Posted by admin in TechnologyDec 30th, 2008 | No Comments
This article comes from the L.A. Times.
“It is the privilege — or possibly the curse — of each new generation to be different from the last. But rarely has a generational divide been as noticeable as that between those in their early 20s and the baby boomers.
This, at any rate, is the proposition put forward by Don Tapscott, a management professor at the University of Toronto and author a decade ago of “Growing Up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation.” In his latest book, “Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation Is Changing Your World,” he argues that...
Posted by admin in TechnologyDec 11th, 2008 | No Comments
This post comes from CNBC. “Global Communications and IT Solutions Leader Identifies Top Technology Trends to Help Businesses Reach New Heights in Year Ahead The global economy is front and center, and enterprises worldwide are looking to get the biggest bang for their buck in 2009. With that in mind, Verizon Business has identified 10 business technology trends to help corporate and government information technology (IT) leaders do more with less.
“These challenging times present IT leaders with an opportunity to make technology work harder and smarter to get the job done,”...
Posted by admin in TechnologyOct 13th, 2008 | No Comments
WOW….how times have changed! Today is the 25th anniversary of the cell phone. It has gone from a device that cost almost $4,000 to a one that is virtually free. Twenty five years ago I was a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Philippines. At that time it took four days to get a telegram to my local site from St. Louis where I grew up. Today you can text message real time from virtually anywhere in the world to the small town I lived in back in those days. In fact, the Philippines has become the largest text messaging nation in the world. You can’t conduct business in the Philippines without...
