Technical documentation platform provider MindTouch tonight announced an interesting new feature in its flagship product: MindTouch Contextual Help. The feature offers the ability to integrate collaboratively written documentation inline into web and desktop application interfaces, instead of only publishing it as a standalone document elsewhere. In contrast, forums, PDFs and other standalone Help systems...
The research is conclusive: compared to office-based colleagues, those who are free to work where they choose are happier with their jobs. But why is this? The answer isn’t as clear as it might first appear to web work boosters. After all, ask non-experts for their opinion of telecommuting and you’ll likely get a...
American Express is going all in on the daily deals business, striking a deal with Facebook that is similar to the one it already has with Foursquare. Through a new Facebook app called “Link, Like, Love,” AmEx cardholders can link their cards to their Facebook accounts just like they can already link their cards...
For the life of Australia’s National Broadband Network project, the official line has been that it’s not technically possible for NBN Co to filter the Internet, as a wholesaler of “layer two” Internet services. The insistence that the Australian government’s broadband corporation isn’t capable of performing filtering is meant to help us swallow the...
I am old enough to remember when going into a chain store like Borders and picking out books physically was something one did to save time. Plus, as any bookworm will tell you, rifling through bookstore shelves for buried treasure and asking knowledgable employees about their reading recommendations was an oddly exciting feeling, even...
Copies of the OS X Lion Golden Master — that is, the commercial release — have arrived at Apple Retail stores on hard drives, ready to be installed into staff workstations and demo computers, MacRumors reports. There will be no retail boxed copy of Lion, with the new operating system only available via the...
Google Refine, formally known as Freebase Gridworks, has been updated to version 2.1. Refine is an open source tool for cleaning up messy data sets before linking them into systems such as Freebase. The update includes new HTML parsing functions, the ability to import Google Fusion Tables and more. Freebase Gridworks was one of...
Cisco CEO John Chambers Cisco Systems has been trying to hone its focus for months now with a large-scale corporate reorganization. And judging by the latest news out of the network equipment giant, Cisco is not out of the woods quite yet. On Monday, Cisco announced plans to lay off a total of 6500...
According to Emily Chang of Bloomberg TV, Rupert Murdoch is considering stepping down as CEO of NewsCorp. If Murdoch were to do so, he would be succeeded by COO Chase Carey and would remain on as the company’s Chairman. Chang says that Murdoch’s performance in answering questions before the British Parliament is the deciding...
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