ICT Innovation Blog
Mrz 10
Wer kennt es nicht aus eigener Erfahrung: Das zugemüllte System läuft nicht mehr rund, bösartige Software aus dem Internet treibt ihr Unwesen auf dem heimischen PC oder das Notebook kommt gerade frisch aus dem Karton. Viele Gründe, die in unregelmäßigen Abständen eine Neuinstallation der gewohnten Softwareumgebung erfordern.
In manchen Fällen kommt man mit einem vorher erstellten [...] [...more]
Author: Patrick Franken.
Veröffentlicht unter Uncategorized.
Tags: Allmyapps, App Store
Wer kennt es nicht aus eigener Erfahrung: Das zugemüllte System läuft nicht mehr rund, bösartige Software aus dem Internet treibt ihr Unwesen auf dem heimischen PC oder das Notebook kommt gerade frisch aus dem Karton. Viele Gründe, die in unregelmäßigen Abständen eine Neuinstallation der gewohnten Softwareumgebung erfordern.
In manchen Fällen kommt man mit einem vorher erstellten Image, also einem Komplettabbild des Systems, ziemlich schnell ans Ziel. Einfach zurückspielen und der Rechner ist wie neu. Ist ein solches Backup aber nicht vorhanden oder veraltet, müssen die geliebten Programme und Tools wieder aus dem Internet geladen und einzeln installiert werden. Eine Aufgabe, die gerne mal einige Stunden Zeit in Anspruch nimmt.
Drei Franzosen haben sich hierfür eine interessante Lösung überlegt und das zugehörige Angebot nennen sie allmyapps.
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Feb 17
Windows Mobile gehört der Vergangenheit an. Es lebe Windows Phone 7! Der Grundgedanke der neuen Smartphone-Software ist, dass ein Handy kein PC ist. Die Oberfläche eines Smartphones soll einfach zu bedienen sein und dem Benutzer “ein Lächeln ins Gesicht zaubern”, so hieß es gestern beim Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
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Author: Daniel Weiner.
Veröffentlicht unter Communication, Information, Telekommunikation, Trends & Entwicklungen, Uncategorized.
Tags: Microsoft, Windows Phone 7, Xbox Live
Windows Mobile gehört der Vergangenheit an. Es lebe Windows Phone 7! Der Grundgedanke der neuen Smartphone-Software ist, dass ein Handy kein PC ist. Die Oberfläche eines Smartphones soll einfach zu bedienen sein und dem Benutzer “ein Lächeln ins Gesicht zaubern”, so hieß es gestern beim Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
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Jan 08
Heute startete in Las Vegas die Consumer Electronics Show, kurz CES. Die weltgrößte Fachmesse für Unterhaltungselektronik läutet traditionell das neue Jahr ein und gibt dabei einen Ausblick auf die neuesten Technologietrends und Produkte. Doch in diesem Jahr lässt kaum etwas das Herz eines Techies höher schlagen. Betrachten wir mal die vermutlich größten beiden Trends.
1. Tablet [...] [...more]
Author: Patrick Franken.
Veröffentlicht unter Uncategorized.
Tags: 3D-TV, Apple, CES, Freescale, iSlate, Microsoft, Skype, Tablet PC
Heute startete in Las Vegas die Consumer Electronics Show, kurz CES. Die weltgrößte Fachmesse für Unterhaltungselektronik läutet traditionell das neue Jahr 
ein und gibt dabei einen Ausblick auf die neuesten Technologietrends und Produkte. Doch in diesem Jahr lässt kaum etwas das Herz eines Techies höher schlagen. Betrachten wir mal die vermutlich größten beiden Trends.
1. Tablet PCs
Seit Monaten wird im Internet bereits über Apples nächsten großen Coup spekuliert. Vermutlich Ende des Monats wird Apple das Geheimnis um das Gerät lüften, welches, glaubt man zumindest den diversen Designspekulationen, so etwas wie ein übergroßer iPod Touch sein soll.
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Dez 28
According to cnn.com the following games were among the best of video games in 2009. Unfortunately the Cable News Network did not specify exactly what criteria they used for the classification. Below are the best games according to game category
Best shooter games:
1. “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2″ (Xbox 360, PS3, and Microsoft [...] [...more]
Author: Ngoh Tah.
Veröffentlicht unter Information, Märkte, Technology, Trends & Entwicklungen, Uncategorized.
Tags: best games, Games, games 2009, games classification 2009
According to cnn.com the following games were among the best of video games in 2009. Unfortunately the Cable News Network did not specify exactly what criteria they used for the classification. Below are the best games according to game category
Best shooter games:
1. “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2″ (Xbox 360, PS3, and Microsoft Windows) by Activision.
2. “Left 4 Dead 2″ by Valve/EA’s
3. “Borderlands” by 2K Games
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Nov 05
Economic recessions generally send many organizations out of business. Very innovative organizations may be booming while others are closing up. But usually innovation alone is not enough to survive the ever evolving business environment. To survive and also stay ahead of competitors, an organization’s ability to innovate must be matched by its ability to manage [...] [...more]
Author: Ngoh Tah.
Veröffentlicht unter Information, Märkte, Trends & Entwicklungen, Uncategorized.
Tags: change, Innovation, Innovation management
Economic recessions generally send many organizations out of business. Very innovative organizations may be booming while others are closing up. But usually innovation alone is not enough to survive the ever evolving business environment. To survive and also stay ahead of competitors, an organization’s ability to innovate must be matched by its ability to manage its innovations. This posting will look at innovation managment and some factors thatfoster innovation in an organization. (weiterlesen…)
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Aug 18
What are you doing? Can I really use 140 characters to tell you what I am doing? I guess I may have to use some different characters other than the Latin alphabet and Arabic numerals to do this, but Twitter says I can as well use them to inform my followers about what I am [...] [...more]
Author: Ngoh Tah.
Veröffentlicht unter Applikationen, Communication, IT, Information, Internet, Technology, Telekommunikation, Trends & Entwicklungen, Uncategorized.
Tags: followers, retweet, tweets, Twitter, Twitter followers
What are you doing? Can I really use 140 characters to tell you what I am doing? I guess I may have to use some different characters other than the Latin alphabet and Arabic numerals to do this, but Twitter says I can as well use them to inform my followers about what I am doing. Twitter is a great tool that can be used to a great effect if appropriately employed. While many in the USA have found effective ways of using twitter, most people in other parts of the world are still trying to figure out how to effectively use this social media tool. Many people in Europe join twitter, have a look at it, don’t understand it, follow a few irrelevant people, get disappointed and never sign in again. So what mistakes may they be making?
Europe is not America!
One of the biggest mistakes twitter users in Europe may be making is that they simply try to copy the same twitter strategy being used in US and want to paste it in Europe. That of course is not working and ends up leaving many people frustrated. One must not be a cultural expert to realize that although both continents may have several similarities, they as well have different patterns of doing business. It is true that twitter is an American discovery, but this does not close the door for people from other parts of the planet to adapt this tool to their environment. Generally, people in America are more tolerant to spam than their counterparts on the other side of the Atlantic. In a survey by the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG), more than 800 computer users in the United States and Canada were interviewed and the result was that spam exists there because it is a highly effective way of getting people to buy products. An astounding 12% of respondents actually responded to spam because they were interested in the product/service offered by the spam. While the amount of spam in Europe may currently be surpassing that stemming from the US, the success rates are a lot lower especially in Germany than in the US. Europeans are generally less likely to open spam mails let alone respond to them than Americans. So one fatal mistake twitter users in Europe may not want to make will be to let their followers perceive them as spammers.
Don’ts for European Twitterers
Avoid posting the same tweet several times (spamming): You may be tempted to do this because you think there is something that you wish to share with your new followers. If your followers find your tweets interesting, they will automatically check your older tweets. There is absolutely no need to retweet a message posted a few hours ago because new followers have joined ever since you posted it.
Resist the temptation of posting a new tweet every 2 minutes (spamming): It could be very annoying to see that almost all tweets within an hour come from the same person. You can’t always have something useful to say every 2 minutes. Keep longer intervals between your tweets and don’t just tweet for the sake of tweeting but tweet to pass over information that may be useful to your followers.
Avoid using automated messaging: If you need serious followers you must give a serious impression. Automated welcome messages may be kind but they are in no way personal. Most of these twitter-direct-automated-messages are very annoying as they are often the same message you receive from each person. No welcome message is better than automatically generated message. In some cases users send these messages with a disabled reply function. How can your followers take you serious if you don’t allow them reply to a “direct” message from you?
Keep away from twitter-engines that promise 100s of followers a day: If you really want to get meaningful followers on twitters you may want invest some time to screen their profiles before following or let someone follow you. You will automatically get your target followers coming after you once you follow the right people. You may notice that some of the people who send these messages about getting 100s of followers a day either do not have many followers themselves or they don’t have a niche. Avoid resending such messages no matter what attractive incentives they may be promising.
Tips for Corporate Twitterers in Europe
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Make your page look serious with your company logo and a responsible picture
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Select a serious user name, most preferable a name that reflects what you do
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Don’t forget to insert you URL on your profile
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Find twitter gurus in your niche and follow them together with their serious followers
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Send a personal thank you message each time you find that somebody recommended your tweet
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Block followers that may be unrelated to your ideology (e.g. people offering adult content)
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Use the search function to find people who post messages that could of interest to you and follow them
What corporate goals can be achieved using twitter?
Twitter may not offer immediate liquid cash but it could offer you several business openings such as:
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Increasing your web traffic
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Asserting yourself as a guru
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Creating awareness about a new product
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Promoting an event
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An advertising platform for others who know you and the trust your followers have in you (no rush to this function as it takes time to build trust)
Twitter has been written-off several times by many experts, but it always succeeds to make a comeback each time. Twitter may have some security concerns and it is true that most people who create a twitter account are not regular users or never even ever sign up again, I still however strongly believe that twitter has vast business potentials that still remain unexploited especially in Europe. Like Xing figured out a strategy for LinkedIn in Germany, I think a similar strategy can be worked-out for twitter in Europe without necessarily giving it another name.
compare: www.maawg.org
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Jul 16
Heute berichtet die Financial Times Deutschland in einem Dossier über den entbrannten Kampf um Anteile am “letzten großen Wachstumsmarkt”.
So soll aktuell der französische Mischkonzern Vivendi bereit sein, sich mit 5 Milliarden Euro in den afrikanischen Markt einzukaufen. Bisher dominieren MTN, Vodafone, Orascom, France Telecom sowie der kuwaitische Mobilfunkanbieter Zain auf dem Kontinent. Mit letzterem soll [...] [...more]
Author: Patrick Franken.
Veröffentlicht unter Uncategorized.
Tags: Africa, Afrika, ARPU, France Telecom, Märkte, Mobilfunk, MTN, Vivendi, Vodafone, Zain
Heute berichtet die Financial Times Deutschland in einem Dossier über den entbrannten Kampf um Anteile am “letzten großen Wachstumsmarkt”.
So soll aktuell der französische Mischkonzern Vivendi bereit sein, sich mit 5 Milliarden Euro in den afrikanischen Markt einzukaufen. Bisher dominieren MTN, Vodafone, Orascom, France Telecom sowie der kuwaitische Mobilfunkanbieter Zain auf dem Kontinent. Mit letzterem soll Vivendi über einen Mehrheitsanteil verhandeln. Zain ist 15 afrikanischen Ländern aktiv. Der Wert der Beteiligungen wird auf 10 Milliarden Euro geschätzt.
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Jul 09
The second part of the change management posting used the AKDAR to try to simplify how change can be implemented in an organization. It also examined some of the reasons why employees may be reluctant to accept change in an organization. Today’s posting will look at some symptom of resistance to change by employees in [...] [...more]
Author: Ngoh Tah.
Veröffentlicht unter Communication, Information, Märkte, Trends & Entwicklungen, Uncategorized, Unternehmen & Geschäftsmodelle.
The second part of the change management posting used the AKDAR to try to simplify how change can be implemented in an organization. It also examined some of the reasons why employees may be reluctant to accept change in an organization. Today’s posting will look at some symptom of resistance to change by employees in an organization.
Have you ever wondered how your employees, friends or family members may react if you tell them you plan to do things differently than has always been the case? You think you see the dangers of the usual ways of doing things but you are not sure if every other person may be able to buy your idea and you wonder how they may react to it.
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Jun 29
Das Zukunftsszenario des vernetzten Zuhause wird schon seit Jahren von vielen Unternehmen propagiert und vorangetrieben. Microsoft, Intel, HP, Apple, Sony, die Liste könnte beliebig verlängert werden. Jeder der großen Player versucht einen “Fuß in die Tür” zu bekommen. Der Weg fängt dabei meist im Wohnzimmer an, wo sie sich mit ihren Produkten an zentraler Stelle [...] [...more]
Author: Patrick Franken.
Veröffentlicht unter Uncategorized.
Tags: Connected Home, Fernbedienung, Mobiltelefon, Nokia, NTT Docomo, Remote Control, vernetztes Zuhause
Das Zukunftsszenario des vernetzten Zuhause wird schon seit Jahren von vielen Unternehmen propagiert und vorangetrieben. Microsoft, Intel, HP, Apple, Sony, die Liste könnte beliebig verlängert werden. Jeder der großen Player versucht einen “Fuß in die Tür” zu bekommen. Der Weg fängt dabei meist im Wohnzimmer an, wo sie sich mit ihren Produkten an zentraler Stelle zu positionieren versuchen. Ganz gleich, ob über Spielkonsole, Mediencenter PC, Set Top Box oder Home Entertainment System.
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Jun 23
Having understood what change management is all about and the factors that can bring about change in an organization, let us now have a look at how change can be successfully implemented to obtain the desired results. It is also important to note that for one reason or another, different employees may react differently to [...] [...more]
Author: Ngoh Tah.
Veröffentlicht unter Communication, Information, Märkte, Trends & Entwicklungen, Uncategorized, Unternehmen & Geschäftsmodelle.
Tags: ADKAR, change, Change Management
Having understood what change management is all about and the factors that can bring about change in an organization, let us now have a look at how change can be successfully implemented to obtain the desired results. It is also important to note that for one reason or another, different employees may react differently to proposed changes. Today’s posting will examine how change can be implemented in an organization with the help of the ADKAR model.
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