Tag: CORPORATE

Hey, bro! While you're synergizing your backward overflow metrics into that PowerPoint presentation about headcount reduction, have you thought about changing your ringtone? It's sooo un-businesslike. If you're really a team player, we should get the ball rolling and pull the trigger on these sweet ringtones like "Trendy" and "Calm." Check out the video after the break, take an idea shower, and ...

Improving national broadband accessibility and speed has been high on the FCC's agenda for a while, now. And yesterday, the Commission issued the first regulatory vollies in what many are expecting to be a public-private sector showdown. The Commission has proposed three separate plans for public comment, including something known as 'the third way.' According to the BBC, the plan, supported by ...

We like to believe that the U.S. military knows a thing or two more than the rest of us. Your devoted Switched team, for example, would be hard pressed to dismantle an IED, no matter how many times we've seen 'The Hurt Locker.' But it turns out that the men and women in uniform are entangled in the simplifying software magic known as PowerPoint, no different from the soporific strategy meetings ...

Share For the past year, Microsoft has been quietly testing a microblogging service for businesses, essentially developing a corporate Twitter. Taking the tweeting bird and dressing it in office park grays, OfficeTalk's resemblance to the popular microblogging service is uncanny: The experiment uses topic hashtags, has an in-built URL shortener, supports "@" mentions and limits its messages to ...

The threat that Facebook poses to our workplace reputations is already well-documented. But a study now claims that the social networking site may compromise overall office security, not just proper office sensibilities. According to a report published yesterday by Sophos, 60-percent of surveyed corporate executives claimed that Facebook was a bigger threat to firm-wide security than any ...

The realm of politics has long been a haven for aging California celebrities, including Ronald Reagan, Clint Eastwood, Sonny Bono, and, of course, the "Governator" Arnold Schwarzenegger. Since the beginning of the new millennium, though, another faction of well-known California personalities has been encroaching on that political domain. Instead of celluloid celebrities, the new group ...

You've probably noticed the arrow in the Fed-Ex logo -- in case you missed it, it's right there between the 'E' and the 'X.' -- but did you realize that there are plenty of other corporate logos with similarly subliminal design elements? Graphic designers spend hours hunched over their graphics tablet, stylus in hand, trying to create logos that stick in our minds. Why not kill two birds with one ...

Some Office Depot sales managers have been encouraging their employees to lie to customers, Laptop's blog revealed in an investigative report Tuesday. According to a number of the Web site's readers, who also claim to work for Office Depot, the practice of lying in regards to laptop availability is a common at the company due to strict corporate sales quotas. One reader named Rich, who Laptop ...

By now, most of us have heard the story of how Google got its name -- from a misspelling of "googol," an impossibly high number (10 to the 100th power, or more than the total number of atoms in the observable universe). But Google isn't the only company out there with an odd name. And it certainly isn't the only name with an interesting origin story. 'Mental Floss,' a magazine packed with trivia ...

One of the biggest knocks against the iPhone has been its inability to handle enterprise email, which is how companies manage the email that is delivered to employees who, for example, use Blackberry's as their smartphones. That's changing now, as Apple today announced it will support the "push" e-mail systems necessary for corporate email to show up on their popular phone and music-playing ...

Since the iPhone's release, IT departments across the nation have been pestered by Apple users who want to replace their Blackberry or company-issued mobile phone with an iPhone. And of course IT departments across the nation have replied with a hearty 'no.' Why? Well it's actually pretty straightforward, and Fortune has taken the time to explain the top 10 reasons in some pretty basic terms. ...