Topic: Kim Jong-il

iFive: BP's $34 Billion Ticket, News Corp. Bids for BSkyB, North Korea vs. Brazil, Kindle Gets Twitter, Polygraphs Are Fun!

What did you dream about while you were sleeping last night? Lie detectors? Kim Jong Il? Oil Slicks? Well, innovation was living the dream.1. The Senate is demanding that BP pay $34 billion in fines for the Gulf oil spill. Ahead of ...READ»

Does Your Job Title Get the Job Done?

The Economist recently took aim at the rampant inflation of job titles in companies and governments around the world. The winner was North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il, who has 1,200 official titles. It's hard not to laugh--but it's also possible to overlook the serious side of why it matters how people describe what they do and how organizations describe what gets done.READ»

Work/Life: Why Work/Life Balance is Up in the Air

CEO Dad's Tuesday Tirade.... Ever since Tom Stern, the fellow who invented me, gave me my own Web address (ceodad.com), from this new electronic vantage point I’ve been able to tool around on the Internet with abandon. This is ...READ»

Retooling Technology

CNN has been airing a documentary about North Korea. As the hour-long program shows, dissidents are smuggling in digital cameras and recording the public executions of political activists, as well as glimpses of the country's famine ...READ»

iFive: Weather Crucial for BP, Google Mobile Payment System, Venrock Raises $350M, Anna Chapman on Film, Bieber to N. Korea?

While you were setting off fireworks, throwing a coyote on the barbecue, and squeezing on your Stars and Stripes Speedo, innovation was releasing mobile payment systems, scraping together $350 million, and wearing 3-D specs. But not ...READ»

Bill and Kim's Excellently-Posed Adventure

What's up with that photo of Bill Clinton and Kim Jong Il that was released yesterday? Ken Carbone has some careful analysis.READ»

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iFive: BP Delays Cap Test, Apple Finds Allies, Microsoft's 12th Man, WikiLeaks Details, Google Thanks Fiber Fans

While you were sleeping, innovation was putting on a jaunty little cap to wear with its oil-colored capelet, eschewing anything nerdlike such as black T-shirts, and leaving home without its British citizenship.1. What is a disaster ...READ»

Twenty Tweets #17

It is always a great aha! moment whenever you capture yourself doing a klutzy thing - for if I am transfering my personal orientated tweets to my blog, then I don't need all the paraphenelia of twitter shortform, though I will include ...READ»

Iran Declares War on 21st Century Media

Iran's government just vowed to prosecute people who "cooperate with satellite television programming providers." Along with blocking Twitter and messing with cell-phone networks, it means the power mongers are declaring war on ...READ»

South Korea's Power Structure Hacked, Digital Trail Leads to China

South Korean intelligence claims China-based hackers stole confidential material from the country's diplomatic and security services throughout 2010. If a new report is correct, hackers inside the People's Republic of China gained access to personal computers and PDAs belonging to much of South Korea's power structure.READ»

Goldman Sachs Crafts a 75-Page World Cup Odds Guide for, Y'know, Funsies

The word "banker" in footballing is the popular slur for the blind man masquerading as a referee who's just given the wrong side a penalty. Bet you won't find that in Goldman Sachs' 75-page guide to the 2010 World Cup; it's part ...READ»

Invincible Apple: 10 Lessons From the Coolest Company Anywhere

Everyone wants to be like Steve Jobs and his powerhouse company. It's not as easy as it looks.READ»

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