is becoming less like one-time rival by the day. While the Mac maker has transformed itself into a consumer electronics giant over the past decade, has focused on turning itself into a one-stop shop for business information technology departments. The latest step came Tuesday with the acquisition of firewall and security vendor SonicWall for an ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 19:55

As millions of sports and non-sports fans fill out their NCAA men?s tournament brackets, many will have the majority of the top seeds advancing to the Final Four. But that likely won't win too many of the countless office pools around the country. The NCAA Tournament is the second-biggest gambling event of the year, after ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 19:55

Of course I'm not talking about you. You may be a respected professional whose expertise speaks for itself. Your body language is a minor consideration. Or is it? Here?s an email I recently received from an engineer: "The Project Manager introduced a new consultant. The new guy smiled and shook hands with everybody, but it ...

pubblicato il: 27/03/2012 - 20:26

As we experience early spring temperatures in , I thought it would be apropos to post a short video on the making of Orlebar Brown?s latest campaign. Because really, what better way is there to get us motivated to finally hit the gym and shed our winter weight, and put a shade of color or ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 19:25

One of the big headaches for people who manage IT is the complexity of the databases that store and retrieve the company?s crown jewels of information. What makes them so complex is that standard IT processes??are engineered to make so many extra copies of the same information. But what if there was a way to ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 12:53

The idea of using data to win the brand game is not new. But if the film ?Moneyball? taught us anything we can translate to the increasing complexity of digital, it?s that the players should never become more important than what the team needs: results. Playing a kind of ?smartball? on brand teams today means ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 12:39

The country added 227,000 new jobs in February, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the third consecutive month of gains of more than 200,000. That?s a good sign that the labor market is strengthening and the economy is finally on the mend, even if unemployment remains at 8.3%. A survey just released by ManpowerGroup, ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 12:33

With the Federal Reserve set to announce the results of its annual bank stress tests late this week, KBW analyst David Konrad sees??four major industry players ready to increase their dividend yields to over 3%. The regulator is expected to publicly announce the stress test results March 15, with most of the largest U.S. banks ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 14:16

There are many good reasons not to pick a fight with an 80-year old man ? but investors have a particularly good reason: They stand to get walloped. As you may have guessed, the octogenarian whom we are alluding to is??Warren Buffett, and while market participants shouldn?t follow the of blindly, they probably shouldn?t tussle ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 14:14

A teen?s first car is a rite of passage that can cause a ton of hassle at home. Parents want their kids to drive in something similar to an armored tank, while the kids want to make a fashion statement. It is possible to find something in between that will keep the teens safe without ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 21:18