By Larry O'Connor, Founder, CEO Other World Computing

Over a recent weekend, I took the opportunity to examine our product line to determine which products we may want to retire and what innovative solutions we needed to develop to meet consumers' needs over the next two years.

By Andy Marken

CES (Consumer Electronics Show) is probably the best and worst event of the year-- every year.

By Andy Marken

Our office system was recently used to watch three segments of Yahoo's mini-series Cybergeddo

(the nine segments total 95 minutes).

Except for the less than subtle product placement it was as good as lots of movies and better than most TV fare.

By Andy Marken

We know you're overworked and underpaid.

You're multitasking at every turn.

You have a fairly decent job, but you have to handle a ton of disruptive stuff.

By Andy Marken

Have any of you looked at your bank account lately?

Just curious, because we have no idea why half of the world seems to be hell-bent on getting us to take a giant leap into the mCommerce universe.

You know, mobile banking, mobile device payments.

By Lois Beckett, ProPublica

Yesterday, we got a rare look at how information on your public social media profiles—including Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn—is being harvested and resold by large consumer data companies.

By Andy Marken

Shows like the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), challenge your stamina.

They push everyone to the limits of creativity and performance.

Companies spend hundreds of thousands to attend them annually just to reach, educate, inform, persuade other companies and the media.

By Andy Marken

Empowered Consumer – Mobile and web technologies haven't put today's retailers in a position they can't refuse but have helped give consumers complete information about products, services and outlets. A more enlightened consumer should help produce a happier customer and better relationship for all parties.

Stop me if you heard this one – "A gal (or guy) comes into the store with her (or his) iPhone (or iPad) ..."

So??

Now that "everyone" is mobile/web-enabled, we call it showrooming – visiting a store, checking out a product, leaving and buying somewhere else.

By Lawrence O'Connor; Founder, CEO; Other World Computing

By Andy Marken

Listen to Salesforce's CEO Marc Benioff at this year's Dreamforce '12 and life, business couldn't be better ...we live in the virtual world with all of our memory stored in "the cloud."

"The cloud" sounds so clean ... beautiful ... innocent.

By Andy Marken

You either know from first-hand experience or heard that companies aren't hiring like they used to; and, in fact, are slimming down.

It's not just in your neighborhood, your country, it's a global shift.

In the five major economies, the hiring outlook is "steady" ... meaning flat!

By Andy Marken

According to a recent report by Oxford Economics that spelled out the what companies should seek out in their executives in the years ahead, the key attributes are: digital knowledge and agile thinking as well as interpersonal and communication skills.

People should have been excited when Yahoo! snagged Marissa Mayer as their CEO. She certainly has all of those attributes.