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Do You Use Retail Stores For Showrooming?

Showrooming — checking out goods in a physical store and then buying them online instead — is a common phenomenon, even if it annoys shopkeepers. Do you do it?


What’s Your Ideal Salary?

The answer to the question of how much money you want to make always seems to be “more” Realistically, how much would you have to make to feel content?


What’s The Worst Mistake You’ve Made In A Job Interview?

When you interview for a job, you have a limited amount of time to come across as an amazing worker with a charming, stellar personality. On top of that, you have to look like you’ll find into the company’s culture. With all that pressure, mistakes often happen.


Would You Prefer Planning On A Giant Touchscreen?

Touch-screen devices are everywhere at TechEd, and outside of individual interaction with portable systems one use that is being promoted is as gigantic planning devices: whiteboard replacements with the added ability to easily drill into data. It’s a tempting vision, but how quickly will we buy into it?


Would You Want An iPhone Without Apple?

iOS frustrates many users due to its many restrictions on app developers. In the beginning, Apple made the best apps for the iPhone, and this didn’t matter. Now, third-party developers create amazing software that can’t reach its full potential due to Apple’s walled garden. What if Apple stayed out of the iPhone altogether and relied on third-party developers for the core software?


What’s The Oldest Software You’re Still Using?

Software upgrades come out on a pretty regular basis, but they’re not always worth the upgrade. Sometimes, updates even manage to make the software worse, or they never come at all. What’s the oldest software you’re still using?


Do You Print Photos Anymore?

Many stores still have photo labs and kiosks that let you print your photos from an SD card or USB drive. We have to wonder though: Who does that anymore?


What Mistakes Can Ruin Your Professional Reputation?

Finding a job is a challenge these days, but keeping one can be a challenge as well. What mistakes have you made, or seen others made, that hurt their reputation and made it more difficult to get another job?


Where Do You Keep Important Family Documents?

If you live in this world, you know how easy it is to accumulate documents. Some are important records you need to safeguard, while others just feel important. Where do you store yours?


Use LinkedIn To Plan Enterprise Tech Rollouts

The most obvious application for LinkedIn is for hunting down new jobs or finding out what your old boss is up to, but it does have other possibilities. One apparent emerging trend: using LinkedIn to research whether new enterprise technology is actually reliable.


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