The News Review:
- Youngstown’s Turning Technologies goes global
- Let the Geek Squad ride to your rescue
- Is Gartner’s Magic Quadrant really magic?
Youngstown’s Turning Technologies goes global
Youngstown Vindicator – Mar 31, 2007
The 5-year-old company is no stranger to growth as schools colleges and corporations adopt its product. Sales grew 200 percent last year. The product TurningPoint has been well received because it can be integrated into Microsoft’s PowerPoint system. TurningPoint allows corporate presenters school teachers and professors to ask questions and receive immediate feedback from people using credit-card-sized responders. ther countriesNigem said he thinks the product will be in such demand that his company can achieve higher market penetration rates in Japan and Europe than Turning Technologies has in the U. “There’s nothing wrong with some internal competition” he said with a smile as he looked over at Broderick during a press conference Friday at the Youngstown Business Incubator.
Let the Geek Squad ride to your rescue
Telegraph.co.uk – Mar 31, 2007
Its engineers will handle not just installations but any home IT problems. They remove PC viruses help retrieve lost files repair broken mobile phones even give tutorials on how to use Powerpoint. Geek Squad began life in the American city of Minneapolis 12 years ago when its founder Robert Stevens began fixing friends’ computers to pay his way through college. Today he employs an army of 15000 geeks. This month Carphone Warehouse imported the idea to the UK. Some 20 agents are operating within the M25 and within the next 18 months Geek Squad hopes to have a field force covering all leading British cities.
Is Gartner’s Magic Quadrant really magic?
Register – Mar 31, 2007
It was developed in the days even before Death-by-PowerPoint. We are talking about a time when most people didn’t have computers so the MQ appeared on paper and foils (ask a passing Grandparent for details). This makes it a child of its time – but computing has since grown up. Not only have PCs evolved into superb multi-media platforms we have also learnt a huge amount about how to present complex information to people. It is still a challenge but people like… This work has revolutionised the way we think about and present data and companies like Microsoft Spotfire and many others are adopting these ideas into commercial products. Yet Gartner is still giving us a monochrome two dimensional static quadrant. You do have to ask why so I did.