Typing is becoming a part of a person’s literacy indicator today. If you cannot touch-type, all of your computer-based tasks will be more difficult not to mention slower.
www.sense-lang.org is a very good free on-line typing tutor. It has a decent set of standalone typing tutorials. It also has a classroom learning mode [...]
Tara Brabazon offers a striking look at information obesity. An analogy she uses with great insight and accuracy to demonstrate the state of academic information intake. I think the same applies to business and even the public information consumption.
Source: Middlsex University Play (MDX Play): Tara Brabazon final – MDX [...]
Social Media Globetrotter has an excellent article on the now emerging concept of Social CRM (Customer Relationship Management). This is clearly becoming a new powerful paradigm for CRM by applying social networking concepts.
More at the Source The Evolution of CRM to Social CRM.
Do you have an idea for a mobile application that is innovative, commercially viable and relevant to the Middle East market?
The MobileApps Academy organized by ITIDA and Vodafone, is the right programme for young entrepreneurs like you who want to make it into the world of Mobile Apps.
via MobileApps Academy.
Visit the excellent Security Blog By Dr. Eric Cole of McAfee. He delves deep into Advanced Persistent Threats and explains what to do and what not to do to counter these threats.
“APT, the Advanced Persistent Threat, is the buzz word that everyone is using. Companies are concerned about it, the government is [...]
When sending a message to more than 3 people especially if they do not know each other, please put everyone in the BCC field instead of TO or CC. This way no one will see the other recipients’ emails.
Also if you receive a message that includes compelling well-crafted information asking you to [...]
Source: Gmail Blog
via Tip: 5 things you may not know you can do with attachments in Gmail.
Paul Ramsey Provides a wonderfully simple view of the open source business model. Watch the great video:
The business world has changed fundamentally, but some CIOs cling to the past. And the price they’ll pay is losing their jobs.
By Bob Evans
InformationWeek
via Global CIO: 10 Reasons CIOs Will Get Fired This Year — InformationWeek.
According to the Financial Times:
“Google is phasing out the internal use of Microsoft’s ubiquitous Windows operating system because of security concerns, according to several Google employees.The directive to move to other operating systems began in earnest in January, after Google’s Chinese operations were hacked, and could effectively end the use of Windows [...]