I have a triple dose of videos for you today! The AWS team is growing at a rapid pace and we're looking for great people to fill many different positions. In order to give you a better sense for the jobs and the kinds of people that you'd be working with, I spent some time interviewing some of my colleagues. I'll be publishing the videos over the course of the next couple of weeks. I interviewed members of our professional services and development teams. I also interviewed the leader of our support organization. The AWS Careers Page contains additional information about each of…
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St. Louis Chapter Reconnects Brothers Separated 12 Years
redcrosschat.org17 Jun 2013 | 10:19 amWorking with the Restoring Family Links team, I’m privy to some pretty incredible stories — stories of hope and love persevering against all odds to bring families and loved ones long thought lost back into each others’ lives. The dedication of our volunteers is often behind some of the most touching stories, and a recent one out of the Greater St. Louis region is no exception. In a blog post last week, Mike Pfeifer, an American Red Cross International Services Volunteer, shares about a successful reconnection the chapter helped establish between two native Somalian… -
Surf's Up: Best Western Summer Promotion & Sweepstakes
On the Go with Amy12 Jun 2013 | 8:13 pmSummer is here, and Best Western is celebrating with a great promotion: three separate stays at any B.W., between June 17 and August 18, earns you a free night - it's as simple as that! And it gets better: are your kids all jazzed up for the new Disney Channel "Teen Beach Movie"? Best Western is also holding a summer vacation sweepstakes, and the winner will be flown to L.A. with three guests to meet the stars of the film. Just text "BEACH" to 347639 to enter - and visualize, visualize, visualize that autographed surfboard being handed over in the California sun...Visit… -
Bloggers Share Their Family Stories About Bigelow Tea!
Bigelow Tea Blog17 Jun 2013 | 6:00 amBigelow Tea is proud to be a family-owned business that treats everyone like family. Our “family circle” includes many suppliers, employees, retailers, and of course, passionate tea consumers! More recently, we have connected with a vibrant community of bloggers, and many of them have shared personal stories about their affection for Bigelow Tea. We take a moment to thank these wonderful writers and highlight a few of our favorite tea musings from the blogs—all of which revolve around … family, of course! Great Contradictions – a blog dedicated to helping “others to live… -
Love of Cars, History Bring Crowds to Museum
Chrysler Blog17 Jun 2013 | 6:39 amIt was an ideal setting on Saturday … if you like, make that love cars, history and great conversation. With early morning overcast skies giving way to a sunny afternoon, more than 400 registered cars were on hand for the 24th annual CEMA Charity Car Show on the grounds of the Walter P. Chrysler Museum, which was open to the public for the first time since December. “This was one of the best show turnouts we have ever had in terms of vehicles and spectators,” Chrysler Employee Motorsports Association (CEMA) Vice President Lori Emerling told us. Proceeds from this…
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AWS Jobs - Professional Services, Software Development, and Support
17 Jun 2013 | 11:31 amI have a triple dose of videos for you today! The AWS team is growing at a rapid pace and we're looking for great people to fill many different positions. In order to give you a better sense for the jobs and the kinds of people that you'd be working with, I spent some time interviewing some of my colleagues. I'll be publishing the videos over the course of the next couple of weeks. I interviewed members of our professional services and development teams. I also interviewed the leader of our support organization. The AWS Careers Page contains additional information about each of… -
AWS Week in Review - June 10, 2013
17 Jun 2013 | 9:22 amLet's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, June 10 We announced an Amazon RDS Price Reduction for On-Demand and Reserved Instances. The AWS Security Blog published part two of a series on Securing Access to AWS Using MFA. Tuesday, June 11 We added Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) to the AWS Free Usage Tier. We announced that Amazon CloudFront now supports Custom SSL Domain Names and Root Domain Hosting. The AWS .NET Blog talked about Connecting to Amazon EC2 Instances Using the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio. Wednesday, June 12 We published an AWS case study for… -
AWS FedRAMP ATO: Difficult to Achieve, Easily Misunderstood, Valuable to All AWS Customers
14 Jun 2013 | 12:41 pmCompliance with FedRAMP℠ is a complex process with a high bar for a provider’s security practices. Because few providers have secured an Authority To Operate (ATO) under FedRAMP, and FedRAMP in general is very new, the topic often leaves many confused. So, we wanted to build upon our press release, security blog post, and AWS blog post to briefly clarify a few points. FedRAMP is a U.S. government-wide program that provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services. With the award of this ATO, AWS… -
EBS Snapshot Copy Performance Improvement
11 Jun 2013 | 9:01 pmThe EBS Snapshot Copy feature gives you the power to copy EBS snapshots across AWS Regions. Effective today, we have made the snapshot copy even faster than before with support for incremental copies between Regions. It is now practical to copy snapshots to other regions more frequently, making it easier for you to develop applications that are highly available. The first time you copy an EBS snapshot of a volume to a particular Region, all of the data will be copied. The second and subsequent copies of snapshots from the same volume to the same destination region will be incremental:… -
Custom SSL Domain Names and Root Domain Hosting for Amazon CloudFront
11 Jun 2013 | 5:41 pmI am happy to announce that Amazon CloudFront now supports a pair of frequently requested features: support for custom SSL certificates and the ability to point the root of your website to a CloudFront distribution. With support for both of these features in place, it is now even easier for you to deliver your entire website via CloudFront’s global network of edge locations. This includes the dynamic content, static objects, and the secured portions of your website or application. Custom SSL CertificatesWhen a user requests content from a web site using the HTTPS protocol, the web server…
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St. Louis Chapter Reconnects Brothers Separated 12 Years
17 Jun 2013 | 10:19 amWorking with the Restoring Family Links team, I’m privy to some pretty incredible stories — stories of hope and love persevering against all odds to bring families and loved ones long thought lost back into each others’ lives. The dedication of our volunteers is often behind some of the most touching stories, and a recent one out of the Greater St. Louis region is no exception. In a blog post last week, Mike Pfeifer, an American Red Cross International Services Volunteer, shares about a successful reconnection the chapter helped establish between two native Somalian… -
The Past Catches Up
13 Jun 2013 | 7:21 amIt really is a small world, and here’s a story that demonstrates. So here we go: Elementary school students in WI made goody bags to support service members. Red Cross volunteers handed them out at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda. (OK stick with me now…) 12 years later Air Force Lt. Jennifer Szatkowski goes to the dentist at Walter Reed. As she’s sitting in the exam room, she realizes the decorated paper bag hanging on the wall was the one she created years ago! Read the whole article on the Department of Defense page: Face of Defense: Airman Gets… -
From the Archives…Life Boats and Lifesaving
10 Jun 2013 | 10:05 amIn November 1942, at Daytona Beach, Florida, selected members of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) stationed at the 2ndTrainingCenter were appointed to the Life Guard Corps to guard the beaches allotted to the women for swimming and relaxing in their off-duty hours. The training center command asked the Red Cross to give the women instruction in the surf as many of them had never worked in the ocean. Bert Powell, captain of the Daytona Beach Red Cross Life Saving Corps, directs a lifeboat team on a practice pull out to sea. Photo by Hod Lewis/American Red Cross, 1942 -
The Adventure Home
10 Jun 2013 | 5:58 amQuestion: What happens when you combine crazy sandstorms, thunderstorms, an awesome new team, birthday bash, visiting general, 5K, sprinting to a plane in boots with a backpack (AFTER the 5K), and not sleeping for 27 hrs? Answer: Our trip out of Bagram! Nope, this is not a joke. Who knew that getting out of Afghanistan would be much more eventful than the trip into country? You can’t plan the weather, and as a result Team 30 was slightly delayed on their trip into Afghanistan. We had a short transition period, but both teams worked together to get everything done. Early in the… -
Summer Safety Summary
10 Jun 2013 | 5:58 amI finally finished putting away the gifts my children received for Christmas last week, so you can imagine my surprise when I looked at the calendar and discovered that summer vacation started earlier this week. Where did the time go?! If all goes according to plan, our summer vacation will revolve around lots of fun field trips, projects, and travel. But just because we’re focused on fun and relaxation doesn’t mean we can forget about safety. In many cases, increased vigilance, following special guidelines or rules, and/or taking extra safety precautions go hand-in-hand with our favorite…
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Surf's Up: Best Western Summer Promotion & Sweepstakes
12 Jun 2013 | 8:13 pmSummer is here, and Best Western is celebrating with a great promotion: three separate stays at any B.W., between June 17 and August 18, earns you a free night - it's as simple as that! And it gets better: are your kids all jazzed up for the new Disney Channel "Teen Beach Movie"? Best Western is also holding a summer vacation sweepstakes, and the winner will be flown to L.A. with three guests to meet the stars of the film. Just text "BEACH" to 347639 to enter - and visualize, visualize, visualize that autographed surfboard being handed over in the California sun...Visit… -
Beautiful Airports Around the World
11 Jun 2013 | 8:06 pmAll too often, time spent in airports feels anxious and rushed, or endless, monotonous, and booo-riiiing. But what if airports were places of beauty? A new article on CNN has rounded up airports around the world where innovative, thoughtful design welcomes passengers in and provides them with a beautiful place to pass the time. What a great way to improve travel with kids, too: I'd love to be able to tell my family about the architecture and design we can look out for when we get to the airport, instead of dreading an hour wait in a bleak, gray-carpeted terminal.Here are two of my… -
Thrifty Travel Fun: Huntsville, AL
6 Jun 2013 | 8:58 amIt's high tech, yet full of history; metropolitan, but just a stone's throw from nature. In short, Huntsville, Alabama is an ideal family vacation destination! Read on for three budget-friendly tips. 1. There's nothing better than a scavenger hunt to get acquainted with a new place (and it's a great way to maintain the fun throughout the day, too). Brand new this year to Huntsville, the Lucky Duck Scavenger Hunt will have your little explorers on extra-alert as you make your way through Huntsville, eyes peeled for twelve bronze ducks. They're hidden at various venues throughout the town:… -
Almost half of frequent fliers never redeem their airline miles
3 Jun 2013 | 5:55 amTwo weeks ago, my husband and I redeemed three years' worth of United Airlines miles. We booked four plane tickets to Maui over the Thanksgiving break. If we had paid for these tickets, we would have spent at least $5,000 as holiday travel is expensive.I felt a huge sense of relief when I'd finally put these hard-earned miles to use—especially since they were set to expire in a year. I could have easily forgotten about them, as so many people do.A new study finds that 40 percent of travelers never redeem their miles, according to the Daily Mail. An estimated 14 trillion points have been… -
The Ultimate Gift for Global Youngsters
29 May 2013 | 9:13 amCall me old-fashioned, but when it comes to maps I believe that nothing beats the real deal, printed on paper, made to be bent over, eyes wide, fingers tracing exotic names and the route to far away lands. Sure, young travelers are growing up in a world neatly mapped by GPS, but that's no reason to deprive them of the magic of an atlas.When I recently stumbled across a newly released book of gorgeous, inventive maps, it struck me that a book of maps makes a truly magical - and truly important - gift for globally minded kids. This one, entitled A Map of the World: The World According to…
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Bigelow Tea Blog
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Bloggers Share Their Family Stories About Bigelow Tea!
17 Jun 2013 | 6:00 amBigelow Tea is proud to be a family-owned business that treats everyone like family. Our “family circle” includes many suppliers, employees, retailers, and of course, passionate tea consumers! More recently, we have connected with a vibrant community of bloggers, and many of them have shared personal stories about their affection for Bigelow Tea. We take a moment to thank these wonderful writers and highlight a few of our favorite tea musings from the blogs—all of which revolve around … family, of course! Great Contradictions – a blog dedicated to helping “others to live… -
Watch Our Garden Grow At Bigelow Tea!
14 Jun 2013 | 10:14 amThe Bigelow Tea Green Team has started a community garden and invites you to follow our progress! The team has been hard at work establishing planting beds in the front grass area of our Fairfield headquarters for the initial phase of this exciting Green Wellness Community (GWC) initiative. The Bigelow Green Team will be planting, maintaining and hopefully growing vegetables in these plantings beds. We are starting this year with tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini and squash. We are hopeful that the garden will yield enough product to donate to a local nonprofit organization such as the… -
Bigelow Tea Salutes Flag Day and Our Troops
14 Jun 2013 | 6:00 amOn National Flag Day, June 14, let’s pay tribute to our country’s symbol of red, white, and blue: our American flag. We at Bigelow Tea decided to brush up on our “flag etiquette” through the United States Flag Code, a how-to list on displaying our Stars and Stripes. Here are some pointers to share: When raised, the flag should be hoisted briskly and lowered ceremoniously. Don’t allow it to touch the floor or ground, nor carry or hold anything in it. It’s common to fly the flag from sunrise to sunset, but it can also be flown throughout the night if properly illuminated. And… -
Bigelow Tea Honors All Dads on Father’s Day
12 Jun 2013 | 6:00 amThis Sunday is the 3rd Sunday of June, and that means it’s Father’s Day! We at Bigelow Tea would like to thank all the fathers out there who take the time to be an inspiration, a role-model, and a supporter of all that their kids do. On this special day, there are sure to be golf matches, baseball games, barbeques, and family gatherings. But if you’re wondering what Dad would really love on Father’s Day, we have the answer: dads just want a little time with their children. Yes, a great day of relaxation and kid-time with nothing else to get in the way—that’s the best gift… -
Bigelow Tea Thinks About Men’s Health This June!
11 Jun 2013 | 6:00 amA message to all the men out there: you’re not invincible! Really—even though many guys think they are indestructible when it comes to their own health. In fact, men’s tendency to take their health for granted—by ignoring symptoms and failing to keep regularly scheduled doctor’s visits—can be a problem. That’s why Bigelow Tea looks at National Men’s Health Week as an opportunity to remind men, and those who love them, to be aware of preventable health problems. This year Men’s Health Week runs from June 10th to the 16th, and one of the aims is promoting healthy…
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Chrysler Blog
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Love of Cars, History Bring Crowds to Museum
17 Jun 2013 | 6:39 amIt was an ideal setting on Saturday … if you like, make that love cars, history and great conversation. With early morning overcast skies giving way to a sunny afternoon, more than 400 registered cars were on hand for the 24th annual CEMA Charity Car Show on the grounds of the Walter P. Chrysler Museum, which was open to the public for the first time since December. “This was one of the best show turnouts we have ever had in terms of vehicles and spectators,” Chrysler Employee Motorsports Association (CEMA) Vice President Lori Emerling told us. Proceeds from this… -
The End is Near for Chrysler Wellness Challenge
14 Jun 2013 | 6:25 pmMoney is usually a good motivator, and these journalists are using it to fuel their energy and competitive spirit to out-walk each other for scholarships. NABJ-Chicago trains together to win the Chrysler Wellness Challenge. When Chrysler Group developed the Chrysler Wellness challenge, no one here had any idea how intensely competitive the chapters would get. The Detroit and Chicago chapters of the National Association of Black Journalists and New York and Los Angeles chapters of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists are engaged in a highly spirited, but good-natured rivalry. And… -
Willys MB Celebrates its 70th Birthday
14 Jun 2013 | 8:00 amAfter surviving World War II, a 1943 Willys MB finally returned home to Toledo on June 3, exactly 70 years from its production date. When it rolled off the assembly line in 1943, the vehicle (better known as the original Jeep®) was sent to the U.S. Army in Sicily. After seven decades in Italy, the current owner Vittorio Argento, an Italian radio journalist and history enthusiast, decided to bring the Willys MB back for its 70th birthday. “I thought that to bring the Jeep back here was a kind of a gift for its birthday. It’s something romantic.” Argento created the… -
Mopar '13 Dart: The Stylish Sedan With Bad-Boy Attitude
12 Jun 2013 | 11:04 amEvery Dodge Dart leaves the Belvidere, Ill., factory with attitude, but only 500 will reach dealers with Mopar attitude right off the truck. Dealers are taking orders now for the limited-edition 2013 Mopar '13 Dart, which carries a manufacturer's suggested retail price of $25,485 (plus $995 shipping). The Mopar '13 Dart arrives this summer. Each wears a signature Pitch Black exterior with offset Mopar blue racing stripe running from nose to tail. That's a color scheme similar to previous Mopar editions of the Dodge Charger, Challenger and Chrysler 300. Inside, the seats are covered in… -
Chrysler Employee in Journey of Hope Across America
12 Jun 2013 | 7:01 amA flight from San Francisco to Washington, D.C. takes about five-and-a-half hours, driving takes about 42 hours. But how long would it take to ride your bicycle? Well, for Chrysler Group employee Doug Meenan that trip will take about two months. Meenan joined 25 cyclists on the cross-country “Journey of Hope” campaign. The bikers departed on June 9 from the Golden Gate Bridge and will arrive at Capitol Hill on August 10. During the trip, the team will raise money for charity. Journey of Hope is a fundraiser through Push America that helps raise awareness for people with…
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Cisco Blog » The Platform
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Using Open Source in Networked Environments
14 Jun 2013 | 10:47 amWhile the topic of Open Source is not new, the topic of using open source in today’s networks has gained momentum [...] -
Synergy: “Cisco Grabs Lead in Cloud Infrastructure Equipment”
11 Jun 2013 | 12:25 pmMy father taught me at a young age that hard work pays off. Over the years, this lesson has proven [...] -
New Video Collaboration Robot: TelePresence Gets Moving
11 Jun 2013 | 6:17 amCisco® TelePresence® has transformed the way we collaborate—enabling immersive, face-to-face meetings at a distance, and access to remote experts anywhere [...] -
Prince Philippe of Belgium Visits Cisco
7 Jun 2013 | 3:19 pmWe have had a royal visit here at Cisco today. His Royal Highness Prince Philippe of Belgium, next in line [...] -
Driving Success for Midsize Businesses with New Website
7 Jun 2013 | 2:32 pmI’m happy to announce a new resource for companies with 100-1,000 employees: the Cisco Midsize Business Solutions website. Built for midsize IT and business [...]
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As Digital Ad Effectiveness Measurement Improves, Are Branding Ad Dollars Ready to Follow?
28 May 2013 | 5:55 amTV has historically controlled the lion’s share of ad budgets, primarily because we have several decades of effectiveness research proving that the medium is very good at driving brand equity and in-market sales lift. Digital media continues to scrap and claw for those TV dollars, in large part, because we’re still in the early phases of proving out the value of the channel. That said, as digital becomes increasingly effective at demonstrating quantifiable results and as video ad inventory grows, we are witnessing a clear paradigm shift that is putting it in the same conversation as TV.At… -
comScore Welcomes Starcom MediaVest Group and Zenith Optimedia as Preferred Strategic Partners for Digital Campaign Ratings
16 May 2013 | 1:58 pmThis preferred strategic partnership with two leading agencies, both part of Publicis Groupe, is an important validation of the considerable effort we’ve put into making vCE the best in class product for digital campaign evaluation and optimization. The next generation enhancements we’re making to vCE will improve its speed and granularity, helping clients optimize their campaigns in real-time according to a multitude of demographic dimensions.SMG and ZenithOptimedia noted that they selected comScore as a partner because it “provides us and our clients with capability and flexibility… -
UbiquiTV: Video Fragmentation is the New Reality
29 Apr 2013 | 8:35 amThe Digital Upfronts (aka “NewFronts”) have been dominating my recent conversations revolving around a single --albeit complicated-- question: “How much of my ad spend should be allocated to digital video?” For the uninitiated, NewFronts is an annual event that connects digital marketers and agencies with online publishers. It has its roots in the television “upfronts,” where the television networks showcase their upcoming seasons to ad buyers in an attempt to sell as much premium ad space as possible, as early as possible. To even begin to answer this question, one must… -
comScore at the NewFronts: UbiquiTV is the New Reality
25 Apr 2013 | 9:49 amAs content and distribution channels proliferate, the dynamics of how, when and where we view video has forever changed. Understand how the digital video market is evolving in the infographic below. Download the infographic (JPG, 256 KB)Download the infographic (PDF, 760 KB) -
Multi-Platform Media Usage is Not a Zero Sum Game
1 Apr 2013 | 6:31 amBut an important thing to remember is how my enjoyment evolved over time as I improved. The first time I broke 100 on the golf course you would have thought I just had my first child I was so excited, and from that point forward I couldn’t stop reserving tee times at every turn. One would think I would saturate my appetite for golf with so many rounds, but that wasn’t the case – the better I got the more I wanted to play.This same concept applies to your media and internet consumption. Conventional wisdom would suggest that in this age of media fragmentation, usage of multiple devices…
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Daimler-Blog: Einblicke in einen Konzern
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Nordschleife unter Strom: Rekordfahrt des elektrischen SLS
17 Jun 2013 | 5:20 am„Die schönsten Siege fallen nicht vom Himmel. Man erringt sie in der Grünen Hölle.“ Diesen Satz hab ich auf der Printanzeige von Mercedes-AMG zum grandiosen Sieg der SLS AMG GT3 beim 24h-Rennen gelesen und innerlich natürlich zugestimmt. Ich bin schon 24h-Rennen sowie VLN-Läufe dort gefahren, habe Fahrertrainings gegeben und natürlich unzählige Runden im Versuchsbetrieb auf schnellen Autos absolviert – ja, die Aussage zur Grünen Hölle stimmt. Dieser Satz kann genauso auf den Erfolg unseres SLS AMG Coupé Electric Drive bei der kürzlichen Rekordfahrt übertragen werden. Das war… -
Fingertracking – Virtuell nach der Zukunft greifen
12 Jun 2013 | 12:51 amSicherlich hat der ein oder andere schon einmal den Begriff „Virtual Reality“ gehört. Aber was verbirgt sich genau dahinter und vor allem was hat das mit der Entwicklung moderner Automobile zu tun? Ist diese Virtuelle Realität eine Erfindung kinoaffiner Ingenieure, die zu viel Minority Report geschaut haben oder Teil eines weiteren Effizienzsteigerungsprogrammes? Ehrlicherweise – ein bisschen was von beidem. Kino deshalb, weil längst nicht mehr alles, was in den einschlägigen Filmen gezeigt wird, reine Zukunftsmusik ist. Zudem erweckt die Technologie selbst, welche die Bilder in 3D… -
DTM: Zwischen Pferdestärken, Trucks und Reifen
10 Jun 2013 | 1:09 amGeboren in Südafrika, kam ich vor über zehn Jahren nach Deutschland. Ich habe zuerst für zwei Jahre in einem Pferdestall gearbeitet. Aber eigentlich interessierten mich „Pferdestärken“ viel mehr… Durch einen Zufall lernte ich Hans Werner Aufrecht, den Gründer und heutigen Aufsichtsratsvorsitzenden von HWA, kennen und erzählte ihm von meiner Leidenschaft für den Motorsport. Er schlug mir vor, als Lkw-Fahrer für HWA zu arbeiten. Den für die Tätigkeit erforderlichen Führerschein hatte ich schon in Südafrika gemacht und weil dieser in Deutschland anerkannt wird, ging es dann… -
SBC2go: Open Pitch Day in Stuttgart
7 Jun 2013 | 12:48 amOn 29th May 2013, the Startupbootcamp Berlin together with Mercedes-Benz organized an Open Pitch Day in Stuttgart for its SBC2go Berlin program. The event hosted by Mercedes-Benz Niederlassung, Stuttgart was the last pitch day for this year’s program where startups were given the opportunity to pitch their ideas to a distinguished panel of mentors. Mentors present on the day were Alex Farcet, CEO, of Startupbootcamp Berlin, Dr.Frank Spennemann and Aritra Ghosh from Mercedes-Benz along with Dr. Claus Schmidt, Gitte Bedford and Dr. Stephan Feber from Bosch, another partner of SBC2go 2013. -
Gastbeitrag: Wir sitzen alle in einem Bus
5 Jun 2013 | 1:08 amCorporate Social Responsibility – ein Begriff, mit dem wir beim Blick in unser Vorlesungsverzeichnis erst einmal nur wenig anfangen konnten. Der eine hatte es schon mal gehört, die andere las bereits darüber. Welchen Stellenwert ökologische und soziale Verantwortung heute in der Gesellschaft und in Unternehmen einnehmen, war allen weitgehend klar, aber die Frage, wo man Corporate Social Responsibility, oder kurz CSR, wirklich findet und zu welchen Zwecken es in Unternehmen eingesetzt wird, konnte kaum jemand beantworten. Licht ins Dunkel sollte uns Dr. Jens Arnold aus der…
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Then and Now - 84 Years of Passenger Service By: Marie F., Delta...
17 Jun 2013 | 7:01 amThen and Now - 84 Years of Passenger Service By: Marie F., Delta Archivist, Atlanta Celebrating our 84th anniversary of passenger service today! Since 1929, we’ve grown from a small pioneering crop-dusting company, named for the Mississippi River Delta region we served. We were the first to fly across the Deep South. Today, we fly a global network serving over 160 million customers each year. From small monoplanes to today’s long-range jets, we are proud to count 84 years of bringing “Safe, Swift, Clean and Comfortable” air travel to you!THEN4 destinations, 427-mile route3 aircraft… -
Happy Father’s Day From The Delta Family Our passion for...
16 Jun 2013 | 7:01 amHappy Father’s Day From The Delta Family Our passion for flying spans generations. Thanks dads, for inspiring us to keep climbing. -
Golf Where the Pros Play By: Scott S., Delta Social Media,...
15 Jun 2013 | 11:02 amGolf Where the Pros Play By: Scott S., Delta Social Media, Atlanta With the U.S. Open in “full swing,” don’t resist the urge to hit the links at the courses where the pros play. We’ve highlighted 5 of our favorite U.S. Open Courses for you to check out on your own: Torrey Pines Golf Course San Diego, California (SAN) 2008 Open - Website Bethpage Black Course Long Island, New York (NYC) 2002, 2009 Opens - Website Pebble Beach Golf Links Pebble Beach, California (SJC/SFO) 1972, 1982, 1992, 2000, 2010 Opens - Website Merion Golf Club Ardmore, PA (PHL) 1934, 1950, 1971,… -
What’s Your Travel Superpower? Infographic by: Chris B,...
14 Jun 2013 | 6:02 amWhat’s Your Travel Superpower? Infographic by: Chris B, Delta Graphic Designer, Atlanta Inspired by “Man of Steel” and summer superhero blockbusters, we asked our customers to tell us what is their travel superpower. Here’s what they had to say. Share yours with us here. Fitting everything into one bag, regardless of how long the trip. Sniffing out amazing restaurants wherever I go. Avoiding any and all cultural faux pas. Finding sweet deals on airfare and hotels. Picking up foreign languages with ease. Chatting easily with strangers, even in if we don’t share a language. … -
New York City Boroughs // 1 City 5 Ways (Bonus stops!) By Chris...
13 Jun 2013 | 7:02 amNew York City Boroughs // 1 City 5 Ways (Bonus stops!) By Chris Clayton, Delta Sky Magazine Deputy Editor Each month, Sky magazine highlights five ways to discover a destination. Here are a few more New York City hot spots to check out, exclusively for Taking Off. How do you do the Big Apple? Queens // MoMA PS1: Warm Up 2013 Every Saturday through September 7, the best DJs on the planet stop by PS1’s courtyard to make the pretty, arty people sweat. momaps1.org Manhattan // Strand Book Store This 86-year-old institution boasts 18 miles of new and used books and readings from the likes of…
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Why My Tablet Isn't Getting Much Use
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Software-Defined Storage -- Where Are We?
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Researching Different Minds Thinking Greatly
17 Jun 2013 | 6:42 amSeveral weeks ago I published a blog post (Different Minds Think Greatly) that explored the topic of cognitive diversity and innovation. At the time, I had read a Techonomy article by John Hagel and John Seely Brown, who basically asserted that “too much like-mindedness hurts companies”, and I quoted the following: Organizations that host a diverse and broad range of members have a resilience that results from cross pollination. As part of the article I echoed my agreement with this assertion and referred to some Social Network Analysis from my own company (EMC). The data that we modeled… -
The ARM server apocalypse
15 Jun 2013 | 8:12 pmI noticed earlier tonight that Taiwanese vendor MiTAC will sell you an eight core 64 Bit ARM server. Which, proving how flexible the ARM licensing model is, happens to be months ahead of delivery compared to ARM’s own 64-Bit Cortex-A50 and NVIDIA’s always on going 64-Bit ARM CPU development efforts. Linux already runs on ARM and while Microsoft continue to play it cagey on their thoughts about ARM binaries for Windows Server, owning a Microsoft Surface I can tell you that Windows does run on ARM today even if there are still massive performance optimisations being pushed out on a regular… -
Pivotal: Extending to a 3rd Platform Analytics Strategy
13 Jun 2013 | 7:03 amIn previous posts I summarized EMC CTO John Roese's key message from EMC World: Many of the new products announced at EMC World allow existing enterprise customers to extend their data centers to support IDC's definition of the third platform (mobile, social, cloud, big data). John's statement is highlighted by the graphic below. Note that this is a health care use case but others are equally relevant (e.g. the telecommunications use case described below). The first two columns on the left highlight EMC enterprise customers who augmented their…
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Fandango Movie Blog
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Bam! Pow! Zap! More 'MoS' Talk with David S. Goyer and Antje Traue
17 Jun 2013 | 6:11 pmBecause you can never have too much of a good thing, we talk to Man of Steel scribe David S. Goyer, who unveils the thought processes that shaped Superman for a new generation. Meanwhile, as they like to say in the comics, the film’s beautiful Kryptonian butt-kicker Antje Traue talks about building the beatdown-giving body that’s certain to make her a breakout star (and don’t miss my chat with director Zack Snyder). Nerding out with Man of Steel's screenwriter So what do you if you’re David S. Goyer – the onetime comic book scribe turned… -
Marrieds at the Movies: How 'Man of Steel' (Mostly) Overcomes Its Atrocious Last 45 Minutes
17 Jun 2013 | 4:55 pmEvery Friday night, Movies.com sends cinephiles (and newlyweds) Sarah and Joe Piccirillo to see a film. Afterwards, they answer a few questions about it. Below is their discussion. Man of Steel Synopsis: It's a Superman origin story. Enough said. Starring Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon, Laurence Fishburne, Russell Crowe, Diane Lane, Kevin Costner. Was this a good date movie? Joe: I'm torn. On one hand, the girl is going to be turned on by Superman's muscles and integrity. On the other hand, it's going to make you look pretty inadequate in comparison. As a… -
'Spider-Man' Parts 3 and 4 Have Release Dates: What Do We Think We'll See?
17 Jun 2013 | 2:21 pmWhen Marc Webb began adding jaw-droppingly awesome character actors like Paul Giamatti, Chris Cooper, Colm Feore and Jamie Foxx to an Amazing Spider-Man ensemble that already included the likes of Sally Field, Denis Leary and Martin Sheen (in a promised flashback) – as well as up-and-coming megastars in Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone and Shailene Woodley – I speculated that Sony was planning for something much bigger than a simple, stand-alone sequel in The Amazing Spider-Man 2. As it turns out, I was on the right track. Locking up dates for subsequent… -
Which Character Won't Be Returning for 'The Avengers 2'?
17 Jun 2013 | 12:07 pmWith Much Ado About Nothing comfortably nestled among the summer blockbusters and indie flicks in theaters, Joss Whedon is turning his attention back to The Avengers 2. Not that the press rounds for Much Ado didn't pry into the upcoming Marvel sequel, but at the U.K. gala premiere of the film, Whedon was asked a number of things about the film. Perhaps the biggest reveal to come out of the Q&A session was Whedon revealing that Loki would not be appearing in the sequel. Whedon was asked if there was another humorous Old English word like "quim" in the film. Whedon… -
Don't Be Scared, Just Get to the Choppa in New Extended 'World War Z' Clip
17 Jun 2013 | 11:32 amWith Superman behind us, the focus on the upcoming weekend is on monsters. On one side, you have the fantastic Pixar prequel Monsters University. On the other side, you've got running zombies and the world going to hell in World War Z. Paramount released a new extended clip last night from its horror thriller which finds Brad Pitt and family making a dash for a rescue chopper while being chased by a trio of zombies. It's an excellent and tense sequence that may sway moviegoers who have been on the fence with the film. Take a look below and if you like what you see, go get your…
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Garmin Blog
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Go Fishing with Fishing My-Cast for Android
17 Jun 2013 | 8:13 amAttention all Android users! Did you know that there's a Garmin fishing app exclusive to the Android operating system? Fishing My-Cast provides the information that you need on your smartphone for a great day of fishing. Once you’re out fishing, you can document your entire trip in the trip log. Not only can you mark the position of where you caught your fish on the map screen, you can log all the important information regarding your catch: length, weight, lure type and color, structure and more. And the app will record temperature, depth, weather… -
Peg’s Posts: Garmin triathlete competes at world championships
14 Jun 2013 | 2:31 pmWe’re pretty sure this isn’t the typical path to competing at the world championship level, which makes this triathlete’s story nothing short of amazing. About two years ago, Lauren Olson, a Garmin software engineer based in Arizona, took up the sport of triathlon. This young lady has laid down some impressive performances in distances ranging from Olympic to half and full Ironman triathlons, with every stroke, second and step of her swim, bike and run recorded by the Forerunner 910XT multisport watch. We caught up with Lauren after she returned from Belfort, France for the ITU Long… -
Team Papotanic Wins Sertoma with a 49.76 lb. Kingfish
14 Jun 2013 | 5:00 amCongratulations to our Team Papotanic for recently winning the 19th Annual Sarasota Sertoma Kingfish Tournament in Serasota, Florida! The Houston-based team of Bill Platt, Jose Reyes, Ernie Pyle Jr., Ozzie Fischer and Gill Strelec caught this 49.76 lb Kingfish nearly 100 miles southwest of Sarasota. On board, Team Papotanic had dual GPSMAP 7215 and a GSD 26 with 3 kW CHIRP transducer. "Garmin helps us win with user-friendly touchscreen units. We are always in a rush for time, so easy, fast and reliable devices mean more fishing time for us," said Captain… -
2013 BoatUS Collegiate Bass Fishing Championship
13 Jun 2013 | 5:00 amThis year's BoatUS Collegiate Bass Fishing Championship just wrapped up a couple of weeks ago and participation from colleges all across the United States was strong. It goes to show how important bass fishing is from not only a collegiate perspective but from a young adult's perspective as well. The Championship was a two-day, two-angler team format. The winner was determined by heaviest accumulated weight per team and the two highest finishing teams earned School of the Year points for their college. We were proud to be a part of the registration and festivities and… -
Lucy's Logbook: Using the Flight Information System - Broadcast Weather Services
12 Jun 2013 | 1:35 pmFlight Information System-Broadcast (FIS-B) offers pilots an alternative option to receive a variety of graphical weather products. And the best part? It’s free! Even though the weather services are free, the concept of how FIS-B works is complex and often reminds me of how hard it was learning airspace as a Private Pilot! FIS-B weather is principally intended for General Aviation aircraft and strictly for advisory use only. Aircraft must be equipped with a 978 MHz Universal Access Transceiver (UAT) to receive airborne weather. FIS-B is not compatible with 1090ES avionics which are limited…
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GE Global Research
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You Asked, We Answered: the science behind superheroes
17 Jun 2013 | 1:47 pmOn Friday, I hosted a live Reddit Q&A on the Science Behind Superheroes along with several other GE researchers, including Chief Scientist Jim Bray, Physicist Scott Price and Edison Engineer Justin McHugh. We had a great time answering questions on topics that ranged from shoe treads for running at super speed to a Mom looking for a truth-compelling lasso to use on her teenaged kids. While we tried to stick to the science, we did have some fun with some of the answers as well. Click here to view the Reddit Q&A or check out this article written about the chat by Jay Deitcher, an… -
How To Explain Technology to Your Kids in the Coolest Way Possible
14 Jun 2013 | 2:53 pmWith all of the excitement around Superheroes currently, our scientists were inspired to create a superhero of their own. Meet GENIUS MAN. GENIUS MAN is our imagination, but the technologies he possesses are very real and impact the world today. For example, GENIUS MAN can fly. Did you know that GE developed the first U.S. jet engine? Check out each of his superpowers and click “more” to learn more about the real world applications GE researchers are driving. Also, be sure to share your favorite technology with friends on Facebook, Twitter or by e-mail. We’re curious to see… -
Another Superhero Coming to a Screen Near You
13 Jun 2013 | 2:22 pmAs a fan of comic book heroes, I’m looking forward to Superman: Man of Steel, which opens tomorrow, June 14. Here at GE’s Research organization, with 3,000 scientists, I’m not the only superhero fan. In fact, a few of us got to thinking: what powers and abilities of superheroes are enabled or emulated by technologies on which we already work every day? These could range from Laser Technology to Advanced Materials to Systems and Analytics driving the Industrial Internet revolution. We thought we could come up with a pretty cool superhero of our own. And in fact, we did. On Friday, June… -
Industrial Inspection Technologies: there’s more to materials than meets the eye
12 Jun 2013 | 1:20 pmHi, I am Waseem Faidi and I lead the Inspection and Metrology Lab at GE Global Research in developing novel inspection and process monitoring solutions for various GE high performance parts, including aircraft engines, power generation turbines, and oil and gas equipment. You might say we do healthcare for machines. In our world, a stress fracture isn’t a broken bone but rather a defect in a part. GE, of course, is well known for being pioneers in medical imaging. One of our early research pioneers, William Coolidge, developed a safe x-ray tube that greatly facilitated the use of x-ray for… -
The Place Where Emergency Care Belongs
23 May 2013 | 7:33 amThe average adult’s heart beats about 70 times a minute. With each beat, the left ventricle of your heart is pumping blood throughout your body, delivering the nutrients essential for you to wake up each morning, go to bed each night—and live, in between. But what happens when that left ventricle can’t pump that oxygen-rich blood 70 times a minute? Your cells, the roughly 100 trillion, microscopic building blocks of the body simply cannot survive. When they say it’s the little things in life that matter—they’re not lying. My name is Jason Castle, and I am a biologist five days out…
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GM FastLane
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Racing is a Family Tradition for Team Chevy Drivers and Their Dads
13 Jun 2013 | 4:00 pmIt has been said that “racing gets into your blood and never gets out”. This phrase and “like father, like son” ring true for a few Team Chevy racing families. This weekend we celebrate Father’s Day by asking a few Team Chevy drivers to comment about their father/son relationships and racing. Team Chevy driver Kasey Kahne credits his father with his interest in racing: “Because of him is why I race cars.” Kasey Kahne, driver of the No. 5 Farmers Insurance Chevrolet SS, is in eighth place in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series standings going into Sunday’s Quicken Loans 400 at… -
GMC Sierra: Putting Truck Aerodynamics Myths to the Test
12 Jun 2013 | 8:53 amGeneral Motors is pulling out all the stops on the all-new 2014 Sierra – and in the process morphing a vehicle segment known for unrefined brawn and gas guzzling into the most fuel-efficient V-8 pickup on the market — thanks in part to aerodynamic advancement. To make aerodynamic changes to the vehicle, engineers examined every millimeter of the Sierra while in the wind tunnel. The 2014 Sierra has spent more time in General Motors’ state of the art Aerodynamics Lab than any other Sierra before it. The 750-foot-long tunnel through which a 43-foot-diameter fan powered by a DC electric… -
Chevrolet Refurbishes Community Baseball Fields in Cities Across the Country
10 Jun 2013 | 1:20 pmIf your community’s youth baseball field is in need of repair but needs a little outside help, Chevrolet’s Diamonds & Dreams program could bring the extra hands you’re looking for. For the past four years, Chevrolet in partnership with Ripken Design, a division of Ripken Baseball, has organized 42 youth baseball field makeovers across the country through the Diamonds & Dreams program. From New Jersey to Indiana to California, small town and inner city baseball fields have been given new life for the next generation of Major League Baseball hopefuls. The makeover includes new… -
Chevrolet is ready to celebrate summer at the 2013 CMA Music Festival
5 Jun 2013 | 1:26 pmIt’s that time of year again; grab your best boots and head on over to Nashville for the 2013 CMA Music Festival! From today until Sunday, some of the biggest names in country music will gather in the genre’s hometown for a four-day celebration of summer and country music. If you think Chevrolet is missing out on the fun, think again. They’ve been gearing up for CMA Fest for months, and the Chevrolet team can’t wait to celebrate with all of you. Here’s your Chevrolet guide to the 2013 CMA festival. We’ll see you in Music City! WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5 BLOCK PARTY AT THE CHEVROLET… -
Chevy Urban Style Celebrates the 2014 Impala
29 May 2013 | 4:35 amSince it was first unveiled in New York, and at shows throughout the year, the all-new 2014 Impala drew attention and positive conversation. To continue the buzz, General Motors invited design focused trend setters from various industries in New York to celebrate the all-new Impala at the Chevy Urban Style media and influencer event on May 8th, 2013. Jocelyn Allen, Director of Regional, Grassroots and Diversity Communications, welcomed guests to the event. “The idea behind Urban Style is that no matter the industry – automotive, fashion, music, and so on – urban influences and styling…
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The Official Google Blog
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Chromebooks: coming to more stores near you
17 Jun 2013 | 12:05 pmIn Northern California where I live, summer is here, which means family vacations, kids’ camps, BBQs and hopefully some relaxation. But it also means back-to-school shopping is just around the corner. So in case you’re on the hunt for a laptop in addition to pens, paper, and stylish new outfits, your search just got a whole lot easier. Chromebooks—a fast, simple, secure laptop that won't break the bank—will now be carried in over 3 times more stores than before, or more than 6,600 stores around the world. In addition to Best Buy and Amazon.com, we’re excited to welcome several new… -
Happy Small Business Week.
17 Jun 2013 | 8:09 amOur first AdWords customer was a small business selling live mail-order lobsters. It’s been a long time since then, but a majority of our customers are still small businesses, who play a vital role not only for Google, but for the American economy. More than 60 percent of new jobs each year come from small businesses. This Small Business Week, we want to celebrate you. We’re grateful to you for everything you do for us and our communities. Whether you fix people’s cars, offer music lessons to aspiring musicians, or make the world’s best homemade ice cream—when you do what you love,… -
Our continued commitment to combating child exploitation online
15 Jun 2013 | 10:48 pmThe Internet has been a tremendous force for good—increasing access to information, improving people’s ability to communicate and driving economic growth. But like the physical world, there are dark corners on the web where criminal behavior exists. In 2011, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s (NCMEC’s) Cybertipline Child Victim Identification Program reviewed 17.3 million images and videos of suspected child sexual abuse. This is four times more than what their Exploited Children's Division (ECD) saw in 2007. And the number is still growing. Behind these images… -
Introducing Project Loon: Balloon-powered Internet access
14 Jun 2013 | 8:16 pmThe Internet is one of the most transformative technologies of our lifetimes. But for 2 out of every 3 people on earth, a fast, affordable Internet connection is still out of reach. And this is far from being a solved problem. There are many terrestrial challenges to Internet connectivity—jungles, archipelagos, mountains. There are also major cost challenges. Right now, for example, in most of the countries in the southern hemisphere, the cost of an Internet connection is more than a month’s income. Solving these problems isn’t simply a question of time: it requires looking at the… -
Getting healthy just got a little easier
13 Jun 2013 | 8:28 amWe’re all looking for ways to get a little healthier and smarter about the choices we make. Having tools and information at your fingertips might help bring a bit of motivation to your routine, and of course good tunes and a strong community doesn’t hurt either. What’s in that cupcake? Want to know how many calories are in a cupcake, or how much potassium is in a banana? You can now find nutrition information for over 1,000 foods in search - helping you stay informed about what you eat more quickly and easily. While using voice search, on desktop, your iPhone, or Android device you can…
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Graco Heart to Heart Blog
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Win It Wednesday: Bring Baby to Family Meals with TableFit
12 Jun 2013 | 9:21 amMealtimes with your family are always special: it’s the time to talk about your day, learn about other family members’ day, try new foods and socialize with each other. Plus, what better way to bond than over a delicious meal? To encourage more family mealtimes with your baby, right from the beginning, today’s Win It Wednesday giveaway is the TableFit™ Highchair in the cute, gender-neutral Finley fashion. TableFit is different than other highchairs because of its unique design—it’s made to slide right to the table, without a bulky tray to obstruct the fit. Plus, the gentle slope… -
Celebrating Summer Travel with Win It Wednesday
5 Jun 2013 | 10:37 amSummer is here! Okay, technically, the official start of summer is June 22, but with warmer weather (even hot, depending on where you are!), school out and pools officially open, we’re already in the summer spirit. To kick off what we know will be a terrific summer 2013, we’re excited to present a fun Win It Wednesday giveaway. Since summer is the season of travel—vacation, trips to the lake, visiting friends and grandparents—we’re giving away a Travel Lite™ Crib in the gender-neutral Fenwick fashion. Travel Lite Crib features a removable infant bassinet with quilted mattress pad… -
May Giveaway: Winner’s Choice Travel System
16 May 2013 | 9:51 amWe are offering a May Giveaway today with a twist: the lucky winner can choose the Wal-Mart travel system that best suits them. Fun, right? The lucky mom (or dad!) that wins today’s giveaway can pick from these three terrific travel systems: Graco Spree Travel System in Twister fashion, with the SnugRide infant car seat Graco LiteRider Travel System in Gecko fashion, with the SnugRide infant car seat Graco Spree Travel System in Priscilla fashion, with the SnugRide infant car seat All three of these travel systems are terrific and are just what any busy parent needs to get out and… -
Bring Your Child to the Table, Right from the Start: Introducing TableFit™
8 May 2013 | 2:13 pmYour new baby is an important addition to the family, so why not start off by involving your little one in a great family bonding opportunity: mealtimes. There are a ton of reasons why including your child in family meals is important—from eating habits to social skills later in life—and that’s why we’re so delighted to introduce the Graco® TableFit™. It’s the first highchair of its kind that truly brings baby to the table. When you see the highchair, you’ll notice how different the profile is—the legs slope gently so as not to get in the way of the table and the tray and… -
Sweet Dreams with the SweetSlumber Sound Machine
1 May 2013 | 6:46 pmWin It Wednesday returns this week! Graco is giving away a SweetSlumber ™ Sound Machine to two lucky winners! Our SweetSlumber™ Sound Machine helps your baby fall to sleep and stay asleep. It offers 12 high-quality soothing sounds, including lullabies, nature sounds and white noise. You can even use the MP3 plug-in to calm your baby with a customized playlist. There’s a timer option, which automatically shuts SweetSlumber™ off once it has soothed your child to sleep. And should you want to peek in on your little sleeper, the soft glow nightlight will show the way. Share your tips…
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Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
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Australia can lead the way for intersex people | Morgan Carpenter
17 Jun 2013 | 7:35 pmMorgan Carpenter: Our lives are medicalised, and our voices rarely heard. If the sex discrimination amendment bill passes, this will be a huge win for all of usMorgan Carpenter -
Where is the outrage over Prism in Australia?
17 Jun 2013 | 4:39 pmAntony Loewenstein: Global surveillance is a threat to our personal freedom. And yet, the NSA revelations have barely caused a ripple on this side of the worldAntony Loewenstein -
Steve Bell on day one of the G8 summit – cartoon
17 Jun 2013 | 3:52 pmDavid Cameron and Vladimir Putin hold talks in Downing Street on differences over the Syrian crisis at G8 summitSteve Bell -
What lies behind the power price increases in Australia? | John Quiggin
17 Jun 2013 | 3:42 pmJohn Quiggin: To explain the latest 20% rise of electricity cost in Queensland, look no further than the free market reforms kickstarted in the 1990sJohn Quiggin -
In praise of … Northern Ireland's G8
17 Jun 2013 | 3:10 pmThere is something genuinely heartening about a world event of this kind happening in Northern IrelandThere are plenty of reasons to be cynical about the G8 summit – including the improbability of effective agreements on tax or Syria in the communiqué. And the huge security lockdown and trompe l'oeil prettifications of depressed parts of Northern Ireland for the benefit of global visitors are reminders – if they were needed – that such summits have their civil liberty price and their shameless dimensions. All the same, there is something genuinely heartening about a world event of this…
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Hu' Blog
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Object Stores and HCP: An Interview with Bob Primmer (Part 1)
6 Jun 2013 | 2:31 pmI have read a number of my colleague Bob Primmer’s publications on object storage and our Hitachi Content Platform. I thought he would be the best person to help us understand how object storage and HCP help us address the explosion of data. Can you tell us how you have come to be the expert in this area? I’ve worked in software my whole career, both as a developer and also within product management. In 2002, I began by working at EMC on Centera, the first commercial instantiation of an object store. I then worked on Atmos in the early stages and subsequently came to HDS in 2009 as an… -
Software Defined Storage is not about commodity storage
31 May 2013 | 8:52 amSoftware defined storage, SDS, seems to be the marketing phrase these days. Wikipedia calls it a marketing theme for promoting storage technologies that is lacking consensus. Wikipedia does go on to list some characteristics of SDS: Automation with policy-driven storage provisioning – SLAs replace technology details Virtual volumes – allowing a more transparent mapping between large volumes and the VM disk images within them, to allow better performance and data management optimizations Commodity hardware with storage logic abstracted into a software layer Programmability –… -
Remembering Jack Harker
23 May 2013 | 3:51 pmLast month the storage world marked the passing of one of the most beloved pioneers of the storage industry, Jack Harker. Jack was one of the original developers of the first disk drive, the IBM RAMAC. He joined the IBM Storage Lab in 1952 when it was first established in San Jose, California. As a product manager and then the lab director, he was responsible for the IBM 3330 and the IBM 3340 Winchester, which was the first removable Head Disk Assembly HDA. Jack also led the IBM Technology and Advanced Development groups that were responsible for most of the technical innovations, including… -
A CIO’s Perspective on Embracing BYOD and Enterprise Mobility
22 May 2013 | 11:12 amI recently interviewed my colleague Rex Carter, CIO of Hitachi Data Systems. He joined HDS in 2006 and has played a major role in the transformation of our company through the innovative use of IT technology. He is well known to many of our customers and partners as he seeks every opportunity to engage with them and share best practices. Rex and the IT team are rolling out a new BYOD solution, called HCP Anywhere to Hitachi Data Systems 6,000 employees. Q: Rex, thank you for agreeing to do this interview. One of the biggest challenges that our customers are facing is the proliferation of… -
Object Storage is a Horizontal Platform: HCP
15 May 2013 | 9:27 amI have had a busy week in Hong Kong, with several of our executives providing an update for some customers and partners. There was a lot of interest in a new option that we will announce for our Hitachi Content Platform that will address the challenges of BYOD. BYOD is a great enabler for user productivity and innovation but can create a security risk for corporate IP. This option is a gateway that enables enterprise users to sync and share files via secure smart links so the latest version of their document is available on their iPhone, iPad, Windows, Mac, or browser and is shareable with…
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INDIUM CORPORATION | INDIUM
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Reflow of Copper Pillar Microbumps
10 Jun 2013 | 5:20 amWaferbumping processes have evolved in the last 10 years. The semiconductor assembly industry has gone from bumping processes using solder paste printing (with all its concerns of voiding, coplanarity, stencil-life, and spatter) to plated solderbumps, and now to plated copper pillars with microbumps (solder endcaps). as shown in figure 1. Figure 1: Evolution of Flip-Chip Bump Metallization and Structure The reasons for the move from standard solder bumps to copper pillars are primarily to: allow high I/O ultrafine pitches (<80microns) without solder bridging maintain high stand-off (chip -… -
The Limits of Mixing: A Chocolate Chip Example
30 May 2013 | 5:47 amFolks, We tend to think of mixing as something that can completely even out those things being mixed. As an example, let’s assume you are making chocolate chip cookies and would like to have 10 chocolate chips in each large cookie. You make enough batter for 100 cookies and then mix in 1,000 chocolate chips. After mixing for a long time you put 100 dollops of the batter on the baking pan and bake up the cookies. Upon inspecting the cookies, to your dismay, you find that you have only 13 cookies with 10 chocolate chips. More than 40 cookies have 30 percent… -
NanoBond® used for Data Generation
30 May 2013 | 5:00 am“The standard process was used as described: The pieces were assembled with a reactive multilayer foil between the aluminum and molybdenum, with a compliant foam layer over them and an aluminum spacer block on top of the foam. This stack was loaded into a hydraulic press and compressed to 3MPa. An electric pulse was directed to 4 locations around the bond area to activate the foil and the bond was completed within a fraction of a second.” If you’ve been following this blog, you know the procedure by now. This is the NanoBond® process, and it was used on all of the… -
An Alternative Approach to Sputtering Target Bonding
28 May 2013 | 5:00 amA traditionally bonded sputtering target experiences a wide range of temperatures over its life cycle. It is bonded at over 200°C – usually almost 300°C for Sn/Ag/Cu bonding. Since this is the temperature it is bonded at, all changes in temperature will expand or contract the materials. Next, it cools down to room temperature. It is then operated at temperatures around 100°C and repeatedly cycled over the course of its usable life. In an alternative approach to traditional sputtering target bonding, NanoFoil® can be used as described in Eliminating Bond Stresses of… -
The Perfect Sputtering Target Bond
23 May 2013 | 5:00 amWhy do we care so much about target bonding? This is important because a sputtering target that truly performs will allow greater process flexibility, and higher throughput. An introduction from Eliminating Bond Stresses of Sputtering Targets at Operating Temperatures: “…It was observed that bonding with reactive multi-layer foil as a localized heat source allows use of higher temperature solders for joining target and backing plates for sputtering. This permits the use of higher power densities and higher operational temperatures, since the bond is generally the first part of…
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Inside Scoop
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Intel at Cisco Live
13 Jun 2013 | 5:50 amIt’s well known that I am a huge gaming enthusiast and that I support the Intel Extreme Masters events worldwide. What you may not know is I’m also involved in other Intel events that cover all sorts of different technologies and technology companies. Today I’m giving a shout out to the Intel team as they prepare a great set of demos and technical sessions for our booth (booth 1047) at the upcoming Cisco Live event in Orlando. As I’ve been helping prepare for Cisco Live I’m learning some pretty interesting stuff on how technology convergence is creating an impact on many different… -
PC Relief for the Mom Blogger
4 Jun 2013 | 10:55 amHow old is your PC? If your household is like thirty-two percent of the USA, your PC is four or more years old. Technology has changed quite a bit in those four years, including convertible laptop/tablets, and touchscreen PCs becoming more mainstream experiences. You can also get a new computer that delivers amazing gains in performance for about $200 less than you probably paid for comparable PC four years ago. A contest sponsored by Lunchbox, a digital shopper marketing agency, provided Moms with an opportunity to refresh to new PCs. Lunchbox reached out to influential Mom and… -
NYC: #LookInside Ultrabook & See Dinesh Boaz of @SweetSoundsNYC
19 May 2013 | 9:00 amToday is the last day for Experience Intel in New York City. Come out and Look Inside all the latest Ultrabook devices at 9th Avenue and Gansevoort. You can also hear some sweet sounds from Dinesh Boaz of Sweet Sounds Studio, based here in New York City. Dinesh Boaz has created a state-of-the-art recording facility in Manhattan where he combines his passion with technology to produce cutting-edge projects. Not only musicians, but also talented engineers work together with the world’s best equipment where the computer serves as the centerpiece of the studio allowing effortless music… -
NYC: #LookInside Ultrabook & See Project Runway Winner @michelleiswell
19 May 2013 | 8:25 amThe Experience Intel booth was packed yesterday for Project Runway winner Michelle Lesniak Franklin as she talked about how technology such as the Ultrabook, has transformed her work process. It used to be that she would put together a mood board as a source of inspiration, but she found that the stacks of paper and things clipped to a regular bulletin board would fly off if she had to leave the studio with it. Now she can use technology to create a series of images that are her design inspirations. She flipped through several images and showed us how she was inspired to create a yellow… -
NYC: #LookInside Ultrabook: Gansevoort & 9th Ave: @SmokeApple
18 May 2013 | 3:23 pmCarlye Rubin of Smoke & Apple Films is speaking at Experience Intel this weekend. Carlye (the NY Apple) and her partner Katie Green (London Smoke) are filmmakers who are dedicated to finding innovative ways of storytelling while shedding light on many issues of today. At Experience Intel, Carlye shows a short film that shows how they were able to make their idea of collaborating as filmmakers come to life through the use of modern technology. Using technology such as the Ultrabook, they can remain in constant contact and communicate as if they were working together in the same…
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Johnson & Johnson
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A Legacy of Caring
22 May 2013 | 8:53 pmBy Conrad Person, Director, Corporate Contributions People often ask me why Johnson & Johnson is so deeply engaged with obstetric fistula. My answer is that the health and well-being of moms and babies is the essence of our company, and we would therefore care for the women who suffer personal tragedy in giving birth. I never fail to speak of Our Credo which charges us to “support good works and charities.” While this is all true, the whole story of our involvement with obstetric fistula is a great deal more personal than that. It started because one man earnestly wanted to do one… -
Congratulations to the Class of 2013
21 May 2013 | 11:22 amBy: Alex Gorsky, Chairman and CEO of Johnson & Johnson During this month, thousands of students will accomplish an important academic milestone: the college graduation. I recently had the honor of delivering the keynote address to the 2013 graduating class at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton Executive MBA program. It was a homecoming for me because 17 years ago I was one of those graduates. In the years since, I’ve learned a few lessons I’d like to share with you as you begin to mold your own life plans. Change will be the only consistency you encounter: Change has always been… -
Happy Mother’s Day!
12 May 2013 | 7:00 amHappy Mother’s Day to all of our readers! We are celebrating mothers, sisters, aunts, friends and kids everywhere with a post on our JNJParents blog from one of our own Johnson & Johnson moms. Sometimes Moms need to hear they are doing okay, and Mother’s Day is the perfect time to tell them. From a simple pat on the back to kind words of support – these reassurances can make all the difference, especially for moms like Crystal Cortacans. Visit JNJParents to read Crystal’s post and learn how you can reassure a special woman in your life this Mother’s Day! Click here to read Words… -
Second Chances: How a Blood Test Helped The Voice’s Jamar Rogers Live with Purpose
7 May 2013 | 10:44 amBy Eric Compton, Worldwide President, Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, Inc. At Ortho Clinical Diagnostics (OCD), celebrating National Minority Health Month in April was an opportunity to shine a light on the health disparities affecting our country. While we are all at risk for chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and in some instances HIV, these diseases can affect minorities at a much higher rate. As a company and as part of the broader healthcare community, we encourage everyone to take control of your own health and Know Your Numbers; so we can stand together by preventing,… -
Show Your Stripes for Prostate Cancer
29 Apr 2013 | 7:54 amBy Joanne Vanak, Senior Director of Scientific Advocacy at Janssen I play many roles in my life and in my work. I am part of the scientific advocacy team at Janssen Biotech. I’m a former oncology nurse. I am a member of Johnson & Johnson’s Veteran’s Leadership Council. And, I’m also the daughter, wife and mother of men who have served in our country’s military. These are just a few of the reasons I’m so proud and honored to help my company launch a new campaign — Show Your Stripes for Prostate Cancer Awareness — to educate and support veterans and their families…
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Dr. Maring's Farmers' Market and Recipes Update - Kaiser Permanente
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Vacation Vegetable Pizza
11 Jun 2013 | 9:28 pmA few years ago my son Ben introduced a number of us to my new favorite pizza at his apartment in Brooklyn. Topping spicy sauteed swiss chard with roasted cauliflower made a spectacular pizza. I’ve made it many times since but not when on vacation in a place where I could cook. So this all started with some frozen white whole wheat pizza dough. When I make dough, I usually make enough for four 12 inch pizzas and freeze half in plastic wrap before it has risen at all. Someday you decide you would like to make pizza in the evening. Simply unwrap the frozen ball of dough and plunk it… -
From Garden to Plate: Easy-to-Grow Greens
7 Jun 2013 | 10:41 amMy wife and I focused on good dirt this year when we planted our backyard garden in some raised beds I built with a friend. Good soil really matters. Check out these mustard greens. There are some flowers in the picture – that’s because they grew too much before harvesting and are starting to mature. I didn’t know what to do with them so just sort of marveled at them. It turns out that they are just delicious cooked the way I do lots of greens, including spinach, chard, kale, beet greens and dandelion greens. Collard greens need a bit more work. Simply chop off the tough… -
Summer Salsa at Macy’s San Francisco
5 Jun 2013 | 12:52 pmTo welcome June last Saturday, I had the good fortune to cook with a colleague from Kaiser Permanente San Francisco in the demonstration kitchen at the San Francisco Union Square Macy’s. Dr. Leah Klinger is a primary care physician leader at her hospital and loves good food. It was a great opportunity for us to talk about good food, good health, and good taste while having fun in the process. About 40 people stayed with us for an hour – rather than basking in the 75 degree sunshine outside – and they seemed to enjoy what Leah and I prepared for them. Dr. Klinger… -
Really Simple Asparagus Soup
25 May 2013 | 11:47 amA few months ago, I attended a Grand Round presentation by Dr. Sanford Warren from Santa Rosa Kaiser Permanente on a “plant strong diet”. For some with significant cardiovascular issues, he recommended a strict low fat diet without meat or dairy. For most, he simply encouraged eating a plant strong diet as much as possible. My wife and I talked about his presentation and the clear evidence about the impact on health. We’ve always been happy to eat vegetable and grain based dishes, but still ate a fair amount of fish, poultry, and cheese (witness the spectacular Blue… -
Cooking for Solutions in Monterey
22 May 2013 | 10:49 amThis past week I had the privilege to attend the annual Cooking for Solutions and Sustainable Foods Institute hosted by the Monterey Bay Aquarium. This is a great event that brings together chefs, media, experts and the public to talk about the links between sustainability, the ocean and the land. There was a lot to learn from many experts who believe that foods we choose to eat have a great impact not only on us, but also on the environment. A Central Coast journalist named Rachel Duchak wrote this wonderful piece about the event. On Friday I was interviewed at Earthbound Farms in…
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Lenovo Blogs
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Lenovo joins the Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure Partner Network
12 Jun 2013 | 9:47 amDid you hear about the announcement today at the Red Hat Summit that Lenovo is part of the Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure Partner Network? At Lenovo, we’re very excited about this. What it means is that OpenStack, an open source platform for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), will leverage Lenovo’s ThinkServer product line for compute and virtualization. It also means Lenovo has taken the next step in ThinkServer’s open philosophy and “Cloud-Ready” architecture to provide customers more choice with individual stack components, including… -
Yoga in Silhouette
11 Jun 2013 | 7:36 amA fun, flexible product like Yoga gives us marketers some really interesting ways to demonstrate its flip and fold and multiple mode functions. So when we came across the group, THE SILHOUETTES™, we exclaimed ah ha! These are the perfect artists to visually represent Yoga’s qualities in body-bending and mind-bending ways. We recently spent a day in Denver, CO with them filming a new, yet unnamed dance performance, choreographed to celebrate the availability of our newest Yoga, the IdeaPad Yoga 11S at Best Buy and on www.lenovo.com. We spent a few minutes chatting with… -
With Lenovo Reach, We Unleash A New Kind of Cloud
4 Jun 2013 | 11:23 amTablet, PC, phone, and TV. You probably use at least two of those devices, if not all four, on a daily basis. Most Apps on any of these devices requires a unique login every time you use it. Coupled with this multiple logins is the difference in experience and user preferences from device to device. Not all user information/content transfers from the PC to the tablet. Some information/content is present on the tablet, but not on the phone. Or there is the trick of emailing yourself files just to make sure you have access to them on every device. All in all, it’s a… -
Yoga Takes NYC Part 2: On Tour at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair
22 May 2013 | 12:47 pmThe IdeaPad Yoga 11S had a big week, first with its website availability on May 16, then by heading to New York City to hang out at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF). We attended ICFF for the first time to show off our latest Horizon Table PC and the three custom tables we had created for it. We had some fun with the fashion-forward Yoga: it turned heads at the show, and even made itself home in some home-design booths at the Javits Center. Yoga kicks back and relaxes after a hard day of working the ICFF floor. Right next door to Lenovo, Yoga checked out the… -
Architecting the 21st Century Treehouse
17 May 2013 | 2:00 pmAs a designer, Judson Beaumont of Straight Line Designs always looks to bend the lines, producing out-of-the-box pieces that are unexpected and add whimsy to any environment. So when Lenovo approached the creator about putting his touch on creating new opportunities for the IdeaCentre Horizon Table PC, his mind took him to the tree tops. Here’s a glimpse at what sparked his imagination. Q. How did you get the idea for the 21st Century Treehouse? A. When I first thought about creating a table for the Horizon, I designed many different styles based on various age groups. Some of…
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Official LinkedIn Blog
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Members First on InDay and Every Day
14 Jun 2013 | 9:11 amOnce a month, we set aside a Friday for employees to think creatively, work on innovative projects, and invest in their careers. We call this InDay. Today, our InDay theme reinforces a philosophy we live and breathe every day at LinkedIn, Members First. Everything we build at LinkedIn is dedicated to furthering our mission of connecting the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful. This InDay, my colleagues and I are participating in two global initiatives that put our members at the center: Customer Experience Week and Interview a Member. Customer Experience Week… -
Influencer: The One Conference You Want to Attend (It Just Takes a Click)
13 Jun 2013 | 6:04 amIt would be hard to count the number of people who have been influenced by Bill Gates: early employees of Microsoft; Gates Foundation grantees across the world; nonprofit innovators. But when Gates needs guidance, where does he turn? That’s the question he answers today in his inaugural post on LinkedIn Influencer, our platform that allows 250+ top people in the professional world to share their insights with 225 million LinkedIn members around the world. Every week we’ve been adding powerful names to Influencer. Others starting today include CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo, Campbell Soup CEO… -
Your Professional Network is Integrating with OS X Mavericks
11 Jun 2013 | 1:41 pmDuring yesterday’s keynote at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, Craig Federighi announced that LinkedIn will be integrated into the newest version of OS X, called OS X Mavericks. This upcoming integration will offer Mac users a seamless experience on the Mac platform to connect, share, and be notified of their LinkedIn activity, making it even easier for them to stay up to date with their professional networks. Here are the features you can anticipate after yesterday’s announcement: LinkedIn integration in Shared Links in Safari. Shared Links, which will work… -
Food Truck Friday Rolls Back Into LinkedIn for Summer
7 Jun 2013 | 7:57 amThere are a number of things that signify the beginning of summer – warm weather, longer days, family vacations. At LinkedIn’s headquarters in Mountain View, we associate the sights and sounds of summer with the rumble of trucks and the delicious smell of various ethnic cuisine. That’s right, it’s officially time for Food Truck Friday at LinkedIn! As one of the LinkedIn “Food Fellas”, I’ve always had a passion for food. Cooking and sharing a meal with other people should be a communal experience, and it’s that way of thinking that inspired Food Truck Friday. Starting today and… -
Three Ways Recent Grads Can Leverage LinkedIn for Long-Term Success
6 Jun 2013 | 2:34 pmYou have your new degree in hand and your future at the forefront, so now what? Whether you’ve landed a job or are still weighing your options, LinkedIn can be an invaluable tool for your next steps post-graduation. We’ve pulled together three simple things you can do now to successfully transition from campus to career. Take Charge of Your Professional Identity Your LinkedIn profile makes it possible for opportunities to find you. It is a virtual billboard that communicates to current, potential and future employers, and colleagues 24 hours a day. That said, a complete profile doesn’t…
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Lulu Blog
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How to stay fresh when writing becomes work
4 Jun 2013 | 10:54 amWhen you do something professionally, whether it’s a full time gig that pays the bills or part-time work to get that walking-around money, it can become monotonous. To be honest, the odds are that it will. In some cases, that monotony could be a welcome development. I’ve worked some pretty unfulfilling jobs where routine has provided a welcome refuge. But if you are lucky enough to be financially compensated for doing something you love, the tedium that comes from repetition is something you really have to watch out for and guard against. I find writing to be fulfilling work,… -
Picture.com is here!
30 May 2013 | 7:34 amToday, Lulu launched Picture.com, a better way to celebrate your memories with custom photo books and calendars. Lulu has always listened to our customers and we strive to provide the very best products to meet your needs. Well, with Picture.com we did just that. Picture.com is the result of feedback from thousands of customers looking for a fun, easy, and unique way to celebrate life’s most memorable experiences. With a camera in every purse and pocket, taking pictures is as natural as making a call, checking the weather and updating your status. Great pictures are being captured all… -
eBooks gaining ground but, printed books remain number one
29 May 2013 | 7:02 amCourtesy of Typedesk.com When eBooks really started to take off around three years ago, their success was accompanied by the typical doomy, gloomy apocalyptic hand-wringing about the future of the printed book. The thinking then was that every winner has to have a loser, and with a winner this big (British sales for consumer eBook fiction and non-fiction were up 366% in 2011!!) a big dive was predicted. It’s funny to think, just three years down the line, that people were sure the printed book was on the way out. Perhaps it was just a testament to the popularity and exciting potential… -
Self-publishing gaining ground in the academics
20 May 2013 | 7:54 am[Graphic: Michael Morgenstern for The Chronicle of Higher Education]While I don’t typically pay a lot of attention to academic publishing, I recently ran across a very interesting article in the Chronicle of Higher Education on (mostly) young academics taking advantage of the new opportunities afforded to them by recent developments in self-publishing.The piece focuses on Clay Spinuzzi, a professor of rhetoric and writing at the University of Texas at Austin, who decided to self-publish his third book Topsight: A Guide to Studying, Diagnosing, and Fixing Information Flow in… -
Living in a DRM-Free World
14 May 2013 | 8:26 amDigital Rights Management, the software that helped protect the copyright of books, but turned out to be a rather large hindrance to many readers, is beginning to go the way of the Dodo. More and more businesses that sell eBooks are taking the plunge and ditching DRM (including Lulu). But has the loss of this security measure affected sales? Has the eBook market been flooded with pirated copies of books that drag down the market and result in losses in profit to authors and publishers? In short, no. Tor Books, the high-profile science-fiction publisher dropped DRM last April, and they have…
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Marriott on the Move
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So Many Places To Go
17 Jun 2013 | 2:15 pmInside Our Hotel Development Committee Last week, we had our quarterly hotel development committee meeting. Our senior development officers come from around the world to discuss the various projects they’re working on. It is really exciting for me, as it gives me a chance to look back at where we... -
A "Bill to Bill" Meeting with President Clinton
10 Jun 2013 | 1:24 pmListen to blog One of the benefits of being an old guy and living in Washington, D.C., is that I have had the privilege of meeting almost every U.S. President since Eisenhower. Each is a remarkable leader in their own way, right for their times, endorsed through election by the... -
It’s Joe’s Abilities That Count
3 Jun 2013 | 7:51 amJoe with the 5-year certificate he earned last year Let me tell you about Joe DiPietro. This amazing young man has worked at the Residence Inn Philadelphia Valley Forge in Pennsylvania for six years as a member of the maintenance team. He is the kind of associate every business owner... -
The Only Constant is Change
28 May 2013 | 11:54 amEvery successful company is constantly changing, or they’re not successful for very long. Marriott has a timeline of milestones. Our innovations range from placing ice buckets in rooms to reinventing Times Square by building a megawatt hotel. I didn’t dwell on past accomplishments as I worked with our team to... -
The Natural Gas Revolution Begins in Newark
20 May 2013 | 2:06 pmReady for my first ride in the Courtyard's green van Marriott has a companywide program called “Spirit to Preserve.” It’s a global effort to protect the planet. It’s up to each hotel to make it happen. I was visiting the Courtyard Newark Liberty International Airport Hotel around Earth Day and...
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Mayo Clinic News
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Mayo, WSJ, experts hosting #stroke Twitter chat
28 May 2013 | 8:49 amThe Wall Street Journal’s Shirley Wang will moderate the Twitter #strokechat. Mayo Clinic, the Wall Street Journal’s Shirley Wang, the American Academy of Neurology, the American Stroke Association and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke will be participating in a Twitter #strokechat Wednesday, May 29 from 1-2 p.m. ET. May is National Stroke Awareness Month. Stroke is a leading cause of death in the United States, killing nearly 130,000 Americans each year—that’s 1 of every 18 deaths, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Stroke…
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The Old New Thing
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I wonder if the Queen of England ever pulls this sort of prank in real life
17 Jun 2013 | 7:00 amI dreamed that I was playing doubles tennis. My partner was Boris Becker. Our opponents were the Queen of England and a policeman on a horse. The horse served his horseshoe, which I returned poorly. As the horseshoe bounced across the ground, it made huge divots. The game was called due to poor ground conditions. The Queen played a game with the crowd by pretending to sit down (allowing everybody to sit), then faking them out and standing (making everybody stand up again). -
Displaying a property sheet for multiple files
17 Jun 2013 | 7:00 amToday's Little Program will show a property sheet that covers multiple files, just like the one you get from Explorer if you multi-select a bunch of files and right-click them all then select Properties. In fact, that description of how you do the operation interactively maps directly to how you do the operation programmatically! #define UNICODE #define _UNICODE #define STRICT_TYPED_ITEMIDS #include <windows.h> #include <ole2.h> #include <shlobj.h> #include <atlbase.h> #include <atlalloc.h> HRESULT GetUIObjectOf( IShellFolder *psf, HWND hwndOwner, UINT cidl,… -
A big little program: Monitoring Internet Explorer and Explorer windows, part 3: Tracking creation and destruction
14 Jun 2013 | 7:00 amLast time, we listener for window navigations. Today we'll learn about tracking window creation and destruction. The events to listen to are the DShellWindowsEvents. The WindowRegistered event fires when a new window is created, and the WindowRevoked event fires when a window is destroyed. The bad news is that the parameter to those events is a cookie, which is not useful for much, so we just use the events to tell us that it's time to kick off a new enumeration to see what changed. This will also catch the case where something fell out of sync because a window closed… -
A big little program: Monitoring Internet Explorer and Explorer windows, part 2: Tracking navigations
13 Jun 2013 | 7:00 amOkay, it's been a while since we set aside our Little Program to learn a bit about connection points and using dispatch interfaces as connection point interfaces. Now we can put that knowledge to use. Internet Explorer and Explorer windows fire a group of events known as DWebBrowserEvents, so we just need to listen on those events to follow the window as it navigates around. Take our scratch program and make these changes: #define UNICODE #define _UNICODE #define STRICT #define STRICT_TYPED_ITEMIDS #include <windows.h> #include <windowsx.h> #include <ole2.h>… -
Dispatch interfaces as connection point interfaces
12 Jun 2013 | 7:00 amLast time, we learned about how connection points work. One special case of this is where the connection interface is a dispatch interface. Dispatch interfaces are, as the name suggests, COM interfaces based on IDispatch. The IDispatch interface is the base interface for OLE automation objects, and if you want your connection point interface to be usable from script, you probably should make it a dispatch interface. I'm assuming you know how IDispatch works. The short version is that script that wants to invoke a method or property calls GetIDsOfNames to get the dispatch ID for…
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Molson in the Community
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ProAction + Molson Coors = “John Bitove Sr. Award”
5 Jun 2013 | 6:14 amPhoto L-R: Carole Berry, Molson Coors; John Bitove Jr. I was asked to accept an award on our behalf, being naturally curious I set out to learn more about what we were receiving from ProAction. “The John Bitove Sr. Award” is corporate recognition, ok I figured that out, but why were we, Molson Coors Canada, nominated? It turns out we have been involved since 1991, when ProAction began, and have been a part of “Cops helping Kids” ever since. These programs have bridged the gap and helped forge positive relationships between the police and the community… -
Corona paints the town red…blue, orange, purple & more
4 Jun 2013 | 7:21 amOn Friday, May 31st, Corona hosted a giant paint party in the heart of Toronto at Yonge-Dundas Square. Over 7,500 people RSVPed for the event on Facebook to experience what it means to #LiveMasFina at one of the largest paint parties in Canada! Together with our community of fans, we painted, danced and celebrated. People came in as blank canvases and left as works of art! Want to join us? The next paint party is happening in Montreal on June 14th. Keep Living Mas Fina! -
Canadians making their mark in Dublin
21 May 2013 | 1:18 pmEarlier this year we asked Canadians from coast to coast to share their stories about how they’ve left their mark as a Canadian, and lots of people started sharing their memories and adventures with us. The Make Your Mark contest ended with us sending 12 lucky Canadians on a weekend trip to Dublin, Ireland! Upon arrival, the winners tried their hand at Irish dancing, hurling, gaelic football and many more activities as part of their weekend adventure. Kiss me, I’m Canadian! The group visited a variety of pubs and purchased Molson Canadian beers for other guests, and celebrated in true… -
Arrive Alive turns “25″
16 May 2013 | 1:36 pmWhat a week, for starters it is National Road Safety Week, so it is not a coinsidence that Arrive Alive launched their 25th Campaign yesterday as everyone looks forward to our May long weekend! A reminder that we do have a choice and what we do today will certainly impact our tomorrow. I am certainly looking forward to a couple of ice cold MC67′s on the back patio, but I am enjoying my long weekend locally, I do not have far to go, 200 meters. If you are out celebrating this weekend, remember to download the FREE TAXIGUY APP, that will call you a cab; the APP is FREE and the… -
Moncton Brewery Fights Hunger
15 May 2013 | 11:16 amFor the second year in a row, our team in Moncton has teamed up with the food banks of New Brunswick to collaborate on Hunger Awareness Week fundraising efforts. This year our team came together to host a barbeque for more than 350 people, while offering brewery tours, hosting a live radio broadcast, and having members of the Moncton Wildcats hockey team onsite to sign autographs! Hosted over the lunch hour, the event saw support from dozens of companies in the local business park, including many who donated corporately for the opportunity to host an NHL Playoff viewing party at the…
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Oracle Bloggers
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Skynet Big Data Demo Using Hexbug Spider Robot, Raspberry Pi, and Java SE Embedded (Part 2)
17 Jun 2013 | 6:17 pm"Get ready for a major remodel fellas. We're back in hardware mode." -- Tony Stark. Before we can use Java SE Embedded with our Skynet Big Data enabled Hexbug Spider robot, we need a little hardware hacking. Don't be afraid, just a little soldering. Find the Hexbug Spider remote (little blue box pictured in the top of the photo). Carefully, use a small flat screwdriver and pry apart the four plastic tabs (two on each side). The top of the transmitter comes right off. Then flip it over and find the test points in the photo where we will solder wires onto. See: There are 7 contact points: 1:… -
Meet our Interns: Essam and Noel
17 Jun 2013 | 3:45 pmEssam, Saudi Arabia Hi! My name is Essam and I am an intern in the Middleware Tech Pre-sales team. I graduated from the King Saud University in Saudi Arabia, Software Engineering Department.The first few weeks at Oracle were really good, I met a lot of new people and this helped me see that life as an employee is different from the university.I wasn’t expecting all employees and managers to be as helpful as they were.Even though they have their own work, responsibilities and deadlines to meet, they always stop to listen and help. For students to maximize their chances of being… -
Oracle R Connector for Hadoop 2.1.0 released
17 Jun 2013 | 2:44 pmOracle R Connector for Hadoop (ORCH), a collection of R packages that enables Big Data analytics using HDFS, Hive, and Oracle Database from a local R environment, continues to make advancements. ORCH 2.1.0 is now available, providing a flexible framework while remarkably improving performance and adding new analytics based on the ORCH framework.Previous releases enabled users to write MapReduce tasks in the R language and run them in HDFS. The API was then expanded to include support for Hive data sources, providing easy access to Hive data from R, leveraging the same transparency interface… -
Next Generation Service Integration: SOA & Exalogic
17 Jun 2013 | 2:30 pmProliferation of mobile devices, data explosion and cloud enablement grips IT with a new wave of innovation. New and revolutionary operating models are imposing on IT for radical processing speeds, heightened security, lowered total cost of ownership and maximum availability. Organizations need a next generation IT platform to deliver and capitalize on this new wave of innovation. Heightened success metrics are necessities that have raised the bar for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions. Oracle SOA on Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud & Oracle Exadata Database Machine is fine-tuned… -
Porting Wandora to the NetBeans Platform (Part 2)
17 Jun 2013 | 1:30 pmA first step in porting an application, especially one you don't really know, is to run the application in the NetBeans debugger and then take a GUI snapshot of it. That lets you relate the GUI elements in the application to their source code, very easily, as shown below for Wandora: It's kind of similar to the Chrome integration for HTML5 applications! There, you can click in the browser and then see where items are defined in the IDE. In the above screenshot, you're actually doing something very similar, but then for Java desktop applications, whether in Swing or JavaFX.
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The Cleanest Line
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Rios Libres: Environmental Dispatches – Episode 3, The Alternatives
17 Jun 2013 | 9:44 amBy Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate for the NRDC“El Norte tiene el mejor potencial solar en el mundo. ¡En el mundo! ¿Pues por qué quieren represas en el Sur? Es una locura. Absolutamente una locura.”“The North of Chile has the best solar potential in the world. In the world! So why do they want dams in the South? It’s crazy. Absolutely crazy.”A taxi driver told me these words in May 2011 on the way from the Arturo Merino Benitez Airport to my hotel in Santiago, and they have stuck with me ever since. Just days earlier, Chile’s authorities had approved the massive $10… -
A Belated Bike to Work Week
14 Jun 2013 | 3:18 pmBy Gavin Back It should come as little surprise that a company with Patagonia’s environmental stance is a fervent supporter of Bike to Work Week (B2WW). Unfortunately, important business commitments during the week of May 13-17 meant we are unable to participate during the national event. But this has not deterred us from holding a B2WW! Patagonia will be holding our annual event next week from June 17-21, 2013. Here at the Reno Distribution Center, our B2WW organizing committee has been working hard to prepare a series of events to celebrate and promote bicycles. We have great… -
Lockwood Animal Rescue Center visits Patagonia Reno
13 Jun 2013 | 5:29 pmBy Laurel Winterbourne Danny sleeps peacefully curled up in the corner while Matt, in his boisterous voice, tells the story of Danny’s heroic rescue and horrific existence in captivity in Alaska. On the other side of the room his counterpart Willow sways with sleepiness, falling over every few seconds. She is new to the group and a little more timid with the fifty or so strangers staring at her. She doesn’t want to let her guard down, but exhaustion overwhelms her. It was a long trip from the Lockwood Animal Rescue Center (LARC) in Ventura County to Patagonia’s Service Center in Reno,… -
Running With My Devils
11 Jun 2013 | 5:58 pmBy Steve Graepel I remember running the 50K and getting off course but fighting back into third place, and I remember that it was hot... hotter than hell. And then... and then nothing...I don’t remember collapsing. I have no memories of kicking off good-Samaritan runners who pinned me down to the Prairie floor. I have no recollection of coolers of ice poured over my torso... packed around my groin, armpits and neck. I don’t remember soiling myself. No memories of my clothes being cut from my body in front of dozens of strangers. No memories of the ambulance ride to the local clinic or the… -
Rios Libres: Environmental Dispatches – Episode 2, The History
10 Jun 2013 | 11:45 amBy Craig Childs, video by Rios LibresIt was a good rain that morning in Aysén up a glacial tributary of the Rio Baker. Drips came down through the roof of a one-room house where a young man named Filipe Henriquez stood next to the crackling cocina telling me about how the privatization of water in Chile, the selling of rivers, has interrupted the flow of life. Henriquez said, “My father can’t take water out of the Baker for his livestock. It was sold to HidroAysén. It belongs to Endesa and Colbún. Sure, you can irrigate with it, but it is illegal.”Endesa, a multinational power…
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PumpTalk - Petro-Canada
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Summer Driving: Handling Your Vehicle on a Sharp Turn
14 Jun 2013 | 10:23 amPhoto: iStockphoto With the top down and the summer breeze flowing through your hair, it's easy to go a little heavy on the gas - and that can lead to dangerous situations, particularly when you hit an unexpected bend in...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Petro-Canada/PumpTalk/~4/fyfb4SZ8d3E" height="1" width="1"/> -
What to Expect at Your Emissions Test
6 Jun 2013 | 6:00 amPhoto: iStockphoto Having lived in Southern Ontario and then here in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, I just assumed that everyone in Canada had to report for mandatory emissions testing. Not so! Only drivers in certain regions of Ontario...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Petro-Canada/PumpTalk/~4/_zekkJooyv4" height="1" width="1"/> -
Protecting Your Paperwork from Car Break-Ins
30 May 2013 | 8:51 amPhoto: iStockphoto With the weather heating up, you're probably spending more time in the great outdoors than in the car. Or rather, you may be driving to the best parts of the great outdoors and leaving your car unattended for...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Petro-Canada/PumpTalk/~4/qILdsdGwh4E" height="1" width="1"/> -
Gasoline Supply Update #3 - Good news to share
27 May 2013 | 7:04 amOur Edmonton refinery is once again producing regular volume of fuel. During a routine turnaround inspection additional work was identified. As a result of this key gasoline production units that were expected to continue to operate throughout the turnaround were...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Petro-Canada/PumpTalk/~4/uW6_n_J98vk" height="1" width="1"/> -
Speeding at a Glance: Infographic
23 May 2013 | 6:00 amFurther to our recent post about speed limits in Canada, we came across this infographic about the dangers of speeding and how avoiding speeding can make things safer for you...and your wallet. While it is based on US statistics, it...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Petro-Canada/PumpTalk/~4/IDVU9MbjOwI" height="1" width="1"/>
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Business Making Progress
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Going Deep with Pacific – Introducing Our New Platform for Connected Apps
10 Jun 2013 | 5:32 amHave you heard? Today Progress Software introduced Progress Pacific, a powerful, easy-to-use platform-as-a-service (PaaS) for building and managing “connected apps” on any cloud, mobile or social platform. Progress also announced today that it has acquired California-based Rollbase Inc. and will incorporate that technology into the Pacific platform. This is the foundation of a major PaaS transformation Progress has been working on over the last year to address customer and partner demand in one of the fastest growing IT markets. So, what is Progress Pacific? Progress Pacific is a… -
Progress Exchange 2013: A Keynote You Won’t Forget
31 May 2013 | 11:38 amWe are pleased to announce our keynote speaker for Progress Exchange 2013, Luke Williams, a Professor of Innovation, NYU, and international bestselling author. Don’t miss the globally recognized authority on disruptive innovation, as he challenges you to turn assumptions and expectations upside down to spark transformation in your business. “By artfully smashing ideas together—Luke Williams upends the ordinary, providing a motivational and pragmatic blueprint for innovative thinking.” —Jamyn Edis, Vice-President of Emerging Technology R&D at HBO We can’t wait to hear him live… -
Announcing the Progress Software App Dev Contest!
23 May 2013 | 10:02 amDid you know that? Every day 1 million people become smartphone users (Ericsson). Mobile application development projects targeting smartphones and tablets will outnumber native PC projects by a ratio of 4:1 by 2015 (Gartner). We’re in the middle of a mini tablet surge, with the market predicted to grow by at least 42 percent to more than 170 million units (IDC) Well if these aren’t enough good reasons to go mobile, we have another — THE PROGRESS APP DEV CHALLENGE! We’re pleased to announce the launch of this exciting new contest which will award five lucky winners over US $25,000… -
Update on Progress Exchange 2013
16 May 2013 | 1:53 pmWe are happy to be able to share additional information on Progress Exchange 2013 tracks and some of the exciting things we have planned for October. With three full days of valuable content and more than 70 hours of breakout sessions across eight tracks, the event will be packed full of networking opportunities and sessions including: Mobile and Web: Developing applications for any and all devices Business Application Development: Simplifying development with Progress OpenEdge Developer Productivity: Using the latest tools and frameworks to modernize and speed development Business… -
An Invitation to Progress Exchange 2013 from our CEO, Phil Pead
3 May 2013 | 10:30 amWe are all very excited for Progress Exchange 2013 – an experience you don’t want to miss. Our CEO, Phil Pead and members of the Progress executive team share their thoughts on why you should attend. Watch to learn more: Pre-registration is available now – save $700 if you register by 10 May and don’t forget our Call for Stories is also open until 10 May. Submit your idea for a session today!
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Nuts About Southwest
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Employees Lend a Hand to OK Farmers
17 Jun 2013 | 2:38 pmFor some, they flew 1,187 miles to get here. Others got in their cars and drove 232 miles. Southwest Airlines Employees were coming to help people they’d never met.The widest tornado on record in our nation devastated El Reno, Oklahoma on May 31. Farmers in this area have about 13,000 acres of wheat fields ready to harvest in just a few weeks. The wake of this storm left them wondering how they would maintain their livelihood when they looked out and saw air conditioning units and other debris the storm flung onto their land. With metal in the wheat fields, the… -
Believing in Denver
17 Jun 2013 | 2:24 pmSouthwest Airlines was recently honored with the Corporate Advocate of the Year Award given by the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Metro Denver. “Southwest has been a truly wonderful partner,” said Monica Rodriguez, the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Metro Denver’s Director of Business Development. “We cannot thank you enough for everything you have done for us and the Hispanic Community.” Southwest Airlines is committed to building meaningful relationships throughout the communities we serve. Through our community partnership with the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Metro Denver,… -
Music to Our Ears: Southwest Engages in the Arts in Chicago
14 Jun 2013 | 7:50 amLast weekend, the vivacious sounds of saxophones and bass guitars overtook beautiful Grant Park where more than 50,000 people enjoyed the Chicago Blues Festival. And, there was no better place for attendees to tap their toes to the music than in the Southwest Blues Lounge! Southwest Employee Ambassadors hosted festival goers at the lounge, inviting them to register for a chance to win a Southwest Vacation to New Orleans, taking a fun photo in front of our green screen, and getting a Blues Name for the weekend with the Blues Name Generator! Of course, Southwest’s engagement in the Chicago… -
Helping the OKC Survivors Regain Hope
12 Jun 2013 | 8:00 amOn the television, I watched a live feed of first responders in Moore, Oklahoma, desperately search for children trapped in the ruins of Plaza Towers Elementary School. As night set in, there wasn't a lot of hope to go around. Several children and adults were confirmed dead, with many others still missing. I was in New York, several hundred miles away, but I knew the men and women of Team Rubicon, made up of military Veterans who are disaster-trained, would respond to this tragedy because of duty and goodwill. Less than a week after the disaster, my fellow Veterans and I were spending… -
Going Green: Real Beach Bums Use Biodegradable Sunscreen
11 Jun 2013 | 10:00 amSummer is here, and the coast is calling! Even though you are likely to see lots of white-capped blue water, it doesn't mean you should stop "thinking green" at the seashore.This weekend, some friends and I will be hitting my favorite beach (can you tell how much I LUV it?!) just outside of Annapolis, Maryland (Southwest Internship flight privileges for the win!). While this beach on the Chesapeake Bay may pale in comparison to the beaches of Florida or California, it is a beautiful spot. For the last two years, I spent my spring break camping on this beach to participate in…
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Telstra Exchange
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Your new and improved telstra.com has landed
17 Jun 2013 | 9:44 pm18 years ago telstra.com first joined the information superhighway and like any big birthday milestone, we’re celebrating with the launch of our new and improved telstra.com. -
Seeding the clouds for a perfect storm
16 Jun 2013 | 10:13 pmThere are few methods in real cloud seeding technology. Two of the common ones are static cloud seeding and dynamic cloud seeding. We can view the static method as the evolutionary path and the dynamic method as the revolutionary path. -
Putting the thought before the cart
16 Jun 2013 | 9:03 pmToday marks the start of the annual National Consumer Fraud Week – the week is an initiative of Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and Telstra has been a significant partner since its inception some seven years ago. The purpose of the week is to ask all users to think “before you click” and wherever possible protect yourself as you scan the online terrain – scammers are waiting, and their success encourages their recidivist behaviour. -
New website for Indigenous employment at Telstra
13 Jun 2013 | 9:04 pmIn April, we launched our new Indigenous Employment site as part of the Telstra Careers website. This exciting new site includes the employment and career journeys of our Indigenous Employment Ambassadors, details of upcoming community events, my Telstra Exchange Blogs, Telstra’s Reconciliation Action Plan, and a search engine for all vacant roles at Telstra. -
Top travel apps
12 Jun 2013 | 9:38 pmAuthor: Gigi Silk. As a bit of a fan of globetrotting, I have spent many hours researching, downloading and configuring the best apps for while you are away. With many lucky Aussies about to head off to Europe for the northern hemisphere summer, I thought now is no better time to share my favourites.
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The Lede
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Iran’s President-Elect Confronted With Plea for Detained Opposition Leader’s Freedom
17 Jun 2013 | 2:26 pmAt a news conference broadcast live on Iranian state television, a man called on Iran's president-elect, Hassan Rowhani, not to forget the detained opposition leader Mir Hussein Moussavi. -
After Long Night of Counting, Post-Election Celebrations in Iran
15 Jun 2013 | 12:42 pmThe Lede followed developments in Iran on Saturday, where Hassan Rowhani, a moderate cleric supported by the country's reformist movement, was declared the winner of Friday's presidential election. -
Updates on Election Day in Iran
14 Jun 2013 | 8:15 amThe Lede is following developments in Iran on Friday, where voters went to the polls in the first presidential election since the disputed contest in 2009. -
Participate in The Times’s Same-Sex Marriage Decision Coverage
13 Jun 2013 | 5:42 pmIf you are in a gay relationship and live in California, The Times may want to interview you immediately after the Supreme Court announces its rulings on same-sex marriage. -
Detained Opposition Leader’s Name Echoes at Rallies on Eve of Iran Vote
13 Jun 2013 | 4:49 pmIn the last hours of Iran's brief presidential election campaign, the name of the detained opposition leader who claimed to have won the last contest, Mir Hussein Moussavi, was once again chanted at public rallies.
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Ice Cream Journal
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Ultimate Iced Tea Tournament (Round Two): Raspberry Tea vs. Peach Tea
17 Jun 2013 | 11:42 amThe first round of the Ultimate Iced Tea Tournament is complete! We started with 16 great flavors, and your votes have narrowed the competition down to four flavors: Raspberry Tea, Peach Tea, Green Tea, and Lemonade Tea. This week’s round two matchups will feature two flavors each, and the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] -
Ultimate Iced Tea Tournament (Round One): The final first round match-up!
13 Jun 2013 | 7:05 amThe final first round match-up of the Ultimate Iced Tea Tournament has arrived. Today’s winner will join the winners of our first three match-ups — Raspberry Tea, Peach Tea, and Green Tea — in the second round, as we get one step closer to determining which Turkey Hill Iced Tea... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] -
June prize: The ice cream sandwich book
12 Jun 2013 | 7:14 amWhat is it about the ice cream sandwich that makes it so great? Actually, that’s an easy question to answer. Besides being delicious, one of the biggest perks of the ice cream sandwich — like the ice cone — is that you can eat it without a bowl or spoon! Of course, Turkey Hill... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] -
Ultimate Iced Tea Tournament (Round One): Four more flavors face off!
10 Jun 2013 | 8:04 amThe Ultimate Iced Tea Tournament rages on! The first match-up of the tournament was a close one, with Raspberry Tea narrowing winning to advance to the next round.The second match-up, on Thursday, wasn’t nearly as close, however. Peach Tea was the easy winner in that showdown, capturing... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] -
Ultimate Iced Tea Tournament (Round One): The battle continues!
6 Jun 2013 | 6:50 amOn Monday, we announced the first round of the Ultimate Iced Tea Tournament — our month-long celebration of National Iced Tea Month (June) designed to determine which Turkey Hill Iced Tea flavor is the fan favorite. Our first match-up between SunBrew Half and Half, our classic Iced Tea, Diet... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Tyson Hunger Relief
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The most digitally-connected hunger conference I’ve ever attended
5 Jun 2013 | 8:16 amAmanda Hite–photo courtesy of No Kid Hungry When I went to my first Share our Strength Conference of Leaders in the fall of 2000, I was amazed by the vibrant, passionate community of people the organization had put together to address the issue of hunger. As a relatively early adopter of social media around 2006, I became really excited about the idea of that community bringing that energy, enthusiasm and spirited conversation online. I waxed enthusiastically in blog posts here. We brought the incredible Beth Kanter to the Conference of Leaders in 2008, to try to jump start the… -
Tyson Foods #MealsThatMatter Disaster Relief Teams Feed 64,000 in #Oklahoma
31 May 2013 | 12:41 pmTyson Foods volunteer employees have served 64,000 Meals That Mattermeals to residents and relief workers in Moore, Oklahoma, immediately following the devastating tornado of last week and continue to work alongside the American Red Cross, the National Guard, and others who are helping to rebuild Oklahoma. On Wednesday, the team had already served about 6,000 meals before storms once again threatened the area. “The weather has been challenging over the last 48 hours, and our teams have been battling through, but we must keep everyone safe,” says Community Relations Manager Jeff Wood. Jeff… -
Day 2 update from Moore, OK: Tyson Foods #MealsThatMatter
23 May 2013 | 7:55 amTyson Team Member Jason Betts is a nurse manager at the Tyson Foods plant in Noel, Missouri Tyson Team Member Jason Betts (pictured at left) is a nurse manager at the Tyson Foods plant in Noel, Missouri. He is volunteering in our disaster relief efforts in Moore, Oklahoma. Jason said it means a lot to him to be working in the Meals That Matter program because Tyson actually fed him when he was displaced in the Joplin tornado two years ago. He’s grateful to be working for Tyson Foods, where he has an opportunity to make a difference in the lives of those affected by the May 20 tornado. Live… -
Tyson Foods #MealsThatMatter Team is on the ground serving meals in #Oklahoma this morning!
22 May 2013 | 7:26 amTyson Foods disaster relief team has set up camp and is serving food this morning in Moore, Oklahoma, immediately following this week’s devastating tornado. We’re here to support and feed local residents, emergency crews and volunteers helping with the recovery efforts. UPDATE – evening 5/22/2013: Over 5,000 meals served today! UPDATE – afternoon 5/22/2013: This afternoon we took some additional photos from folks gathering for lunch at the Tyson Foods disaster relief area. Top Left: Easton Evans, intern, UofA double major in business and poultry science. Third day as… -
No Kid Should Dread the Weekend–or Summer
16 May 2013 | 12:17 pmby Ed Nicholson Note: I’ve decided to go back and repost some things from years past that are still timely. This one originally posted in June of 2010. It remains relevant as we approach the end of the school year. Ed As I post this on Friday afternoon, tens of thousands of kids at risk of hunger around the country are being sent home from school with backpacks full of food thanks to innovative programs such as the one Janet Kniffin, Chief Development Officer for the Connecticut Foodbank, describes in the video above. Were it not for these programs, many would go hungry over the…
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The Latest from VanityFair.com
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Behind-the-Scenes Photos from Our Channing Tatum Cover Shoot
17 Jun 2013 | 9:00 pmChanning Tatum, the star of "White House Down," plays the cowboy for Bruce Weber in this month's cover portfolio. -
Photos: Channing Tatum Photographed by Bruce Weber
17 Jun 2013 | 9:00 pmFor the July 2013 cover story, Channing Tatum is photographed with puppies, horses, and a decidedly sexy space suit. -
Wake Up with Frava Juice
17 Jun 2013 | 2:45 pmIntroducing Frava: fruit plus java. It's a healthier way to wake up, and we just love it! -
Jeb Bush Exports Inscrutable Slang from Distant Land of “Florida”
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Beyoncé Generously Offers 10-Word Congratulations to Kim Kardashian and Kanye West
17 Jun 2013 | 2:00 pmWhen we first heard that Kim Kardashian gave birth to a baby girl on Saturday, our first question was: “Which weekly magazine will win the bidding war to print exclusive photos of the E! television heiress?”
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Xerox Blogs
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Mortgage Originations are up: how are we doing on transparency?
17 Jun 2013 | 10:54 am(By guest blogger, Sam Baker, Xerox Business Development Principal sam.baker@xerox.com) I’m sure I’m not alone in my enthusiasm about the housing marketing picking up and banks lending prudently. Citi’s “prudence to lend” was discussed in a recent CNBC interview with Sanjiv Das CEO of Citi Mortgage. He talks about “responsible lending” being the theme of the day – but he also talks about the mandate for the right amount of documentation and good underwriting being part of the equation for prudent lending as well. Additionally, JPMorgan Chase has announced that they are… -
Think Global, Litigate Local: Handling the Demands of E-Discovery in Asian Countries
17 Jun 2013 | 9:07 amManaging the demands of preserving, collecting, processing, reviewing, and producing data under the U.S. discovery rules is challenging, but lawyers litigating matters that involve data stored in Asian countries may have to fight battles on two fronts: the legal controversy itself and disputes over the permissible scope of discovery. The liberal discovery of the U.S. is at odds with the curtailed disclosure allowed in Asian countries for a host of reasons, including strict privacy regimes that restrict the collection and use of certain business-related and personal information. E-Discovery in… -
Small Business & Technology Today: How to Be More A.G.I.L.E
17 Jun 2013 | 8:52 amDavid Bates, Vice President, Marketing and eCommerce, Xerox North American Resellers Defining today’s workplace is no longer as clear cut as it was a decade ago. Gone are the days of workers based at a main office, tied to their desktop computer. Today, thanks to the rise of smartphones and tablets, more and more employees are working wherever there’s a WiFi connection. Although technology has helped make work simpler, it has also added a variety of new challenges. Xerox recently invited a group of entrepreneurs, technology innovators, emerging leaders and business executives to discuss… -
5 Ways To Simplify Your Business
16 Jun 2013 | 11:00 pmBy Christine Hall, freelance writer This post originally appeared on Forbes.com as content sponsored by Xerox. Between the appeal of technology and lack of organization, employees can lose productivity and cost businesses time and money. However, in just five easy steps, companies can simplify their work processes and get things back in order. Turn off technology The typical U.S. worker is interrupted by communications technology every 10 minutes, according to the International Association of Business Organizing. Workers need to create a consistent way to get through emails and… -
Print, Scan or Copy Quality Issues? Clean Some Windows!
14 Jun 2013 | 6:54 amOkay I have a question for you all, how often do you clean your Xerox product? Can’t remember the last time? Assume that someone else takes care of that? Well keeping your machine clean is important. Did you know that several image quality problems can be solved by cleaning your machine? Let’s take a look at some of the most common issues. Lines, spots, streaks, voids, deletions on copies or scans can be caused by dirty Document or Constant Velocity Transport (CVT) glass. Clean the glass on the machine once a month or whenever quality issues arise. There are also several…
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Yahoo! Search Blog
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Yahoo! Search Gets a Refresh
5 Jun 2013 | 7:50 amby Peter Levinson, Director, Product Management and Anand Chandrasekaran, Senior Director, Search Products If you’ve searched for something on Yahoo! today, you may have noticed a new look and feel on our search results pages. Today, we’re rolling out a new design for Yahoo! Search, covering Web and vertical intents like images, local, news etc. in the U.S., that puts your search results front and center. You can learn more about the new design for Yahoo! Search here. Stay tuned over the coming weeks and months as we work to bring together the utility of search with the richness of our… -
To summarize, the new Yahoo! app delivers better mobile content discovery
22 Apr 2013 | 8:14 amBy Marissa Mayer, CEO Consuming news and information on the go has become the norm — whether waiting for a morning coffee or commuting home from work, content discovery is an insatiable daily habit. Our mobile phones have opened up a window to the world, with the latest news, sports updates, and entertainment coverage right there in our pockets. Because consuming content is such a core part of our everyday lives, today we’re launching our new Yahoo! mobile app for iPhone. Beautifully designed with smaller screens in mind, the new Yahoo! is all about delivering the best of the web… -
Yahoo! Image Search – now with Flickr photos
10 Jan 2013 | 9:27 amToday, we’re making it easier than ever to find and share photos on the web and mobile devices. Using Yahoo! Image Search, you can now easily find photos from Flickr that are available for re-use or re-posting under Creative Commons terms. (To learn more about Flickr’s Creative Commons rules and attribution policies, please click here.) Tens of millions of photos are now yours to search and share, courtesy of all the amazing photographers in the Flickr community. Here’s how it works: Go to Yahoo! Image Search either on the web, your tablet or mobile phone. Search for any query. If… -
All Yule Need this Holiday Season
20 Dec 2012 | 9:39 amWith less than a week to go until Christmas, come to Yahoo! Search to find quick answers, and inspiring ideas for all your holiday needs. We’ve been busy in the kitchen, bringing you inspiring and creative ideas for Christmas treats and essentials. Search for [Christmas cookies] to find plenty of handy recipes, along with pictures, reviews and ingredients right at your fingertips. Try [Christmas side dishes] and [Christmas desserts] to help make your holiday meal something everyone will remember. With dinner (and dessert!) taken care of, how about some ideas for last minute decorations? -
Talking Turkey!
19 Nov 2012 | 6:00 amHow did Thanksgiving come around so quickly? With the election just finishing up late last week, you could be excused for being a little behind on your holiday planning. But not to worry, Yahoo! Search has been hard at work on another collection of rich content to get you inspired and organized for this year’s Turkey Day celebration. Whether you are looking for inspiration in the kitchen, ways to keep the family amused, or simply want to maximize your football watching time, we have plenty of rich content to help you. A large part of the day will be focused on dinner, and we’ve got…
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DocuSign
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New updates to DocuSign for SharePoint 2010!
13 Jun 2013 | 2:06 pmContributed Post By: - Lahini Arunachalam - Product Manager at DocuSign We're proud to announce the launch of a new version of the DocuSign for SharePoint 2010 connector! Our goal is to help you close business faster by integrating DocuSign into your existing business processes. We know you use SharePoint as an enterprise platform to aggregate information, collaborate, and manage content centrally. With the DocuSign connector, you can send or sign any document - directly from Microsoft SharePoint! With the new version of DocuSign for Microsoft SharePoint, users now have the ability to add… -
From the Eyes of a College Student
12 Jun 2013 | 11:01 amSome may ask, when would a typical college student need to use electronic signatures? I don’t run my own business, and I don’t have my own clients or customers. However, many would be surprised – just as I was – to discover how DocuSign can provide solutions to an everyday lifestyle. First impressions are extremely important. When applying for a job, they can make the biggest difference for either the interviewer or the interviewee. This spring, I interviewed at eight different companies. Two of those businesses used DocuSign. I was amazed and appreciated being able to fill out any… -
Quick Tip - In-Person Signing with DocuSign Ink
11 Jun 2013 | 1:01 pmDocuSign Ink gives users the ability to send documents for remote signature from their mobile devices, but did you know it is also possible to use DocuSign Ink to do in-person signing? Whether you want the extra security of an in-person signature, or whether getting an in-person signature is more convenient than a remote signature, the steps are easy and intuitive. In-person signing with DocuSign Ink is very similar to remote signing, except the entire process is completed on the sender’s mobile device. Open DocuSign Ink and tap “Sign & Send.” Tap “Add a document” and select… -
Quick Tip - Customizing Your Signature
4 Jun 2013 | 1:17 pmAs a first time DocuSigner, the first thing you are asked to do is adopt a signature. This signature will be placed on a document wherever there is a signing field. If you have not already adopted a signature, this window will prompt you to adopt one. The signer can select a pre-made stylized signature by selecting “Change Style.” There are many stylized signatures to choose from. As a signer you can also draw a signature. To do this, select “Draw” and use the cursor to draw a signature. If you don’t like the signature you adopt, or want to create a different one at any… -
All Things… Mobile
4 Jun 2013 | 9:42 amAll Things D’s conferences have a history of bringing attention and energy to trends and new ideas—last week’s D11 was no exception. Under the direction of Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, this event is a real who’s-who of industry leaders who gather to share ideas, network and have fun. Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg, Apple’s Tim Cook, Box’s Aaron Levie, and Sony’s Kaz Hirai were just a few of the top executives who joined this year. Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers General Partner (and DocuSign Board Member) Mary Meeker gave her always-anticipated annual presentation on the…
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Reckitt Benckiser
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How to Enrich Your Presentation Skills
31 May 2013 | 1:01 pmHi everyone! I have undergone yet more training in my graduate programme! Last week, I travelled to RB Headquarters in the UK to undergo a session to develop my presentation skills. RB focuses heavily on presentation skills. A big part of our jobs involves presenting our work to people – both external and internal. I learned some very useful and insightful tricks to master this art. And it really is a form of art! In this post, I would like to share some of the very interesting insights I got from my training. First, we were asked to prepare a compelling case and present it… -
An Insight into the Trainee Selection Process
20 May 2013 | 5:25 amHello everyone! The next Malaysia Management Trainee (or Graduate Programme, as they call it on other parts of the world intake is just around the corner. The Malaysia Management Trainee Programme is a one-year course which gives you the opportunity of working within the Sales and Marketing divisions at RB. In this article, I will share a few insights of what to expect in this programme and how you should prepare if you plan to join RB. “The managers and directors at RB will like to get to know you a little better and also see if your personality suits the company.” … -
Spotlight on Design Management
15 May 2013 | 6:49 amThe role of design management is not always clear to everyone. People ask me all the time about design management, why good design is important and the role of the design management team within RB. I am going to explain it here… “Design management ensures that your brand strategy is implemented consistently throughout the different media to communicate your brand.” Design Management There are a number of different definitions for design management. In the simplest terms, design management is the profession of managing design – but there’s much more to it. Managing… -
Stay Hungry! Stay Foolish!
14 May 2013 | 1:58 amI am so delighted to write my second post. Since I just finished my rotation and moved to a Sales role, I would like to review the past 2 years of my job at RB and share some learning, some happiness and some sufferings. Entering as a graduate into RB, I have worked in different roles including Sales, Marketing and Trade Marketing. During my time in Sales, my daily activities included interviewing people in different channels and stores and assist them to sell RB products. It was not an easy job given that the prompted awareness of the RB brand is not very high in some cities… -
Break Out of Your Comfort Zone at RB
13 May 2013 | 6:35 amAt RB, we pride ourselves on continuously thinking outside the box and pushing limits. We believe there is always more than one way to do a task. This is one of the reasons the environment at RB is fast and ever-changing. I truly believe that this is good for one’s personal development. It is particularly important for fresh graduates looking for experience. This means that one have to step out of their comfort zone in trying new things. Sometimes, it is not easy for a person to move beyond their comfort zone. This can be stressful. Often, you will find you are vulnerable, inept…
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AT&T Networking Exchange Blog
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Tapping Into The Genius Of Technology
17 Jun 2013 | 7:10 amThe potential that lies in technology is in the mind and at the fingertips of individual genius. And every one of us has the potential to be that genius. For any company, agency, or organization that is looking for ways to better the end user experience, a good first step is to listen to the collective individual, whether it is your user base, your own employees, or your constituents, because they comprise the greater combined voice that will truly determine if you are successful. When I speak with organizations about “what does mobile success look like” I discuss how a great strategy… -
National Small Business Week Honors The Nation’s Entrepreneurs
17 Jun 2013 | 4:10 amHappy National Small Business Week to all my fellow entrepreneurs! This week, from June 17 – 21, the entire country recognizes and honors the contributions of small businesses. Fifty years ago, President John F. Kennedy signed a proclamation declaring the first National Small Business Week, and since then, the sitting President has continued the tradition each year. Small businesses are the economic engine that drives the U.S. economy. The more than 27 million small firms provide 60 to 80 percent of the net new jobs in our country and more than half of Americans either own or work for… -
Security Amidst The Mobile Chaos
14 Jun 2013 | 7:10 amBring Your Own Device (BYOD) has crossed the chasm from a bleeding edge to an early adopter technology. According to IDC, more than half the companies they recently surveyed already let employees use their own smart devices within the enterprise environment, and the IT organization is currently supporting them to a certain degree. Despite all of the predictions of gloom and doom, the adoption of BYOD in the enterprise environment appears to be moving forward fairly quickly and somewhat blindly. The adoption of BYOD has brought another disruptive player to the enterprise environment – BYOS… -
7 Ways To Supercharge Your Mobile Customer Experience
14 Jun 2013 | 4:10 amMobile context aptly describes the myriad ways you can present information to your users on a mobile device. Now that more and more smartphone users prefer to browse on their mobile device over the PC, it is essential that you provide (at least) the same information from your “large screen” presence to mobile users. But why not go further? The smartphone is more personal, and you can provide more timely information to your customers than the PC. Here are a few tips to ensure that your mobile presence outperforms your “big screen” site: 1. Size Don’t just “scale it all… -
Industry Standards Are Dead, Long Live Industry Standards!
13 Jun 2013 | 7:10 amThe rapid rise of cloud computing alternatives to traditional on-premise data centers has sparked a new round of debates regarding industry technology and software standards. Industry standards have always been a source of intense arguments among vendors and concern among users. And, the advent of the cloud creates another layer of complexity and an area of dispute about which architectural approach and implementation method should be considered the best standard for organizations exploring their cloud options. The definition of standards in the technology industry has long been determined by…
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The Budgeting and Forecasting Experts Blog
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Centage’s John Orlando is a Finalist for the BBJ’s CFO of the Year Award!
13 Jun 2013 | 1:01 pmLast week was an exciting week for us here at Centage. John Orlando, our CFO, was named a finalist for the Boston Business Journal’s CFO of the Year Award. According to the BBJ, the award “recognizes CFOS who make a difference in their companies and organizations.” There are several categories – Public Company, Small Private, Medium Private, Large Private and Nonprofit. The BBJ also presents a Lifetime Achievement Award. John has been our CFO for nine years and has two roles for us – in addition to being our CFO, he’s our resident budgeting expert. As a blog reader, you… -
Steve Player Helps Small to Mid-sized Enterprises Master Business Forecasting
11 Jun 2013 | 1:35 pmSteve Player, noted author and program director for the Beyond Budgeting Round Table (BBRT), is sharing his insights on business forecasting in an upcoming webinar, “How can Small to Mid-Sized Enterprises Master Business Forecasting.” The webinar takes place on Thursday, June 13 at 11:30am ET. You should attend this webinar if any of these apply to you: You’re struggling in moving to rolling forecasts Your current forecasting efforts leave you with more questions than answers You’re frustrated with your forecasting efforts You worry that forecasting is only for large organizations You… -
The Hidden Costs of Excel
3 Jun 2013 | 9:28 amUsing Excel for budgeting, planning, forecasting and other finance-related activities is well known to be a risk. Sometimes we’re even privy to the actual price of that risk – Alex Hern of The New Statesman recently asked, “Is Excel the Most Dangerous Piece of Software in the World?” The article discusses Excel’s role in JPMorgan losing $9 billion. But there are hidden costs as well. Costs to your organization, and to you. Budgeting with Excel is a time-consuming process; organizations often cut the time required for their budgeting process in half when they make the switch from… -
Three Signs You’ve Outgrown Spreadsheets for Personnel Budgeting
23 May 2013 | 12:22 pmGrowth is usually a good thing. But when a business grows, personnel budgeting becomes more complex – too complex for spreadsheets. Personnel costs are a large portion of most companies’ cost structures, and it is vital to have a clear, accurate and detailed view into the impact personnel costs have on the bottom line. The high level view of a personnel budget will give the projected dollar amount a company will pay in wages and fringe benefits. A spreadsheet can certainly handle this information – but there’s much more to personnel budgeting than wages and fringe benefits. Here… -
Three Questions to Ask Yourself When Budgeting with Spreadsheets
8 May 2013 | 12:08 pmThe furor around the errors found in economists Carmen Reinhart’s and Ken Rogoff’s spreadsheet refuses to die. The story has been covered by many different media outlets, including The New York Times and The Huffington Post. To recap: these two leading economists made recommendations pushing global government austerity based on faulty data in a spreadsheet. The world now knows what many CFOs and finance executives know: spreadsheets are error-prone and even simple errors can result in considerable ramifications. In this case, the errors were, in fact, very simple. The…
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Replicon
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R&D Tax Credits: How Companies Can Reap Better Financial Returns by Automating Time Tracking
13 Jun 2013 | 8:54 amDoes your company manufacture products, develop software, or create any kind of technology? Does your company have a Research and Development (R&D) department, or conduct any proprietary product design and development? Do you provide design, engineering, or testing services to your customers? Has your firm recently applied for and/or received patents? If your answer to any of these questions is “yes,” then your company may be eligible for R&D Tax Credits under Section 41 of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code. Blog tags: Business Tips -
Highlights From The Replicon & Littler Webinar on Work Time
7 Jun 2013 | 4:32 pmEarlier this week, Replicon presented an exclusive webinar with attorney and compliance expert Brian Dixon, co-chair, Wage and Hour Practice Group at Littler Mendelson, one of the biggest and best-known law firms in the United States. Praveen Krishnan, Replicon’s senior director of product management, also took part in the discussion and fielded questions from more than 600 attendees. Blog tags: Company News -
Got Time Off? How to Combat Summer Vacation Staffing Chaos
5 Jun 2013 | 2:13 pmMemorial Day signals the start of the Summer vacation season, and millions of Americans are already planning their vacation getaways with their families. While the challenges of vacation planning and coordination of family members’ schedules are sometimes formidable, they pale in comparison to those faced by HR managers and administrators. That’s because managing employee time off is a complex and sometimes arduous task for most organizations. Blog tags: Business Tips -
The Fallacy Of Sunk Costs
3 Jun 2013 | 1:36 pmYou’ve probably heard of the phrase “Throwing good money after bad” before. Most people would hate to knowingly waste their money, and would regret having done so. However, due to the “sunk-cost fallacy,” many people would put more money and time into a venture with an uncertain outcome or result, rather than look at it from a logical and economically sound viewpoint, and admit they were wrong. When analyzing business decisions, the idea of sunk costs often comes into play. Most economists consider it an emotional decision, driven by the all-too-human desire not to waste something… -
Top 10 Things to Look for When Purchasing a Project and Resource Management Solution
30 May 2013 | 9:05 amAre you in the market for a Project and Resource Management solution to help you track costs and expenses, improve project execution, boost resource utilization and skills, and bill your clients? If so, here are 10 key things to consider when searching for the best solution: Blog tags: Business Tips
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quickenloans.com
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We’re #1! Quicken Loans Tops Computerworld’s “Best Places to Work in IT” List
17 Jun 2013 | 3:03 pmFor the fourth time in nearly 10 years, Quicken Loans has been named #1 on Computerworld’s annual “100 Best Places to Work in IT” list. And to us, it doesn’t get much better than this. After all, you won’t find us tinkering with microchips or developing the latest, gotta-have-it-now gadget. You’ll find us helping people. And it’s our unbelievable technology that’s making all the difference. With the help of our brilliant IT team, we’re continually improving a mortgage experience that’s already helped nearly 2 million happy families across the country. We’re developing… -
6 Tips Every Home Buyer in 2013 Should Know
17 Jun 2013 | 1:27 pmThe marketplace is changing for home buyers and sellers. Home values are going up and interest rates are still near historic lows. So for those of you who have been sitting on the fence – your excuse is up! Now is the perfect time to for you to buy. So what are the most important things you should know to prepare for the market we’re in? I sat down with Doug Gartley, associate broker with In-House Realty, to find out. Here are Doug’s tips that every home buyer should know. Find Out How Much You Can Afford Talking to a reputable lender will allow you to find out how much you’re… -
Watch HGTV Monday Night to Enter the Love It, List It, Watch It, Win It Sweepstakes!
17 Jun 2013 | 11:23 am*Enter the HGTV Love It, List It, Watch It, Win It Sweepstakes at HGTV.com/loveit. It’s the third Monday of June, and HGTV and Quicken Loans have already given two lucky winners $50,000 to upgrade their homeowner status. Don’t worry, two more opportunities remain to enter the HGTV Love It, List It, Watch It, Win It Sweepstakes presented by Quicken Loans. Your next chance is tonight! Entering is easy – all you have to do is watch HGTV’s Love It or List It tonight at 8 p.m. ET for a special code word. The entry form will then be live for 24 hours at HGTV.com/loveit so you can enter… -
10-Year Yields Fall From 14-Month High – Market Update
17 Jun 2013 | 9:30 am10-year yields fell from a 14-month high last week amid skepticism policy makers are moving toward reducing bond buying. The recent rise in yields suggests the market is nervous that the Fed will soon reduce the stimulus. What’s Up on Wall Street? The Dow Jones Industrial Average increased 163.46 points (1.09) while the Nasdaq jumped 40.29 points (1.18). Also, the S&P 500 rose 16.39 points (1.01). Current Rates Here are some of today’s rates: 30-Year Fixed: 3.99% (4.176% APR) 15-Year Fixed: 2.99% (3.35% APR) 7-Year ARM: 2.625% (3.043% APR) Visit our mortgage rates page to find out how… -
Avoiding PMI – It Can Be Done!
17 Jun 2013 | 9:28 amThis is a guest post from Quizzle. Read the original article here. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few years, you know that home buyers today are fortunate to have the opportunity to be able to take advantage of near historically low mortgage interest rates. After the onset of the recession in 2008, rates on home loans dipped to around 4%, and in the past year have dropped even lower but are inching back up. To put this in perspective, when my parents bought their first house in 1982, they paid 16.5% interest on their mortgage. Oh how times have changed! But many…
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NACD Blog
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Help Us Help You
30 May 2013 | 9:08 amFact: we live in a world of data. Today, nearly every strategic decision is fortified by metrics and dashboards, analyzing the projected outcome to the smallest degree. This is equally true at NACD, where our annual governance surveys—public, private, and nonprofit—underlie nearly every aspect of the organization’s activity. From publications and presentations, to peer exchanges, and our annual Board Leadership Conference, data collected from the thousands of respondents informs the sessions, forums, topics, and future events. Beyond the boardroom, the trends, statistics, and… -
The Boardroom Reality of Cyberattacks
23 May 2013 | 1:40 pmIt is requisite to start every NACD session on boardroom oversight of cybersecurity with the adage: “There are two types of companies: those that know they have been hacked and those that don’t.” And so begins the one- to two-hour panel discussions—experts in cyber technology outlining and explaining the various methods that have already been employed to hack into companies. Understandably, attendees usually leave these sessions a bit pale and speechless. Cyberattacks on the private sector are a reality, not merely a threat. In 2013, 50 percent of companies with more than 5,000… -
NACD Board Names Dr. Reatha Clark King Chairman
23 May 2013 | 8:47 amOn May 23, NACD announced the election of Dr. Reatha Clark King to chairman of our board of directors. While Reatha’s role as chair is new, her relationship with NACD goes back many years. She has been a member of NACD since 1993, an NACD director since 2005, and chaired the governance committee in recent years. An unconventional path Reatha’s directorship experience is extensive; she has served on the boards of ExxonMobil, Wells Fargo & Co., H.B. Fuller Co., Minnesota Mutual Insurance Co., and The Lenox Group—in addition to several nonprofit organizations. She has followed,… -
Succession and Sport
16 May 2013 | 4:07 pmAs reported in Directors Daily last week, Sir Alex Ferguson, manager of publicly traded Manchester United, announced his retirement. While the retirement of a sports figure, especially an English football (soccer) manager, would not normally provide fodder for an NACD blog post, Ferguson’s resignation underlies the need for succession planning and talent development, and serves as yet another warning about the risks of social media. A soccer manager is often the most public face of the organization. Although not a traditional member of the C-suite, Ferguson’s relevance is illustrated by… -
Five for Five
9 May 2013 | 2:21 pmIn the past five months, the NACD blog has received more than 15,000 views. Review the five most popular blog posts of the last five months to keep track of what directors find most important. NACD Directorship 2020: Sustainability, Stakeholders, and Performance Metrics – Capitalism, and the role of the director, is changing–should the focus on “total shareholder return” shift to “total stakeholder return”? Going Private? – In 2012, just 128 IPOs were made, a decrease from 154 IPOs in 2011. Last May, The Economist observed that this decline was part of a…
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The WhitePages Blog
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The most iconic dad names and men who share them
16 Jun 2013 | 9:14 amIt’s Father’s Day, and while you might mark it with a card, a phone call, or a goofy tie,consider what our dads are up against: They’re measured against our collective idea of what dads are supposed to do or be. And after almost 100 years of lovable TV dads, our real-life dads have a lot [...]The post The most iconic dad names and men who share them appeared first on The WhitePages Blog. -
Happy National Doughnut Day, Bearclaw!
7 Jun 2013 | 10:02 amDoughnuts have an undeniable power over us Americans, and we’ve even gone so far as to pass down doughnut related names from generation to generation. To celebrate National Doughnut Day, we’ve created an infographic illustrating just how bonkers we are for the might O.The post Happy National Doughnut Day, Bearclaw! appeared first on The WhitePages Blog. -
Jason Eglit joins WhitePages as our new CFO
6 Jun 2013 | 9:03 amThe last year has been an exciting one for WhitePages, full of big consumer and enterprise product launches, growing profits and revenues, and acquisitions. And as we prepare for more of the same, I am proud today to officially welcome Jason Eglit as our new CFO! With more than 15 years of experience in strategy [...]The post Jason Eglit joins WhitePages as our new CFO appeared first on The WhitePages Blog. -
WhitePages Acquires Android Call-Blocking App Mr. Number
31 May 2013 | 9:32 amToday, I am very happy to announce that Mr. Number, the leading call blocking and spam identification offering on the market, has officially joined the WhitePages family of mobile apps! Truly effective call management must provide consumers with not only an understanding of who’s on the other end of the line, but the ability to [...]The post WhitePages Acquires Android Call-Blocking App Mr. Number appeared first on The WhitePages Blog. -
Happy Burger Day, Burgers!
28 May 2013 | 12:33 pmIt’s National Hamburger Day – and if you didn’t get your fix over the weekend, today’s the day to eat your heart out. And if your name happens to be Burger, head over to your local Smashburger because they’ve got a free patty with your name on it, literally. Hamburgers are so popular, in fact, [...]The post Happy Burger Day, Burgers! appeared first on The WhitePages Blog.
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GCCapitalIdeas.com
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A.M. Best BCAR Updates
16 Jun 2013 | 10:00 pmA briefing prepared by Guy Carpenter’s Ratings Advisory Team outlines important changes to the BCAR methodology and their implications. Click here to read the full briefing >> Click... Continue reading... -
Wildfires in Colorado, United States
14 Jun 2013 | 6:08 amA wildfire northeast of Colorado Springs, Colorado has become the state’s most destructive wildfire in history. The Black Forest Fire has destroyed 360 homes, surpassing the 347 homes destroyed... Continue reading... -
Week’s Top Stories: June 8 - 14, 2013
14 Jun 2013 | 5:00 amChart: Alternative Capacity as a Percentage of Global Property Catastrophe Reinsurance Limit: The increasing influence of alternative capacity is demonstrated by the chart below, which shows the... Continue reading... -
Chart: Alternative Capacity as a Percentage of Global Property Catastrophe Reinsurance Limit
12 Jun 2013 | 10:00 pmThe increasing influence of alternative capacity is demonstrated by the chart below, which shows the growth of convergence capacity as a percentage of global property catastrophe limit from 2008 to... Continue reading... -
Guy Carpenter’s MetaRisk® Reserve™ Awarded Patent as Breakthrough Innovation in Reserve Risk Modeling
11 Jun 2013 | 8:00 pmGuy Carpenter & Company has been awarded a patent for MetaRisk Reserve by the U.S. Patent Office for creating a unique and easy-to-use predictive model for the analysis of reserve risk. MetaRisk... Continue reading...
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Miratel Solutions
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4 Tips for Planning Nonprofit Fundraising Events
17 Jun 2013 | 9:01 pmSummer is upon us and multiple event-based nonprofit fundraising initiatives are occurring on a regular basis. Recently our staff had the opportunity to participate in two team based events, the WWF CN Tower Climb and the Boy & Girls Clubs of Toronto Race for Kids. Having been the team leader for both fundraising events and a regular contributor to our blog on various aspects of nonprofit fundraising I participated with a keen eye tuned into observing what it takes to run a successful fundraising event. As the Blackbaud Peer-to-Peer Event Fundraising Benchmark Study revealed,… -
Meatless Monday with Portobello and Zucchini Tacos
16 Jun 2013 | 9:01 pmHello and welcome (back) to the Miratel blog for another installment of our Meatless Monday recipe share series. Miratel took the Meatless Monday pledge to support reducing meat consumption 15% by eliminating it one day per week to preserve the health of our planet. We consider our support of this great movement part of our CSR business strategies as it spreads awareness of the impact of our food choices on our environment. Our weekly recipes are to help make going meat-free easier as simple, delicious and satisfying recipes can be difficult to find. Today we’re bringing you portobello… -
4 Key Considerations when Structuring Social Media Teams for Nonprofits
13 Jun 2013 | 9:01 pmThe growing benefits of social media and its impact on how nonprofits can engage (new) supporters and optimize nonprofit fundraising opportunities cannot be stressed enough. And its influence only continues to grow as I’ve explored in our Social Media series. There has also been many reports like the Digital Persuasion, How Social Media Motivates Action and Drives Support for Causes which examined behaviours and motivations of cause supporters through social media and the 2013 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study which looked at social media metrics. Recently I came across research that focused… -
Blackbaud Releases Nonprofit Fundraising Report that Focuses on Healthcare Sector
12 Jun 2013 | 9:01 pmI regularly cover the Blackbaud Index as it’s a reliable source of statistical information relating to the state of nonprofit fundraising along with their other reports like the 2012 Charitable Giving Report and the Online Marketing Benchmark Study for Nonprofits. With the latest index results, Blackbaud released an analysis of the giving trends specifically for Healthcare organizations through April 2013. image courtesy of levantium.com The Healthcare sector has been facing the most challenges based on Index results and this is what led Blackbaud to split this sector into two separate… -
10 Least Corrupt Countries According to Corruption Perceptions Index
11 Jun 2013 | 9:01 pmBeing a Canadian call centre, we often feature various research rankings that showcase how our fair nation places on a global scale. I have explored this topic in posts like best countries to live, the smartest countries, the happiest countries, the most peaceful countries, the most sustainable countries, the friendliest countries, the most charitable countries, the most prosperous countries, the best countries for quality of life, the best countries for business, the top countries for life expectancy, the best countries for working women, the best country for world travel…
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Oakley :: Community
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Sneak Peek: The Tour de France Collection
1 Jun 2013 | 3:55 amThey endure thousands of miles of grueling pain and exhaustion that would crush lesser souls. Their hearts squeeze blood nearly a million times, and their legs generate enough cumulative watts of power to light an entire city. They are the elite who compete in the ultimate test of human endurance, the Tour de France. This special edition eyewear honors the riders of cycling’s greatest competition. -
May 2013: A Month In Photography
23 May 2013 | 11:11 amWhat a month it was! May brought us another round of Summer X Games, two major cycling stage races (Giro d’italia and the Amgen Tour of California) and many other successful competitions showcasing Oakley’s finest athletes. Check out the visual proof in this month’s batch of top notch photos. -
#YEAH: Lil Jon Caps Off Impressive All Star Celebrity Apprentice Season In Third Place, Raises Funds for American Diabetes Association
16 May 2013 | 12:36 pmThink you know Lil Jon? Think again. Known from his early days for his bold, loud rap personality – laced with trademarked (literally) taglines, “Pimp Cups,” Grammy nominations and earth shattering tracks co-produced with fellow top artists across genres – the modern day Jon is a thoroughly evolved music and marketing machine. Displaying the versatility of his brand and famous voice, Jon’s recent current club rattling collaborations with some of the top Electronic Dance Music (EDM) artists/DJ’s and worldwide party anthems have him at the top of his game in a new era of music. But… -
$100k Raised by Ryan Sheckler's Foundation at "Skate For a Cause"
7 May 2013 | 8:30 amOn a breezy afternoon at the Etnies Skatepark in Mission Viejo, Calif., Ryan Sheckler was joined by the skating community. Current pros like Greg Lutzka and Austen Seaholm, legends of the sport like Jay Adams and Christian Hosoi, turned out for the cause. They were there to compete, of course, but they were also there to contribute – and contribute, they did. Between the carnival atmosphere outside the park and the money spent to watch the big name present and past pros do their thing, more than $100,000 was raised for the Sheckler Foundation and “Be The Change” project to build… -
Reality Drama: Michael Cudlitz Spotlights Oakley’s Police Tie in Popular SouthLAnd Series
2 May 2013 | 12:43 pmMichael Cudlitz’s reputation as a prolific character actor is powerful. The veteran actor has brought to life rivetingly sobering experiences of reality-based personalities – like Sgt. Denver ‘Bull’ Randleman in Steven Speilberg’s Emmy-winning Band of Brothers TV mini-series – amongst a plethora of other roles. So it’s no wonder that his talents in exposing the experiences of real combatants in warfare, and more, eventually lead him to the lead spot in the popular SouthLAnd drama series. Attempting to shed light on some of the reality faced on a daily basis by everyday Los…
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OSSCube : Blog
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Considering the possible changes in business environment for Big Data adoption
12 Jun 2013 | 9:31 pmThe hype around big data is omnifarious. With its promise of unearthing new possibilities, big data is becoming an important part of organizations’ business strategy for optimizing their business processes, and accurate mapping of service needs. Its high volume, variety, and velocity have brought new opportunities for organizations to get deeper insights than ever before; and enabled operational processes to respond in real time. The availability of broad range of data for integration and correlation have facilitated firms to get enhanced perceptiveness to better analyze their customers and… -
Integrate your Facebook feed in the Drupal website without any custom coding
6 Jun 2013 | 9:20 pmWant to access live stream of your Facebook posts on your Drupal instance? Our newly contributed “Facebook Wall” module enables you to display your most recent activities on your Drupal site without any hassle of custom coding. Since this module fetches the content hosted on Facebook, it doesn’t matter whether your users are logged in their Facebook account or not. It simply interacts with FB API and extracts the data to display it on your website, eliminating the process of log-in.The activity feed displays the wall posts on your website with information such as how many people have… -
Event Calendar Module - Organize events with flexible formatting
3 Jun 2013 | 4:38 amCreating and managing your events now made easy. Try our newly contributed module “Event Calendar” that enables you to display your events on your Drupal website in a calendar or an event list with nice formatting features. So, focus more on experiencing events rather than constantly trying to remember when and where they’re happening. From creating simple events to managing a chain of events, you can customize this module and keep track of important events at one place. The module allows users to Add/Edit/View events in pop-up while clicking on a box in an “event calendar view”. -
OSSCube Mobilizer: Make Drupal 7 websites mobile ready in minutes
23 May 2013 | 6:04 amOSSCube is announcing OSSCube Mobilizer at DrupalCon in Portland, OR. OSSCube Mobilizer provides a fast and easy way to create a mobile version of your Drupal 7 website no matter how large or complex it is today. OSSCube Mobilizer’s easy-to-use GUI makes it simple to customize the layout, add color scheme and prioritize content for a more appealing mobile look. OSSCube Mobilizer is purposely built for ease of use — it’s aimed at those people who don't have any coding experience. It’s a perfect solution for everyone as it gives enormous capabilities to easily create superior mobile… -
OSSCube Drupal/SugarCRM Integration module released
22 May 2013 | 12:22 amOSSCube is announcing OSSCube Drupal/SugarCRM Integration at DrupalCon in Portland, OR.Usually the most challenging and time-consuming step in integrating Drupal and SugarCRM is mapping the modules and related fields so that the integrated system works smoothly to improve customer experience and reduce operating cost. OSSCube Drupal/SugarCRM Integration can significantly simplify this task and help you to seamlessly integrate Drupal and SugarCRM into a more powerful business solution. OSSCube Drupal/SugarCRM Integration gives you best of both worlds…an intuitive GUI to quickly and…
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Teva Collect Blog | Live Better Stories
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Teva and Urban Outfitters Sweepstakes
13 Jun 2013 | 11:04 amDon’t miss your chance at an epic six–day rafting trip for two down the Colorado River in Utah, from Teva and Urban Outfitters, where you and a friend will live stories that last a lifetime. Please visit here for contest details. -
Live Better Stories and “Unfollow” With Professional Mountain Biker, Sondra Williamson
5 Jun 2013 | 4:16 pmEver since we kicked off our Unfollow series, we’ve heard countless stories from our fans as to how they’re choosing to break from the stats quo and live better stories. From our camp, we’ve been telling tales of people like big wave surfer, Jamie Sterling who has dedicated his life to being a waterman. Adventure photographer, Chris Burkard hums along to the same tune never settling for anything less than the ideal setting as he globe trots with some of the world’s best athletes. We’d now like to introduce professional mountain biker, Sondra Williamson who knew… -
Teva Remembers Chris Rice; Honors Him With The Links
29 May 2013 | 2:28 pmIn 2011, Teva lost one of our beloved team members, Chris Rice in an unfortunate ATV accident. Our family remembers Rice as a positive force around the office, a man who brightened everyone’s day with a big smile, positive attitude and someone who lived better stories outside the office. “The first time I met Chris I had an old Raleigh Rampar BMX bike that I had as a kid. It had been hanging in my garage and had a beautiful chromoly frame so I cleaned it up and put it in my office. He popped by one day and asked where I got it with this enthusiastic smile. I knew he had worked at… -
TevaSphere Trainer Blends Meditation and Muscle In Big Apple
23 May 2013 | 10:38 amTevaSphere trainer, Stacy Berman’s early memories of fitness hark back to practicing Tae Kwon Do with her father. Over the years she remained committed to self-improvement that eventually led to degrees and certifications in the field. After a career as a personal trainer bound by the rules of a gym, Berman jumped ship and took her practice outside to New York’s Central Park where she held her first official Stacy’s Bootcamp. Stacy combines a special blend of yoga workouts and some traditional exercises for her students. “The purpose of yoga is to reach a meditative place through… -
John Wayman Inspires Bostoners to Return to Their Feet After Tragedy
14 May 2013 | 3:41 pmLast month the city of Boston suffered a horrific terrorist attack at the famed Boston marathon where TevaSphere trainer John Wayman was running with eleven of his boot camp members and a handful of friends. Luckily, everybody in Wayman’s crew quickly rushed to safety on the Boston Runner’s Club buses to Hopkinton, so no one was injured. In the days following the tragedy, Wayman knew everyone was struggling to make sense of the tragedy, but he had a job to inspire the participants in his Beantown Bootcamp to get back on their feet. “We had about six members who finished the race and…
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Eco Blog: dedication to Green Hauling
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The Plastic Water Bottle Effect [Infographic]
28 May 2013 | 9:30 amAs a GREEN junk hauling company, we make every effort to recycle as high of a percentage of the junk, dirt, concrete, and electronics that we pick up as possible. Additionally, we try to provide regular updates to our readers and customers about issues affecting the hauling industry and the local environment through this blog. One hot button issue we read a lot about these days is the effect of plastic water bottles on the environment. The bottled water industry has grown exponentially in the last few decades, as companies are cashing in on the desire of consumers to be healthy by… -
Teamsters Strike at Republic Services Continues to Pick Up Steam
21 May 2013 | 8:17 amThe striking sanitation and junk removal workers have found more support on the West Coast, as fellow teamsters upheld the picket line at various Republic Service hauling yards in the Bay Area. The workers are exercising their legal right to in refusing to cross the line due to a string of unfair labor practices. The strike, which was started in the Memphis area, has now extended the picket line to Republic junk hauling yards and recycling facilities in Fremont, San Jose, and Richmond. The union members feel slighted by several violations of federal labor laws perpetrated by Republic,… -
Petaluma’s Garbage Hauling Cycle
20 May 2013 | 6:14 pmIn the city of Petaluma, most residents are unaware of where their trash goes to. According to Rob Repetto, route manager at Petaluma Refuse and Recycling, details the process of how trash is picked up to where it is disposed or recycled. Petaluma produces approximately 50,000 tons of trash and recyclables each year. Petaluma trash goes through a simple recycling process in which it is hauled away to decompose at the local Redwood landfill. Petaluma recyclables however, takes a longer process. The recyclables are first stored at a warehouse located on Petaluma Boulevard South to be eventually… -
Turning Trash into Treasure [Infographic]
12 Apr 2013 | 12:49 pmEarth Day is coming up in just ten days on Monday, April 22nd, 2013. 2013 will mark the 43rd anniversary of Earth Day, a global effort through which individuals and communities from around the world come together to help find solutions for man-made issues such as climate change. As a “green” junk hauling company that makes every effort to recycle as high a percentage as possible of the trash and unwanted items we pick-up, we decided that it would be a fun exercise to create an infographic in honor of Earth Day 2013. In the following infographic, we’ve highlighted 8… -
Environmentalists Seek to Block Landfill Expansion in Petaluma
24 Mar 2013 | 9:01 pmRedwood Landfill Aerial Redwood Landfill, owned by Waste Management of Houston, and a destination point for junk and garbage from Petaluma and Sonoma, is seeking to expand their site by 50%. The state recycling agency, CalRecycle, gave approval to the expansion in 2008, but was halted due to lawsuits filed by an environmentalist group, No Wetlands Landfill Expansion. No Wetlands Landfill Expansion argues that Redwood Landfill is situated on a marsh, home to a number of species, and additional waste would cause sea level to rise putting the surrounding area at risk of flood. A Marin County…
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A Taste of General Mills
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2013 Food & Health Survey
13 Jun 2013 | 11:29 amA new survey says three out of four Americans prefer positive messaging about how to have a healthful diet and would rather hear about what they should eat, rather than what they should not. This was one of many key observations from the International Food Information Council (IFIC) Foundation 2013 Food & Health Survey, which examined consumer attitudes toward nutrition, health and food safety. I tuned into a recent IFIC webcast on this annual national quantitative study to understand more about how Americans view their own diets, their efforts to improve them, how they balance diet and… -
America’s Helper gets a makeover
12 Jun 2013 | 3:25 pmIntroduced in 1971 as an easy way to make a pound of hamburger feed a hungry family, the Helper brand has been a staple in American homes for decades. In fact, more than 1 million households eat it for dinner each weeknight. That’s a lot of people that little box is helping. But, like all good things, evolution is important. So we’re changing some things. The packaging now has a fresh new look. The product itself is in the process of getting a makeover, with lower levels of sodium, and several new product launches — like Sweet & Sour Chicken, and an even-cheesier Ultimates line. -
Tumble our history on Tumblr
10 Jun 2013 | 12:00 pmWith nearly 150 years of innovation inside and outside the kitchens of the U.S., and around the world, there are many memorable highlights in our past. So we recently decided we needed a new place to share our history with you – a Tumblr blog. From images of our vintage advertising and packaging, to items used in promotions involving our beloved brands, we will use Tumblr to show off the collection of the General Mills Archives (as we did today with this video clip with Susan Wakefield, our corporate archivist, talking about the origin of Betty Crocker). Our new Tumblr blog will be the… -
Soup sales are steaming hot
6 Jun 2013 | 7:11 pmThe long winter in parts of the U.S. no doubt helped soup sales this year. Retail sales in the ready-to-serve soup category were up 5 percent through our fiscal third quarter. And retail sales of our Progresso ready-to-serve soups were even higher – up 7 percent, through the third quarter. But more than the weather has contributed to this growing trend. First, consumers in general are returning to soup as a meal option – just a few years after the canned soup category was in decline. In response, soup companies resumed emphasizing the benefits of soup – including great taste. And… -
USDA study confirms cereal improvements
6 Jun 2013 | 5:35 pmA USDA Agricultural Research Service-led study confirms what we’ve known for some time: The nutritional profile of cereals in the U.S. has improved significantly since 2005. The study of Kellogg and General Mills cereals – which represent 62 percent of the U.S. market and 80 percent of sales – found that, on average, between 2005 and 2011: Fiber increased 32 percent. Sodium decreased 14 percent. Sugar decreased 10 percent. In addition, the study – published in the second issue of Procedia Food Science – found that whole grain was an ingredient in at least two-thirds of the cereals.
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The Great Place to Work Blog
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I ♥ My Workplace .. with a Company Tattoo?
13 Jun 2013 | 2:33 amEmployees in great workplaces are often incredibly proud of their organisations, and are happy to let everyone know. But workers in a New York real estate brokerage are taking pride to a new level..... by getting a company tattoo. -
Sometimes we imagine...
12 Jun 2013 | 1:16 amSometimes we imagine that taking a stand is a very difficult thing to do. That it will be hard to make the right choice, to move forward in life, with family and friends and at work by doing the right thing, making moral choices, considering the impact of our decision on others lives before we make our choice. Yet really, it’s not that hard at all. It just takes a little practice. -
The 8 Most Attractive Qualities in Prospective Employees
10 Jun 2013 | 6:09 pmCertain people simply have that “it” factor. I am talking about those individuals who walk into a room with a kind of charm that instantly grabs your attention, the kind of people that are a rare commodity in the workplace and the ones you want to recruit - because they are action seekers and game changers who inspire change. -
The Future of the Workplace
4 Jun 2013 | 5:00 pmTell us your predictions in our Blog CarnivalHave you had a chance to stop by and check out our Blog Carnival? We are inviting workplace leaders, strategists, managers and employees to participate in this thought-provoking activity all throughout the month of June. Even if you only have a chance to read one or two submissions, the idea is to get everyone thinking about the direction our workplaces are headed in. -
Cultural Differences among Great Workplaces
4 Jun 2013 | 5:33 amReflections on the Latin American Region While around the world, Great Place to Work’s definition of a great workplace does not vary, the Great Place to Work Latin American Conference illuminated some of the cultural nuances that put a slightly different spin on this universal concept. While here in the United States, leaders often boast of the impact their cultural practices have on their bottom line, in Latin America, leaders expressed great faith that they are changing the world by building great workplaces.
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Summit Brokerage
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Discipline of Investor Determines Market Success
12 Jun 2013 | 7:42 amOver 20 Years, S&P 500 returned 7.81%, but average investor made 3.49% The year 2012 was very good for investors. Despite all the negative news during the year, the market, as measured by the S&P 500 Index finished up 15.96 percent. As I write this article, the investor is still feeling pretty good as the S&P 500 nears an all-time high. However, as anyone who has followed the market knows, this feeling can change in a heartbeat, forcing investors to face their fears and hopefully shut out the noise and stick to their financial plan. This financial plan can be accomplished with the… -
The Rise of the Tweet – Getting Your Business Involved
7 Jun 2013 | 1:18 pmThe Twitter community is growing each and every day. With more than 200 million active users, Twitter has become a key component in communicating alerts and sharing stories in many different avenues of our everyday lives. Real-time updates connect you to the hottest news spanning anywhere from President Obama’s latest decisions, up to the second news on the most recent athlete discovered to be using steroids, all the way to the Kardashians’ newest hairdo. Sigh. At the center of it all are the “Tweets.” The coined term that has become part of people’s everyday vocabulary allowing… -
The Final Frontier
31 May 2013 | 11:54 amIn 1952, the investment community took a giant step forward with an idea put forth by Harry Markowitz in an article for an academic publication, the Journal of Finance. Mr. Markowitz was able to calculate a return for a portfolio and a measure of expected portfolio risk. He showed that the variance (or volatility) of the return was a good measure of portfolio risk. Foremost in the development of risk and return assumptions is the idea of an efficient frontier. This idea considers that diversification is important and it proposes that we can learn how to effectively diversify a portfolio… -
Does Your Broker-Dealer Allow You to Benefit From Your Hard Work?
23 May 2013 | 11:53 amFor those that follow the independent broker-dealer industry, it should come as no surprise that compensation – that is, payouts – tend to be very similar at most independent firms. Therefore, the real compensation differentiator tends be the “non-payout compensation” that firms offer. At Summit Brokerage Services, great emphasis is placed on not only recognizing financial advisors for their contributions towards the success of the Firm, but also in providing them with an economic reward for such contributions. Summit Brokerage takes this concept to a new level. Every advisor… -
Summit Brokerage Services, Inc. Number One in InvestmentNews
15 May 2013 | 10:18 amOn April 22, 2013, InvestmentNews magazine reported on the top independent broker-dealers ranked by financial advisors producing $100,000 to $499,000 a year as a percentage of total financial advisors. Number one on the list was Summit Brokerage Services Inc., with 88% of its financial advisors falling into that range. Marshall Leeds, Chairman and CEO of Summit, commented that, “I am pleased that the Firm was recognized by InvestmentNews for our commitment to serving the needs of the industry’s biggest and best producers. This recognition is due entirely to the efforts of our…
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Adage Technologies
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Building a Windows 8 App Part 2
14 Jun 2013 | 10:05 amA few weeks ago I posted a blog about connecting to Asana through their RESTful API and built the foundation for this connection. In this post I’ll show you how to use the WebAuthenticationBroker in C#. The MSDN sample contains a good handful of useful scenarios regarding this as well: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/Web-Authentication-d0485122 For this specific application we’re goi... -
Rule #1: Hire Passionate People
13 Jun 2013 | 4:31 amTime and time again, companies are chosen for awards and asked for the secret formula to their success. Representatives will quote benefits, vacation policies, flexible work environments and countless other policies as the key to keeping employees happy and riding the growth wave. We’re here to tell you all that doesn’t mean a thing. It’s useless unless you’re committed to hiring passionate,... -
How to Perform a Website Audit
13 Jun 2013 | 4:03 amYour website is due for a site audit. What are the next steps to optimize your company’s performance online? Website audits are a great way to monitor and optimize your overall web presence. They seek to identify key areas that need improvement by gathering data and insights into three key areas: design, development, and digital marketing. Each phase will analyze elements that play into site... -
Tessitura Conference 2013: Adage Event Line Up
4 Jun 2013 | 6:52 amThe 2013 Tessitura Conference is fast approaching and we have plenty to look forward to! You’ll find our event lineup outlined below as well as a sneak peek into our first ever Social Media Contest for Tessitura participants. Adage Sessions at the Tessitura Conference Come visit Adage Technologies! We will be available throughout the conference at the Sponsor Lab and will also be included in so... -
Adage Technologies Wins 'Best in Class' Interactive Media Award for LA Opera Website
21 May 2013 | 2:33 amAdage Technologies is happy to announce that the LA Opera website was awarded the ' Best in Class' Interactive Media Award in the Entertainment category for 2013. This award is the highest honor bestowed by the Interactive Media Awards and it represents the very best in website planning, execution and overall professionalism by the interactive media community. With an overall score of 480 out...
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Enterprise Mobility Services
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9 reasons to offshore your Enterprise mobility application development…
23 May 2013 | 12:45 amWhether you want to build an business website, complex software application or an Large e-store with thousands of products, the most important step in the process is to have a robust web development & technology partner with immense experience and your if your first choice is not to offshore the project, read on. Given the experience and expertise, your near shore technology partner may inherit certain disadvantages such as: Time: Long waiting period or turn around time for project delivery (more clients, few web agencies) Additional Taxes: Your local partner is mandated to charge you… -
5 Reasons Businesses Need Enterprise Mobile Apps & Business Mobility Solutions
29 Apr 2013 | 4:21 amI was recently reading a whitepaper on the value of mobile business apps to help organizations, both large and small, across various industries – from direct store delivery to home health care, state and local government, construction and field services. Smart phones, tablets, and mobile apps have truly transformed the way we communicate, play and manage our personal lives. According to recent surveys half of all U.S. adults own a smartphone or tablet. Considering that was prior to the holiday shopping season and the typical wave of post holiday shoppers that “may have not… -
How Mobile Internet apps moving e-commerce off the web….
3 Apr 2013 | 12:31 amBusinesses have a new innovative way for reaching their customers. With the emergence of smartphones, businesses can reach their customers anytime and anywhere by creating their own mobile applications. A mobile application or app is more than just a marketing tool. Aside from providing direct contact to your consumers, an app can also contain features that businesses can use to enhance services and consumer experience. A business will need the services of an iPhone or Android app development company like eMorphis Techologies to create their app. Our developers can guide you on what kind of… -
Benefits of Healthcare Software development services through Enterprise mobility
18 Mar 2013 | 4:06 amMobile technology like wireless censors and cell phones are increasingly being used to access & gather health information quickly and efficiently. Mobile apps serve several health purposes such as counting calories, tracking workouts, helping to quit smoking, and counting body mass index. Medical practitioners are deploying mobile applications in health care centers to help them in research of complex medical conditions. Health practitioners often find themselves dealing with a variety of records – from records pertaining to practice license and credentialing documents to financial… -
Significance of EHR Systems in eHealth Technologies
28 Feb 2013 | 12:54 amModern medical systems are nowadays based more and more on the easy access and real time processing of a great amount of data and medical information characterized by certain grade and type of structuring. Understanding the major importance that electronic data base systems have for the medical informatics systems led to their quick worldwide adoption, the concept of electronic database evidence has suffered many transformations and reconsiderations along with the increase in complexity and with the change of medical data, simultaneous with health care systems evolution. The sharing of…
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Skiddle Blog
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Skiddle.com Festival Finder Week on Unity Radio 92.8 FM
6 Jun 2013 | 4:30 amHopefully you’ll all know Skiddle sponsors the weekend over at our friends Unity Radio in Manchester, however this week we’ve gone that one step further, this week is the Skiddle.com Festival Finder Week on Unity Radio 92.8 FM. So what’s Festival Finder Week all about? Recently Skiddle launched the most sophisticated festival search facility online and we thought it would be a good idea to let more people know about it and as it’s just about the start of festival season we thought what better way than to get the guys over at Unity to shout about it for us. Northern… -
Promoter Update: What’s happening at Skiddle?
6 Jun 2013 | 4:04 amIt’s been an exciting couple of weeks at Skiddle HQ and many of you will have heard rumours about the things we’re up to; we thought we’d explain how your events may benefit from Skiddle’s recent developments. Big Name Partners Most of you will know that Skiddle has a growing affiliate network of thousands of websites. Skiddle’s listings are used on sites such as Data Transmission (http://www.datatransmission.co.uk/), and Gigs and Festivals (http://www.gigsandfestivals.co.uk/) – your event will be shown on these websites at no extra cost if it meets certain criteria. -
Skiddle Announces Strategic Partnership With Mixmag
28 May 2013 | 7:38 amSkiddle is pleased to announce the launch of a strategic partnership with leading dance music brand Mixmag, in which we have deployed a bespoke solution to power the ticket sales on Mixmag.net. Launched in 1983, Mixmag has developed a huge global following as the world’s biggest selling dance music magazine. Being behind the first commercially available mix cd in 1991, and retaining its status as one of the premier authorities on electronic music and club culture for over thirty years, Mixmag.net generates over a million monthly page impressions as the go-to reference point for people… -
Skiddle Customers Raise Thousands for CALM
20 May 2013 | 4:33 amSkiddle is pleased to announced they have raised over £2,000 in support of C.A.L.M. (Campaign Against Living Miserably), the UK’s leading leading charity focused on reducing suicides in young men. Having supported CALM for a number of years, the recent donation of £2,320 adds to the considerable donations, already made by Skiddle customers, for this very worthy cause. Donations to the charity are made by the Preston-based, primary ticket outlet’s customers at the point of checkout where the customers is encouraged to make a donation of £1 in support of the charity. Supporting of a… -
How to Ticket a Corporate Event
9 May 2013 | 7:07 amMost will not have considered the prospect of using a ticket outlet such as Skiddle to ticket their respective corporate events. The temptation is to simply throw a load of names down on a spreadsheet on Microsoft Excel, and manually cross off names as people arrive. Simple, yes. Effective, kind of. There are however a lot of opportunities that this option deprives you of. With Skiddle looking after your corporate ticketing, you are open to a whole world of possibilities. One such aspect is promotion. With our website your event will be given a massively increased internet presence and the…
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Anderson Direct Marketing : Blog
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Is Print Dead?
12 Jun 2013 | 11:25 amOn April 24, 2013, Anderson Direct Marketing participated in its first Google+ Hangout. Creative director Carlos Perez represented ADM in the second episode of Xerox’s “Ask the Experts” series. Joining Perez were Gordon Kaye, editor and publisher, and Ilana Greenberg, creative director from the magazine Graphic Design USA. The question that brought these experts together was, “Is print dead?” All of the experts answered confidently with a resounding no. Kaye started the conversation with the subject of tangibility. With print, you can touch, hold and feel a piece. Other… -
A Marketer? A Detective? Maybe a Bit of Both.
31 May 2013 | 4:02 pmWe’re all familiar with the formula—the success of a direct mail package is 40% list, 40% offer, and 20% creative. So why do we spend 90% of our time on creative—edits, revisions, etc? Oh wait, that’s another blog topic. Today, let’s talk about direct mail offers—when they work, and when they don’t. Delivering the right offer to the right customer is an art—I mean, a science. How many times have you received the same direct mail package delivered to your home with different offers? It happens to me all the time—one offer for my husband and a different offer for… -
You Know You’re a Proofreader When…
24 May 2013 | 10:24 am1) You know the difference between a hyphen, an en dash, and an em dash, and how to use them. 2) You keep a list of interesting names and addresses you encounter in your data checks. (Who wouldn’t want to live on Real Princess Lane or Camino de Pizza? And we’re going to try to avoid moving to Boring, Oregon if at all possible.) 3) You find articles like this to be relevant, helpful, and a source of passionate discussion: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/21/the-most-comma-mistakes/ 4) You rejoice upon discovering that a document has lots of… -
Business Decision Making—Use Data or Gut Instinct?
20 May 2013 | 5:20 pmI don’t know about you, but I trust my gut on most things. But what I don’t take chances with is my clients’ or my company’s money. Gut decisions can drive great insights into what to test, when to test and where to test, but these need to be calculated decisions. Decisions made with consideration to the overall risk to your business. CMOs are making gut instinct decisions. Should you? In 2012, the Columbia Business School conducted a study and learned that 28% of CMOs admitted to making decisions mainly based on gut instinct. That’s a big number. And with leaders that… -
Winning the War of Words: Effective Direct Marketing Creative
10 May 2013 | 3:09 pmWhen it comes to marketing today’s complex products and services, less can be more. Thanks to innovation, competition, consumer demand and regulatory pressures, today’s products and services are becoming more complex in their quest to make life easier. That’s the good news. Now the bad news for marketers: people reach information overload quickly, have limited attention spans, and really don’t like to read. (This reporter’s opinion.) So how can writers and designers do justice to these products, increase response rates and “tell the story” without losing the audience in a…
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CompsDoc LLC
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CompsDoc LLC Tigra 2 passes PCI Compliance with Trustwave
26 May 2013 | 12:35 pmSecurity has been a top priority for CompsDoc LLC’s Tigra 2 platform and meeting PCI compliance has been the goal since we started the Tigra 2 project to gain enterprise clients. We are pleased to announce our platform has passed rigorous testing by Trustwave and has been confirmed as PCI compliant in security , encryption and data warehousing on 5/26/2013. Going forward we are prepared to take on new enterprise clients as well as service our existing enterprise clients by being a PCI compliant system provider. In today’s world… -
Tigra 2 Business Platform Released
18 Apr 2013 | 3:39 pmCompsDoc LLC Launches new Tigra 2 Platform April 15, 2013 – CompsDoc LLC a leader in measuring the digital world today announced the official launch of their new platform, Tigra 2. This new platform has been developed through years of testing and developing. This is an active system that will provide businesses with notifications and instant measurable feedback. “We proudly release Tigra 2, which brings dynamic notifications and instant updates to our Tigra business framework. The companies we have worked with have been successful and we strive to accomplish this with our new clients… -
Quote Form
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Business Developer
10 Jan 2013 | 5:48 pmCompsDoc LLC is looking for a business developer to grow the existing business The responsibilities of the position Following up new business opportunities and setting up meetings Planning and preparing presentations Communicating new product developments to prospective clients Overseeing the development of marketing literature Writing reports Providing management with feedback Invoicing/accounts receivable Experience requirement Bachelor degree in business marketing or related field 1 to 2 years sales experience Familiar with Microsoft Word,Powerpoint , and Quickbooks … -
The Small Choices Make Big Differences : Even The Simple Choice Of What Internet Service To Use Makes Big Differences Down The Road
2 Jan 2013 | 8:39 pmAt CompsDoc LLC, we realize that even the small choices have a big impact on your business and we encourage you to consult with us before you make the small choices. One small choice many businesses make is the choice of internet connection for their business. Most medium and small sized businesses choose either Comcast or Verizon Fios. Little do they know, this is a small decision that has major impacts. Business Choices: Why you need a computer business consultant Most businesses do not realize the big impact this decision has. If you choose cable (Comcast), you have probably already…
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merchantwarehouse.com
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Complimentary Webinar: Developing a Mobile Commerce Strategy in Uncertain Times
13 Jun 2013 | 9:57 amThat mobile is the future of payments appears to be a foregone conclusion. Hardly a day goes by without hearing about a revolutionary mobile payments system that will profoundly change the way people exchange currency. Unfortunately, these discussions typically stop short of explaining precisely why paying with smartphones is an improvement over paying with plastic cards. Cards have been sufficiently convenient, secure, and efficient to support an electronic payments system for more than 50 years; what is it about mobile that is superior? Our webinar, Developing a Mobile Commerce Strategy in… -
Mobile Payments - Developing a Mobile Commerce Strategy in Uncertain Times
13 Jun 2013 | 6:57 amFor years, mobile payments have been described as the “future of the payments industry.” Industry observers have detailed the intelligence of the mobile device, the security of NFC, the effectiveness of cloud-based solutions, as well as dozens of other mobile payment solutions, and the advantages they provide.Amid all of this excitement, one important fact was overlooked: the current payment system based on plastic cards is sufficiently effective, convenient, and secure. However by looking beyond simply payments, merchants and consumers are beginning to realize the many benefits that… -
Preparing for the New World of Payments
11 Jun 2013 | 6:57 amOver the past 20 years U.S. merchants shifted away from checks and started accepting credit cards. Most merchants still rely on electronic cash registers (ECRs) or desktop computers as their point-of-sale (POS) terminal, but mobile technologies continue to evolve and gain traction. We are already witnessing the impact of mobile technologies with mobile payment and commerce applications, tablet based POS, mobilePOS and self-checkout, creating challenges and opportunities for business owners. Mobile payment applications - often referred to as a mobile or digital wallet - allow consumers to make… -
Three Key Strategies to Attract Customers and Grow Sales
6 Jun 2013 | 7:57 amWhether your business is thriving or simply surviving, a successful entrepreneur should always be aware of every option available to drive incremental business and grow the bottom line. From new technologies to business basics, following are three key strategies to assist you in expanding your customer base and growing sales. Customer retention fuels sales growth: Faced with a challenge of growing sales, many business owners immediately focus on new customer acquisition, but in reality retaining existing customers most often yields greater return. In fact, research from Flowtown estimates… -
Merchant Warehouse Awarded for Best Digital Innovation from a Large Enterprise at the 2013 MITX Innovation Awards
5 Jun 2013 | 9:57 amAnnual Awards Show Celebrates New England’s Most Innovative Web and Mobile Technology Achievements Boston, Mass. — June 5, 2013 — Merchant Warehouse, a leading innovator of payment technologies and merchant account services, today announced it has been selected as a winner in the category of Best Digital Innovation from a Large Enterprise for the 2013 MITX Innovation Awards. Merchant Warehouse’s Genius™ Customer Engagement Platform™ offers merchants universal payment acceptance capability, combined with integrated mobile loyalty, rewards and discounts, so a merchant or…
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Marie Callender's
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Free Printable Weekly Meal Planner
17 Jun 2013 | 11:00 amDinnertime is one of the best moments to gather your family together and share details of your day. I like to have a plan to keep family meals simple so I can truly savor that time! -
Father’s Day Gift Ideas
14 Jun 2013 | 11:00 amTrying to find the perfect gift for my dad is hard, and sometimes it’s even harder to come up with ideas for my daughter to give my husband. While I love giving store-bought gifts, I also love to sprinkle in some handmade touches for Father’s Day. -
Family Time…Around the TV
12 Jun 2013 | 11:00 amWhen my daughter was young she loved watching TGIF on Friday nights. We would munch on a big bowl of popcorn and watch “Full House” and “Family Matters.” In case you are too young to know, both shows were family-friendly TV shows on ABC. The plots were silly and simple, but what I liked most about those shows was their innocence. -
Fun with Paper: Origami Boat How-to
10 Jun 2013 | 11:00 amOne of my son’s favorite things to do when it rains is to make simple, homemade origami boats and race them down the side of the street in the stream (with my supervision, of course). This is a fun activity for everyone in the family or even a group of children. You can race the boats, have decorating contests, and more! -
Capturing & Creating Memories Through Photos
7 Jun 2013 | 11:00 amNot many parents think to take photos of themselves with their children. Many of us use photos to remember special family times as a kid. I sure wish I had more photos of my parents and grandparents with me back then! I encourage you to take more photos with you in them.
