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Build Crappy Products

October 14, 2009

why does the world reward bad products and ignore good ones? Why do so many idiot customers seem oblivious to the benefits of your design while shelling out good money for that other company’s inferior product? Why don’t the best products win? via embeddedtechjournal.com Posted via web from mahalowpower’s posterous
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Wharton & Wipro Wip out a Wonderful Wizard competition

October 9, 2009

Based on the newly released book, Innovation Tournaments, by Wharton professors Karl Ulrich and Christian Terwiesch, this tournament is designed to identify innovative managerial tools that organizations can use to increase efficiencies, cut costs and/or streamline operations. (For the purpose of this contest, a “tool” is defined as a method, approach, template, process or...
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How to Boss-Proof Your Cube

September 4, 2009

TI’s Adrian Valenzuela shows how employees can boss-proof their cubicle with the help of an eZ430-RF2500 wireless development kit.
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Accenture Goes the Tailor-Made Route

August 28, 2009

via businessweek.com ‘Accenture has teamed up with Bug Labs, a New York startup, to offer hardware and software packages unique to each customer. For Accenture the payoff is in getting these buyers to subscribe to its new software platform, AMOS, or Accenture Mobility Operated Services. As for Bug Labs, its wager is that Accenture...
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“DNA Origami” May Allow Chip Makers to Keep Up With Moore’s Law

August 19, 2009

In the study, which appears in the September issue of Nature Nanotechnology, researchers explain that they started with the process of “DNA origami,” in which scraps of virus DNA are coaxed into self-assembling in precisely folded shapes. “The utility of this approach lies in the fact that the positioned DNA nanostructures can serve as...
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Shwetak Patel, ’09 Young Innovator: Simple Sensors to detect residents activities

August 19, 2009
Shwetak Patel, ’09 Young Innovator: Simple Sensors to detect residents activities

via technologyreview.com  Shwetak Patel, an assistant professor of computer science and electrical engineering, captures their stories: tales of how people move through their homes and how they use electricity, gas, and water. Patel has shown that each electrical appliance in a house produces a signature in the building’s wiring; plugged into any outlet, a...
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More Truth About Twitter

August 17, 2009
More Truth About Twitter

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