Motivational
Ask any five business professionals what their requirements are for a good laptop and you could get five different answers. While some business professionals would choose storage and memory and connectivity as the most important features of a good business notebook, others would say that battery life, weight and even durability are equally important.
A Dell survey of nearly 4,000 IT professionals and end users showed that productivity is the number one concern of IT people using notebooks followed by design. Third on the list is "peace of mind", which means total protection for the users and IT managers. Lastly is total control of ownership, which means control of the notebook even from a remote location.
In a press conference Thursday at the Makati Shangri-La, Dell Philippine country manager Barry Bunyi said it is launching a new line of Dell Latitude laptops in the Philippines, which provides breakthroughs on extended battery life, portability and design. |
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Friday 26 September, 2008 01:07 PM |
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London had its elephant, and now Liverpool has its very own spider. At 7.36pm, a giant yellow leg appeared from behind a building at the end of Salthouse Dock and a crowd who had been growing increasingly restive after standing for 90 minutes in the pouring rain screamed and shouted.
Several children tried to hide, but one enquired if he might be able to take the spider home. "I wouldn't want that in my house," declared his mum.
"You wouldn't get it in our house," said her husband.
"It's like something out of Doctor Who," said another, as first more legs and then, slowly, a vast body emerged and a 50ft high spider started walking down the road, waving its great legs over the heads of the crowd.
There were more squeals: some of apprehension, others of sheer joy. The spider, named La Princesse, is the brainchild of François Delarozière and his company La Machine, who over the past 15 years have engineered a host of mechanical animals including the glorious Sultan's Elephant that made London smile in 2006. |
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Thursday 25 September, 2008 02:11 PM |
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Walking the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology earlier this week, I had one of those rare experiences that rewards your faith in human potential. I had the good fortune to attend the first International Development Design Summit (IDDS), a brainchild of MIT professor and MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" winner Amy Smith. It was a moving experience.
I initially met Smith at the 2006 TED Conference. She blew the audience away with an extraordinary presentation on an appropriate technology. She spoke of the repurposing of discarded, carbonized bio-materials like used corn cobs
into simple yet effective briquettes. It might sounds trivial, but a room packed with extremely seasoned entrepreneurs and experienced investors gave Smith a standing ovation after her presentation. The scorched cobs were undeniably primitive, yet their elegant simplicity and revolutionary potential was obvious to all. |
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Thursday 25 September, 2008 05:30 AM |
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Nick Leon has found that design can do much more for your business than a bit of window dressing – the right design approach can go straight to the bottom line.
Nick Leon heads up Design London , which has a very innovative program set up to help businesses incorporate design throughout their processes, and not at the end as an afterthought.
He explains the many business benefits from this approach, and says that a new job description – a design associate – has emerged because of this innovation.
Nick explains why in an increasingly competitive and commoditised world, design is so important and how business owners need to shift their thinking to take a creative perspective. |
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Thursday 25 September, 2008 12:59 AM |
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Every day we read about U.S. manufacturing businesses that are exporting their production capacity and jobs to less developed countries where labor is less expensive. There are, however, many, less publicized, occasions where U.S. companies have invested in U.S. production capacity. These investments, driven by engineering and manufacturing skills here in the US, have come to be the basis for successful global companies. Sometimes this technology involves modern products like computers and pharmaceuticals, but sometimes the technology is applied to mankind's most traditional products and markets. |
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Tuesday 23 September, 2008 03:57 AM |
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IBM has hosted IBM Technology Day at The Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IITK) to share knowledge about the emerging technology trends significant to industry that can help improve employability skills among engineering students. The sessions covered new technology tends such as MashUps, Component business modelling, SOA, and others. This event is a part of IBM's efforts to collaborate with academia in India and build interest among students to pursue a broad range of careers in research, business and technology.
IBM has a broad strategy to prepare students for a more competitive workforce by arming them with skills for the 21st Century. Through IBM Technology days at IITs across India, the company will uncover new sources of talent by encouraging them to take risks and think differently to generate new innovative ideas. |
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Monday 22 September, 2008 09:35 PM |
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Working Buildings 2008 announce today the launch of a major new feature for 2008, 'The Office of the Future', where visitors can get a glimpse of tomorrow's office, today. A major design project that's attracting huge attention, The Office of the Future is organised in partnership with BIM Products and Smartcomm and is sponsored by Dyson Airblade.
The brand new feature brings together two cutting edge technologies in a way never seen before with BIM (Building Information Model) applications for FM, M&E and energy analysis being run on the latest giant plasma screen technology from Sharp. Using a virtual 27-storey office tower, The Office of the Future allows attendees to view the latest office innovations and learn how to design sustainability into their offices. Located on stand D145 within Total Workplace Management, the feature will enable visitors to: |
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Friday 19 September, 2008 04:43 AM |
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When it’s all said and done, your customer doesn’t care about your process. In the end, none of this matters if the design experience is wrong. Effective design establishes the emotional relationship you develop with a brand. Learn why design is more important than you think.
This is an excerpt from the FTPress book, Do You Matter?: How Great Design Will Make People Love Your Company.
* Design is the “in” mantra—so what does this mean exactly, and why do you care? |
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Wednesday 17 September, 2008 09:31 PM |
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A two-year grant is allowing researchers at UCR’s Bourns College of Engineering to unlock the secrets behind the enormous strength of the inner pearly layer (nacre) of the abalone shell so it can be replicated in man-made materials. The combined $416,000 grant from General Motors and the University of California Discovery Grant Program has been awarded to Professor David Kisailus, a materials scientist, and his lab in the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering.
“The goal from GM’s point of view would be to create a light-weight, low-cost and tough composite material that could be used for automotive body panels,” Kisailus said. “The resulting material could withstand significant impacts without catastrophically failing. And, it would weigh significantly less than steel.” |
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Tuesday 16 September, 2008 10:21 AM |
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