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Full story: Unwelcome brand recognition
The scare in the UK about horsemeat in food products that are supposedly made from beef presents real issues for the brands concerned. The latest news is about Findus UK which makes beef lasagne products. Media reports everywhere are about the discovery that some of those products contain “up to 100% horsemeat.” See what you […]
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Full story: Getting things done faster with 4G
It was good to see news last week that EE’s 4G cellular data coverage now extends to nine more towns across the UK. That translates as 4G currently available in 28 towns and cities covering 45 percent of the population, with another 27 towns planned to have 4G by the summer. The UK’s first mobile […]
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Full story: When robots rule the world
The idea that computers rather than people could make decisions about other people’s intentions in the workplace that I wrote about recently – an IBM security tool can flag “disgruntled employees” – may be the tip of an evolutionary iceberg that spotlights a wider and deeper issue facing developed countries like the US and many […]
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Full story: The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #689: February 4, 2013
Intro: Fix for FIR mobile app updates, Allan Schoenberg interview still planned; Quick News: Companies failing to accommodate shift to mobile, IBM security tool can flag ‘disgruntled employees’, YouTube introducing paid subscriptions, Swedish bloggers commit to posting 50,000 blog posts in 100 days; Ragan promo; News That Fits: Closing the gap between social media use […]
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Full story: The arrival of the dystopian workplace
Maybe it’s because I’m currently reading 1984 by George Orwell on my Kindle – the first time I’ve read the book since the early 1980s – but this report in The Wall Street Journal that an IBM security tool can flag “disgruntled employees” struck me as a bit, well, Orwellian. […] The new tool, called […]
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