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Unfortunately, I Can’t Use an iPhone
Similar to my phone
Trying to looks trendier, I decided that it’s about time to upgrade my not-so-new Blackberry. I just need to get ‘em to stare at my device, I thought to myself. My standards are not too high. I don’t need a camera, movies, mp3, sliders, voices or anything like it. It just need to be cool, trendy, light and above all, attune to my email habits. The first device that I tested was the iPhone 3G. I asked the doctor to land me his phone and after installing active sync server and protecting it with the SE, I was ready to go.
The good things:
The device is sexy and cool. The UI is simple to use (I do not read manuals) and intuitive. The app store is amazing. I will not be the first nor the last person to say that Apple changed the world with this application. Two big thumbs up for the idea and execution. Web surfing is great: it works fine in multiple languages, handles dynamic content well. Attachment management works well as well.
But sadly I report that the iPhone is almost unusable when it comes to handling my emails. Here’s why:
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Workers More Prone to Lie In Email, So What?
in the internet nobody knows you are a dog
New research finds workers more prone to lie in email. I did not read the entire research yet but it does look like an interesting topic with a lot of potential. Over the years email (security) evolved from server protection (do you remember swatch) to content protection. From a security research stand point, content detection methods were mostly static, focusing on white listing, black listing or even behavior. Data Fingerprinting changed our (mine for sure) approach for content protection. It was possible to identify and classify even small chunks of information. New profiling technologies will also allow us to understand normal behavior and in a way, create a way to distinguish between good and bad.
According to the research, people feel justified when lying using email. Liuba Belkin co-author of the studies and an assistant professor of management at Lehigh University said that “There is a growing concern in the workplace over email communications, and it comes down to trust, ….in an organizational context, that leaves a lot of room for misinterpretation and, as we saw in our study, intentional deception.”
What Makes Me an Expert
Failure is the mother of success
Assaf just published his expert opinion on the nature of experts. Since I DO consider myself an expert in few areas, I feel that I have to explain what makes me an expert. It’s not the amount of reading (there’s always one more book) or opinions I’ve heard (where I’m coming from everyone is highly opinionated and has more than one opinion). It’s not the amount of studies I had (it took my wife less time to complete her DVM then it took me to get my B.sc). What makes me, as well as many others, an expert is the fact that I did many good mistakes and learned a lot a long the process. Thomas Edison once said, “I make more mistakes than anyone I know. And eventually I patent them.”