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Why Your Inbox May Seem a Little Less Crowded These Days

   Sometimes one industry’s bad news is cause to celebrate for … almost everybody else in the world. Return Path, one of the world’s biggest email certification companies, says the number of emails getting through to inboxes worldwide dropped considerably in the second half of 2011. The decline in “deliverability rates”, from 81% to 76.5%, […]

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Google Drive cloud storage coming ‘soon’

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 […]

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ISO publishes Six Sigma performance-improvement

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 […]

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