For executives who work long hours and never have time to lead a personal life, staying in shape usually takes a back seat. CycleCast brings streaming spin classes to the digital space, with workouts from qualified instructors, including Kevin Mondrick of BFX Studio and Isabel Schaefer, Spinning Master Instructor. The app allows anyone with an iPhone to get fit on their own … [More]
Managers’ Management Tool
PeopleSpark is team communication platform that helps improve openness, trust and transparency between managers and teams of any size. It creates a private, weekly feedback loop between managers and each individual on their team. Managers can get ahead of problems before they arise, helping them maintain the unique culture within their team while taking action on issues in … [More]
Hot Spot Connectivity
Cox Communications recently launched more than 5,000 new Wi-Fi hot spots in Arizona, strategically located in high-traffic areas like businesses, hotels, restaurants and malls throughout Tucson and the Greater Phoenix metro area. This brings the total number nationwide to more than 10,000. Customers simply enter their Cox user ID and password to log in to Cox WiFi. Once … [More]
Legislature Live
The Legislative Broadcasting System is a nonpartisan department of the Arizona State Legislature, making state government more open and accessible to the people of Arizona. As LBS’s production unit, Arizona Capitol Television produces educational programs about state government, history and the legislative process. It also airs special programs, narrated by Marshall Trimble, … [More]
Benefits and Challenges of BYOD
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) has been gathering momentum among businesses and their employees alike. BYOD is a model of business technology deployment whereby employees, rather than companies, provide and maintain their own personal technology devices — such as computers and phones — for business use. While there are many potential benefits to adopting a BYOD model, businesses … [More]
Improve Internal Operations
Composer 2 makes building smart apps around business data fast, easy and possible for a broader audience. AppGyver recently launched Composer 2, a visual platform for quickly creating and publishing mobile and Web apps around business data. For the first time, both developers and business professionals can create secure applications that help enterprises use mobile to improve … [More]
CleanCloud App for Dry Cleaners
A new smartphone app for iPhone and Android has been launched that is transforming the dry cleaning industry. CleanCloud allows any dry cleaner, anywhere in the world, to reach millions of customers via mobile device. Customers can now book, pay for and track delivery orders in less than 30 seconds through CleanCloud. The new app is revolutionizing traditionally paper-based … [More]
Uber Does Events
For the first time, hosts can buy rides for their guests. With UberEVENTS, hosts control how, when and where their guests ride — so the only thing their guests have to worry about is having the best time. Get a customized guest pass with date, time and promo code. Guests enter the code and request a ride. The host decides how much he will pay. The UberX option is up to … [More]
Arizona Lottery Is Giving Back
This time of year, many businesses are looking for places to give and to support the community. The Arizona Lottery has put together a campaign that showcases some of the giving that monies from the Arizona Lottery go to. It raised more than $3 billion for Arizona and programs that matter. Proceeds from Arizona Lottery ticket sales go to programs and organizations in four … [More]
Model Behavior: 3-D Printing Is Building
“In construction, we’re bidding the concept of what we can deliver,” says Jeff Perelman, senior vice president and chief growth and strategy officer of Sundt Construction, Inc., explaining the advantage of 3-D over 2-D is “it’s hard to go from a two-dimensional piece of paper to give people a sense of scale of what you’re building.” Building a model rather than simply producing … [More]
Cyber Security Hire Platform
Cybrary launched its Cyber Security Job Platform. This talent platform is designed to meet the demand for skilled cyber security professionals, which is growing four times faster than the overall IT job market and 12 times faster than the total labor market. Currently, there are more than a million open job postings for cyber security positions around the world. … [More]
Feedback Tool
Hinted, a people analytics app, has launched and is available in the Apple App Store. This new social network mobile application enables small teams or individuals to provide peers with semi-anonymous feedback. The tool is gamified and sessions last less than a minute. The app is used for hiring, team composition, and learning and development decisions. The Hinted App is … [More]
Anywhere Communication App
Webchat, social media channels and mobile communications are quickly taking over the role of traditional telephone contact in the field of customer service. In order to enable organizations to provide the best-possible service for their customers via all channels of communication, European market leader Workstreampeople is launching a new version of Anywhere365. This platform … [More]
Arizona Business & Education Showcased in Film Series
A series of 10 videos aimed at promoting the Arizona technology industry and education throughout the U.S. as well as globally is being produced by MediaTHP, a local media/film production company, as part of on-going efforts by the local government to promote a favorable business climate in Arizona to external parties. The series focuses on specific topics related to the … [More]
Thwart Internet Hackers with Employee Firewall
There has been a lot of investment in corporate IT security, especially infrastructure, observes Felix Odigie, CEO of Inspired eLearning, and it has paid off — networks are more secure. But with hackers finding it more difficult to hack the network, they have turned their attention to the weakest link: humans. “It’s easier to hack users of the network — employees, vendors, … [More]
Distracted Driving Is an Employer Issue
Distracted driving is a potential minefield for employers, due to a liability issue that many misunderstand. “A common mistake is to think, ‘If it’s the driver’s equipment, we don’t have any responsibility.’ That is not so,” says David Lewis, CEO of HR company OperationsInc, noting, “The courts have emphatically said that if a person is performing work for your firm, and at the … [More]
Data Centers Becoming Important Utility
The “cloud” that has become a ubiquitous presence in contemporary life actually resides on the ground — this is a data center (not to be confused with a call center, which is low-wage employment generally of a customer-service nature). “Every kind of business and service needs to be able to store data and transmit it at high speed,” observes Russell Smoldon, CEO of B3 … [More]
Digital Communication
Web chat, social media channels and mobile communications are quickly taking over the role of traditional telephone contact in the field of customer service. In order to enable organizations to provide the best possible services for their customers via all channels of communication, European market leader Workstreampeople is launching a new version of Anywhere365. This platform … [More]
