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Flat Earth

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 ...

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Better time management

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 ...

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Cell phones go both ways

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 ...

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More for the nonprofits

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 ...

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