4 ways you and your company can make flexible work better 1. Get line managers on board First and foremost, managers need training in how to manage flexible work.My own researchfound that line managers are the single biggest block on flexible work uptake. And even where flexible work is supported, too often it is assumed that managers know the unknowable and can just run with new working practices. But without any investment being made in managers, flexible working arrangements are set up to fail....

Welcome toTNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. As a Windows veteran, I’ve lived under the impression I knew enough about the OS to get as much as I cared out of it. I failed to recognize I was an idiot, and was just plain wrong about the features and flexibility it currently offers....

4 ‘minor’ features that will have a BIG impact on upcoming gadgets Mini-LED We’ve all been used to the LCD tech, which uses a white backlight and liquid crystal filters to generate colors, and OLED tech, which uses organic compounds that can light up and produce colors. Usually, LCD displays offer a brighter picture, but OLED offers better contrast levels. Technically, Mini-LED is a cousin of LCD. Instead of using a single backlight, it uses thousands of tiny LEDs to generate light; colors are still produced by liquid crystals....

It has emerged that up to 40% of new Angry Birds users are opting for additional assistance in Rovio’s insanely popular gaming title, paying for the “Mighty Eagle” in-app purchase which allows users to skip a level should it become too hard. The impressive stat was outed during a talk by Rovio’s own Mighty Eagle Peter Vesterbacka at the GDC Smartphone Summit, where he gave an insight into how Rovio grew to be one of the most popular game developers in the world today....

Prigat, a leading company in the Israeli fruit juice market, has come up with one of the most innovativeFacebookcampaigns you are ever likely to see. The application works by encouraging users to smile more and share it with their friends and the more users smile the more juice gets squeezed in a real life juicer. The best part is all the bottles of squeezed juice are sent to a charity of your choice....