On November 12, 2010

Tether App Turns Your Android Phone Into a Broadband Modem

Hotspot not working at the coffee shop? No free Wi-Fi at the airport? Let your Android phone come to the rescue: $25 app Tether lets your laptop tap your phone's wireless data goodness.

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Sidney Harman Learns Finding Newsweek Editor Is a Beast

Newsweek and The Daily Beast agree to merge -- only after Newsweek owner Sidney Harman finds most people aren't as interested in Newsweek as he is.

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At AstraZeneca, 15,000 Layoffs May Not Be Enough

It's no surprise that AstraZeneca CEO David Brennan is promising more layoffs among his pharmaceutical sales rep force. The question is, will 15,000 be enough?

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Trust at the Top

A Rolls-Royce engine blows up, and ... silence — for four days. The great British engineering company took its time to find out what had happened to the Trent 900 engine mounted on the wing of a Qantas…

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How to Become a Master Problem Solver

Five steps to sharpen your problem-solving skills -- and save time and money, too.

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Undercover Boss: Lucky Strike Lanes’ Steven Foster Rolls Through the Recession

In an interview with BNET, Steven Foster, co-founder and CEO of Lucky Strike Lanes & Lounge, acknowledges that it's difficult to keep an entertainment-based business growing in a recession....

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On November 12, 2010

Unsolicited TXT Marketing: Payback Sux

If you fancy yourself a marketing superhero, or even just aspire to marketing superhero status, you’re probably following the cutting edge of emerging technologies and their practical application to your craft. Early adopters of new technology have the rare opportunity

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How Engineers Manage Uncertainty

The microfabrication facility in Taiwan produced thousands of integrated circuits or microchips, designed for pacemakers. But 5% of these microchips could not be used because their performance metrics fell outside an acceptable region of safety. They were made in the…

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On November 12, 2010

Pulling for the Long Term

The Big Shift presents many challenges, including developing new practices and institutions. But from our experience, the greatest challenge will be creating a new mindset, one that stands in stark contrast to the dominant mindset of the push world. A…