Ambitious? Market research company IDC predicts that by 2015, Windows Phone 7 will be the number two smartphone operating system worldwide thanks to Microsoft’s newly-formedpartnershipwith Nokia. “Up until the launch of Windows Phone 7 last year, Microsoft has steadily lost market share while other operating systems have brought forth new and appealing experiences”, said Ramon Llamas, senior research analyst with IDC’s Mobile Devices Technology and Trends team. “The new alliance brings together Nokia’s hardware capabilities and Windows Phone’s differentiated platform....

The story ofLijitis a bit of a twisty one. The company, which I was first introduced to at Blogworld Expo 2010, started off its venture as a service that would help site owners to provide better search for their content. As happens so often in technology, time moved on and the folks at Lijit realized that the information that they were gathering was better suited for other uses. Don’t call it a pivot, rather it was simply a maximization of resources....

Analytics are the antidote to toxic meeting culture How can you change something if you can’t see it? How meeting analytics can measure and boost meeting engagement Data has become the key to benchmarking success in just about every business facet, with some notable exceptions. Deloitte’s2018 Global Human Capital Trends report, says that “84% of respondents viewed people analytics as important or very important,” but only “8% of organizations report that they have usable data,” and this is especially true for meetings....

The latest example of ‘think before you retweet’ emerged today when a false rumor spread like wildfire that British journalist and TV presenter Piers Morgan had been suspended from his position as a CNN talkshow host. For ten minutes, my Twitter stream lit up with frantic retweets and discussion over the ‘news’, which followed speculation over the former UK tabloid editor’s possible knowledge of phone hacking. Quickly it emerged that it was a hoax and things calmed back down again....

The English Premier League (EPL) season kicks-off today, and the folk atPeerIndex– a web technology company that algorithmically maps out the social web – has pulled together a couple of league tables that may interest those with a penchant for football and Twitter. If you want to know what the most influentialteamsandplayersin the Premier League are in the Twittersphere, then read on. Most influential EPL teams on Twitter Here’s a list of the most influential English Premier League teams on Twitter....