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- Churchill Club podcast: Irrational decisions and the rational people who make them
- Renowned organizational thinker Ori Brafman and his brother, psychologist Rom Brafman, say that anyone--under the right set of circumstances--is capable of irrational action. But irrational behavior is not random. In conversation with Guy Kawasaki--one of the Club's most popular moderators--the authors of, Sway: The Irresistible Pull of...
- Tags: Decision, Podcasts, Strategy, Internet, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- The curse of the BlackBerry
- The curse of the BlackBerryLabor law separates between hourly and professional workersProfessionals have always been "allowed" to work more hours than they are paid. This is only an issue when the employee is in a wage-grade position (employer can not allow or ignore unpaid labor by someone in a...
- Tags: Handhelds, RIM BlackBerry, curse
- Discussion threads 2008-07-29
- Why your text messages are not private
- Why your text messages are not privatesolutionAll new text messaging clients should just use 128 bit encryption by default. Then there would be no legal battles to fight from either side.If text messaging application providers would as a standard use 128 bit encryption for login/password validation and for the...
- Tags: E-mail, Network technology, Google Inc., licence
- Discussion threads 2008-06-30
- The Steve Jobs Standard
- The Steve Jobs StandardWell saidIn a world of greed, that last sentence was a breath of fresh air.Amen, Tom ntntThe unsung hero of AppleJohnathan Ive.An Apple product develops something like this:Jobs to Ive: Give me something sexy.Ive: Here you go.Jobs: Awesome.Gee - Maybe he should be a SaintNo doubt Steve...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Ive
- Discussion threads 2008-06-30
- Dumbing down our math tests?
- The BBC is reporting on a trend in UK standardized math tests towards "easier, shallower and less demanding" examinations. Here in Massachusetts, I was working with our school psychologist to identify new interventions for special education students based on their standardized test scores. However, as she pointed out,...
- Tags: Massachusetts, Test, Quality, Business Operations, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- Microsoft is hellbent on bringing touch to you
- Microsoft is hellbent on bringing touch to youMicrosoft's thinking:"Well, touch is used on the iPhone and iPod, and they're selling like crazy, so let's put it in Windows, and it will sell like crazy, too."Does anyone really believe that Microsoft's implementation of the touch interface will equal or exceed Apple's...
- Tags: Tablets, Keyboards, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., laptop computer, annotation program, multi-touch, keyboard, tablet PC, desktop
- Discussion threads 2008-05-27
- Why James Bond looks so healthy
- According to The Telegraph, shaken martinis might be the secret of Bond's success. In fact, two UK researchers, a psychologist and a chemist, are collaborating with a French bartender to prove that 'shaken, not stirred' martinis are different. They'll show the difference on June 4, 2008, during the Cheltenham Science...
- Tags: James Bond, Food & Beverage, Investment, Manufacturing, Finance, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- Automatic eyeglasses prescriptions?
- For its space missions, NASA wants astronauts with excellent vision without corrective lenses or glasses. This doesn't prevent its Vision Science and Technology Group to study human vision of ordinary people like you and me. Two members of this group recently discovered that a new formula connecting optical quality with...
- Tags: NASA, Vision, Model, Metric, Strategy, Management, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Cooper Boone's fan-fueled music (no, not the kind with blades)
- Did you ever think about how much electricity a mega-concert uses to power all those woofers and tweeters, not to mention the jumbo-screens and pyrotechnics? Yes, a lot, no? So, I was inspired by this little item about Cooper Boone, a psychologist-cum-musician who...
- Tags: Blade, Cooper, Music, Cooper Boone, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- Creating personal health record value from the bottom up
- A Health information index Hii system creates value from a personal health record PHR by linking that record to a knowledge base and telling patients what they can about what ails them. It's part of a 20-year quest by Steve Beller right, a clinical psychologist by training who...
- Tags: Health Care, Personal Health Record, Health Information Index System, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- VR game to help burn patients
- The Loyola University Medical Center in Illinois will be one of the first hospitals in the U.S. to use a virtual reality game to help burn patients. By using SnowWorld, developed at the University of Washington, patients recovering from severe burns will enter a virtual 'polar landscape of gently falling...
- Tags: Game, Patient, Loyola University, University Of Washington, Snowball, SnowWorld, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- Apple sales soar to capture 14ò0of US PC retail sales
- Apple sales soar to capture 14ò0of US PC retail salesThe OS just rocksIt's easy, straightforward, stable, and powerful. Leopard is the anti-Vista and gives you what I like to call "mindless productivity." I can do everything I want at home, work, and school quickly and easily. This...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Sales strategy, Desktops, Operating systems, PC, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Macintosh, sales, PC retail sale, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-03-18
- Virtual reality used for stroke rehabilitation
- There are about 15 million people affected by a stroke each year in the world. About 5 million die and 5 million are left with a permanent disability. For the survivors, it is very difficult to return to a normal activity, such as controlling their movements and becoming again completely...
- Tags: Patient, Computer, VR, Virtual Reality, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- News to know: Excel patches; Firefox benchmarks; Spitzer and IT; YouTube; HDTV
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: How an information system helped nail Eliot Spitzer and a prostitution ring. Michael Krigsman: Eliot Spitzer's software nightmare Microsoft delivers 12 patches to plug Office; 7 for Excel flaws David Morgenstern: Microsoft updates Mac Office 2008, 2004 George...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Information Technology, Patch Management, YouTube Inc., HDTV, Eliot Spitzer, Vista SP1 Microsoft, Virtualization, Social Networking, Linux, Microsoft Excel, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Storage, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-12
- MindMentor, the first robot psychologist
- MindMentor, the first robot psychologistFirst? robot psychologist?The claim of "first" in the headline in patently false. Everyone knows that Joe Weizenbaum built the first one -- "ELIZA" in 1966. You should do some fact checking...RE: MindMentor, the first robot psychologistWhy would you do a whole article on this...
- Tags: Robots, robot, MindMentor, first robot
- Discussion threads 2008-03-11
- MindMentor, the first robot psychologist
- People affected by emotional problems are often reluctant when they're told to see a psychologist. Now, they can confidentially consult online MindMentor, the first robot psychologist. It will cost them €4.95 for one hour session (or about US$7.65 as of today). MindMentor has been developed by two Dutch psychologists specialized...
- Tags: Problem, MindMentor, Robots, Leadership, Emerging Technologies, Management, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-03-11
- Study+rejects+Internet+sex+predator+stereotype
- Study+rejects+Internet+sex+predator+stereotypeResearchers are asking for troubleThe public and law enforcement want to see lots of drama and mystery on this topic despite the findings. We are a nation of the boogie man. It makes for great news fodder, politician brownie point potential and great topic to raise taxes for police...
- Tags: Mommy, predator, Internet sex predator, Internet Sex, STD, Internet
- Discussion threads 2008-02-19
- If you call someone a 'nerd' are you a moron? (Part 2)
- Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk continues his examination of what it means to be a nerd in part 2 of his review of David Anderegg's new book, "Nerds." Last week, I wrote about the concept of being a nerd. And about a book called "Nerds: Who They...
- Tags: Dr., Real World, Chris Matyszczyk
- Blog posts 2008-02-08
- Talking Flash Cards (Toddlers) (exe)
- Program uses both sight and sound to teach numbers, letters, colors, and shapes. Included are standard and timer modes, upper and lower case letters, max number, and sound option. Talking Flash Cards programs are endorsed by John M. Niederbuhl, Ph.D., psychologist and cognition expert, state of New York. This version...
- Tags: Card, Letter
- Software downloads 2008-02-06
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This video provides an overview of Intel's Unit Level Traceability (ULT) system, a technology developed to address the complexities that exist with the introduction of new manufacturing technologies in Assembly/Test in Intel. Video playing time is 4 minutes.
