Most of us set goals in our personal lives. It keeps us motivated and each accomplishment gives us the drive to keep reaching further. We do this in our home life so why not do this in our work life too? Around 30% of our lives are spent at work. Some people are unfulfilled by [...]

A good app is one that provides value. But what determines that value? A large consideration for that answer is the functionality of the app itself, be it practical or entertaining. However, it’s important to consider the design and development put into the app. If Angry Birds crashes unexpectedly in your favorite level, then does [...]

Remember DOS, with its black screen and blinking cursor eagerly waiting for your command. The Disk Operation System (DOS) celebrated its 30th anniversary last week. DOS has arguably been the most significant OS of all time and in honor of it turning thirty, I would like to reflect on where it has come from and [...]

It would seem that there are endless electronic devices designed to make our lives easier, especially in the summer time. We are all familiar with air conditioners and ice machines, technological standards that make high summer temperatures bearable while we wait for the more pleasant seasons of spring and autumn. What else does technology offer [...]

Last week we watched as the space shuttle Atlantis took its last trip into space. This marks the conclusion of the space shuttle program but if you look around your home or office you can observe evidence of the impact the program has had on our lives. Thousands of technologies developed for the space shuttle [...]

Business cards are an integral part of competent networking. The standard is simple, a small piece of rectangular paper with fundament contact information printed somewhere on it. However, more and more businesses are getting creative with they way they use their business cards. These new creative designs are increasing memorability and therefore generating more positive [...]

As technology grows, the definition of team is evolving. It is now normal to see people from different time zones and different countries working together as a team. A growing number of companies are applying the organizational strategy of virtual teams, also known as geographically dispersed teams (GDT). You have probably heard the term but [...]

If you go to Google News and enter a search for ‘tech bubble,’ you’ll obtain a dozen fresh articles debating this question: Are technology stocks, particularly social media companies, overvalued? The mother of all tech bubbles took place in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when half-baked business ventures got oodles of cash just for [...]

We’ve all seen the strange black squares that are consistently being photographed by smartphone users. They’re called QR codes, an innovative re-imagining of barcode technology. Originally used for tracking parts in vehicle manufacturing, these codes are now used in a much larger context. The use of QR codes is even finding new life in creative [...]

More and more important decisions are being made through e-mails, full conversations are being composed in text messages, and families separated by large distances are staying connected by video chatting. Technology has grown to be a new language, one we are still learning to use effectively. There have been obvious benefits to the age of [...]