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Just in time for the long July 4th weekend, the Vegetable and Fruit Improvement Center at Texas A&M University announced that watermelon has some of the same manly benefits as Viagra. The center's web site says it exists to "support and strengthen the total vegetable industry through research." Yea.

“Countries that regularly outperform others on innovation not only spend more on science and technology (as a proportion of GDP) but they also institute policies that drive innovation demand and supply.

Wall Street Journal columnist Lee Gnomes highlights new research that counters The Long Tail theory, which argues that the Internet's unlimited choices decreases the popularity of mainstream products while greatly promoting more narrowly targeted niche offerings.

The rumors accumulating over the past few months were true: Microsoft has purchased natural-language search vendor Powerset for an undisclosed amount. Microsoft announced the deal on July 1. Microsoft is planning to use Powerset’s people and technology to “take Search to the next level by adding

“Why can’t companies kill projects that are clearly doomed? (…) the failures I’ve examined resulted, ironically, from a fervent and widespread belief among managers in the inevitability of their projects’ ultimate success.

Everyone has a bad call center story. It's as American as baseball and apple pie. In general, it's an industry where competence could be seen as a competitive differentiator. Companies are working to change their efficiency focus to more reflect the call center's impact on the customer relationship,

June 30 is the day that Microsoft begins phasing out Windows XP by no longer providing copies of the operating system to PC makers and retailers for preloading on new machines. It’s also a good day (thanks to a recent New York Times opinion piece) to start looking ahead to what comes next — after Windows.

Early this week Christian Carlsson, IBM Site Architect, wrote about IBM’s new Blue Business Platform for Small and Medium Businesses. In his words, “the Blue Business Platform is a marketplace where IBM partners and software developers can market and sell their solutions online to small and mid-size

I am getting several call from industry leaders within large customer ranks who want to really know what Gartner is really doing and how they can utilize better, real-time and on-the-field researches/road-warriors to get the information that really matters to them.

“After being in the mobile phone market for more than a decade, now we would like to divert our attention on innovation. In the near future, one can expect some innovative mobile phones from Samsung (…) “We would like to incorporate the word innovation in our brand value.” Youngcho Chi, Senior VP, Strategic Planning Team, Samsung Electronics as quoted by Business Standard.