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New Bluetooth-connected smart watches act like remote controls for your smartphone. Heres how to use them. These watches let you monitor calls, read text messages, check your calendar or e-mail, and even control a PowerPoint presentation with just a tap on your wrist.

Delivering desktop productivity to the iPad. OnLive Desktop, a free app available on iTunes, lets you run virtual versions of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on your iPad. The programs run on remote servers, but given a reasonably fast Internet connection, it feels as if you're working on a desktop.

What does a real-life CEO have in common with the central figures of a fictitious Mafia crime family in The Godfather? According to Justin Moore, CEO and founder of Axcient , plenty.

The web still hasn't become its own operating system but, man, parts of it are close. Take these surprisingly powerful and useful app-like websites, for example. Do you remember how web browsers worked in 1998?

Conventional wisdom says they're a pain. In reality, they are doing you a huge favor.

Best Buy is shuttering 50 of its big warehouse-style stores and is going to remodel the remaining ones. It's all because the retail landscape is changing, shaped by the power of mobile technology

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At both Linden Lab and his new company Coffee & Power, Philip Rosedale took a radical approach to bonuses: He let employees decide how to give them out.

At both Linden Lab and his new company Coffee & Power, Philip Rosedale took a radical approach to bonuses: He let employees decide how to give them out. Philip Rosedale, founder of Second Life maker Linden Lab and Coffee & Power , lets his employees decide how to divvy up the quarterly bonus pot. Sound like a recipe for disaster?

You can't save your weakest staffers. But you can use them as an way to upgrade your whole team's performance. You've heard the adage, "Hire the right people, and everything else is easy." That may be true, but it's also unrealistic—especially in start-ups and rapidly growing, innovative businesses.

You can't save your weakest staffers.

A study reveals that while many bosses claim to promote innovation, their employees often think they're delusional creativity killers. There are plenty of people out there who have pretty positive self-assessments: Ninety percent of drivers think they have above average skills behind the wheel, an even higher percentage of college professors think they're better than average teachers, and, as we all know, every single child in Lake Wobegon is above average. And, when it comes to managers, a majority believe that they inspire and support creativity within their company, according to new research from talent management consultancy DDI.

The best entrepreneurs are passionate, innovative, demanding and caring. See what makes them excel.

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