The challenge was to find an Open Source Search engine to use internally that was comparable to Google’s Search Appliance. This sounded easy enough but wow was I wrong. There seems to be a few projects that focus on giving you the ...READ»
The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions is very quietly holding its 75th international conference in Milan, tackling pressing issues in the field as well as celebrating the library’s role as the base ...READ»
Five countries—Singapore, Sweden, Luxembourg, Denmark, and South Korea—outperform the United States in international competitiveness and innovation, according to The Atlantic Century: Benchmarking EU & U.S. Innovation and ...READ»
Medical doctors get lumbered with the traditional "bad handwriting joke" for a reason--I haven't yet met one that writes legibly. But these scribbles are no joke: Doctors' bad handwriting may be the source of up to 7,000 deaths in the ...READ»
While a variety of reasons exist for why President Clinton defeated President Bush, Sr. in 1992, a primary reason was his focus on the economy. We saw a replay of this scenario in 2008 with President-elect Obama defeating his rival, ...READ»
This October, Columbia Business School Professor Amar Bhidé published a new book called The Venturesome Economy: How Innovation Sustains Prosperity in a More Connected World. Bhidé’s core thesis is that technologies developed ...READ»
Five states—Massachusetts, Washington, Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey—are leading the United States’ transformation into a global, entrepreneurial and knowledge- and innovation-based New Economy, according to The 2008 State ...READ»
While new gadgets like the iPhone and the ever-shrinking iPod still elicit amazement and appreciation among the general public, most do not recognize the true impact that the IT revolution has had and continues to have on our daily lives.READ»
Hello and welcome to Washington Watch. I'm Rob Atkinson, President of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation in Washington, DC. We're excited to come aboard as Fast Company expert bloggers on the topic of innovation ...READ»
I was reminded again today why Microsoft as a company frustrates so many of its own customers and why standing up and being accountable for your actions is key. Disclaimer (I used to work for Microsoft). Disclaimer 2 (I'm a current ...READ»
A good deal of what we have to pay for to run our company's infrastructure is based on volume. We pay for the volume or capacity of internet bandwidth we have. We pay for the number of physical phone lines we have coming into our ...READ»
After three years of hosting an Annual "For CEOs By CEOs" event the overwhelming request from these CEOs was "More often and More Cities, please!"
Why? Because no one is asking the CEO what he/she ...READ»
I always like to kick off a new blog with a provocative post. I believe Open Source will always lose. To prove my theory I point you to the below diagram of linux distributions from 1991-2007. What percentage of the PC market ...READ»
I read an article in Computerworld this week that talks about our governments plans to use technology to advance the science of guessing. Yes, our tax dollars today are being used to develop systems that will attempt to ...READ»
