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In a world where everyone is connected 24/7, being positive is a powerful force that enables people to get things done.Whether you are based in Mumbai or Memphis, this new book, authored by Jon Gordon, helps you establish positive ways to deal with negativity at work.Find out more here. read full article »

The Pitt Law School, where I teach, is dipping its toes in the waters of local entrepreneurship. Here is a job posting that recently went live at the University:The University of Pittsburgh School of Law seeks an individual to develop and direct a program in Law and Entrepreneurship at the .. read full article »

Garmin and TomTom may need to guard their backs in the portable navigation device market. Americans are increasingly using their cell phones for navigation, according to data from comScore, which says that navigation on the cell phone as of the end of May was up 82 percent over the same period a .. read full article »

Community-Driven SpecificationsAt OSCON yesterday Dave Recordon, of Movable Type, announced a new nonprofit organization. The Open Web Foundation has been created to support the development and protection of non-proprietary specifications for Web technologies. read full article »

Verizon will start selling FiOS TV in New York City on Monday. The announcement will be made at a glitzy ceremony at the Grand Central Station, and will be webcast as well. NYC had granted Verizon a television franchise in May, and the franchise was confirmed by the New York Public Service .. read full article »

Verizon will start selling FiOS TV in New York City on Monday. The announcement will be made at a glitzy ceremony at the Grand Central Station, and will be webcast as well. NYC had granted Verizon a television franchise in May, and the franchise was confirmed by the New York Public Service .. read full article »

President Sarkozy is liberating the French economy from the political shackles put on it by the unions. How an unpopular president is able to accomplish this is nothing short of a miracle. First, by firing off in so many directions at once, Mr Sarkozy has made it difficult for the unions to .. read full article »

Even with the mystery gone, I still enjoy them. read full article »

Harbinger Capital today offered satellite service provider MSV/Skyterra $500 million to pay for the company’s launch of its two new satellites. The private equity firm also made clear it’s planning to push for a deal to acquire British satellite company Inmarsat. The acquisition attempt .. read full article »

Harbinger Capital today offered satellite service provider MSV/Skyterra $500 million to pay for the company’s launch of its two new satellites. The private equity firm also made clear it’s planning to push for a deal to acquire British satellite company Inmarsat. The acquisition attempt .. read full article »

Steve Ballmer sent an email to Microsoft employees this week in which he acknowledged the success of Apple — and what the Redmond giant needs to do in order to better compete. “Today, we’re changing the way we work with hardware vendors to ensure that we can provide complete experiences .. read full article »

Steve Ballmer sent an email to Microsoft employees this week in which he acknowledged the success of Apple — and what the Redmond giant needs to do in order to better compete. “Today, we’re changing the way we work with hardware vendors to ensure that we can provide complete experiences .. read full article »

In past blogs, we have documented the ruthless reaction of rural electrical and telephone CO*OPs to Representative Jim Cooper's simple call for transparency. Joe Stiglitz (Nobel Laureate) asks for similar transparency at Fannie and Freddie as the US government is about to embark on another .. read full article »

Over the past few years, the quaint and sleepy town of Bangalore has been transformed into a highly compressed version of Silicon Valley, only with worse housing and transportation problems. Some of the bigger technology companies — Texas Instruments, Intel and Qualcomm — have offices there, .. read full article »

Updated at the bottom: Over the past few years, the quaint and sleepy town of Bangalore has been transformed into a highly compressed version of Silicon Valley, only with worse housing and transportation problems. Some of the bigger technology companies — Texas Instruments, Intel and Qualcomm .. read full article »

When was the last time you bought software that came in a box, an actual CD that you put into your disc drive in order to load it onto your computer? It’s probably been a while, since most applications are now downloaded straight from the Internet. Today a growing number of companies are .. read full article »

When was the last time you bought software that came in a box, an actual CD that you put into your disc drive in order to load it onto your computer? It’s probably been a while, since most applications are now downloaded straight from the Internet. Today a growing number of companies are .. read full article »

FSTC Establishes Mobile Standards GroupThe Financial Services Technology Consortium (FSTC) has created a working group to establish mobile banking standards and best practices. The goal is to facilitate a model that allows for interoperability of a mobile payments infrastructure, according to .. read full article »

The Federal Reserve Board's "beige book" for June and July offers a clear explanation for why the economy has slowed to a crawl. It shows American consumers cutting way back on their purchases of everything from food to cars to appliances to name-brand products. As they do so, employers .. read full article »

Can Mobile IM beat SMS? Yes, that is almost certain No, SMS' simplicity makes it unbeatable Both will co exist Yesterday, the guys from eBuddy sent me a press release (pdf link) that made me wonder: With the rise of .. read full article »

Nokia and Qualcomm buried the hatchet this week, deciding to settle matters out of court and become friends. While the details of the settlement aren’t clear, The Wall Street Journal reports that as a result of this settlement, Nokia will pay less to Qualcomm. The deal ensures that Qualcomm .. read full article »

In his classic book The E-Myth, Michael Gerber identified the No. 1 challenge of entrepreneurship: working on your business, not in it.But how do you make that leap from day-to-day “technician” to visionary executive?In the E-Myth blog this week, Susan offers a simple process for busy .. read full article »

Nokia and Qualcomm buried the hatchet this week, deciding to settle matters out of court and become friends. While the details of the settlement aren’t clear - The Wall Street Journal reports that as a result of this settlement, Nokia will pay less to Qualcomm. The deal ensures that Qualcomm .. read full article »

Yesterday, the guys from eBuddy send me a press release that made me wonder: with the rise of flat rate data plans for feature-packed mobiles and high speed 3G network becoming coming place, will Mobile IM start to eat into the lucrative SMS business? The data from eBuddy would suggest so - the .. read full article »

tgiftutorials wiki Resources for Today's Researchers Customer Anthropology: The Art of Observation Customer Anthropology: The Art of Observation - List in the middle is great for Work Literacy. Nuggets from Social Media workshops as of late… : Community Group Therapy in the workshop can be .. read full article »

(www.businessandblogging.com) Here at Business and Blogging we’ve always maintained that it’s important for a business blogger to respond to genuine comments (not spam) left on his or her blog. Blogging is a conversation, and as such, it takes at least two to converse. For a business .. read full article »

(www.businessandblogging.com) Here at Business and Blogging we’ve always maintained that it’s important for a business blogger to respond to genuine comments (not spam) left on his or her blog. Blogging is a conversation, and as such, it takes at least two to converse. For a business .. read full article »

Today at Comic-Con, the Cartoon Network announced FusionFall, which it described as “the first AAA, browser-based massively multiplayer online game (MMOG).” (The “AAA” qualification is probably meant to distinguish it from low-budget, web-based MMOGs like Runescape.) Set to be released .. read full article »

The Female Entrepreneur, As you can probably guess, I'm a female entrepreneur. I'm blogging to share my thoughts, experiences and cool stuff I've learned. read full article »

NASA Images was just launched (press release) and it uses software that was partly developed by my firm TechEmpower. It has a bunch of neat features that makes it fun to play with, especially the ability to create different kinds of widgets of groups and images and workspaces. Warning, if you .. read full article »

Today at Comic-Con, the Cartoon Network announced FusionFall, which it described as “the first AAA, browser-based massively multiplayer online game (MMOG).” (The “AAA” qualification is probably meant to distinguish it from low-budget, web-based MMOGs like Runescape.) Set to be released .. read full article »

Fresh off their launch of Facebook Connect at their second developer conference, the social networking company is going to launch a mobile version of the Facebook Connect this fall, Jed Stremel, director of mobile for Facebook, said in a chat today. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company is going .. read full article »

Fresh off their launch of Facebook Connect at their second developer conference, the social networking company is going to launch a mobile version of the Facebook Connect this fall, Jed Stremel, director of mobile for Facebook, said in a chat today. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company is going .. read full article »

Intel, the world’s largest chip maker, is spreading its R&D efforts far outside of its server and PC kingdom. The company has just launched a new line of products that will combine four processors onto a single chip, reducing both power consumption and the footprint required by the .. read full article »

Intel, the world’s largest chip maker, is spreading its R&D efforts far outside of its server and PC kingdom. The company has just launched a new line of products that will combine four processors onto a single chip, reducing both power consumption and the footprint required by the .. read full article »

As travel costs continue to rise, big corporations are looking for alternate ways to get their employees in front of one another, including investing big bucks in things like teleconferencing systems. But while the giants are just waking up to this new world of distributed and remote work, web .. read full article »

I am hanging out at the MobileBeat conference in Sunnyvale, Calif., today, watching Erick Schonfeld grill panelists on the “Bang or Bust” panel. One of the panelists is Matt Murphy, head of the $100 million iFund at Kleiner, Perkins Caufield & Byers. “We have invested in five companies so .. read full article »

I am hanging out at the MobileBeat conference in Sunnyvale, Calif., today, watching Erick Schonfeld grill panelists on the “Bang or Bust” panel. One of the panelists is Matt Murphy, head of the $100 million iFund at Kleiner, Perkins Caufield & Byers. “We have invested in five companies so .. read full article »

Q: My lawyer is asking for a "success fee" for a referral to a potential investor in my business. Since he'll be doing the legal work, he's offered to charge only 3% on the amount funded (solely from this one contact) as opposed to a 5% that a typical investment banker would charge (even though .. read full article »

The Social Equity Venture Fund (S.E.VEN), just launched a competition to develop new indicators and models for investment in emerging market small and medium-sized enterprises.The competition is open to everyone, and is offering U.S. $50,000 in funds awarded for the best ideas. Entrepreneurs in .. read full article »

CIA-Funded UW Program Trains the Next Generation of Online SpiesWhen classes at the University of Washington resume this fall, some students at the school will be under the watchful eye of a Central Intelligence Agency spook. In fact, some of them will even be learning from him.This fall, Dr. .. read full article »

HSToday Wins Prestigious Azbee Award of Editorial ExcellenceHSToday has won the Gold Azbee Award for Excellence for the Central Southeast Region from the American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE) for its “2007 Homeland Security Report Card.” read full article »

Information Sharing Effectiveness Questioned by GAONow nearly seven years since 9/11, not only are state and local law enforcement agencies across the nation questioning the efficacy of anti-terror information sharing pushed by the federal government and intelligence reform measures, but the .. read full article »

David HublerIn those Cold War days, listening to and translating news items into English from Radio Moscow and satellite states’ broadcasts from Prague, Warsaw, Budapest, Bucharest, East Berlin, Sofia, Beijing, Pyongyang, Havana and, yes, even Tirana, proved invaluable to the agency, the White .. read full article »

Is Kevin Johnson Good For Juniper? Yes, he brings a new perspective No. Selling Routers against Cisco isn't like selling Windows. I am going back to sleep Update: Juniper has officially announced that Kevin Johnson is going .. read full article »

In the post - Webinar Software - Adoption Advice - one of the comments I made was:If you've done webinars, you know that they are different to design and deliver successfully than other kinds of presentations and training.This is something I learned the hard way. My very first presentation was .. read full article »

Is Kevin Johnson Good For Juniper? Yes, he brings a new perspective No. Selling Routers against Cisco isn't like selling Windows. I am going back to sleep Update: Juniper has officially announced that Kevin Johnson is going .. read full article »

As travel costs continue to rise, big corporations are looking for alternate ways to get their employees in front of one another, including investing big bucks in things like teleconferencing systems. But while the giants are just waking up to this new world of distributed and remote work, web .. read full article »

New Cision Research Shows Growing Blog Influence in Print Media has Elevated Need to Develop Strong Blogger Relationshipsision (www.cision.com) recently released figures that clearly demonstrate the growing influence of blogs in the mainstream print media. A study of the top 20 national .. read full article »

As travel costs continue to rise, big corporations are looking for alternate ways to get their employees in front of one another, including investing big bucks in things like teleconferencing systems. But while the giants are just waking up to this new world of distributed and remote work, web .. read full article »