By Danny Sullivan
Following on from Linda’s piece on acronyms last month, I recently stumbled upon Ade McCormack’s Digital Business Glossary on FT.com. One of the more frequent challenges faced when working with a new IT client is to come up to speed with the range of terms (more than just acronyms) used in their particular segment of the industry.
While still far from comprehensive, Ade’s glossary is a pretty decent link to have when you are reading through all that collateral during those early days.
By inmedia
Today’s CIO Insider newsletter features an eye-opening article about the lessons companies can learn from the many costly product recalls that have taken place in recent years. The cases highlighted in this article certainly prove the business case for manufacturing intelligence systems like those Sciemetric Instruments provides.
Click to read “Beyond Peter Pan: Lessons from ConAgra’s Recalls.”
By inmedia
Further to our earlier post about Canada lagging behind the U.S. on cleantech investment, two current headlines caught our eye this morning: one in the Globe and Mail about Canada declaring “Investors slowly warming to clean tech” and the other on CleanTech.com about the U.S. with the heading “Smart energy gets smart money.”
By inmedia
Today’s Network World e-newsletter highlights an issue that is often talked about in the Ottawa tech community: the IT talent crunch and whether it is real or imagined. Ottawa is certainly not alone in this debate. To read “IT talent crunch: Myth or reality?,” click here.
By Francis Moran
Let me tell you about my amazing adventures last week with an unlocked GSM smart phone loaded with a pay-as-you-go SIM.
As anyone who has travelled with a cell phone, Blackberry or smart phone can testify, using a mobile device outside your home market can be a financially harrowing experience. Typical charges I’ve incurred for using my Treo in the U.S. or abroad have been $1/minute for a local call and $3/minute for a call back home. Even if I carefully manage my calls, there’s still data usage that can be charged at as high as $10/megabit.
Or I could do what countless numbers of travellers are now doing — get my phone unlocked and use a country-specific SIM, the subscriber information module that tells the network everything it needs to know to route calls and data to and from the device.
Unlocking your phone means reprogramming it so it can operate on networks other than the one to which you are chained. (Believe me, I am using the term “chained” advisedly here!) In my case, I had the job done by a very professional crew at a kiosk in the Prudential Center in Boston, where I also picked up loads of advice about the best SIMs to use. Your carrier might agree to unlock your phone but will require you to send it to them and pay them hundreds of dollars for the privilege. The guys at Warlox Wireless did it for $50 in less than 20 minutes.
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