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Lateral thinking

October 14, 2010 in Micro-Bites

Lateral Thinking

Lateral Thinking

Q: Bad Boy Bubby was warned by his mother never to open the cellar door or he would see things that he was not meant to see. One day while his mother was out he did open the cellar door. What did he see?

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Definition: e-discovery

October 14, 2010 in Micro-Bites

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Definition

e-discovery is short for electronic discovery, it’s a term used to describe the compiling, storing and securing of digital information, such as e-mail, files and other data.

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Profile: Steve Ballmer

October 14, 2010 in Micro-Bites

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Steve Ballmer is the chief executive of Microsoft. Following the company’s iconic boss Bill Gates, Ballmer was appointed as CEO in 2000, but has remained a relatively unknown name for the general public.

Born in Detroit, Michigan in 1956, Ballmer has a degree in mathematics and economics from Harvard where he shared the same halls of residence as Gates. In 1980 Ballmer was hired by Gates as Microsoft’s product manager.

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Profile: Stephen Elop

September 29, 2010 in Micro-Bites

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Stephen Elop is the president and chief executive of Nokia.

Appointed in September 2010, Elop is the first non-Finnish CEO of the phone manufacturing company.

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Definition: Edge switch

September 29, 2010 in Micro-Bites

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Edge switch is a switch that is located at the meeting point between two networks. The edge switch typically connects an end user’s LAN to an ISP’s network or backbone. An edge switch also is called an access node or a service node.

via Webopedia Computer Dictionary.

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September 29, 2010 in Micro-Bites

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Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand. ~ Putt’s Law

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Lateral thinking

September 29, 2010 in Micro-Bites

Lateral Thinking

Lateral Thinking

Q: A woman gave natural birth to two sons who were born on the same hour of the same day of the same month of the same year. But they were not twins and she had no access to a time machine. How could this be?

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Lateral thinking

September 16, 2010 in Micro-Bites

Lateral Thinking

Lateral Thinking

Q: A police officer saw a truck driver clearly going the wrong way down a one-way street, but did not try to stop him. Why not?

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Profile: Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr.

September 16, 2010 in Micro-Bites

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Mario Armando Lavandeira, Jr. is a Cuban-American blogger, TV personality and the man behind the famous celebrity blog Perezhilton.com.

Born in Miami, Florida on 23 March 1978, Lavandeira studied at New York University graduating in 2000 with a BFA in Drama.

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September 16, 2010 in Micro-Bites

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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. ~ Pablo Picasso