Here’s an interesting opportunity from the Youthful Cities program – YouthfulCities is recruiting our next batch of Urban Decoders from around the world.The program will be kicking off in Canada over the coming months. As an Urban Decoder you will be responsible for bringing YouthfulCities to life in your city. Your responsibilities include everything from […]
It's Official, Employees Are Wasting Time Meeting, Socializing and Surfing
Indeed this is a very common topic that often comes up, particularly when you ask someone about how their company uses social media or if they encourage it. Well now, a Canadian research firm has churned out some numbers that seems to indicate that the top wasters of people’s time at the office comes from […]
Scanner Wars – When Hardware Designs go offshore and return back to kill your business!
An interesting and rather sad story from a small business. A small startup in N. Colorado has a piece of hardware (patented design and TM name) for scanning know as the Flip-Pal (http://flip-pal.com/introducing-flip-pal/). Coincidentally a newer company has emerged and seem to be selling a product to the identical market… the product is coincidentally, similarly […]
Geometri New Indoor Analytics Technology
GISi Indoors has recently launched version 1 of their GeoMetri product – A product that is essentially Google Analytic for your physical space. FM the company.. Use historical data to make informed decisions about your business or manage assets in realtime on both desktop and mobile devices. A business can use GeoMetri to understand movement within their […]
WOW Technology – Coin, One Payment Coin for All your Cards
Coin is an awesome, new, secure payment system that provides loads of flexibility and convenience for users – use one coin for all your cards! Now available (pre-sale) to users, Coin is a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) connected card – see The company is also announcing additional features and over 50 answers to the most […]
Tech Employment Figures Continue To Rise
Some employment figures/research to share… The October issue of TriNet SMBeat, a monthly analysis of small business employment and human capital economic indicators, showed that month-over-month net job growth continued across the United States. Construction had the most significant jump with 3.35% in net job growth in October coming mainly from Texas, California and Florida. […]
OpenGeo Rebrands as Boundless
In case you haven’t heard or noticed, open source solution provider / leader OpenGeo is now Boundless – according to the company, a new corporate brand to better reflect the growing range of platforms, applications, and services the company develops and sells. Boundless was spun out of its longtime incubator, OpenPlans, in April 2013 and has sold […]
6 Personality Types That Sabotage Brainstorming Efforts
Group brainstorming is a collaborative idea generation process that (theoretically) gets great results. Yet it takes only a couple of bad seeds to turn these sessions into unpleasant and unproductive nightmares – you know this, imagine… You’re in a meeting, brainstorming ideas, and the process is hijacked by disruptive individuals who undermine collaborative efforts. Have […]
Place Matters! Here's The Top 10 Happy Places in America
Yep, there’s a poll for just about anything you can imagine. Case in point, some results have revealed what are being called the happiest cities in America and the results are pretty surprising I’d say! Let’s just say that maybe you do want to mess with Texas and apparently, all work and no play in […]
Nokia Holds Garage Sale! Sells Devices and services Divisions to Microsoft – the numbers
By now you’ve likely heard that Microsoft has bought Nokia. So what does this mean exactly? Simply put, Nokia has sold off its devices and services divisions – note, Nokia will retain the HERE brand and the navigation services and Microsoft will license HERE and other patents from Nokia. Some of the other terms of […]