IBM Corp., the health insurer WellPoint Inc. and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center announced two Watson-based applications — one to help assess treatments for lung cancer and one to help manage health insurance decisions and claims.

via Insurers Begin Employing IBM’s Supercomputer Watson.

Elementary!

How Self Storage Facilities Are Wooing Business Customers & Why You Should Pay Attention – The Frugal Entrepreneur

February 16, 2013 / SupremeCmdr / Leave a comment

Many assume that the only business use a self-storage facility can offer is storage. But today many of these facilities are now offering a complete range of services such as mail-boxes, office facilities, showers, meeting rooms, and even pick up and delivery that can help numerous businesses on a daily basis. Some self storage companies block off a certain set of the storage units specifically for business use.

via How Self Storage Facilities Are Wooing Business Customers & Why You Should Pay Attention | The Frugal Entrepreneur.

Showers?

ING Announces Layoffs Of Thousands

February 13, 2013 / SupremeCmdr / Leave a comment

ING Announces Layoffs Of Thousands, A Day After Barclays Did The Same; Here’s A Roundup Of Recent Workforce Cuts To Financial Services.

More to come in the US?

A Short Lesson in Perspective

February 10, 2013 / SupremeCmdr / Leave a comment

A Short Lesson in Perspective.

Countless late nights and weekends, holidays, birthdays, school recitals and anniversary dinners were willingly sacrificed at the altar of some intangible but infinitely worthy higher cause. It would all be worth it in the long run…

This was the con. Convincing myself that there was nowhere I’d rather be was just a coping mechanism. I can see that now. It wasn’t really important. Or of any consequence at all really. How could it be. We were just shifting product. Our product, and the clients. Just meeting the quota. Feeding the beast as I called it on my more cynical days.

So was it worth it?

Well of course not. It turns out it was just advertising. There was no higher calling. No ultimate prize. Just a lot of faded, yellowing newsprint, and old video cassettes in an obsolete format I can’t even play any more even if I was interested. Oh yes, and a lot of framed certificates and little gold statuettes. A shit-load of empty Prozac boxes, wine bottles, a lot of grey hair and a tumor of indeterminate dimensions.