Coach, counselor. See virtual mentoring.
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- SAP: show the love your customers crave
- Jim Spath of Black and Decker, an SAP Mentor in the SAP Community and a volunteer on the American SAP User Group ASUG posts this video see above in advance of TechEd 2008. He asks: "If companies make positive contributions, answer other people's questions on SDN, would they be enabled...
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- Pigs is pigs and data is data
- My former mentor, Curtis Meinert, was fond of telling his fellow clinical trialists that "pigs is pigs and data is data" as we wrangled over drug testing results. When I first heard the phrase at the ripe old age of 19 from this midwestern guy turned white-haired biostatistician and...
- Blog posts 2008-06-17
- Welcome Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- In the last couple of days you may have noticed a few entries from Tom Steinert-Threlkeld. He's our new addition to Between the Lines. TST has been a mentor of mine for a decade or so at Baseline, where he was Editor in Chief, ZDNet Interactive Investor...
- Blog posts 2008-06-16
- AMA says we all need a blood pressure monitor
- AMA says we all need a blood pressure monitorI'm not even 30 yetAnd have high blood pressure. I've cut down drastically on Caffiene and already quit smoking a year ago, so I'm on the right path. I have three young kids so workouts are hard to schedule. That's my...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-23
- A robotic brain-computer interface
- California Institute of Technology Caltech engineers have developed a robotic device able to act as a brain-computer interface. This is the 'first robotic approach to establishing an interface between computers and the brain by positioning electrodes in neural tissue.' According to the researchers, their approach 'could enhance the performance and...
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- Instrumenting social responsibility
- As I'm sitting in an Orlando hotel idly flicking through RSS, I come across this guest post by Stacey Monk on Go Big Always. To cut a long story short: After all, I'm the perhaps crazy person who, after a trip to Africa last year, left a really successful...
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- Open Source Commandments II: Passover Penguins
- In my previous piece discussing the first four Open Source Commandments I talked a bit about the traditions of Passover, where Jewish families gather together to eat a festive meal and discuss our liberation from slavery in Egypt during the reign of the Pharaoh (while the one in the...
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
- PenguinPolitik: Only Ballmer could go to Linux
- In my previous post about last week's Microsoft Technology Summit, I talked a little bit about the structure of the event and the overtures that Microsoft seems to be making towards the Open Source community. Some of my esteemed industry colleagues feel that Microsoft is never to be trusted, that...
- Blog posts 2008-04-02
- A wireless retrofit for remote monitoring
- Cambridge Consultants has demonstrated a one-chip platform called Vena which adds wireless technology to existing health monitors for just $10 per unit. Vena includes support for both IEEE 11073 and the Bluetooth Medical Device Profile. Security is also built-in. What we're talking about is the...
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- MS Office 2D/3D CAD ECAD PDF to Image Txt Batch Converter (exe)
- MS Office 2D/3D CAD ECAD PDF to Image Txt Batch Converter is a batch converting and Documents view application. It is capable of converting over hundreds different file formats to image (Tiff,Bmp,Jpeg,Gif,Emf,Png,Pcx,Tga) without the authoring application. Extract Text from hundreds different file formats without the authoring application. Supported file types...
- Software downloads 2008-03-13
- Vision Statement Mentor (msi)
- Vision Statement Mentor guides you through the steps of creating core values statements and vision statements for your church and ministries. A church vision statement or ministry vision statement is a tool to help you communicate the vision which God has entrusted to you. A vision statement can invoke passion...
- Software downloads 2008-02-29
- Transition time at ZDNet
- This will be my last post on Between the Lines and ZDNet for a while. I am moving over to head up our sister CNET Networks site News.com starting today. My talented, experienced, incisive and prolific BTL partner Larry Dignan will become Editor in Chief and Chief Blogger...
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- Microsoft earnings shine; Ups fiscal year outlook
- Microsoft earnings shine; Ups fiscal year outlookGood for XBOX, when Ultimate Rebates coming?XBOX has been beaten up, it is good to see them making a profit for once. I do wonder though when the rebates for all those who purchased Vista Ultimate will be forthcoming. Also, the first...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-24
- Microsoft shake-up: The e-mails on President Raikes' depature
- We know what Microsoft told press and analysts about yesterday's announcement by Microsoft Business Development MBD President Jeff Raikes that he'll be passing the torch, come September, to former Juniper Networks Chief Operating Officer Stephen Elop. But what did Raikes and CEO Steve Ballmer tell Microsoft's near-80,000 employees about the...
- Blog posts 2008-01-11
- Buy an Amazon Kindle, support the Orchant family
- Over the last couple of weeks, Marc Orchant and I have been having a friendly discussion about the Amazon Kindle vs. the Sony Reader and his arguments were so convincing that I was all set to order a Kindle for my business trips when I found out they were sold...
- Blog posts 2007-12-10
- Mentor Graphics Software and the Solaris Operating System: A True Enterprise-Class EDA Solution for x86/x64 Systems
- Electronic design teams need powerful Electronic Design Automation EDA environments and tools in order to successfully launch high-quality products ahead of the competition. Sun and Mentor Graphics have joined forces to deliver exceptional and robust EDA solutions. Technology leading Mentor Graphics products aid engineers in overcoming some of the most...
- White papers 2007-12-01
- Kamyran Eye 2 (exe)
- Avenge your murdered mentor and find the truth behind the starting civil war. Kamyran's Eye 2 is a graphical fantasy-themed rogue like role-playing game for PC. It features a dynamic world that is never quite the same, armies that fight each other and burn down cities in a branching storyline...
- Software downloads 2007-11-22
- Larry Ellison: First Fusion apps to arrive early in 2008
- For the final Oracle OpenWorld keynote, singer Billy Joel, part of the evening entertainment lineup, introduced Larry Ellison, who is celebrating 30 years at the helm of the company he co-founded. He announced that the first Fusion applications would come out early in 2008, focusing on salesforce...
- Blog posts 2007-11-14
- Mobile Services Company Achieves Scalability With Customer Management System
- Established in 2004, Mobile Mentor provides services that show busy people how to use their high-end mobile devices. Rapid growth in Mobile Mentor's customer base and training schedule brought with it the challenges of utilising valuable customer information effectively and streamlining the management of its mobile workforce, to maintain and...
- Case studies 2007-10-11
- Gaming technology helps finding oil
- With the help of an IBM supercomputer, University of Houston UH seismic researchers are using video game technology to help them more effectively target oil reserves. IBM has installed a Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.) system 'that represents a new generation of powerful supercomputers with substantial parallelism built in at the...
- Blog posts 2007-09-21
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