Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, talked about innovation at his company and throughout the industry. Comparing how much change has taken place over the last ten years, he gave his opinion on the next ten years…"a computer that will see; a computer that will listen; a computer that will understand." And, he believes "some of the most profound change will ...
Read More »More on 50×15…Expanding Access to the Internet
AMD CEO Hector Ruiz says "IT (information technology) has proven that it has a brain, now it is time to prove that it has a heart." Speaking at the World Congress on Information Technology conference in Austin, he explained his initiative called 50-by-15, which aims to expand Internet access to 50 percent of the world’s population by 2015, compared with ...
Read More »Been down so long, looks like up to me
We’ve been having some email discussion about marketing in online communities. Maybe a fresh perspective would be useful. So here’s a web site about “bottom-up marketing.” One aspect of this is to have change start out on the edge, get some adoption, and have the change pecolate into and up the organizaton. I hope FISpace and FICenter are like that. ...
Read More »FieldWorker–Capturing Data with a Mobile Application
Peter Neve, President of FieldWorker Products, Ltd. in Toronto, has developed a tool set for mobile work processes that may have some application potential for the ACS. According to him, FieldWorker Enterprise is the easiest, quickest to deploy and most cost effective solution for mobile data collection. The product offering is designed/customized to suit an organization’s needs. My first question ...
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