While at one of our clients, we recently fielded a question about Nevada’s new data security laws and how they may impact a company and its HR operations. We’ve been able to find the following information think it might be useful to a broader audience. So, here goes. Nevada enacted a new data security law
Read More...Ignoring the fact that I just ended a headline with a preposition while asking what we should write about, I’d like to know what you’re working on or researching. This blog has grown in readership considerably since its launch in mid-2008. Since that time, we’ve written over 140 posts covering PeopleSoft, Business Intelligence (BI) and
Read More...Of course, life just wouldn’t make sense if I didn’t include a bevy of iPad links: Stephen Fry’s excellent iPad About. He gets the iPad’s weight in the future of computing. Stephen Fry again, this time on his personal blog, with one of the smartest essays about the iPad I’ve seen anywhere. This is top-grade
Read More...“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into
Read More...Fred Wilson is a VC and principal of Union Square Ventures. As a VC, he points out a consistent error made by entrepreneurs pitching their business plans: As I look over the business plans and projections that these entrepreneurs share with us, one thing I constantly see is a lack of sophistication in calculating the
Read More...How not to say what you mean in business. Why some comedy writers aren’t laughing at Jay Leno. Speaking of Leno, I’ve seen this all over the place lately, making its way around the ‘tubes. Baratunde Thurston speculates how MLK Jr. might have used Twitter. (“Who is Chuck Norris, and why is everyone tweeting about
Read More...Incredible visualization of Crayola’s colors from 1903 until today, created by Weather Sealed. All of you Edward Tufte fans should dig this. Crayola’s Law: “The number of hues doubles every 28 years.” (Via Neven Mrgan)
Read More...(Ed. note: Jim Prokes is one of MIPRO Consulting’s Managing Partners.) This deserves bluntness: 2009 wasn’t an easy year for many people. Painful decisions had to be made, jobs were lost, businesses were stagnated, and even though we managed to avoid outright panic, fear still governed us. And this is to say nothing of the
Read More...Vinnie Mirchandani: Traditional telcos keep swearing they don’t just want to be a “dumb pipe”. It’s unfair but when you are standing next to Apple and Google, you better be running as hard and smart. Otherwise, you just have to accept dumb just looks dumber by the day. It’s getting harder to see ‘traditional’ (not
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