Saving Time

Last week’s roll out of Google Instant search is an amazing testimony of small improvements in efficiency producing astounding results. With these seemingly modest, yet profound improvements to searching for information, Google suggests that they can save 11 hours of world wide time for every second; how amazing is that. [...]

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Medical Practice and 20% of Income from Cash

In regard to portability and ease-of-use, competing with a pen and piece of paper is difficult.  We all know how a pen works, paper is lite and is easily moved about – there is no “down time” or “learning curve”; in addition, pharmaceutical and medical device companies will gladly give you all the pen’s you [...]

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Repricing in America

I’ve been bothered in the best possible way by a comment made by Richard Davis, President and Chief Executive Officer of U.S. Bancorp. In almost a throw away fashion Richard told an audience of business executives in Orange County California, that the economy is going through a process of “repricing ” downward.

Clearly we know [...]

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Texting and Everything Else You Do In Life

Last June, the Senate Judiciary Committee began hearings on texting. Included in the discussion were executives from AT&T, Verizon along with othere the focus of which was the nature of charging for text messages. Though the hearings were interesting, the real headline is in the data surrounding texting itself

In 2008 over one trillion text [...]

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Texting and Efficiency – This is Just The Beginning

“This message of twenty four words and 138 total characters takes you less than five seconds to consume, that is why texting is popular.”

According to a University of Pennsylvania study, the speed with which we consume information from our eyes to the visual cortex in the brain is approximately 10 megabytes per second, we hear at [...]

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