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Current News for May 12, 2008
Finally...a Hotel Nails Check-In
Sun, 11 May 2008 23:51:07 PDT
For years in my presentations on Customer Service, I've suggested that Hotels could eliminate the barrier of the check-in counter by moving to the same technology that rental car companies have used for years. Imagine being greeted in the lobby and presented your keys without the obligatory line at the counter... Finally...the soon to open Opposite House in Beijing has completely eliminated the check-in counter. And, they don't wait for guests to make it into the lobby...they greet guests at
TELUS Mobility launches TELUS mobile TV on its national 1X network
Fri, 26 Aug 2005 10:35:45 PDT
TELUS mobile TV is powered by MobiTV, the world's first network and platform providing live television on wireless phones. clients watch live, real-time programming on seven channels: CBC Newsworld, Fox News, G4 Tech TV, Le Reseau de l'information (RDI), MeteoMedia, The Shopping Channel and The Weather Network.
Martin could be released today: Lawyer - Toronto Star
Send your gasoline receipts to PM By Peter Duffy - TheChronicleHerald.ca
Greeting cards keeping up with trends (UPI)
Sun, 11 May 2008 09:38:54 PDT
SAN DIEGO, May 11 (UPI) -- Greeting card companies are trying to maintain sales with new generations of U.S. consumers by following technological trends, industry officials say.
ABC News: TV First: Gays Wed on 'Brothers & Sisters'
Sun, 11 May 2008 19:51:14 PDT
Way to go ABC! It's about time!
Bloated decision making organs
Mon, 12 May 2008 01:46:51 PDT
There is a story over on Science news about the effectiveness of governments related to the size of the decision making groups. The story is about research from the Medical University of Vienna. They looked at national development in relation to the number of members of the national cabinet. What they found is that there is a correlation between cabinet size and levels of development. And that Parkinson’s law, which says “decision making is severely impaired in committees of more than 20 peopl
ROI and Sensitivity Analysis
Mon, 12 May 2008 02:00:22 PDT
I’ve written before about how often HR does not speak the language of finance that executives need when presenting business case. Often, HR’s projects are on the backburner or are not approved because HR simply can’t articulate to the same degree what all the possibilities are when they need money. A simple ROI or TCO is often not enough. ROI generally takes an analysis of costs and opportunities for savings based on a set of assumptions. We’ll have “X” number of transactions on self servic
Invoice Machine 2.0
Sun, 11 May 2008 22:56:01 PDT
News on our favourite web 2.0 app and an upcoming release on a new version.
Sun, 11 May 2008 23:51:07 PDT
For years in my presentations on Customer Service, I've suggested that Hotels could eliminate the barrier of the check-in counter by moving to the same technology that rental car companies have used for years. Imagine being greeted in the lobby and presented your keys without the obligatory line at the counter... Finally...the soon to open Opposite House in Beijing has completely eliminated the check-in counter. And, they don't wait for guests to make it into the lobby...they greet guests at
TELUS Mobility launches TELUS mobile TV on its national 1X network
Fri, 26 Aug 2005 10:35:45 PDT
TELUS mobile TV is powered by MobiTV, the world's first network and platform providing live television on wireless phones. clients watch live, real-time programming on seven channels: CBC Newsworld, Fox News, G4 Tech TV, Le Reseau de l'information (RDI), MeteoMedia, The Shopping Channel and The Weather Network.
Martin could be released today: Lawyer - Toronto Star
 Canoe.ca | Martin could be released today: Lawyer Toronto Star, Canada - May 2, 2008 Lawyer Edward Greenspan has told CBC Newsworld that Martin, 51, could be released from custody as early as today. Greenspan says a lawyer in his office is ... Brenda Martin could be released today Winnipeg Sun all 441 news articles |
Send your gasoline receipts to PM By Peter Duffy - TheChronicleHerald.ca
Send your gasoline receipts to PM By Peter Duffy TheChronicleHerald.ca, Canada - Apr 27, 2008 ... studying trends in the international energy industry and making price predictions that are sound enough to have the media, including CBC Newsworld, ... |
Greeting cards keeping up with trends (UPI)
Sun, 11 May 2008 09:38:54 PDT
SAN DIEGO, May 11 (UPI) -- Greeting card companies are trying to maintain sales with new generations of U.S. consumers by following technological trends, industry officials say.
ABC News: TV First: Gays Wed on 'Brothers & Sisters'
Sun, 11 May 2008 19:51:14 PDT
Way to go ABC! It's about time!
Bloated decision making organs
Mon, 12 May 2008 01:46:51 PDT
There is a story over on Science news about the effectiveness of governments related to the size of the decision making groups. The story is about research from the Medical University of Vienna. They looked at national development in relation to the number of members of the national cabinet. What they found is that there is a correlation between cabinet size and levels of development. And that Parkinson’s law, which says “decision making is severely impaired in committees of more than 20 peopl
ROI and Sensitivity Analysis
Mon, 12 May 2008 02:00:22 PDT
I’ve written before about how often HR does not speak the language of finance that executives need when presenting business case. Often, HR’s projects are on the backburner or are not approved because HR simply can’t articulate to the same degree what all the possibilities are when they need money. A simple ROI or TCO is often not enough. ROI generally takes an analysis of costs and opportunities for savings based on a set of assumptions. We’ll have “X” number of transactions on self servic
Invoice Machine 2.0
Sun, 11 May 2008 22:56:01 PDT
News on our favourite web 2.0 app and an upcoming release on a new version.
