Innovation is hard work. Even if you're naturally creative, visualizing that next big idea may require help. Although I'm a big fan of mind-mapping, sometimes trying a new method gives the imagination a needed boost. Here's an interesting link from the University of Lugano in Switzerland. They've created a "periodic table" ...
Christmas parties for tech companies aren't an easy thing to pull off! Mix in a bunch of focussed professionals with their significant others - add a wide range of people from C-level managers to new grads... Last night we hgad our Christmas party - sure it's January. Great thinking. December ...
The third edition of Ottawa DemoCamp has been launched! It's at the Clock Tower Pub on Monday January 29 - 7-9pm. There's already one demo scheduled that I'm really looking forward to seeing: Nelson Ko will be demoing a WYSIWYG wiki. Cool! To sign up as a demonstrator or demonstratee - just ...
Hey! My hunch about Ocean Telecom was right. According to the Cisco lawsuit, Apple does own Ocean Telecom - which applied for the iPhone trademark a few months ago. It's too bad for the "real" OceanTelecom.com - a tiny UK based communications company. They're probably getting lots of calls for iPhone!
Software usability is reasonably easy to achieve, given the right methods and proper skill set. But designing software that belongs to a specific business process, workflow, or is subject to auditability against legislative regulations is much more difficult. The challenge is mirroring the flow of the software with the flow of the process. The designer ...
With great fanfare Apple launched iPhone today... but who owns the trademark for iPhone? According to the US patent and Trademark Office, Cisco had long owned the iPhone trademark - which then sold it to a company called InfoGear Technology. CORRECTION: Cisco bought InfoGear and currently owns the name... Last year a ...
Apple finally announced its iPhone. It's an amazing device integrating the best of Apple - including ipod, itunes, and OSx! It also does a remarkable Job at improving average phone features. Of particular note, it's pretty funny to hear Steve Jobs rave on about Visual Voice Mail. We were trying to build that functionality back ...
A couple years ago, I was asked by a local startup to create a next-generation UI architecture and vision for their IT asset management software. Their existing product is used by very large corporations such as Lockheed-Martin, CSC, and Innovapost to track IT hardware, software and services, as well as manage a configuration ...
On Tuesday, Verizon got patent 7,158,623 granted. It refers our Call Context patent. Titled "Method and apparatus for dial stream analysis", it sounds impressive enough. Here's the abstract: Interests of a person may be analyzed based on the dial stream to/from the person. When a call is being made to/from a person, signaling information ...
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