The founders of the biggest technology firms today were free thinkers, most of them didn’t not finish college, and their successes was fueled by their passion to innovate and by their courage to think freely.

Great ideas, Innovations, companies and ideologies were founded by people who had the courage to defy the conventional wisdom and the courage to think beyond their limited horizon.

Without Cloud Computing, Social Media Websites and various online services, much of the Internet as we know it today won’t be possible. But we can’t stop thinking of data security just as we can’t stop thinking about our physical security in our home and cities.

As someone put it “at some point, you just have to surrender control.”

Retailers quickly adapting to smart phone applications made it easy for millions of customers to shop using their smart phones.

In Canada “Canadians boosted spending by 15.4 per cent on Cyber Monday (Nov. 29) compared to dollars spent during the comparable period in 2010, Moneris Solutions reported earlier this month.”

In the US, “U.S. Christmas Day 2011 Shopping Online Increased by 16.4 Percent.”
This significant increase in online shopping will have direct effects on the more traditional way of shopping and no doubt the numbers of customers shopping in stores will delaine which will ultimately lead to store closures.

Why the prices are not falling? For one big reason, laptops and desktops are still the most convenient way for millions to perform their work, smart phones and tablets are way to small of most of us to do any creative work.

Not sure if smart phones and tablets will replace laptops and desktops as cell phones did with land phones, but for the near future, the demand for the most traditional way to use computers will remain strong.

This will be a whole new legal practice field.

Trying to govern the Internet will only create a massive bureaucracy that will cripple the Internet. Millions of people around the world are novice users of the Internet who have very limited understanding of anatomy of the Internet aside from their basic browsing, e-mailing and files downloading.

Regulating the Internet will only lead to more frustrated users.

I think this move till give bloggers an incentive to create more credible blog contents and spend more time working on their blogs.

If you are working on a project and if everything is going on schedule and on budget, there is no need to contact your manager/client for minor issues. In the work environment e-mailing has become a formal means of communications and each e-mail you send must get a reply; having to reply to each e-mail add a workload to the already busy managers.

As the saying goes “don’t sweat the small stuff”, don’t send e-mails regarding the small stuff as long as your project is on time and on budget and there is no significant reason to contact your manager/client.

This ease and speed of submitting information give us a little chance to take a second look at what we are submitting, in the past when everything was manual, there was enough time to re-think before mailing in the application, while driving to the post office to mail the application you still had enough time to rethink what you are about to send.

Since most of applications are submitted online, it’s a good idea not to click that “submit” button too fast. In many instance, you will have a chance to print out the application and go over it before submitting it. It would be a good idea to print out the application and leave it over night and go over it one more time the next day before finally “submitting” you application online.

In today’s work environment where companies’ size is shrinking, either because of the proliferation of startups or the downsizing trends, you must be able to wear different hats in order to perform your job(s). Skills in leadership, management, marketing, customer service and accounting will be very valuable assets to your new employers in addition to your technical skills.