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Leading a technical team can be challenging, especially when there are many capable and knowledge members. But in the end they look to the team lead or architect to make the final call. Shahid N. Shah offers some great advice on technical leadership. His key points are:
Gizmodo reports on a concept for a paper phone that can be recycled. This concept comes from Yanko Design.
I remember a number of years ago of another paper phone. This one was in the middle of a pizza menu. It included enough minutes and battery life to place an order.
There are other concepts and patents out for disposable, pre-paid cell phones. I just haven’t seen them on the shelves.
It looks like Gartner group is being taken to task again for finally coming up with their statements on something that was so obvious to all.
Whatever you do, get on the bandwagon makes reference to the large amounts of money spent by large enterprises on their research.
CNET reports that VeriSign to acquire Kontiki. This is good news for the online content distribution ecosystem. I’ve used Kontiki in the past and it has very robust architecture that can be used to reduce bandwidth costs both inside enterprise networks and for B2C secure content distribution.