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Recent reports by Forrester Research and the Carbon Disclosure Project detail the energy, environmental, and financial benefits of the move to cloud computing by US and global businesses. Here are some highlights of key findings: Clean Facts1 • Data centers can lose up to 96% of the energy coming into the building, losing efficiency in [...]

The federal government has raised the debt limit 90 times since 1940 – actually 91 with Tuesday’s approval by the U.S. Senate. Nine of those increases occurred in the past nine years. Up until the mid-80’s the debt limit stayed below $2 Trillion. The latest ceiling establishes a statutory debt limit at $16.69 Trillion – [...]

We’ve all heard about how we’re over-communicated to and that because there is so much information being sent to us, we effectively screen 99% of it out. For businesses trying to reach their customers, information overload is a vexing problem. Now, a new study published last month in Science documents the “digital avalanche”: The world’s [...]

The challenge for me using Powerpoint for business presentations has always to not make it look like a Powerpoint. I also use keynote which I think is much more creative but still basically a slide show with limited moves. Just revisited an old friend named Prezi. Mostly used in academic circles, or at least that’s [...]