Month: March 2006

At last! It is now available. The much-awaited Ajax-based version of Yahoo mail – in beta version – is now available to those who registered for its trial at http://mail.yahoo.com. Some of the main new features include: automatic refresh to fetch out new mails, composing emails in rich format, automatic…

Is the cubicle a white-collar trap? Millions of people around the globe have found solace in the reading of the adventures of Scott Adams’s Dilbert. Now, a Fortune article dedicated to cubicles is emphasising that even the inventor of cubicles (Robert Propst) thought that his invention was a mistake. At…

Microsoft has decided to postpone the launch of its much-awaited Vista operating software. Here is an article from ‘The Register‘ describing the hooha it prompted within Ms employees. Some of them do not hesitate to post angry comments on their Internet blogs. An individual who goes by the nickname of…

Innovation is one of these words we use all the time and eventually, it ends up being some sort of bingo buzzword. Brianna Sylver urges us to take some hindsight and start defining this term before trying to … uh uh … innovate! Brianna Sylver claims that defining innovation is…

A February 2006 new York Times article predicts a bleak future for R&d. Should we draw the conclusion that innovation is not keeping the western world ahead of the bunch anymore?

BP is having a go at social and ethical Marketing by letting you measure your Carbon Footprint (ie the amount of carbon dioxyde you and your household generates over a one year period) and letting you establish whether you are a good or bad guy. The question is, how come…