In 1964, Marshall McLuhan famously coined the expression, “The medium is the message”. Simply put, this means that how you choose to communicate your message is in itself, sending out a message.
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7 games you can play discreetly at work
Admit it, we all have days at work where there’s nothing much on our to-do lists. While Facebook is a good time waster during such times, there is always the danger of getting caught when you slack off so blatantly. Luckily for us, there are a few online games specifically designed for play during office hours.
7 details you never noticed in your everyday technology
Technology can be so intuitive at times that we do not pay much attention to its design. When you look carefully however, you will find tons of tiny little details that shows just how much thought and care is being put into the design of your everyday technology. The blog, Little Big Details, is dedicated to documenting such discoveries. We list down a few of our favourites.
Calculating the real cost of downtime
Outages and system failures in IT are common occurrences when regular maintenance is not carried out. When that happens, the company affected will experience downtime, which can be very expensive. Gartner, a technology research firm pegged the hourly cost of downtime at a conservative estimate of $42,000. On average, a company experiences a downtime of 175 hours a year. A company that experiences a downtime longer than that can incur losses of more than $7 million annually.
