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Communication in any large organization or business can be a hassle when there are hundreds of employees.  In a hospital or other healthcare workplace, things are often even more chaotic due to the constant intake of patients and sudden emergencies that can occur.  Cool person in technology Sunny Tara founded docBeat in order to attack this problem by improving communication in hospitals.  Tara’s product, docBeat, is a mobile platform that facilitates quick and secure communication between workers in a healthcare institution.  Tara lets doctors and other healthcare professionals install docBeat on the smartphones they already own.  This makes integrating docBeat into a workplace easier, although hospitals should still have onsite tech support available to ensure the system works smoothly.  Read more »

The more employees a company has, the harder it is to keep track of the details of a business.  Many bosses can attest to how important facts or issues don’t make it up the grapevine to them because they get lost somewhere between a regular employee and a company’s owner.  It’s often not even a middle manager’s direct fault, but a series of miscommunications.  15Five is a cool product that looks to minimize these problems in an organization.  15Five essentially acts as a communication tool in the workplace that coordinates designated time for CEOs and owners to learn what’s happening in different departments.  15Five claims they have an effective system that increases the communication up and down a company’s chain of command based on a simple idea.  15Five works off the concept that If every manager can take fifteen minutes a week to report exactly what’s happening in their department and a business owner can take five minutes to read each report, communication and productivity will improve in a company.  15Five’s software lets managers report their bosses and presents those reports in an organized format for the company head.  Businesses that utilize 15Five will want to have strong office computer support service in case certain managers struggle to adjust to the program. Read more »

When you have a service that you believe people in multiple markets throughout the world will appreciate and buy into, the clear and obvious goal is to make your business global.  However, doing so requires a massive amount of work, but cool technology product Startling wants to make one part of that process easier.  Startling offers companies translation management software that allows them to translate their content in both websites and mobile apps, allowing them to open their service to a global user base.  Smartling’s software helps companies manage all translation and localization projects and supposedly makes it easier to keep your content updated properly across different local markets in multiple languages.  Smartling uses a cloud system to ensure that uploaded website content and updates about various translation projects is always accessible via the web.  Smartling’s translation turnaround times vary based on the scale of a project, but companies can also pay premiums if they need a project finished in a certain amount of time.  Smartling’s goal is for companies not to have to worry about customers in foreign markets calling phone tech support because of poorly translated instructions on a website. Read more »

While there are many companies in the tech sector whose names and products are easily recognizable – Microsoft, Google, and Apple, for example – there are other companies whose names are frequently mentioned, but their product lines remain a mystery to the general population.  For example, many Americans would probably say they have heard of Oracle and know that it is a big business within the tech sector.  The population would be dramatically smaller, though, of Americans who could identify a specific product from Oracle.  In a similar fashion, “Quest” often appears on technology and business updates, but what the multibillion dollar company produces is unclear to many who do not have direct dealings with the company. Read more »

HP, long expected to be one of Apple’s main competitors in the tablet market, has fired its first shot at the competition, and it’s an interesting one.

With little fanfare, the company released its Slate 500 tablet, running Microsoft’s Windows 7 OS.  Since HP acquired Palm earlier this year, it had been widely speculated that the company’s first tablet release would feature Palm’s WebOS.

HP has now announced that a WebOS tablet will be released sometime in 2011. Read more »