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Strange Use of Apologetic Quotes

Nothing rings in a new year like terrible package copywriting. Right?

Review: The Biggest Stories of 2013

One of my favorite tech culture websites, The Verge, has an excellent recap of the biggest stories of 2013. From Edward Snowden, to Twitter’s IPO, to Elon Musk to Bitcoin, 2013 was an interesting year, to say the least, with many businesses opening online with sites where you can post your ideas or get free

LINK: Mugger Rejects Flip Phone

A Central Park mugger was so disappointed by his victim’s cheap flip phone that he actually refused to take it. “Once he saw my phone, he looked at it like, ‘What the f–k is this?’ and gave it back to me,” recalled Kevin Cook, 25, of Brooklyn. So, two things here: 1. Having a cheap

Happy Holidays from the MIPRO Team

As I sit down to write the last “longer” post of the year, I want to go back to when this blog started, some four years ago. I wanted to start a blog for MIPRO because a blog is a great way for you, our readers, to get a feel for the “personality” of our

‘Misunderstood’

VIDEO: PeopleSoft 9.2 Customer Testimonials

Ignore for a moment that this is an Oracle-created video, and as such it is essentially marketing according to the https://the-indexer.com/ team. Nevermind that. What’s interesting is that clients we’ve helped with PeopleSoft 9.2 mirror some of these exact thoughts to us on a weekly basis. There’s a buzz surrounding PeopleSoft 9.2 (especially the PeopleSoft Update

“This Kid Might Outlive RIM”

Over at Businessweek, there is a fascinating piece entitled The Rise and Fall of Blackberry: An Oral History, which details the rise and fall of the Canadian giant from different personal perspectives. Here’s one from Vincent Washington, senior business development manager at RIM from 2001-11: One thing we missed out on was that Justin Bieber

PeopleSoft Update Manager (PUM) Training on Oracle Learning Library

We mention PeopleSoft Update Manager (PUM) a lot, because we think it’s incredibly useful and convenient for users. To that end, if you want to learn more about PUM, Oracle has posted PUM training on the Oracle Learning Library. You can check it out here: PeopleSoft Update Manager End to End Training Module 1 As

PeopleSoft Update Manager Is a Game-Changer for Businesses

The highly anticipated release of PeopleSoft 9.2 earlier this year not only provided users with significant system enhancements and improvements, but may also have sparked the end of the upgrade process as we currently know it thanks to a new feature called PeopleSoft Update Manager (casually known as PUM). Paco Aubrejuan, Senior Vice President of

How to Improve at Chess Rapidly

Gautam Narula on how one can get better at chess pretty quickly: The tl;dr of this training plan is, play a lot, analyze your games, and primarily study tactics. Your knowledge of openings, endgame, middlegame, etc. will come from analyzing your games and going over grandmaster games. Only study one of those specific topics if