Earlier this week, we caught a story in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution about UPS’s plan to test and deploy the next generation handheld device that their drivers use to manage the flow of packages in pickup and delivery operations.  According to this story, this will make the 5th generation of their “DIAD” (Delivery Information Acquisition Device) handheld [...]

Fifty-seven years ago, on October 7, 1952, the US Patent Office issued a patent to two American inventors (Norman Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver) for a bulls-eye shaped barcode (yes, even though their symbol was “round” – we now refer to it as the first “bar” code) and a scanning apparatus designed to interpret the [...]

We saw an interesting Channelweb article yesterday focused on the growing adoption by mid-size companies of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications to meet certain specific business needs and reduce their software licensing costs.  Applications like email, CRM, business intelligence, patch management, anti-virus, and spyware may readily lend themselves to the cloud computing environment because of their non-core [...]

There was a great article in yesterday’s New York Times business section about business model innovation in the delivery of health care services.  The author, Janet Rae-Dupree, did a solid job of pointing out how tired, inefficient business models employed by most physicians and general hospitals actually limit improvements in “care-quality” for patients and keep costs [...]

This quote from a breaking news piece on Microsoft’s big layoff announcement (5000 jobs cut) in today’s New York Times, but it could be from about any day over the last quarter or so:
“. . . Blaming market uncertainty, Microsoft declined to issue a revenue or earnings forecast for the rest of its fiscal year.
‘We [...]