Not everyone is easy to work with. If they were, managers would have infinitely easier jobs. You might think you work with a bunch of babies, but it's up to you to find ways to make your team work despite its faults.
There are certain personality types you're bound to encounter among tech staff. Here are 10 types and suggestions for effectively dealing with them.
Before you go outside for expertise, you should consider the benefits of spending the money you had budgeted for a consultant on training your in-house staff to handle not only the project at hand but also others down the road.
As a technical manager, you know that your team's time is precious, so take a few minutes to learn how to make your next off-site as productive as possible.
Under pressure from investors, Motorola has decided to split into two publicly traded companies, one handling handsets and accessories and the other taking on wireless broadband networks and enterprise-level communications services.
Today I'm taking a dip into the most interesting patents -- and patently silly ideas -- and what manner of messed-up services may be coming to your handset before too long, including the fertility phone, smellophone and Feng Shui phone.
If there ever was an opportunity for a broadcaster to showcase the potential of internet video, this was it, and Seven has blown it. Perhaps its executives should have rung their mates at NBC in the US and gotten some pointers on online coverage.
I can't wait for the new iPhone to come out mainly because I'm so dog-tired of listening to the never-ending screeds of rumour mongering nonsense speculating on what functionality the device will have that come out every single day. So I've decided to join in. I'm 100 per cent convinced the new iPhone will run Vista and have WiMax connectivity. In fact I'd bet my house on it.
The Olympics are nearly over, and the Australian team deserves kudos for an excellent performance all around. Yet even as the Olympic sun sets on the Bird's Nest for the last time this weekend, millions of spectators around the world will be scanning their dials in the hope of finding something else to fill their viewing hours.
There's an argument against the usage of USB sticks which has been discussed many times in this column: they're a potentially massive security risk. But there's another case you could make against having your business life stored in 4GB or so of flash memory it's a total support nightmare.
It's tough enough to manage through the technical, logistical, procedural, and political issues that face any large-scale deployment. How do you avoid squabbling teammates?
Not everyone is easy to work with. If they were, managers would have infinitely easier jobs. You might think you work with a bunch of babies, but it's up to you to find ways to make your team work despite its faults.
There are certain personality types you're bound to encounter among tech staff. Here are 10 types and suggestions for effectively dealing with them.
Before you go outside for expertise, you should consider the benefits of spending the money you had budgeted for a consultant on training your in-house staff to handle not only the project at hand but also others down the road.
As a technical manager, you know that your team's time is precious, so take a few minutes to learn how to make your next off-site as productive as possible.
The 3230 continues Nokia's run of style-plus-substance phones, offering a 1.2-megapixel camera, video editing and a positively lush-looking screen.
The Japanese electronics maker mixes with Ministry of Sound to tweak the tiny G50; a mobile phone for clubbers and the fashion-conscious. Read our Australian review.
It seemed to be an obvious recipe: take two popular emerging technologies and stir vigorously. But the end result isn't to everyone's taste.
Allies of Sun Microsystems have completed a second version of Java software for mobile phones that they hope will fill some of the gaps left by the first, but many expect challenges moving to the new technology.
Are two screens better than one? The KF600's morphing touch-navigation pad is a cool concept and adds a little high-end class to an otherwise low-spec handset.
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