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Former Apple CEO John Sculley: the future of our health is in the cloud The Newton was two decades ahead of its time, says the former Apple chief executive – and the future of healthcare will be driven by cloud computing

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“Having 20bn connected devices means that the majority of those connected devices will be machine to machine,” Sculley explains. “It means we’re just at the beginning era of very powerful sensors that can be built into clothing, that can be used for tracking almost anything that one can conceive and doing that in real time and using cloud computing to manipulate data which is going to be many many orders of magnitude larger and more complex that anything we’ve ever considered before.”  Continue reading →

Google Fiber to offer fast net access in Austin, Texas

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Google has confirmed that it will be extending its super-fast fibre broadband service to Austin, Texas.

Currently the search giant has limited its roll-out to Kansas City, where residents can get up to one gigabit per second speeds for $70 (£44) per month.
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Career Ladder

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For Undergrads

Career Ladder is an iPhone App that can help you make better career choices and learn more about yourself and how you relate to colleagues and friends.  It can help you think about your future career and give you valuable information about your work interests, motivation and personality.

Originally developed with Cass Business School (then City University) Career Ladder is a proven tool, developed and used by psychologists over 10 years, that  has helped thousands of people of all ages and nationalities, from school leavers to senior managers.  


It contains 3 separate tests – Work Interests, Motivation and Personality and produces 15 pages of results with a full PDF report which you can print out.   You can use Career Ladder as often as you like (for your personal use) and store your results to compare them over time or share them with your friends or careers advisor.  To see more go to http://www.careerladderapp.com.


For Postgrads

Career Ladder is an iPhone App that can help you make better career choices and learn more about yourself and how you relate to colleagues and friends.  It can help you think about your future career and give you valuable information about your work interests, motivation and personality.

Originally developed with Cass Business School (then City University) for MBA and Masters students, Career Ladder is a proven tool, developed and used by psychologists over 10 years, that  has helped thousands of people of all ages and nationalities, from school leavers to senior managers.  

It contains 3 separate tests – Work Interests, Motivation and Personality and produces 15 pages of results with a full PDF report which you can print out.   You can use Career Ladder as often as you like (for your personal use) and store your results to compare them over time or share them with your friends or careers advisor.  To see more go to http://www.careerladderapp.com

Perfecting Your Pitch

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Perfecting Your Pitch.
Pitching your idea and yourself is a skill that can be learned.

Understand what others are looking for!
“Average entrepreneur pitch: 38 slides. Average investor attention span/cranial capacity: 10 slides. Do the math.”
Much of this interesting articles advice can be applied to pitching for Team members and multiple forms of funding and prizes.

Wall Street Journal Memo to Staff Take More Risks!!!!

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Memo to Staff: Take More Risks
Many employees at the national hotel chain, which had recently emerged from bankruptcy, were still stuck in survival mode. Worried about losing their jobs, they avoided decisions that might cost the company money, such as making property repairs or appeasing a disgruntled guest with a free night’s stay.

“They were waiting to be told what to do,” recalls the former Starbucks Corp. SBUX +1.06% chief executive. “They were afraid to do things.”