software Eliminate Physical Retail? Not Quite. What Would You REALLY Ask a CEO? Many CIOs moving beyond IT: Survey. 7 Tips For Writing A Great LinkedIn Invitation. A Shape-Shifting Smartphone Touch Screen. Tactus Technology, a startup in Fremont, California, is prototyping touch-screen hardware with buttons that emerge when you need the feel of a physical keyboard and disappear when you don’t.
The approach, in which a fluid-filled plastic panel and cylindrical fluid reservoir replace the usual top layer of glass, is among a crop of emerging technologies aimed at adding tactile feedback to make screens feel like old-fashioned keyboards. Touch screens are ubiquitous: in 2012, 1.2 billion were made for smartphones and 130 million for tablets, and they’re showing up in everything from game consoles to car navigation interfaces. But typing on them can be difficult. Tactus is trying to solve that problem. Google Gains From Creating Apps for the Opposition.
Managers are for Efficiency, Leaders are for Innovation. Time was, back when the railroads were built, that the military was basically the only management structure that was large, distributed and relatively effective.
So the railroads and other rapidly expanding businesses adopted the military’s top down, command and control management philosophies. This was actually a driver for industrial growth, since many corporations were forming and needed a structure to allow them to grow, to expand and to control operations. The top down command and control organization wasn’t especially fast at making decisions, but was good at implementing the desires of the senior executives and good at repetitive work. This structure was especially valuable when few people had much education, but could be taught relatively simple operations on a production line. Fast forward to today, and the top down, command and control organization is rapidly becoming a thing of the past. Digital Activist Aaron Swartz Dead At 26. Digital activist and early employee at Reddit, Aaron Swartz, committed suicide in New York on January 11.
He was 26. Swartz was a fiery proponent of Internet freedom and the founder of DemandProgress.org. He was a co-creator of the RSS 1.0 standard and was a co-founder at Reddit. Why aren’t more business leaders online? Business Strategy Tools and Techniques from MindTools. Stabilization Won’t Save Us. Tetradian Books » Blog Archive » Power and Response-ability. Published: July 2008 Suggested price: £25.00 Preview: see: Buy print edition from:
32 Ideas for IT innovation. Which Best Practice Is Ruining Your Business? - Freek Vermeulen. By Freek Vermeulen | 11:00 AM December 3, 2012 For many decades, newspapers were big; printed on the so-called broadsheet format.
However, it was not cheaper to print on such large sheets of paper — that was not the reason for their exorbitant size — in fact, it was more expensive, in comparison to the so-called tabloid size. So why did newspaper companies insist on printing the news on such impractical, large sheets of paper? Why not print it on smaller paper?
Newspaper companies, en masse, assumed that “customers would not want it;” “quality newspapers are broadsheet.” Buys Eloqua. Redwood Shores, Calif. – December 20, 2012 Oracle today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Eloqua, Inc.
(NASDAQ: ELOQ), a leading provider of cloud-based marketing automation and revenue performance management software for $23.50 per share or approximately $871 million, net of Eloqua’s cash. Eloqua’s modern marketing cloud delivers best-in-class capabilities to ensure every component of marketing works harder and more efficiently to drive revenue. The combination of Oracle and Eloqua is expected to create a comprehensive Customer Experience Cloud offering to help companies transform the way they market, sell, support and serve their customers. The combined offering is expected to enable organizations to provide a highly personalized and unified experience across channels, create brand loyalty through social and online interactions, grow revenue by driving more qualified leads to sales teams, and provide superior service at every touchpoint. Here is how cloud computing, big data, and some innovation can reinvent healthcare. I’m often taking aback by the lack of automation and underutilization of information assets in the world of healthcare.
Over the years, so much effort went into dealing with compliance and privacy issues that the core thrust of why the healthcare systems exist seems to be lost in the mix. The future of LinkedIn and the economic graph.