DOT Braille Smart Watch
The DOT Braille Smart Watch project has won the Grand LIA for Design at the 2016 London International Awards. Developed in South Korea, DOT the first Braille Smartwatch sets out to provide an interactive device for blind and visually impaired people, to be launched later this year. Online at dotincorp.com, the patented DOT Active Braille […]
Checking in with John Sculley decades after Apple
The man best known for one of the most high-profile firings in tech history has turned his attention to your health. John Sculley, the former PepsiCo CEO who was famously lured to Silicon Valley to run Apple, is probably best known as the man who fired Steve Jobs. But now he’s looking to make a […]
Will 2017 be the Final Year of the Password?
The 2017 RSA Conference has been chock full of announcements, leaving many a security analyst in wonder for what the future holds for InfoSec. Yet, one consistent theme at the conference has been authentication, or more simply put, how to better secure access to resources. For many, the weak link in the authentication chain has […]
A Brief History Of Salesforce.com
1999 – Telegraph Hill Believe it or not, Salesforce started life in March, 1999 contained out of a one bedroom apartment next to Marc Benioff’s house, atop Telegraph Hill, San Francisco. The three men that started working in this tiny office along with Marc? Parker Harris, Frank Dominguez and Dave Moellenhoff. They were also accompanied […]
Start thinking like a startup
Shifts in a rapidly changing retail world and dramatic changes in consumer behavior continue to be a challenge for some traditional retailers. Legacy retailers that have remained stagnant with their old-guard ways are struggling to maintain sales and stay relevant with today’s consumer. The successful brands all have one thing in common: They don’t fear […]
Build an IT help desk
An IT help desk is often the first line of support for many organizations. However, some businesses can’t justify the cost of implementing and managing a dedicated help desk to serve the demands of their end users due to a lack of available IT resources or budgetary constraints. This creates a unique challenge: end users […]
Apple’s dongle obsession explained with laughter
Technically Incorrect: The laughing Spanish Apple engineer is back with a beautifully scripted explanation of how MacBook Pro dongles came to be. When new Apple products come along, many so-called experts express their views. But what about the insiders? While Apple’s executives do interviews to explain the official company line, those who know the secrets […]
US hands internet control to ICANN
Capping a highly politicized debate, the US government on Saturday let go of its remaining grip on the internet, handing control of the net’s address book to a nonprofit. Saying free speech in the virtual realm was at stake, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz and others had tried to block the transfer. But a federal judge […]
Knowledge Transfer Mentoring—Part 1 Why your KM Strategy should include Mentoring
When most people think about mentoring, what comes to mind is career advice and counseling. Those types of mentoring programs—which are relatively common in the corporate world—pair younger employees with more experienced colleagues who can help them find the right career paths, make decisions about their careers and development, and tackle conflicts or challenges they […]
Why LinkedIn should kill the résumé and replace it with the experience graph
Imagine a future where individuals can illustrate their progression of lifelong learning and training and its links to their real-world performance. In this version of the future, the once-ubiquitous résumé has been ousted by the experience graph. The graph itself will grow out of ExperienceAPI (xAPI), a data specification that allows us to capture and […]