Renowned aircraft engine developers Pratt and Whitney announced their F135 ground test engine hit the 3000 System Development and Demonstration (SDD) mark in total hours logged as the company prepares to begin assembly of the first flight test engine this summer.

Cisco and Intel, along with Microsoft, have licensed SAP’s technology to automate business processes.

“You’ve got to think about the big things while you’re doing the small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.” – Alvin Toffler

I’m not the type to toot my own horn all that often but sometimes it can be fun. Like when I make a prediction about the future business development path …

Targeted Content Sites – Highly targeted, focused sites that are related to specific market segments are highly advantageous and can often be created using existing web content. The key is to provide value.

The basic Google homepage, a clean, minimalist setting with the occasional logo change for holidays, can now be tweaked.

Unilever Cosmetics International (UCI) which owns the perfume licenses for Calvin Klein, Cerruti, Vera Wang, Chloe and Lagerfeld, is selling its global prestige fragrance business to Coty Inc. for $800 million.

Here’s a great example of AIDA – a short video about a feature on podcasting in the latest edition of MAKE: magazine.

Dear Blogger, I have tried to find ways to switch from Blogger to another publishing system, but there are problems I’d like to avoid.

Eleven-year-old Katie Brownell made national headlines, cheeks a-flushed, after she pitched a no-hitter in a Little League game in the small town of Oakfield, NY.

Even better for girl-power advocates, she struck out 18 boys. The only girl in the Oakfield-Alabama Little League baseball program, she has now become the only person anyone can remember pulling off the feat, ever.

OK! The E3 show winds down and what have we learned? Really, what have we learned? We learned that ancient gaming rivals Sony and Nintendo continue to swipe at each other with their mighty blades called game consoles all the while some little geek with glasses from Seattle who happens to be the richest man on the planet is shoving his way into the fight with a sleek little blade himself.

The long-discussed merger between America West Airlines and US Airways will bring the combined airline’s headquarters out West.

In many organizations, sales managers and experienced producers have training responsibilities for which they are ill-prepared and, in some cases, barely qualified. If that’s you, the following may just be a lifesaver.

It’s only buzz and speculation at this point, but BusinessWeek claims to have learned another subscription service may be in the works.

The last day of the June contract saw oil prices drop in afternoon trading as Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan says better technologies will come around.

Blogger is willing to pay you $50 to come down to Google for one hour and help imrpove the design and usability of Blogger.

Anheuser-Busch announced Thursday that it would be expanding its advertising efforts to include “viral marketing,” enlisting the aid of JibJab phenom brothers Gregg and Evan Spiridellis.

To begin, let’s define “Brand Identity,” which is the combination of consistent visual elements that are used in your marketing materials. A basic Brand Identity Kit consists of a logo, business card, letterhead, and envelope. It can be extended to include a website, brochure, folder, flyer, or any other professionally designed pieces.

Web and email addresses pose a special challenge for writers and publishers of email newsletters and ezines.

In this 21st century of terabytes and gigabytes, in this high-definition age where new ideas “seems” to be redefined hourly, in this Microsoft galaxy, Macintosh stratosphere, planet Linux, where the only question left for desktop “consumers” is “which computer desktop define me as a person?”. Ironic? Actually irony “redefines” the definition of “tyranny”, applied in this now saturated desktop market since the last few years.

Incoming IABC Chair Warren Bickford has issued a call to action for communicators attending IABC’s annual international conference in Washington, DC, next month …

Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is all the rage today and Yahoo is feeling the rage as well. Yahoo has a number of products that pick up RSS feeds including My Yahoo!, Yahoo! Mobile, Yahoo! News, and Yahoo! 360 just to name a few.