Dealing with Difficult People and Negotiation: When Should You Give Up the Fight?

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Adapted from “When Should You Give Up the Fight?,” first published in the October 2011 issue of Negotiation.
Negotiators often fail to recognize when it’s time to walk away from a dispute – a trap that can squander time, money, and reputations.
Receive tens of millions of dollars in a mediated settlement, and you might rightly think

Apple Has Patched A Hole In iCloud That Let Hackers Access Anyone's Account (AAPL)

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Apple has fixed a vulnerability in its iCloud service that a hacker used to prove that any account was vulnerable to being hacked into.  iDict was a hacking tool released online on New Year's Day. It used a hole in Apple's security to repeatedly guess user passwords, allowing hackers to access any account given enough time.

Think that software library is safe to use? Think again...

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In today's world of agile software development and fast release cycles, developers increasingly rely on third-party libraries and components to get the job done. Since many of those libraries come from long-running, open-source projects, developers often assume they're getting well-written, bug-free code. They're wrong.

Why you should pay developers to learn

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Do you want your project be developed by an unskilled team? If a project spans over a year or more, how would you feel about a team that never has time to level up? Software development is one of the most knowledge-driven industry, yet many expect developers to be readily equipped with everything it takes to solve any given problem.

The Internet of Anything: The 3-D Printer That Can Spit Out Custom Electronics

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Today’s 3D printers are great for building plastic stuff, things like toys and musical instruments and even shoes. Some can also print metal objects, like car parts and jewelry and, well, guns. But Jennifer Lewis helped create a new kind of printer, one that can print electronics, like hearing aids and other wearables. And soon, you’ll be able to buy one of these printers from her new company, Voxel8. The post The Internet of Anything: The 3-D Printer That Can Spit Out Custom Electronics appeared first on WIRED.

Our System Is So Broken, Almost No Patented Discoveries Ever Get Used

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The unspoken reality is that the U.S. patent system creates a market so constricted by high transaction costs and legal risks that it excludes the vast majority of small and mid-sized businesses and prevents literally 95 percent of all patented discoveries from ever being put to use to create new products and services, new jobs, and new economic growth. The post Our System Is So Broken, Almost No Patented Discoveries Ever Get Used appeared first on WIRED.

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