Apple and Jamaican tourism have something in common. The ability to grow when your competitors are contracting, even hemorrhaging. With Apple now officially a $50 billion company, their profits up 50% and the iPhone sales near 9 million they have shown that recession or no recession people want their digital wares from Cupertino, California…..bad! It is within this carefully crafted context that Apple is about to unleash the tablet...

The short answer? No. (Read the article http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1917325,00.html). Aside from the hyperbole and exaggeration, we are a nation in trouble. Healthcare costs are crippling corporations and workers alike. Time for solutions instead of more fearmongering…or placating. Most at risk are employees at the top of their pay ranges–generally people in the mid-40′s to mid-50′s. These are...

It’s a story that captured our attention for the past several days. A graduate student, just days before her wedding, walked out of a campus building at Yale and vanished–only to be found, sadly, stuffed into a wall at that same building. What we can’t forget is that Ms. Le was a victim of workplace violence. If early reports have any validity, her alleged attacker (who worked as a lab assistant where she conducted her...

Apple Adds Video Camera To iPod Nano, Cuts Prices For iPod Touch http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/09… Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled new features for the iPod Nano and price cuts for other iPods during a media event Wednesday in San Francisco. The new iPod Nano now sports a video camera, among other things. Apple has been known to cut prices in advance of a new offering, and with the holiday shopping season around the corner,...

Are Consumers Paying Too Much for Text-Messaging? That was the question posed by the Time magazine article I read this morning. With costs to cellular carriers being a fraction of a penny and billings to customers standing at roughly fifteen cents a go, it’s easy to see that, for cellular carriers, texting is, well, deliciously profitable at 98%. What’s troubling for carriers is the trend of consumers to dropping or scaling back...

Many of you may know that I’ve lead a multi-division Affirmative Action and diversity initiative (why I have that white streak in my hair). “Sensitivity training” for the most part, left people scared of each other and tiptoeing around on eggshells. So imagine how I giggled when I saw this. Sensitivity Training – The best video clips are...