Social Skills That Confer a Business Advantage
To get the most value out of social networking within a company, there must be ways of measuring how employees are using the tools and rewards for beneficial interactions. That is the view of Marc Smith, senior research sociologist at Microsoft Research.
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Microsoft Goes Far Afield to Study Emerging Markets
A nine-person team at Microsoft Research India approaches the technology of emerging markets in unconventional ways. Most often, they rely on a mix of sociology and empirical testing to see whether quirky ideas can make technology useful to those who have heretofore lived without it.
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The Power Systems JS12 and JS22 Blades Versus Other i Boxes
Big Blue, by all indications, is intent on making BladeCenters sporting Power6 blades and virtualized I/O a credible economic alternative to rack-based and tower-based Power Systems 520 and 550 servers that are in roughly the same power class.
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IBM and MediaTek to Bring Wireless High Definition TV and Movies to Consumers
IBM (NYSE: IBM) and MediaTek Inc. today launch a joint initiative to develop ultra fast chipsets that can wirelessly transmit a full-length high definition movie to and from a home PC, hand-held devic... [WebWire - Monday, October 22, 2007]
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