Social Software and Mobile Technology

By Jeff Vedders File this under the heading ‘what will they think of next?’  I subscribe to MIT’s Technology Review email newsletter (I described MIT’s Technology Review web site – www.technologyreview.com – in our June 2003 newsletter.  The web site is worth a look...

McKinsey’s Global Survey of Business Executives

By Pete Julius The McKinsey Quarterly just completed a global survey of business executives, which focused on five issues: global economy confidence, pricing, workforce, debate over China and India, and IT spending.  Fifty-five hundred corporate-level executives from...

Automating Research

By Leigh Howe Data and information are plentiful these days.  We’ve been searching for ways to automate data and information collection so that we can spend more time determining what the information means. Many news sources and databases have alerts and web crawlers...