Making the Migration to Windows 7
According to industry analysts at Forrester Research, two-thirds of firms they surveyed have plans to migrate to Windows 7. Forrester believes the time to have this done is [...]
Thankful
Thanksgiving… and we all have something for which to be thankful. And it’s not shopping on Friday. I’m thankful for family, near and far, and for the folks around [...]
Tech Versus The Humanities
The debate among educators goes on: humanities or the sciences? Where are our collective best interests served when it comes to educating our students? [image at left sourced from [...]
Hackers Gotta Hack
Those calculators are from the graphing calculator collection belonging to one Brandon Wilson. He’s one of a small breed of calculator hackers — hobbyists who trade tips and homemade [...]
The Way We Get By
Off Topic: Anyone catch last night’s (Nov 11th) PBS showing of “POV”? The one bearing this entry’s title? Apropos of Veterans Day, POV showed the movie made by Aron [...]
Indiana’s (and the Midwest’s) 800 Pound Gorilla
In a recent article in our local business weekly, Morton Marcus, an independent economist and writer (formerly with Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business) took some time to [...]
Easy Money. BIG Easy Money.
There’s money, and then there’s real money. In the book The Greatest Trade Ever Wall Street Journal columnist Gregory Zuckerman lays out the tale of one John Paulson, a [...]
To Barcode Or To RFID, That Is The Question
Recently, we’ve had a flurry of inquiries (well, three…) from customers asking about the differences between barcodes and RFID tags. I’ll try to hit a few highlights here, [...]
The Biggest Source of Churn, The Greatest Source of Hope
One interesting aspect of this recession is that everyone seems to have an opinion about what’s ‘normal’ and in particular, what constitutes the ‘new normal.’ Brian Wesbury is chief [...]
You’re Not All In Like Warren’s All In
With the recession in ebb — in some places, according to some people — are you feeling better? For starters, MSNBC.com reports “better than expected readings on manufacturing and housing.” Manufacturing [...]