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Join Me for Team Building in SecondLife: IBM Research has been working for some time on bringing the team building exercises to SecondLife. Instead of taking off a week now you and your team can take a few hours and gain the same benefits, at least IBM hopes. The project is still experimental, but I've managed to...; Tags: Team-building, IBM Corp., Team Management, Management, Dave Greenfield; Blog posts 2008-02-14
Social Software: It's Just a Game: At Lotusphere I had the opportunity to chat with a number of the researchers about the work they have going on in the area. Here are a few of the projects cooking and worth thinking about: • Wormhole bridges the virtual and Web worlds. Woody Huang showed how you...; Tags: Software, Team-building, Avatar, Team Management, Games, Management, Personal Technology, Dave Greenfield; Blog posts 2008-01-21
NEC-Aricent Alliance: Creating True Customer Value, Synchronized for Success: The NEC-Aricent ODC team is involved in several projects primarily in the Broadband-IP and 3G wireless telecom domains. The project required specialized skills in the 3G arena/Broadband-IP and hence finding befitting resources was an uphill task. Owing to novel team-building endeavours, Aricent has been able to find resources with excellent...; Tags: Team, Team-building, NEC-Aricent ODC Team, Team Management, 3G, Telephony, Wireless, Management, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Networking; Case studies 2006-03-20
Virtual Team Development and Global Collaboration Part I: How to Engage a Mobile Workforce: Team building is a staple in every manager's training, but the skills of collaboration are unique. While training on team development is legion, few address the real issues that confront a team who cannot meet face-to-face. Today's workplace needs methods that improve communication, increase collaboration and facilitate accountability. Virtual team...; Tags: Team, Virtual Team, Collaboration, Mobile, Team-building, Team Management, Management; Webcasts

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EMC taps ex Microsofter Maritz to fend off Microsoft Hyper-V: It takes one to know one. At least that's what EMC hopes as it appoints former Microsofter Paul Maritz to head up its lucrative VMWare unit, not coincidentally on the same day that Microsoft formally released its much anticipated Hyper-V to market. The departure of longtime...; Tags: VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., EMC Corp., Storage, Hardware, Paula Rooney; Blog posts 2008-07-08

Kaminsky and Ptacek comment on DNS flaw: Well, well, well, what a day for security news! I got a chance to get the scoop word of mouth from Dan Kaminsky of IOActive (pictured above [image courtesy of quinnums]) and Thomas Ptacek of Matasano pictured below on the DNS flaw that's been all over the...; Tags: DNS, Flaw, Nate, Domain Names, Networking, Security, Internet, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-07-08
Broadcast or communicate?: When the Czarist autocracy was overthrown in the 1917 Russian revolution, fundamental changes in Russian society under the new political structure occurred. A fascinating example for me is that while most of the world was busy building out telephone communications infrastructure, the Soviets chose to focus on installing...; Tags: E-mail, Collaboration, Groupware, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks; Blog posts 2008-07-08
Apple hasn't learned from past security mistakes: * Ryan Naraine is on vacation. Guest editorial by Aviv Raff Apple's Safari for Windows is a nice browser. It really is. It has slick user interface, some pretty cool features, and benchmarks show that it is really fast. But, saying that...; Tags: Security, Apple Safari, Apple Inc., Web Browser, Web Browsers, Microsoft Windows, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Naraine; Blog posts 2008-07-08
Deskless Workers, Useless Services: Microsoft Online Misses the Mark: I spend a lot of time tracking the deskless souls who inhabit the workworld, the factory workers, nurses and others who spend more time on their feet and less time on their butts than the rest of us. So I was all ears as Stephen Elop, Microsoft's latest Business Division...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Worker, Joshua Greenbaum; Blog posts 2008-07-08
They don't all really need laptops, do they?: I've been getting this question a lot lately from administrators, parents, and taxpayers. The question isn't malicious, but rather comes from folks with a vested interest in making sure that our technology dollars directly benefit students. Does giving teachers laptops directly benefit students? For people who aren't...; Tags: Teacher, Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Productivity, Benefits, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Human Resources, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-07-08
Does Google need a standards office pronto?: Google is increasingly in the middle of multiple efforts like Android and standards development. The problem: Google doesn't have a centralized standards office to manage its efforts. According to open source consultant Stephen Walli, Google needs a standards office as its reach grows. Walli writes in a...; Tags: Google Inc., Standards Office, Walli, Team Management, Blogging, Management, Internet, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-08
AVG changes its stance on LinkScanner: A few days ago I wrote a story about AVG's LinkScanner causing a massive amount of additional traffic on the net in the name of protecting customers... yeah. Well, here's a quote from the original article to give some background: Apparently AVG is spamming the Internet with traffic that looks to...; Tags: Web, Web Site, Whirlpool Corp., Search Result, Slashdot, AVG, LinkScanner, Web Site Development, Search, Channel Management, Web Technology, Internet, Marketing, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-07-07
UPDATED: Learning how to use "green" and Microsoft in the same sentence: NOTE: I've updated this post to include another link with tips on other Microsoft technologies that can contribute to your company's green credentials as well as the link for the Imagine Cup winners. It being the week of Microsoft's annual big-deal partner conference and all, I thought...; Tags: Data Center, Green Technology, Microsoft Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-07-07
Lemon-filled odorless socks?: According to the latest American Chemical Society ACS Weekly PressPac, Portuguese researchers have developed a new type of microcapsule filled with perfume and embedded in fabric for production of scented suits, socks, undergarments and other clothing. This PressPac contains a very short note titled 'Toward perfumed-clothing: Fabric-friendly microcapsules hide unpleasant...; Tags: Technique, Researcher, Agent, American Chemical Society, Productivity, Real Estate, Business Operations, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-07-07
Segway CTO to become Apple VP of product design: A post by Über Administrator and Wise Segway Elder John Grohol on the SegwayChat message boards reveals that Doug Field is leaving Segway for Apple. Doug Field, the chief technology officer at Segway who heads their entire engineering team (and has since Day 1), is leaving Segway to become...; Tags: Product Design, Segway, Apple Inc., Doug, Product Marketing, Team Management, Marketing, Management, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-07-07
Icahn: Ballmer would do a deal if Yahoo's board goes; Microsoft confirms: Icahn: Ballmer would do a deal if Yahoo's board goes; Microsoft confirmsThe only way Icahn could "save" GM would be to buy up shares cheap, andthen sell them to Toyota for double the money.... matchnow which one is the Match and who is the striker They are both very incendiary...; Tags: Corporate governance, Micro$oft, board, Yahoo! Inc., Icahn, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Confirms, Steve Ballmer; Discussion threads 2008-07-07
Icahn, Ballmer pair up, talk Microhoo; Push to boot Yang and Yahoo's board: Updated: Activist investor Carl Icahn and Microsoft are now in cahoots to toss Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and the company's board of directors. Icahn says in a letter that he has been chatting up Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer along with other key executives about how the two...; Tags: Transaction, Steve Ballmer, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Icahn, Steve, Search, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-07
A Twitter About Twitter: The outages are over maybe. Spark Capital and Jeff Bezos ae putting $15 million into Twitter. "Twitter will become a sustainable business supported by a revenue model,'' promised the company's aptly named co-founder Biz Stone. Which was followed last week by Gene...; Tags: Twitter, Manufacturing, Operational Accounting, Finance, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld; Blog posts 2008-07-07
Energy Independence Day...not yet, but it's a popular idea: Energy Independence Day...not yet, but it's a popular ideaAnd, yet againWe see the asinine argument that the path to energy independence isn't to produce energy, but to restrict use.But this is no surprise. Like all environmental issues, it really isn't about what it says it's about. Energy independence isn't about...; Tags: energy independence, Energy Independence Day, popular idea; Discussion threads 2008-07-07
Might Microsoft's Midori be 'Cairo' revisited?: Might Microsoft's Midori be 'Cairo' revisited?If it is object oriented -it would work like OS/2, the versions after Microsoft and IBM stopped working together.The Workplace Shell was the best environment I've ever worked on.Baseless speculation is fun but uselessToward that end I would recommend you look up the meaning of...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Midori, Microsoft Corp., operating system, SP1, Microsoft Windows Vista; Discussion threads 2008-07-07