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- UPDATE: MIT team working on $12 NES, not Apple II
- Looks like the Boston Herald got it wrong. The MIT group that was researching how to make a $12 computer for developing nations was actually working on a machine that's more Super Mario than Steve Jobs. Computerworld's Eric Lai discovers the truth: ...
- Tags: team, apple ii, massachusetts institute of technology, apple inc., productivity, wiki, team management, online communications, management, andrew nusca
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- Sensors to detect oral cancer in saliva
- According to the American Cancer Society ACS, there will be about 35,000 new cases of oral cancer in the U.S. this year. The ACS also estimates that 'when oral cancer is identified in its early stages, patient survival rate is almost 90 percent, compared with 50 percent when the disease...
- Tags: university of california at los angeles, team, researcher, protein, sensor, molecule, cancer, protein sensor, dr wong, team management, management, roland piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- 10 ways to kickstart the performance of your underachievers
- Poor performers can drag down your whole team. Business and leadership coach John McKee shares some strategies for determining the underlying issues and turning those underachievers around.This download is also available as an entry in our 10 Things blog.
- Tags: performance, john mckee, team management, leadership, blogging, performance management, management, internet, human resources, workforce management
- Download resources 2008-08-06
- French Invaders (exe)
- This is a Windows version of the Invaders classic but with a French theme to it. The Invaders feature symbols associated with France and their rugby team, as well as a certain well known general. The game is free to use, copy or distribute. This version is the first release...
- Tags: version, lware, microsoft windows, team management, games, operating systems, software, management, personal technology
- Software downloads 2008-08-06
- World's first wind-powered vehicle race
- The Aeolus Race will be run in Den Helder, a sea port in the Netherlands, on August 23, 2008. Six European teams will participate to this competition with wind-powered vehicles WPVs. The track is a 5.3 kilometers seawall on the boundary between land and the sea. The students' team at...
- Tags: team, vehicle, aeolus race, ventomobile, team management, management, roland piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- MIT team working on $12 'Apple II' desktop
- Developing nations, listen up: a computer is headed your way, and it costs less than two Value Meals at your nearest McDonald's. Today's Boston Herald has a great story about a new project underway at MIT to create a $12 computer, the same university that spawned the...
- Tags: desktop, team, apple ii, massachusetts institute of technology, apple inc., computer, herald, productivity, team management, management, andrew nusca
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- Facebook developer fund: apply now
- "Get your app funded and running on Facebook while learning from the best", boasts Facebook's developer fund. Cash incentives to help feed the social utility's proverbial brain. by Steve O'Hear
- Tags: developer, facebook, team management, management, steve o\'hear
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- 'ESME': Social messaging within an enterprise SOA environment
- There are interesting community driven enterprise developments around SAP's 'Netweaver' SOA ('service-oriented application') and integration platform, with a sophisticated Twitter - style tool created by a diverse group of international users taking shape. Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to...
- Tags: environment, soa, messaging, twitter, esme, company usage, service-oriented architecture (soa), web services, team management, productivity, groupware, middleware, collaboration, enterprise software, software, management, oliver marks
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- Is Nokia working with the Zune team to support the Zune library?
- There have been rumors floating around of a Zune phone and I personally am not that excited about such a device and wonder if many people really are. The latest rumors about the Zune and phones though does seem to make a bit of sense. Zunescene reported that Nokia iw...
- Tags: team, nokia corp., microsoft zune, team management, microsoft windows, operating systems, management, software, matthew miller
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- My Awesome IT Job: Senior vice president, CA
- Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from an IT pro that love their work. ...
- Tags: information technology, computer associates international inc., strategy, team management, management, deb perelman
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- Towers Trap for Pocket PC (zip)
- Have you ever considered yourself as a good or maybe the best strategist of all? Now you can prove it and compete with many opponents, and even with us - the team of Zone Projects we are strong fans of Towers Trap and will stand with dignity against everybody. Publish...
- Tags: pc, strategist, intruder, zone projects, pocket pc, construction, team management, handhelds, operating systems, hardware, management, software
- Software downloads 2008-08-01
- Microsoft's road to the cloud is paved with parallelism
- A new whitepaper that Microsoft researchers are set to present at a conference next month sheds more light on Microsoft's back-end cloud infrastructure. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: microsoft corp., cosmos, helland, team management, programming languages, cloud computing, databases, management, software development, software/web development, enterprise software, software, data management, mary jo foley
- Blog posts 2008-07-31
- Signs you might not be IT management material
- In theory, everyone wants to climb the corporate ladder. Yet in practice--as anyone who has ever had a lousy boss or manager can tell you--not everyone is actually cut out to be a manager. Here are eight telltale signs you're probably not cut out for the role of a...
- Tags: it administration, information technology, manager, professional development, team management, recruitment & selection, strategy, career, management, human resources, workforce management, deb perelman
- Blog posts 2008-07-30
- True Knowledge attracts new funds
- I commented on UK-based True Knowledge and their search for finance at the start of this month, and tonight Venture Beat breaks the news that they've concluded a $4 million funding round led by existing investor Octopus Ventures. This funding, which brings the total raised by the...
- Tags: knowledge, u.k., team management, wiki, financial accounting, management, online communications, finance, paul miller
- Blog posts 2008-07-29
- Can light drive a motor?
- According to a research team led by professor Tomiki Ikeda at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, the answer is yes. But this kind of motor is far too small to power your car -- at least today. In fact, these chemists have developed a plastic motor powered by light. The...
- Tags: belt, motor, ikeda, team management, management, roland piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-29
- Mozilla engineering executive moves to Facebook team
- Facebook announced this morning that Mozilla's current vice president of engineering, Mike Schroepfer -- one of the developers of Firefox 3 -- will join Facebook as the social networking company's director of engineering. In a statement, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg says: "Mike has a...
- Tags: facebook, team, mozilla corp., product development, team management, web browsers, research & development, business operations, management, internet, jennifer leggio
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- Enterprises go live with SaaS in under 30 days
- Today, SaaS project management vendor Daptiv publishes metrics showing that its customers go live in less than 30 days. I spoke to one satisfied customer, InterContinental Hotels. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: team, software-as-a-service, daptiv, software as a service (saas), team management, cloud computing, emerging technologies, management, phil wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- Amazon's S3 post-mortem demonstrates maturity
- Amazon web services experienced a substantial service outage on July 20, disrupting customers across the web. Their post-mortem demonstrates an unusual level of organizational maturity for an Enterprise 2.0 company. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: system state, s3 inc., team, amazon.com inc., failure, team management, management, michael krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- iPhone 2.0 jailbreaker for iPhone 2g/3g is available
- The iPhone DevTeam blog has released the development sources for their tool xpwn version 0.3. This tool is the firmware 2.0 version of the team's "cross-platform jailbreaking library/command-line utility". The team claims it has been tested on Linux, Windows XP, and Windows Vista for both the iPhone 2g and the...
- Tags: apple iphone, 3g, microsoft windows, team management, productivity, cellular phones, wireless, consumer electronics, personal technology, operating systems, software, management, nathan mcfeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- My Awesome IT Job: Researcher and manager, Microsoft
- Desney Tan, researcher and manager at Microsoft, says the toughest technology lesson he has learned was that for the most part, people don't care about technology--they really just want to get things done, no matter how snazzy what you've created may be. Part of an ongoing series profiling Awesome IT...
- Tags: life, researcher, information technology, hobby, microsoft corp., team management, recruitment & selection, productivity, strategy, management, human resources, workforce management, deb perelman
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
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