You decide.
Windows Phone 7 Fangirls Video
| November 19, 2011
Month: November 2011
The Queen & The Presidents
| November 19, 2011
Microsoft Patenting Crappy Co-Worker Detector
| November 19, 2011
I know the guy in the next cubicle is an asshat, you know the guy in the next cubicle is an asshat…but what can we do about it? Microsoft to the rescue! The company is developing software that detects asshattery in the workplace, assigns the employee a score and reports them.
A method to be executed at least in part in a computing device for monitoring, analyzing, and influencing organizational behavior, the method comprising: determining desired and undesired behaviors; determining an organizational context; identifying actions associated with the desired and undesired behaviors within the organizational context; monitoring communication sessions of at least one modality to detect identified actions; analyzing detected actions; and providing analysis results such that desired behaviors are encouraged and undesired behaviors are discouraged.
The Science of Sarcasm? Yeah, Right
| November 18, 2011
Actually, scientists are finding that the ability to detect sarcasm really is useful. For the past 20 years, researchers from linguists to psychologists to neurologists have been studying our ability to perceive snarky remarks and gaining new insights into how the mind works. Studies have shown that exposure to sarcasm enhances creative problem solving, for instance. Children understand and use sarcasm by the time they get to kindergarten. An inability to understand sarcasm may be an early warning sign of brain disease.
Why doesn’t Britain make things any more?
| November 18, 2011
In the past 30 years, the UK’s manufacturing sector has shrunk by two-thirds, the greatest de-industrialisation of any major nation. It was done in the name of economic modernisation – but what has replaced it?
Facebook-to-Facebook Calling From Within Skype
| November 18, 2011
Discover how the latest version of Skype for Windows allows you to integrate your Skype and Facebook accounts allowing you to make free voice and video calls to Facebook friends and send instant messages all within Skype. Stay connected with your family and friends using Skype and import your Facebook newsfeed to follow what is happening with your loved ones. You can also enjoy Skype’s other great features and low calling rates.
Unlimited calls to landlines with Skype – any time, day or night. No long-term contract.
