While there some styluses for the iPad to allow pen-like interaction directly on an iPad screen, my experience with them has been less than optimal. Another approach that’s been recently introduced is the integration between the Livescribe 3 pen and the Noteshelf app for the iPad. As the […]
I have had sit down desks forever, but there is an increasing level of noise / advice / advocacy about the idea of getting a stand-up desk or at least a sit-to-stand option. One approach is Varidesk, which provides an add-on that sits on top of your current […]
The Surface team at Microsoft shared a couple of case studies of customers in industrial design and manufacturing businesses. The video above is about Bob Mileti: For industrial designers like Bob Mileti of Trlby Innovative,there’s always a goal to balance simplicity, power, and usability in everything they create. […]
The Office 365 team announced (and released) Clutter for Office 365 today, a machine learning method of decluttering a user’s inbox by automagically moving lower priority items out of the Inbox and into a secondary folder. Clutter learns from your actions to determine the messages you are likely […]
Earlier this year I gave this presentation at a conference in Australia. The presentation explores social factors in collaboration, particularly how the way people behave impacts on adoption of new ways of working together. The presentation has three main sections: Approaches to improving adoption (slides 4-18) … a […]
In March 2013 Vodafone New Zealand announced a 10 year partnership with the New Zealand Police to bring modern mobile technology and apps to frontline staff. From April this year [2013], Vodafone New Zealand will deliver customised mobile services and smartphones to NZ Police, enabling more than 6,000 […]
Two long-term Notes customers announced a shift away to something else over the past week. Coca-Cola Bottling Company United (one of 200 Coca-Cola bottlers worldwide) migrated 1,100 users to Microsoft Office 365, and PwC announced a new global alliance with Google and the migration of 45,000 PwC employees […]
The creative team at Unify has put together four videos that show what email failure looks like. If you’re in need of five minutes of light-hearted relief, watch #emailfail.
Stuff is the online go-to-news source in New Zealand; a good aggregation of newspapers from across the country, plus online only news. A current assignment for one of the writers is about workplace IT nightmares: A staggering $9 billion is spent on IT in New Zealand every year, […]
When the new CEO at Microsoft announced the end of Microsoft’s devices and services strategy a few months ago, I wondered what this meant for the Surface line. If the old strategy was eliminated in full, that would mean the Surface product line would have to go too, […]
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