"The best programming team is a 'telephone call,' which is two people, you and I, programming together. The second-best programming team is, everybody fits into a single room. All other variants are bad."

Eric Schmidt, CEO Google

We've certainly mastered the art of figuring out how to fit as many developers as possible into a single room.  Nice to learn that Google supports our strategy!

Full interview here.

Financial institutions must sharply upgrade their online offerings and develop a distributed Web presence beyond their own sites, or risk losing share both to faster-paced traditional rivals and to powerful Internet players that may try to invade their turf.

The Web's influence on revenue is up to six times greater than online sales figures suggest, and its importance will boom as today's youngsters mature.

Read the full Boston Consulting Group Report here.

Interesting story from the online Wharton Business School Journal about the integration of consumer and corporate technologies. A few of the highlights follow.  The full story is online here.

The ways in which people want to interact with each other inside corporations is changing.

Workers are demanding that corporate technology -- say a search tool within a company -- be as user friendly as Google's popular search site.

Spurring this convergence of corporate and consumer technology is the fact that the line between personal lives and work has blurred.

Indeed, Gartner predicts that by 2011, 10% of all information technology spending will reside with employees. In other words, employees will pay for and bring their own technology -- laptops, iPhones and the like -- to work as their primary tools. By 2015, employees will customize 90% of the technology they use at work, according to Gartner.

A November Gartner survey found that 80% of companies said that social networking was important to their business, but 36% of them banned access to Facebook at work.