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students shadow female managers in Singapore and Cairo offices
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2010/12/13
by
Katie DeTitta
Within France Telecom-Orange, our "shadowing days" program was developed in 2009 to help respond to a global deficit of engineers and the low percentage of women employed in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) industry. Within Orange Business Services, we have implemented special days during which female students shadowed a female Orange employee working in a technical job role. This is an opportunity for students to experience the workplace, understand more about technical job roles, and of course ask questions. Shadowing days are a key element of our diversity policy which includes gender equality. ...
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You've had an accident? Send me a picture
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2010/12/06
by
Stewart Baines
Witnesses to an accident can't text pictures of a wounded victim to first responders to better prepare medical staff en route. Now, the Federal Communications Commission in the US is considering the value of mobile multimedia, and evaluating the idea of opening up such channels....
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Terry Cunningham of i365 reinvents the VAR business, starting with storage
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2010/11/19
by
Yann Gourvennec
Our 4th visit of innovative companies in the Silicon Valley was devoted to i365, a Seagate company. The presentation was delivered by Terry Cunningham, President and GM of i365, George Hoenig, head of products and services and Valerie Fawzi, head of Marketing."The world of storage is changing!"What we are going to talk about here has never been done before, Terry Cunningham said by way of introduction to his presentation. Seagate has acquired a bunch of technology players before (in the 1990's) which gave birth to Veritas. 3 years ago, Seagate went to but a few companies in order to build a worldwide leader in storage and......
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fusion-io: flash io-memory, flash results, flash growth
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2010/11/18
by
Yann Gourvennec
On November 16, we went on our third visit and we paid another visit to Fusion-io (see the account of our June visit to Fusion-io by clicking here). Fusion-io is the epitome of these successful technology companies as can be found almost only in the US and which make this kind of press trips so useful.a stunning customer baseThe company was founded in 2006 by David Flynn and Rick White. In 2007, it unveiled io-memory. In 2008, it launched its first products; but the market didn't quite understand it. In 2009, it then partnered with HP and IBM and Lightspeed and Samsung invested money in the company.......
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Sungard aims at getting all employees to join Yammer
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2010/11/16
by
Yann Gourvennec
The 4th and final Blogwell presentation which I attended on November 9 in Philadelphia was dedicated to Sungard's experience. Sungard (the host of the November 10 private SMBC conference; this is a private member event so no reporting on that, sorry!) is one of the largest Software and IT companies in the US. The presentation was delivered by Leah Patterson, who is in charge of the Corporate Social Media strategy at Sungard. I found Leah's presentation particularly inspiring. Her involvement and dedication were very convincing and I liked the way she emphasised the fact that a lot of work......
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