Archive for April, 2009
IBM Costing Cutting and Innovation
Posted by Paul 21 April 2009Pay for your own tea and coffee, IBM tells staff
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,25329614-5013040,00.html?referrer=email
FREE tea and coffee are necessities in an office, but if new cost-cutting measures get the nod at IBM Australia, staff will be paying for their own.
This is a crazy approach. Surely you want people interacting and discussing stuff in order to maximise interaction [...]
Making Electric Cars Simple to ReCharge
Posted by Paul 19 April 2009Batteries Not Included
Better Place is trying to create a robotic system for electric cars where the batteries are swapped in and out instead of waiting to recharge the battery. Their goal is to have battery change take the same time as putting petrol in your tank so their is not time difference for consumers. Sort [...]