Setting the Agenda for ?Progressive? Operators (ID Access) When we asked the latest ID DSR of the Month to describe his customers, Chad Donnay of Appert?s Foodservice, St. Cloud, MN, listed the predictable commercial and noncommercial customer segments including one unusual one ? progressive independents....more...Hyperlocals: small is the next big thing (Sunday Herald) in the KA7 postcode area of Ayr may have noticed an A5 glossy magazine called Community Times landing on their doormats in recent months. It contains a selection of stories about local happenings, such as the recent Rock At The Racecourse gig featuring Deacon Blue and The Saw Doctors....more... Somatic Networks and Molecular Hacking in Eastern Standard Tribe (RedNova) By Murphy, Graham J I believe that we live in an era where anything that can be expressed as bits will be. I believe that bits exist to be copied [...]....more... HP Shows Off System that Affords Every Customer a Personal Shopper (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) PALO ALTO, Calif.----Imagine walking into a retail store and, with the swipe of a card, receiving a printout that includes a personalized shopping list, relevant coupons, notice of associated store discounts or sales, and even a map to where the items can be found in the store....more... Eight Multifunction Products from Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc. Earn Awards from Buyers Laboratory Inc. (FinanzNachrichten) Toshiba ( Nachrichten ) America Business Solutions Inc. (TABS) today announced that eight of its e-STUDIO â?¢ multifunction products (MFPs) received product awards from Buyers Laboratory Inc. (BLI), a leading independent office equipment testing laboratory....more... Martindale to Change Focus as Some Firms Opt Out (Law.com via Yahoo! Finance) A major law firm without a Martindale-Hubbell profile would have been unthinkable a decade ago, but in the last year alone, at least four megafirms have dropped out of the directory....more... What hooked Google's 12th recruit (Australian IT) ONE day an executive met two dropouts around a ping-pong table and the rest is history, Paul Durman reports....more... Martindale to Change Focus as Some Firms Opt Out (Law.com) A major law firm without a Martindale-Hubbell profile would have been unthinkable a decade ago, but in the last year alone, at least four megafirms have dropped out of the directory. The company is realizing that, in a world where lawyers can retrieve troves of free biographical data via Google, the value to a firm of merely being in Martindale-Hubbell has diminished. Now, taking a page from some ......more... Man who took Google global (Times Online Sunday) WHEN Omid Kordestani first met Larry Page and Sergey Brin, he was a successful business-development executive at Netscape Communications, the browser company that opened the world?s eyes to the power of the internet, and they were 25-year-old drop-outs from Stanford University ? albeit with a promising search engine called Google....more... |