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Harvard pointers on global innovators. Corporate R&D labs used to be the key for companies to create competitive advantage. But now innovation is moving across the globe. That’s why Harvard Business School professor, Alan MacCormack, believes that a real source of competitive advantage is skill in managing innovation partnerships. Innovation is increasingly driven through collaborative teams due to product complexity,…

"Advertising is the tax you pay for being unremarkable" On the Fast Company weblog, Danielle Sacks has posted a brief summary of highlights from The Idea Conference organized by Advertising Age . The "breakout star of the day" was Robert Stephens of Geek Squad, who regaled the audience with stories about launching and bootstrapping Geek Squad from untested concept to…

Astronaut Mode For Google Earth. This is just too cool! Someone photoshopped a NASA astronaut photo and created a screen overlay in Google Earth that just makes browsing the Earth a lot of fun! The photo is a little weird to look at because it shows the astronaut's reflecting helmet mask with his arms seen out front. But, the fun…

Global Poverty: How Demanding Are Our Obligations?. Peter Singer Peter Singer walks listeners through one of his most provocative philosophical arguments -- that affluent individuals must acknowledge their moral obligation to relieve the unnecessary death and suffering of the poor. His sinuous reasoning starts with the simple case of a bystander coming upon a child drowning in a pond with…

Glimpse of GPS Future in iPhone Hack. Navizon's iPhone application lets we iPhoners get a glimpse of the future, where we'll be able to retrieve our global coordinates as if we carried around a GPS (global positioning system) receiver or mobile adapter. Navizon Virtual GPS for iPhone uses the scan of Wi-Fi networks that the device constantly creates to retrieve…

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