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Google Drive cloud storage coming ‘soon’

Posted on: Monday, February 13th, 2012 | Category: News category 1

GOOGLE’S Drive, the search giant’s answer to Dropbox and Apple’s iCloud, is likely to launch soon.

The new product would offer users a large amount of web-based storage, which all connected devices could upload content to or access.

Services such as Dropbox and Box have been characterised as Silicon Valley’s hottest start-ups. They have capitalised on users’ desire to synchronise video, pictures and music across phones, cameras and other connected devices. Apple has also recently launched its iCloud service for its products.

for more; www.independent.ie/business/technology

and..Google Chrome: Taking the whole web, everywhere

Dublin ranks 26th in quality of city life survey

Posted on: Wednesday, November 30th, 2011 | Category: News category 1

DUBLIN RANKS as the 26th best city in the world for quality of living in a list of 221 cities rated in a business survey. The capital remains in the same place as last year, down from 25th place in 2009.

In a related list, Dublin ranks as the 16th best city for personal safety, immediately ahead of Amsterdam.  http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/1130/1224308333901.html?via=mr

ISO publishes Six Sigma performance-improvement

Posted on: Thursday, September 15th, 2011 | Category: News category 1

Six Sigma(1) a data-driven method for improving business and quality performance, has been published as a two-part ISO standard.

Six Sigma was originally developed by Motorola in 1986 to ameliorate manufacturing processes with the goal of 99.99966% (2) of products free of defects (i.e., 3.4 errors per million). Today, the methodology is applied in many sectors of activity by organizations large and small for all types of process and services to:

• Drive process improvement and make statistically based decisions
• Measure business results with a level of reliance
• Prepare for uncertainty
• Combine high returns and benefits in the short, medium and long-term
• Remove waste, defects and errors.