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Your Tech Is on Fire: Porn Flirts With the 3-D TV Revolution
Specifically the Bad Girls venture, which was demonstrated to attendees--it's a package containing a 60-inch 3-D TV and viewing goggles, and it comes with a $20 a month subscription service for new video content. Porn also suffered during the recent downturn, which, in turn, becomes another factor driving porn to evolve. One of the biggest categories at CES last week was 3-D tech in TVs and computer monitors. And with news from the Adult Entertainment show, running simultaneously in Las Vegas, here's a fun question: Will porn drive 3-D's success?
Fast Company - Monday, January 11, 2010
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DesigNYC Matches Designers With Non-Profits in Need
An economic downturn can be a boon for volunteerism. Our goal is to effectively channel that energy into real projects that can demonstrate the power of good design." Not only are people more sympathetic to the needs of their fellow citizens, but thanks to a lightened workload--or, ahem, no work at all--people also might actually have the time to give. Acknowledging the fact that many designers might be using a slow year to build more meaningful connections with their own communities, and spurred by several service initiatives from local and federal government, a group of New York-based
Fast Company - Tuesday, December 22, 2009
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Patently Alarmist — What's Really Hobbling U.S. Innovation
Yet history shows dips in patent filings are natural responses to economic downturns. Yet it's not a demonstrable trend and it likely has very little to do with increased efficiencies at the USPTO. U.S. patent filings likely will decline this year for the first time since 1996, according to a government report, fueling more handwringing about the fate of American innovation .
HarvardBusiness.org - Thursday, December 17, 2009
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  • Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles
    The power of this cycle to lift people out of poverty has been demonstrated by microfinance institutions like the Grameen Bank . It's particularly tough to stay focused on big issues in the face of an economic downturn, because getting paid looms large. I spent a lot of last year urging people to work on stuff that matters . This led to many questions about what that "stuff" might be.
    OReilly Radar - Sunday, January 11, 2009
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  • Intel Plans to Beat Downturn by Innovating
    Just a few week ago, Intel announced it would lay off thousands of employees due to the recession, but the company has just revealed another more positive tactic that it will use be to beat the financial downturn: Innovation.  The shrinking sizes of chip fab technology go hand-in-hand with improved sophistication and performance of a CPU--it's simply a case of fitting more technology onto the same size silicon slice, or a demonstration of Moore's Law in action. In fact the company plans to invest $7 billion in new manufacturing facilities in the U.S. And these won't be a simple
    Fast Company - Wednesday, February 11, 2009
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  • Intel Plans to Beat Downturn by Innovating
    Just a few week ago, Intel announced it would lay off thousands of employees due to the recession, but the company has just revealed another more positive tactic that it will use be to beat the financial downturn: Innovation.  The shrinking sizes of chip fab technology go hand-in-hand with improved sophistication and performance of a CPU--it's simply a case of fitting more technology onto the same size silicon slice, or a demonstration of Moore's Law in action. In fact the company plans to invest $7 billion in new manufacturing facilities in the U.S. And these won't be a simple
    Fast Company - Wednesday, February 11, 2009
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  • Mobile Phones to Serve as Doctors in Developing Countries
    But beyond just the altruistic aspects of mobile healthcare, the UN report also demonstrated to mobile operators how programs such as these could provide value to the industry. That, said UN/Vodafone Foundation Partnership head Claire Thwaites , was a crucial step since the industry, like many others today, stands at the edge of a downturn. "There are 2.2 billion mobile phones in the developing world, 305 million computers but only 11 million hospital beds," said Terry Kramer, strategy director at British operator Vodafone at the Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona this
    ReadWriteWeb - Friday, February 20, 2009
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  • After Lehman: How Innovation Thrives In a Crisis
    One simple way to demonstrate this increase is to look at the turnover in Standard & Poor's index of leading U.S. Companies that continued to focus on innovation in the midst of the downturn, such as Amazon.com, IBM , and Procter & Gamble, are very well positioned to create substantial distance between themselves and their competitors. For a long time Cisco has demonstrated the power of developing this expertise. The economic shocks that reverberated through the economy a year ago could easily have marked the end of the nascent "Innovation Movement." After all,
    HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, September 15, 2009
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  • Seven Communication Mistakes Managers Make
    Demonstrate that you get it, keeping in mind that you can address emotion better with body language than with words. You promise your team a 7% raise, but then the board, concerned about the downturn, caps raises at 3%. 1. Making controversial announcements without doing groundwork first Any Any controversial decision can engender rumors, anxiety,
    HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, March 31, 2009
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  • What to Say to Customers (When You Don't Know What to Say)
    Bringing in terms to the conversation like "value," "sensible," "secure" and "affordable" can demonstrate you're on the same wavelength as your customers and buoy the conversation without being Pollyanna about it. Demonstrating real empathy also means putting one's own needs aside for a moment. Research shows that up to two-thirds of companies that "go dark" during We've all had the experience. We see someone going through a difficult time and we just don't know what to say.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Thursday, February 19, 2009
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  • Seeing tomorrow’s services
    And services have retained their value in the downturn. And Christi Zuber leads an internal Innovation Consultancy at Kaiser Permanente where her and her team have co-designed numerous new services with patients and clinicians that lead to measurable improvements on patient safety and satisfaction — demonstrating that service design has a big societal impact as well. I remember when the prior MIT Media Lab director Nicholas Negroponte predicted in his 1995 book Being Digital that, “what [information] is in the air will go into the ground and what is in the ground will go into the air.”
    Adaptive Path - Tuesday, February 24, 2009
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  • Keeping Your People Engaged in Tough Times
    They achieve a large percentage of 'owners' in their employee base — employees that are highly engaged and demonstrate an 'ownership' mentality. It's a great time to engage employee-owners in coming up with ideas to deal with the downturn. This week's question for Ask the Coach: Keeping Keeping employees' committed and motivated during tough economic times seems like a tall task, especially after downsizing or program cutbacks.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Friday, April 17, 2009
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  • 10 Ways Social Media Will Change In 2010
    Barack Obama's campaign proved that social media can mobilize millions into action, and Iran's election protests demonstrated its importance to the freedom of speech. While the definition of ROI is evolving to better fit the world of relationships and networks, the ability to demonstrate ROI in hard numbers -- not in followers or fans -- will become a baseline business requirement in 2010. Already, both This time last year, I wrote about the 10 ways social media will change 2009 , and while all predictions have materialized or are on their way, it has only become clear in recent months how significant of a change we've seen this year.
    ReadWriteWeb - Friday, December 11, 2009
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