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- Churchill Club podcast: From Cell Phones to Software & Services: One-on-One with Nokia's CEO
- Rich Karlgaard, publisher of Forbes, sat down with Nokia President and CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo to discuss the mobile market. Kallasvuo has led the company for the past two years, but has held a variety of positions in his 28-year Nokia career, including heading its North American unit in the late...
- Tags: Software, Phone, Nokia Corp., Cell Phone, Kallasvuo, Smart Phones, Podcasts, Cellular Phones, Professional Development, Telecom & Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet, Career, masaokad
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Video: What's the difference between CIO and CTO?
- When you talk about IT leadership career tracks, the question that almost always comes up is, "What's the difference between the CIO and the CTO?" Though the two roles sound similar, there are some clear distinctions between them. This episode of Sanity Savers for IT Executives explains the differences in...
- Tags: Video, Difference, Professional Development, Leadership, Career, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- UK secret service recruiting on Facebook
- MI6, a branch of the UK's secret service, is using Facebook as part of a recent recruitment drive to find the "next generation of spies". by Steve O'Hear
- Tags: Facebook, Advertisement, Recruiting, U.K., MI6, Professional Development, Recruitment & Selection, Career, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Top site categories in Japan in June 2008
- Site Category May-2008 Jun-2008 % Change Total Internet 55,705 56,220 1 Health - Information 4,750 5,623 18 Financial Information/Advice 4,222 4,918 16 Retail - Movies 5,412 6,295 16 Career Services 10,203 11,818 16 Business to Business 2,528 2,893...
- Tags: Category, Professional Development, Internet, B2B, Career, E-business/E-Commerce, NB
- Blog posts 2008-09-23
- Ax Falling At EDS - HP
- 24,600 Folks to Get Their Papers When HP acquired EDS, you had to wonder whether they did it for the talented employees, the EDS data centers, the customer base or the outsourcing contracts. Mark Hurd's move this week pretty much says it wasn't for the...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mark Hurd, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Professional Development, Data Centers, Career, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-09-21
- Social networking enhances career growth -- only if used correctly
- Top three ways to use social networking tools to enhance your brand and your career -- and what pitfalls to avoid. by Jennifer Leggio
- Tags: Network, Mike Murray, Mike, Social Networking, Professional Development, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Career, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-09-15
- Edgar Degas Screensaver - 210 Paintings (exe)
- Edgar Degas Screensaver - 210 original images of the paintings spanning his career. One of the true founders of the impressionism movement, although he disliked the term and thought of himself as working in realism, his work actually traversed many artistic styles. His works display his mastery in the depiction...
- Tags: Movement, Images, Professional Development, Microsoft Office, Career, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2008-09-12
- Johannes Vermeer Screensaver - 60 Paintings (exe)
- Johannes Vermeer Screensaver - 60 images of the original paintings spanning his career. A Dutch Baroque painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of ordinary life. His entire life was spent in the town of Delft and was a moderately successful provincial painter. Virtually forgotten for nearly two hundred years,...
- Tags: Image, Professional Development, Microsoft Office, Career, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2008-09-12
- Don't bet big on green
- Green is big these days - but here's some good advice: if your project numbers are at all sensitive to downwards price change: keep on talking, but don't act until you're sure one way or the other. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Sensitivity, Professional Development, Operational Accounting, Career, Finance, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-09-11
- Fastest-growing Web categories in US in July, 2008
- Jun-08 Jul-08 % Change Total Internet : Total Audience 189,873 189,134 0 Travel - Ground/Cruise 11,484 12,663 10 Retail - Consumer Goods 20,795 22,455 8 Retail - Mall 26,123 28,068 7 Retail - Movies 25,251 26,985 7 ...
- Tags: Travel, Professional Development, Internet, Advertising & Promotion, Career, Marketing, NB
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- Early training sessions with my elementary teachers
- I've started training the elementary teachers, largely in our email and student information systems. Nothing sophisticated, but since these folks have largely been ignored for years in terms of computer training and professional development, baby steps seem like a good idea. Overall, the training has gone...
- Tags: Professional Development, Training, Teacher, E-mail, Training And Certification, Workforce Management, Online Communications, Human Resources, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- 10 ways to get maximum value from a professional development class
- If your company or you invests in training aimed at helping you become more capable and well-rounded, it only makes sense to get everything you can out of the class. Calvin Sun offers some practical tips to help maximize the benefits.This download is also available as an entry in our...
- Tags: Professional Development, Calvin Sun, Training And Certification
- Download resources 2008-09-04
- Best of Bowers: Top 10 career management blog posts
- Few bloggers can match Toni Bowers for stirring up interesting debates, raising tough questions, bringing attention to IT employment trends, putting ridiculous ideas in their place, and giving workplace issues a sardonic kick in the pants. Here are 10 career blog posts you don't want to miss.For more content like...
- Tags: Blog, Toni Bowers, Professional Development, Blogging, Career, Internet
- Download resources 2008-09-03
- Joe Biden loves RIAA, DRM; hates encryption, George Bush
- Does Joe Biden have more in common with Metallica's Lars Ulrich than Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg? CNET colleague Declan McCullagh has a superb analysis of Dem. vice presidential candidate Joe Biden, who has an interesting (read: depressing) voting history when it comes to tech issues. ...
- Tags: George W. Bush, Declan McCullagh, Digital-rights Management, Presidential Candidate, RIAA, Vice, Encryption, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Federal Government, Professional Development, Peer To Peer (P2P), Security, Government, Career, Internet, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- Ryan Block's last day as Engadget editor-in-chief ends with 1 year update on the state of Palm
- Ryan Block is ending his role as editor-in-chief at Engadget to pursue a new gadget site opportunity with long-time buddy Peter Rojas and I wish them both the best of luck and look forward to seeing what they come up with. As a fitting end to his role at Engadget,...
- Tags: Palm Inc., Engadget, Ryan Block, Smart Phones, Professional Development, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Keyboards, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Career, Hardware, Peripherals, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-08-23
- 11 Qualities of Successful IT Managers
- To succeed as an IT manager, and to advance your career into the executive sphere, you need some very specific traits--11 to be exact. From needs assessment to team building, read this TechRepublic guide for a description of the skills you need to be at the...
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., IT Manager, Team Management, Professional Development, Games, Management, Career, Personal Technology
- White papers 2008-08-20
- Data architects: You're "hot"
- Yes you are.Information and data architects and information security experts, here's some good news: You're the hottest. Fear not, data and content-oriented business analysts, business and enterprise architects and vendor management experts: You're extremely hot as well. Enterprise application strategists, IT planners, network architects and enterprise project...
- Tags: Role, Forrester Research Inc., Recruitment & Selection, Professional Development, Operational Planning, Training And Certification, Strategy, Security, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Career, Business Operations, Management, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Carnegie-Mellon freshman gets first Fedora scholarship
- Zhou is an active member of the Red Hat Fedora community, working on the group's web site and infrastructure. He has also worked on localizing the project Web site. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Carnegie-Mellon University, Red Hat Inc., Fedora Project, Scholarship, Zhou, Professional Development, Open Source, Web Site Development, Career, Internet, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Henri Rousseau Screensaver - 120 Paintings (exe)
- Henri Rousseau Screensaver - 120 paintings spanning his career. A major catalyst in the creation of the Naive or Primitive style during the post-impressionism era, his paintings express innocence, clarity, and color; while at the same time a subtle undertone and acceptance of the struggle and harshness inherant in being...
- Tags: Professional Development, Microsoft Office, Career, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2008-08-18
- Compete away, whether you live in California or not
- California may have just made it a lot easier for employees to overthrow their noncompete agreements, but the good news is that even if you live outside the Golden State, these clauses are difficult to enforce. by Deb Perelman
- Tags: california, lawyer, agreement, worker, professional development, career, deb perelman
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
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