Robots in Retail Warehouses

Retail Warehouses run by Gap, Zappos and Staples now use robots to "pick" products from their shelves and ship them to you.

The robots are manufactured from a company called Kiva Systems.

One of the main advantage of using the above systems is, it reduces energy costs, since they dont need any lights or climatic control. Also, seems it takes just 12 min from the time a customer places an order to the time order is ready to put on a truck.!!!

Have a look at the following video, which shows the robotic distribution in a warehouse:



Source:
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/01/retailrobots.html

Toyota's Way of Kaizen

Learn about the importance of Kaizen (Continuous Improvement) and have a look at how Toyota keeps it in practice.

Google Latitude

Google launched their newest service Google Latitude, which basically allows you to see where your friends are and what they are doing. So, why waiting? Get back in touch with your friends!!!



Source:
http://www.google.com/mobile/default/latitude.html

The American Presidents

Since George Washington's election in 1789, 43 men have served as President of the United States. Obama is the 44th President.

The following video shows the complete list of US Presidents till date:



Source:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ7w1954uJE

List of Top-paying companies & Best companies to work for

Want to know the list of top-paying companies and the list of best companies to work for??

Following is the list:

10 top-paying companies:

1. Bingham McCutchen
2. Lehigh Valley Hospital & Health Network
3. Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe
4. Alston & Bird
5. Perkins Coie
6. Devon Energy
7. Chesapeake Energy
8. Salesforce.com
9. Arnold & Porter
10. Adobe Systems

Top 10 best companies to work for(2009):

1 NetApp
2 Edward Jones
3 Boston Consulting Group
4 Google
5 Wegmans Food Markets
6 Cisco Systems
7 Genentech
8 Methodist Hospital System
9 Goldman Sachs
10 Nugget Market

And the complete lists goes here:
Source:
http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2009/fortune/0901/gallery.bestcos_toppay.fortune/index.html
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/bestcompanies/2009/full_list/

IBM WebSphere MQ

IBM WebSphere MQ is a family of network communication software products launched by IBM in March 1992. It was previously known as MQSeries, a trademark that IBM rebranded in 2002 to join the suite of WebSphere products. WebSphere MQ is IBM's Message Oriented Middleware offering. It allows independent and potentially non-concurrent applications on a distributed system to communicate with each other.







Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSphere_MQ

http://www-01.ibm.com/software/websphere/education/crashcourse/#Application_Integration

Windows 7 OS

Windows 7 is the next version of Microsoft Windows and the successor to Windows Vista.

At its Professional Developers Conference 2008 (PDC2008), Microsoft Corp. rallied software developers by sharing the first full public demo of Windows 7. Its held at Los Angeles on Oct 28th 2008.





Source:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/oct08/10-28PDCDay2PR.mspx
http://www.microsoftpdc.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7