A value adding feature highlighted as lacking in the iPhone in a January, 2010 post, is now being delivered by Sprint in an Android based phone manufactured by HTC, the EVO 4G. The feature is the ability for the phone to function as a wifi hotspot for multiple devices (the spec says eight) in addition…
Category: Communication
Would you like to learn something, or just be rescued?
A common theme of any support organization such as Information Technologies: “Would you like to learn something or just be rescued?” Many times the call for help comes from a user who has somehow found themselves in trouble; an undesireable or unpredicted result has occured, something which used to work no longer does, or indeed,…
Why Real-Time Search
Why real-time search indeed. I once had a wonderful job in a retail environment. Information was processed on a continual basis and posted into a robust business intelligence system, and summarized by day. From time to time, a specific store’s data was still processing by the time our business managers rolled into the office and…
And conversations spontaneously erupted!
I was reading an article yesterday of changes in coffee shops world wide. Due to the state of the economy and the need to cut expenses while increasing revenue, coffee shops are either eliminating free internet services or limiting the hours during which free access is available. It seems that multiple factors are coming together…
Collaboration – The New Economy of Scale
With more and more business value being based in intellectual property versus physical property, the definition of scale and its advantages must change. The new playing field is collaboration and its ability to magnify the contributions of the individual through collective, cooperative and competitive knowledge acceleration. The individual contributor is at a disadvantage, the collaborative…
Bells and Whistles of Connectivity
It used to be that the “last mile” of connectivity was always the most at risk – the stretch of (usually) copper wire which actually connected highly engineer, high capacity backbone with an actual building or location. Is it possible that the last mile of our currently highly wireless era is really the “last two…
Entrepreneurship versus Bureaucracy
Unencumbered by facts, it’s easy to say that when I have freedom to operate in any and all directions, it’s entrepreneurial – when I have to follow any rules it’s bureaucratic. The two words, entrepreneurial and bureaucratic have become two of my favorite sound bites lately. A great push back to attempting to put a…
Catch the Wave
Google Wave is being described as a communication and collaboration tool which seeks to introduce a new way of working, information sharing and interacting. Slated for introduction later in 2009, the web based, open source tool will seek to shift the collaboration paradigm by providing a one-stop source for everything digital about a topic that…
This is really important, that’s why I left it on your chair!
This actually happened to me not too long ago – I came back to my office after having been at another location the previous afternoon, to find a critical document placed on my office chair. The sticky note (it wouldn’t really be considered critical without a sticky note) boldly declared “please follow-up ASAP, thanks”. I…
The People You Lead Don’t Use their Turn Signals
Now, that’s interesting. What does using your turn signals have to do with leadership? That depends on what you think the purpose of a turn signal is anyway. Turn signals on a vehicle are intended to communicate your intentions, they are a way to share information, to document and broadcast to everyone around you that…