When you see the doctors standing in front of the whiteboard with all of the patients and surgeries mapped out on Grey’s Anatomy, that’s real life. Would you try to run your company from a whiteboard? Xylemed thinks you shouldn’t either. They’ve created a program that will replace the whiteboards hospital use to track their […]
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‘Inventors’ is a series of portrait videos by filmmaker and photographer David Friedman, chronicling the work of contemporary inventors from all walks of life. It offers rare glimpses into the inspiration for their creations, which range from the first digital camera and first video game console to a drive-able amphibious ice-fishing vehicle. In this episode:
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A reader wrote: I want to send a quick note. I recently wrote an article comparing the newest version of Quickbooks to Sage’s Peachtree accounting software, primarily aimed at small business owners. I thought it would be a good resource for the blog. Thanks for the link. I’m often asked this very question and am
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Inventing might start with a good idea, but the real work comes when you turn that idea into something that can be used. The process, which can be very complicated, is sometimes enough to stop a really good idea from going anywhere. Now there is a web service that can help inventors turn those ideas
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Scott Lake and Tobias Lutke needed a shopping cart software that would fit in well with their online snowboard store. However, what they found was complicated and confusing reports The Gazette. Unwilling to try and wedge another less-than-par software into their online store, Mr. Lutke – a programmer – created what they needed. That software
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We live in a world where our customers can speak a variety of different languages. To communicate with these people, we need to know their language. One software entrepreneur is on top of it. Paul Patruno is the owner of moreVocabulary, a business that sells a software that helps people learn how to speak and
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Finding a job at this time is not easy but starting your own money-making website that will help others find employment is not impossible. A website called Recruitment Exchange is helping entrepreneurs start their own job boards. Their premade software allows entrepreneurs to get started right out of the box. They handle the SEO. You
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Maverick Software Consulting provides software consulting from mankato, Minnesota at prices that meet or beat Chinese and Indian software companies. How do they do it? Robert Cringley explains: This isn’t rocket science. The students are testing software, recording bugs, and doing middleware development mainly for a single client – Thomson Reuters. Reuters, in turn, has
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According to The New York Times, there is a new challenge to typing on phones. More phones are using virtual keyboards on a touch screen, replacing physical buttons. But pecking out a message on a small piece of glass is not so easy, and typos are common. Cliff Kushler thinks he has a solution. His
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Fast Company takes a look at four App developers with major ideas. All age 16 or younger, they’re part of a generation raised with multi-touch and social media, and they’re cranking out profitable ideas for new devices and platforms as fast as manufacturers let them. Andrew Rauh, 16, Dearborn, Michigan When did you get started?
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