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Virtual characters express their emotions

Spanish researchers have developed a computer model able to generate virtual faces which display emotions and moods according to personality traits. The team leader explains: 'The aim of this work has been to design a model that reveals a person's moods and displays them on a virtual face. In the...

Tags: State, Emotion, Personality Trait, Team Leader, Productivity, Wiki, Web Site Development, Games, Online Communications, Internet, Personal Technology, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-12-05

The 10 most dangerous species of IT team leader

After yet more research into the various species that inhabit the world of IT, Jeff Dray returns with a new set of taxonomic classifications. This time, he turns his attention to the team leader. Since competent and sociable team leaders don't make for great storytelling, he's selected some of the...

Tags: Team, Information Technology, Leader, Species, Jeff Dray, Team Leader, Team Management, Leadership, Management

Download resources 2008-02-12

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Microsoft Uses Sync Framework to Create New Collaboration Solution

As Microsoft, the world leader in software for personal and business computing, prepared the next version of its Microsoft Office suite of desktop applications it wanted to combine the functionality of two of its most popular collaboration tools: Microsoft SharePoint Server and Microsoft Groove. The company's development teams, however, faced...

Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Content Management, Groupware, Collaboration, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2009-10-19

Oracle OpenWorld 2009 - Social CRM Technology Rears an Actual Head

I am almost always in awe of Oracle OpenWorld.  The scope of this conference is spectacular. Can you imagine an event that the attendance is down to 37,000 attendees?  Actually, that puts me in awe of their event planners more than even the event. How in the name of whoever...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Siebel Systems Inc., CRM, Anthony Lye, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-10-14

Watch Out for That Meteor, Stallman.

Show me the innovation StallmanWhile Microsoft pushes forward software technology and produces modern software, open source continues to copy the trailing edge of the innovators. Want an Office97 copy? Want a media player that works on all platforms but just not as well as Windows Media Player, want...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Jason, F/OSS, Stallman, software

Discussion threads 2009-09-22

NASCAR News 1.3 (Mobile)

NASCAR News provides latest news from the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, as well as all the results, driver standings, and race information. A complete dash tells you when the last race was, when and where the next race is, and where your favorite driver is on the...

Tags: Team, Mobile, NASCAR, Phlogistic Apps, NASCAR News, E-mail, Team Management, Corporate Governance, Online Communications, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law

Software downloads 2009-09-18

Skype: The situation now, and the road ahead

Skype: The situation now, and the road aheadIncompetent Leadership Skype is led by a neophyte CEO that has no clue how to run a company, let alone a company with multiple operations.If John Donahoe had his head in the game at any level, he would have long ago realized that...

Tags: Cellular phones, Leadership, Skype Technologies S.A., ACN, eBay Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-04

When Collaboration is Literally Life or Death...

For those who think collaboration technology simply breaks down rigid command and control management hierarchies, consider the origins of the term: the military. The US military have had a significant online presence with various online forums for rank and file, commanders and other...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Network, Leader, Forum, CC, Case History, Software As A Service (SaaS), Collaboration, Groupware, Managed Hosting, Social Networking, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-08-03

Virgin Galactic unveils Eve; Snares Abu Dhabi investment

Sir Richard Branson unveiled his latest aircraft, or rather spacecraft. In a few years, for $200,000, thrill seekers will be able to ride into sub-orbit space. Separately, Virgin Galactic landed a $280 million investment from Abu Dhabi's Aabar Investments. In this raw video, you get a look at...

Tags: Virgin Group, Investment, Virgin Galactic, Aabar Investments, Business Structures, Aerospace & Defense, Network Technology, Finance, Manufacturing, Networking, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-28

Summer Games 2008 (320x240) (Mobile)

SummerGames2008 is your chance towin gold medals, bring avictory toyour national team, set aworld record and become achampion competing with thebest sportsmen intheworld. Thereare no any boring rules or intricate controls, only excitement andfair play from thefirst second tothelast. Make your own tournament, it's best way tospend time waiting for...

Tags: Team, Mobile, Medal, Herocraft, SummerGames2008, Team Management, Games, Management, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-07-27

Are Steve Jobs' management skills a corporate risk?

Are Steve Jobs' management skills a corporate risk?Claim the successes, pass the losesIt appears to work well for Apple at the moment, and if employess wish to take the abuse with the benefits, it is their choice.If the problems Apple is seeing as of late with their hardware continues, and...

Tags: Strategy, BLINDERS, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-07-07

Bleak Xmas Ahead: Where's the innovation I need to fill the stockings?

I know this is the July Fourth holiday and I'm half a year away from gift giving. But, when I looked through the Sunday supplements in today's newspaper, I couldn't find anything to buy. Nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Squat. Yes, I scanned the Best Buy, Office Depot...

Tags: Innovation, Incrementalism, Recipe, Herewith, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-07-05

ERP Solution Provider Increases Sales, Better Meets Customer Requirements With OBA

Infor is a market leader in business software that provides an array of Enterprise Resource Planning ERP software for different industries and customer segments. The Infor ERP SyteLine team recognized an opportunity to extend the usefulness of their ERP product by enhancing its products integration with the 2007 Microsoft Office...

Tags: Microsoft Office, ERP, Microsoft Corp., Sales, Infor, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2009-06-29

Categorizing the SaaS Vendors

Categorizing the SaaS VendorsLine between these categoriesNice article, thanks. But do you think there is a clear line separating these categories ? Where would you put companies like Oracle where leader keeps flip-flopping on his comments on SaaS ? :-)RE: Categorizing the SaaS VendorsWhat a great succinct analysis of exactly...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, cloud computing, software-as-a-service, SaaS company

Discussion threads 2009-06-24

RNA Networks launches RNAcache

RNA Networks is launching RNAcache, a product that lives along the border of processing virtualization, network virtualization and storage virtualization by offering the capability to use server memory on many systems as a shared network resource. RNA Networks is one a number of suppliers that are melding high performance computing,...

Tags: RNA, Data Center, Virtualization, RNA Networks, RNACACHE RNA Network, Biotechnology, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-06-23

Bad Idea Dept.: AT&T's Ed Whitacre to run General Motors

Ed Whitacre, who built SBC, one of the babies Bell, back into "The New AT&T" has been tapped by the Obama Administration's auto task force to be chairman of the "reinvented General Motors." Seriously. Think about that. AT&T is the template for...

Tags: Board, AT&T Corp., General Motors Corp., Whitacre, Whiteacre, Corporate Governance, Telecom & Utilities, Strategy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2009-06-09

Firefox 3.5 RC1 delayed a bit again

Turns out that Firefox 3.5 RC1 will be delayed again to iron out the remaining bugs.  During the team's weekly meeting, one development leader said there are 10 final blockers but no big new ones cropping up so it should be a relatively short delay.  ...

Tags: Team, Mozilla Firefox, Leader, Beta, Team Management, Web Browsers, Leadership, Management, Internet, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-06-02

Recession, depression, and a graduate job market drought

Recession, depression, and a graduate job market droughtI am glad i am not the only one who thinks degrees are worthless.If i had stayed in college i would have ended up at another company, probably still doing tech support or maybe junior admin. I spent two years in college,...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, job, recession, Dear Leader

Discussion threads 2009-06-02

Virtualized Dell PowerEdge Servers and Dell/EMC Storage Help German Automotive Textile Leader Johann Borgers Streamline IT Management and Reduce Maintenance Costs by 25 Percent

When the Johann Borgers data center environment could no longer reliably support key administrative functions, the IT team needed to replace it with a manageable, scalable, and highly available storage and server solution. Deploying virtualized Dell PowerEdge 2900 servers with a Dell/EMC CX3-10c storage area network simplified IT management by...

Tags: Dell PowerEdge Server, Dell Computer Corp., Dell PowerEdge, EMC Corp., Storage, Thin Clients, Servers, Hardware

Case studies 2009-06-01

Tomorrow's World

By now you will probably have digested the initial information about Google Wave, strategically announced on the same day as Microsoft's Bing search engine last week. Two not quite ready for prime time products - one open source, the other arguably a partially walled garden -...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Microsoft Corp., Tool, Yahoo Search Monkey, Channel Management, Wiki, Productivity, Marketing, Online Communications, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-05-31