If you’re a fan of Tom Friedman’s "The World is Flat" as I am, you might find the following paragraph from a Wired article about the purchase of IBM’s PC division by the Chinese company Lenovo interesting. To me it sums up Friedman’s book in a few sentences. Yet there’s more afoot here than the sale of an American icon ...

As I’ve mentioned before, work/life balance is a big issue ’round the ACS these days (where isn’t it an issue?). So, as a public service, I’d like to point to the latest time management, work productivity movement: GTD (Getting Things Done). One way to improve your balancing act is to be better organized and get more done with the time ...

An article in Wired says some cell phone makers see a big, big opportunity in cheap, simple cell phones that will sell for @$20. The GSM Association, a trade group for mobile operators using GSM technology, meanwhile, has also sparked a race to the bottom of the price scale with its Emerging Market Handset Programme. Acting on behalf of operators ...

Last Friday I had a good meeting with Billy Bicket of CompuMentor. Billy was referred to me by Randy Moss. Randy met Billy when he was working for Meetup.com. CompuMentor is a nonprofit technology assistance service that’s been around the Bay Area since ’87. The big thing they do is manage the distribution to nonprofits of software and hardware from ...