Jun 03, 2009

Submitted by Worthmining: Google’s innovations are seemingly endless, and obviously they’re doing something right. Lecinski broke down his company’s innovation strategy into nine notions. Each notion contains an important lesson that professionals from all parts of the digital signage and self-service spaces can learn from. (Read More)

May 26, 2009

Submitted by Worthmining: About a year ago, the makers of Red Bull, the famous caffeine-loaded energy drink, decided to come out with a soda, unsurprisingly named Red Bull Cola. The shared name implied the same big kick. But could the cola's boost — supposedly "100% natural" — come from something else? Officials in Germany worry that they've found t (Read More)

May 26, 2009

Submitted by Worthmining: Just in time to prepare for an upgrade to Windows 7, the U.S. Army is upgrading to ... Windows Vista. (Read More)

May 17, 2009

Submitted by Worthmining: You, IT, are Competing with the Cloud. (Read More)

May 06, 2009

Submitted by Worthmining: The concept behind the Social Desktop is to bring the power of online communities and group collaboration to desktop applications and the desktop shell itself. One of the strongest assets of the Free Software community is its worldwide group of contributors and users who believe in free software and who work hard to bring t (Read More)

May 06, 2009

Submitted by Worthmining: True believers: The biggest cults in tech. (Read More)

May 04, 2009

Submitted by Worthmining: Process as a substitute for competence With enough steps, documents, design reviews, and test plans, I think that the proverbial 1,000 monkeys with typewriters really could produce a functional IT system. (Read More)

May 04, 2009

Submitted by Worthmining: Have you ever asked yourself, why do enterprises require so many meetings just to get something done? Have you ever wondered how open source gets developed without a single meeting or even a conversation? In order for software to be successful, does it really require having a project charter, timelines and other PMP type ar (Read More)

May 04, 2009

Submitted by Worthmining: Have you ever noticed that the only places that are current CMMI Level 5 are places where programmers get paid peanuts! Maybe underpayment of staff is required to afford the overhead of CMMi... (Read More)

Apr 24, 2009

ReadWriteWeb Recently, business information solutions provider LexisNexis released the results of a study that examined how technology was used in the American workplace. The focus of the study was on the differing opinions between generational groups. Their findings? The generation gap at work is really wide with vast discrepancies whe (Read More)

Apr 28, 2009

Submitted by Worthmining: Not everyone thinks smart meters are such a smart use of money. (Read More)

Mar 30, 2009

CNET News.com Tag parser: Error processing tag 'slideshow'. java.lang.NullPointerException . (Read More)

Mar 24, 2009

Submitted by Worthmining: There are several reasons that these personality types are attracted to positions of power. * They gravitate toward positions of power. * They will not let ethics hinder performance, which tends to produce short-term gains and long-term messes. (See Bernie Maddoff and AIG.) * They lie. This ability to fabricate mak (Read More)

Mar 17, 2009

Buzztracker.com - Venture Capital BURLINGAME, Calif. — In the span of just a couple of years, Hadoop, a free software program named after a toy elephant, has taken over some of the world’s biggest Web sites. It controls the top search engines and determines the ads displayed next to the results. It decides what people see on Yahoo’s homepage and finds long- (Read More)

Mar 17, 2009

Submitted by Worthmining: Using sophisticated mathematics, HR departments are learning new ways to determine the value of each employee. (Read More)

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