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- Managing growth - a followup to yesterday's guest blog
- Yesterday, Dean Cycon of Dean's Beans wrote a guest blog for this column on "Starbucks' Dirty Little Secret". The blog is worthy of some followup, as well as some additional information that Dean shared with me about their corporate philosophy. Growth is good for a company,...
- Tags: Trader, Blog, Dean Cycon, X2 Development Corp., Strategy, Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Guest blog - A lesson in compassionate capitalism
- I've mentioned Dean's Beans a few times recently, probably because too many late nights of thesis-writing this summer have me fixated on caffeine. Regardless, Dean Cycon, the company owner and a local guy doing business a couple towns away from me here in central Massachusetts, offered to write a...
- Tags: Blog, Starbucks Corp., Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Photos: Great Red Spot eats 'Baby'
- A recently discovered hurricane-like storm on Jupiter's surface, called Baby Red Spot, was sucked up by the Great Red Spot. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Hurricane, Photograph, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-07-21
- Google shares more of its secret sauce: Protocol buffers
- It's a common problem in computer science: how do you get data from one part of your program to another part? What if the two parts were written by different people, at different times, in different languages, on different machines? Search giant Google has to deal with this issue all...
- Tags: Google Inc., RPC, XML, Programming Languages, Storage, Networking, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development, Hardware, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Photos: Engineering New Orleans, post-Katrina
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is putting a great deal of money and effort into new hurricane protection systems that it hopes can reduce the risk of catastrophic flooding in the future. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Photograph, Strategy, Management, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-07-03
- Part 2: Green tech and corporate ethics
- Just following up my post from yesterday about a new consulting service from IBM designed to examine the ethical weight of green technology practices. There's another white paper on the Web site for business process management software vendor Metastorm about the impact that surprise rethinking the way...
- Tags: Business Process, Metastorm, Green Technology, Ethics, Operational Planning, Business Ethics, Business Process Automation, Business Operations, Leadership, Management, It Operations, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- How long ago did we begin to disagree about global warming?
- How long ago did we begin to disagree about global warming?It took Mother Nature...millions of years to lock up the carbon into fossil fuels that we have managed to release in a hundred.Nature can not fix it as fast as we are polluting it. That is the issue. Take a...
- Tags: global warming, carbon dioxide
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- Cable: Act, Don't React
- Cable: Act, Don't React21-Hour coincidence?Isn't it amazing that the outage "happens" to get fixed just before the 24-hour point? After 24 hours, they would be stuck to give refunds, but it was fixed "just in time."Amazing.I've been through it many times.I dont quite understand what you mean here..."[i]If this household...
- Tags: INTERNET, Network technology, Telecom & Utilities, TV & Home Theater, TVs, Charter Cable, cable, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-06-13
- Calling out lawyers on their own FUD
- Calling out lawyers on their own FUDReally?"Walsh’s claim that before these suits open source offered only a “philosophical dispute” is false. Copyright law has always been at the heart of open source."Really?Copyright law and the GPL are based on the concept of a "derivative work." What EXACTLY is a...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, derivative-work
- Discussion threads 2008-06-10
- Wirelessly networking cows
- U.S. researchers have developed a Walkman-like headset for cows. This device enables them to 'whisper wireless commands to cows to control their movements across a landscape -- and even remotely gather them into a corral.' In fact, it could help farmers to maintain cows behind virtual fences. According to the...
- Tags: Animal, Network, Cow, GPS, Handhelds, Productivity, Network Technology, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Networking, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-06-08
- Leaked Pentagon doc slams Lockheed
- Leaked Pentagon doc slams Lockheedwill it make any difference?Is this going to make any difference as faras Lockheed's ability to get contracts?How many of the Hurricane Katrina relief effortvendors are still doing business with FEMA andother agencies?EVMS sucks...I want you to think long and hard about EVMS for a minute...first...
- Tags: Lockheed Martin Corp., EVMS, Pentagon
- Discussion threads 2008-06-05
- NASA IG: Scientists were muzzled
- NASA IG: Scientists were muzzledI don't think so!If this administration is writting his pay check, than they can control what the researcher is doing and saying.As for global warming, it seems to be limited to glaciers in the mountains and at the poles. The temperature did not changed much in...
- Tags: Workforce management, NASA, administration, NASA IG
- Discussion threads 2008-06-03
- Dan Geer leaves Verdasys for In-Q-Tel
- Dan Geer, a risk-management pioneer who is often described as "the dean of the security deep-thinkers' set," has left Verdasys to join In-Q-Tel as chief information security officer. Geer left will remain on the masthead at Verdasys as Chief Scientist Emeritus. At In-Q-Tel, he will report directly...
- Tags: Information Security, Verdasys Inc., In-Q-Tel, Kerberos, Venture Capital, Security, Finance, Financing Startups, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- Microsoft increases Be Well prize fund by 50%
- Microsoft has bumped the Be Well fund meant to jump-start HealthVault applications by 50%, to $4.5 million. It also named its judging panel. Most are names well-known only in the computing or medical industries, like Google-ex Adam Bosworth, longevity guru Mark Liponis, and medical dean Valerie Montgomery...
- Tags: Panel, Microsoft Corp., Newt, Productivity, Strategy, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- The panelist's nightmare
- The panelist's nightmareTuxedo and brown shoesThat pretty much sucks. What was that old "Lonesome George" Gobel quip to Johnny Carson from years back, after following Bob Hope and Dean Martin on the Tonight Show: "Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a...
- Tags: Federal government, Larry Lessig, FCC, panelist
- Discussion threads 2008-05-22
- The Folks at NTR say it's a small, but crucial, step from software to landscape
- I spoke with two execs at NTR recently, and they were talking software, of course. But they were really talking about the planet, energy conservation and taking some action. Now. Not waiting. Not expecting a magic fix. NTR, based in Barcelona, is a...
- Tags: Software, NTR Global, Tree, Harsch, Tools & Techniques, Telecommuting, Strategy, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- Survivor Buddy, a friendly robot rescuer
- The St. Petersburg Times, Florida, reports that a well-known robot designer, Robin Murphy, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of South Florida USF, 'plans to add a heart to robot rescuers.' As says USF, the goal is to develop 'a robot that will be a companion...
- Tags: Details, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-17
- Where is the money going in health care, and why?
- I stumbled today upon an ADVANCE 2008 investment outlook for health care, and decided you might like me to hit some of the high points. The piece is written by James Brennan right, managing director of VirtualCDO, a medical merger outfit whose Web page describes him as the...
- Tags: Patient, Hospital, Health Care, James Brennan, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, E-health, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Images: Satellites follow killer cyclone
- Satellite images from NASA track a cyclone and the flooding it caused--which may end up killing over 100,000 residents of Myanmar formerly Burma.The government of Myanmar formerly known as Burma has reported that over 22,000 people have died so far, due to the effects of Tropical Cyclone Nargis which hit...
- Tags: Myanmar, Satellite, Image, Government, Network Technology, Networking, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-05-09
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