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In the tech sector, every major company that has a Board of Directors uses different criteria to choose who will serve on the Board.  Even so, there are some similarities in how the various Boards are assembled.  The Boards of Directors of the most successful companies in the tech sector tend to feature Directors who might not be intimately tied to the tech sector.  Successful companies like Microsoft utilize a wide range of knowledge and experience on their Board of Directors.  Maria M. Klawe is one of the diverse voices that helps to guide Microsoft’s Board of Directors. Read more »

In this day in age, it is hard not to look at pop psychology with anything but disdain.  Unlike legitimate psychotherapy – which treats the human mind like a complex organ and human motivations as a complex series of events, triggers, consequences, and conditioned reactions – pop psychology creates simple, generic answers for virtually every situation or conditioned.  Pop psychology and the mentality that all mental disorders can be mitigated with medication, has largely been reinforced by the speed and access to information that the Internet represents.  Fortunately, People Mapping is not pop psychology. Read more »

With so many incredible products and services that may easily be found on the Internet, it is amazing that there is still room for innovation there.  Yet, every year entrepreneurs come up with brand new ways to utilize the Internet.  Those entrepreneurs are clever, imaginative people; the successful ones find a niche that has been neglected before they pioneer the new product or service.  Perhaps that level of imagination explains why so many entrepreneurs in the tech sector are so young!  Youth and imagination are characteristics Furqan Rydhan benefitted from when he became CEO of LiveServe Technologies, Inc. Read more »

USB flash drives are, arguably, one of the easiest ways for consumers to flaunt their personality within the technology marketplace.  Computers, smartphones and tablet computers all come in comparatively limited options, but USB flash drives can be a source of self-expression for those who want to have easy file portability.  One of the most stylish simple USB flash drives is the Ritek Golden Key OD9 flash drive. Read more »

Happy (Belated) Secretary’s Day!  Despite the fact that it seems to be cliché to acknowledge it, no executive achieves success on their own.  Executives may be leaders and visionaries, but their success would not be possible without the team they assemble.  Most leaders in the tech sector and the business world in general are aided by an executive assistant who helps organize their plans, schedules and serves as a gatekeeper to those who want access to the executive.  One of the most interesting executive assistants in the tech sector today is Veronica Acuna. Read more »

Sometimes, the coolest places on the Internet are not the flashiest or the best known places.  When it comes to online shopping, most people look to eBay or Amazon or they log into specialized shops where they have specific products they are anticipating buying.  But the big online retailers are not the ideal place to buy art.  Art – fine art and homemade – has never had much traction on eBay.  There are some wonderful, specialized, websites and social networks for artwork online, like Art.net and Elftown.  But the place to buy and sell artwork on the Internet is Etsy. Read more »

If “people who need people are the luckiest people,” what does it make people who need to find out all they can about people?  Perhaps a better question would be, what does it make people who make the tools for people to find out about other people?  Perhaps that question could be best answered by Saad Zniber, co-founder of Yatedo. Read more »

With the increasing capability and quality of digital cameras and high definition video cameras, consumers continue to search for products that provide superior digital storage.  Patriot Memory is one of the premiere manufacturers of high-quality, professional grade memory products.  From flash drives to memory cards, Patriot Memory has built its reputation on securely storing information.  One of its most exciting new products is the 128 GB EP Series flash storage card. Read more »

Those who use Amazon.com’s Amazon Prime service for streaming videos have had a good few months recently.  The Amazon.com library of available videos has only been growing in recent months.  While Steven Kessel, the company’s Senior Vice President of Worldwide Digital Media, deserves a lot of credit for the arrangements that provide users with more and more digital video files, there is an unsung hero of Amazon who deserves equal praise.  No matter what arrangements Kessel makes, no relationship between Amazon.com and production studios or distribution companies is complete until is passes muster with L. Michelle Wilson! Read more »

Sometimes, the coolest devices in the tech sector are not the flashiest; they are the products which make other products work better.  With ever-increasing memory and storage space demands, sometimes even the newest personal computers do not have adequate capabilities when it comes to transferring and storing data in a fast and secure way.  For that, the Areca ARC-1882i SAS/SATA RAID Adapter is the product that will give you the performance you deserve! Read more »