On April 21, 2010

How Best Buy Beat Walmart in Round One of the Tech Wars

Beginning late last year, Walmart (WMT) and Best Buy (BBY) banged away at each other over consumer electronics sales. And Best Buy won. Count on Walmart to come out strong in subsequent rematches, however. Besides pure competitive fever, the aggressiveness


On April 21, 2010

Word to the Wise: Upgrade Your Copy of Vista Now

If you turned off Automatic Updates or opted to avoid SP1, you might still be running the original RTM version of Vista. And that puts you in a very precarious position.
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On April 21, 2010

Should I Put My Citizenship On My Resume?

You've spent a few years abroad and now you want to move "home." How do you let potential employers know it won't cost them an arm and a leg in immigration fees to hire you? Here are a few suggestions.<div


On April 21, 2010

UCLA’s Culbert: Dump Employee Performance Reviews Pronto

Samuel Culbert of UCLA's Anderson School of Management focuses on human resources and organizational behavior.  His new book Get Rid of the Performance Review!: How Companies Can Stop Intimidating, Start Managing--and Focus on What Really Matters deals with...well, the title


On April 21, 2010

Networks Without Borders: Getting Access and Security Right

"Networks without Borders" are rapidly becoming the rule rather than the exception. The demand for all-access all the time, along with the rapid rise in remote and transient workers, has rendered network borders obsolete. Today's networks more


On April 21, 2010

It’s Raining Apples

Apple set yet another quarterly earnings record Tuesday, blowing Wall Street estimates out of the water. It posted revenues of $13.5 billion, way ahead of Street estimates of $12.09 billion, for its fiscal second quarter. Net income


On April 21, 2010

Don’t Forget B2B CRM

While we're on the subject of the customer relationship, it's important, even vital, that we do a better job of teasing apart customer types. It seems to me that the vast conversation about social CRM and the


On April 21, 2010

3 Reasons Distance Makes Your Team Lie to Each Other

Recent research shows people are more likely to lie over email or over distance than when they're face to face. What gives? Here are 3 reasons virtual teams lie to each other and what we managers can do about it.<div


On April 21, 2010

Marketing Your Mobile Application

So you’ve invested in building an iPhone, Android or Blackberry app. Now it’s time for your marketing team to drive adoption of the app, so you can justify the investment to your execs. Try following these top 7 marketing tips…