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by Jim Pinto

  		• Perry Marshall Book - 80/20 Sales & Marketing
  		• Growth of Virtual Currency - Bitcoin
  		• Book - Computation for Humanity
  		• Human Population Explosion
  		• The Youtube Phenomenon
  		• Industrial Network Security
  		• Solar Energy is Coming
  		• Ten Tips for Generating Growth
  		• The Coming Tech-led Boom
  		• Buying Big-screen HD 3D & Google TV
  		• Stuxnet Cyberwarfare
  		• Game-changing Demographic Shifts
  		• Chindia Manufacturing
  		• US Manufacturing Uptick
  		• Pinto Prognostications 2011
  		• CONTROL Top-50 List
  		• Invensys' IOM Strategy is Flawed
  		• 10 steps to finding the right job
  		• Layoffs are Bad for Business
  		• Freemium - a plan for ISA resurgence
  		• CONTROL Top-50 2009 - summary
  		• Top-5 Consumer-Rech Gadgets for 2010
  		• JimPinto.com weblogs getting management's attention
  		• Cloud Computing is here, but security is key issue
  		• Pinto picks for 2010 Top-5 Automation Technologies
  		• Big Companies have Serious Disadvantages
  		• Emerson's new DeltaV S-Series I/O revolution
  		• ISA Iceberg Continues to Melt Down
  		• Healthcare moves offshore
  		• GE will emerge as next Big Automation Player
  		• Corruption of Capitalism
  		• Documentary - Capitalism: A Love Story
  		• Making dynamic Powerpoint presentations
  		• The Multi-Purpose Gadget in My Pocket
  		• Do's and Don'ts of Downsizing for Employers
  		• Global Outsourcing Revisited
  		• Water crisis looms
  		• The Future of Capitalism
  		• Bucket-list visit to The Barn - New Morley book, Techshock
  		• Operational Excellence in Manufacturing
  		• Bigger is not better - Profit is a myth
  		• RIFs, layoffs, cutbacks - Do's and Don'ts
  		• GE Fanuc joint-venture dissolves - expect acquisitions
  		• Living in the Present Moment - Here & Now
  		• Biotech Tsunami - growing new energy
  		• Software as a Service - Cloud Computing
  		• Strategies for the downturn
  		• Automation Business Retreat
  		• Capitalism & the American Dream
  		• America's Immigrant Ingredients
  		• Debunking Third-World Myths
  		• Kindle-2 eBook - E-Paper launch
  		• Empty Titles in Lieu of Pay
  		• Global Automation Perspectives
  		• Stimulus Vs. Bailout
  		• eFeedback: January 27, 2009
  		• Pinto family musings
  		• Pinto bucket-list report #3
  		• Gateway to India
  		• Quit your Job - Become an Entrepreneur
  		• Whither the Automation Business?
  		• Automation Majors Encounter Turbulence
  		• Jim Pinto Bucket-List Report # 2
  		• Half-Way Round The World in 90 Days - Thoughts on Teturning
  		• 2009 Automation Top Technology & Market Trends
  		• Book: Vision for 2012
  		• If the world were a village of 1,000 people
  		• New workplace paradigms
  		• Tipping Point in the Peak Oil Crisis
  		• ABB growth roars - new acquisition-orientated CEO
  		• Wonderful to participate in Pangea Day
  		• The Youtube phenomenon - Jim Pinto's videos
  		• Performance-based pricing
  		• The wild, wacky wireless wars drag on
  		• Reshuffling the Automation Majors
  		• The roots of religious conflict
  		• Book: The post-American world
  		• Lee Iacocca - Where have all the leaders gone?
  		• The world's major religions
  		• Left or right brain dominance
  		• Eckhart Tolle's New Book: "The New Earth"
  		• Global get-together - Pangea Day
  		• Religion in America
  		• Whither Automation Skills?
  		• China low-ball pricing
  		• The World Situation is Improving
  		• Pinto Poem: Iraq War - Bush Lied
  		• E-waste - dumping old technology products
  		• Green is good for business
  		• Chindia & the Plummeting Dollar
  		• eFeedback:March 07, 2008
  		• Futurists & Futures Forecasts (2008)
  		• TED - short video talks by significant people
  		• Beckhoff Automation - strong growth continues
  		• Why Rockwell is a primary acquisition target
  		• ABB CEO Fred Kindle exits over acquisition strategy
  		• 2008 Pinto's Pointers - Technologies & Markets
  		• Top Automation Companies
  		• The dawn of Green
  		• Traffic in booming Bangalore
  		• Understanding the numbers
  		• eFeedback:February 8, 2008
  		• eFeedback:January 23, 2008
  		• 2008 New Year Pinto prognostications
  		• Motor, Drives & Automation Systems Conference
  		• MTL will be acquired by Cooper Industries
  		• Pinto columns written in 'Booming Bangalore'
  		• My month-long visit to India
  		• Invensys dangling in the wind
  		• eFeedback: November 15, 2007
  		• Who cares? American Apathy
  		• Religious Conflicts - when will they ever end?
  		• November 2007 DARPA Robot Race
  		• Who will GE acquire?
  		• eFeedback: October 25, 2007
  		• Generation Q - the Quiet Generation
  		• Poetic justice prize
  		• Let's have some fun and make some money
  		• The Cisco factor in the wireless wars
  		• San Diego & California firestorms
  		• ISA name-change debacle
  		• More on big Pharma deception & corruption
  		• ISA Expo 2007 - comments & feedback
  		• Collaboration is a key growth enabler
  		• Charity - where does it begin? And end?
  		• eFeedback: October 12, 2007
  		• eFeedback: September 25, 2007
  		• Yokogawa still targeting process automation top-spot
  		• ABB plans for continued growth & success
  		• ISA - International Society of Automation
  		• Pinto Poem: The Industrial Wireless Quadrille
  		• The wild, wacky, wireless wars
  		• eFeedback: September 5, 2007
  		• Pharma Lobbyists - Blatant Corruption
  		• Industrial/Military complex drives US economy
  		• New perspectives on Disintermediation
  		• US education value fizzles
  		• Patent Law improvements banish the trolls
  		• MTL makes 3 acquisitions in 3 months
  		• Redefining leadership in global business
  		• Medical tourism is growing fast
  		• Book: After the Empire
  		• Solutions to America's continuing problems
  		• eFeedback: August 24, 2007
  		• eFeedback: August 7th, 2007
  		• Book: The Strategy Paradox
  		• Keys to successful innovation
  		• Tour of the Future - 2057
  		• The caterpillar pillar
  		• Declining middle-class - symptoms of larger issues
  		• How to make a dynamic Marketing pitch
  		• eFeedback: July 27th, 2007
  		• Robot Podcast update - introducing Jeanbot
  		• Technology is making us stupid
  		• The rise of the super-rich
  		• ABB considering Rockwell acquisition
  		• America is going bankrupt
  		• Cellphone futures
  		• SICKO - Michael Moore's new documentary
  		• ISA - International Society of Automation
  		• Pinto podcasts feature new robot speaker
  		• eFeedback: July 12th, 2007
  		• eFeedback: June 29th, 2007
  		• Apple iPhone débuts today
  		• Engineer - re-engineer yourself
  		• Women in Engineering
  		• Industrial wireless standards
  		• Honeywell announces "OneWireless"
  		• Declaring eMail Bankruptcy
  		• Alchemists sell ICS/Triplex to Rockwell Automation
  		• Disappearing Bees
  		• Google Streetside Views
  		• Al Gore's Book - The Assault on Reason
  		• eFeedback: June 8th, 2007
  		• Beckhoff Keeps Growing & Growing
  		• MTL Enters Wireless Arena with Elpro Acquisition
  		• Guru Advice for Startup Companies
  		• Employee Compensation Styles
  		• My Life on a Memory Stick
  		• eFeedback: May 24th, 2007
  		• How to REALLY Erase a Hard Drive
  		• The Future is Female
  		• Water Wars on the Horizon
  		• Iacocca - Where have all the Leaders Gone?
  		• Higher Patent Standards
  		• Fieldbus Fizzles; SP100=SP50 x 2
  		• Google Keeps Growing
  		• Microsoft Robotics Operating System
  		• A Short History of Automation
  		• TED - Videos of World-Class Speakers
  		• eFeedback: Apr. 26, 2007
  		• eFeedback: Apr. 4, 2007
  		• The Strategic Happiness Plan
  		• The Postliterate Future
  		• Solving the Energy Crisis
  		• Mid-East Directly Enriched by Higher Oil Prices
  		• Infosys & the Flat World - Offshore Job Hunting
  		• eFeedback - Mar. 23, 2007
  		• Oil & Al-Quaeda
  		• US Education Declines Through 'Asymmetric Motivation'
  		• The Roots of Automation Innovation
  		• Schneider Growth & Expansion Continues
  		• Infosys - Global Growth with a Conscience
  		• ABB Growing Profitably and Feisty Again
  		• Top Automation Technologies for 2007 - Pinto's Picks
  		• Pinto Visit to Bangalore, India, February 2007
  		• Iraq War Fatalities - Graphic Evidence
  		• Michael Crichton's New Book - "Next"
  		• eFeedback - Mar. 12, 2007
  		• Automation Majors - 2007 Pinto Prognostications
  		• Invensys Leadership Changes May Signal Sale
  		• Honeywell and Emerson Battle for Wireless Turf
  		• Apple iPhone - Another Winner?
  		• 2007 Hot Consumer Products
  		• eFeedback - Jan. 24, 2007
  		• eFeedback - Jan. 08, 2007
  		• 2007 View of the Future
  		• Global Warming & Dimming
  		• Automation World Innovation Series
  		• 2006 Technology Advances
  		• Top-50 Automation Companies
  		• Blimericks Contest Winners
  		• eFeedback - Dec. 07, 2006
  		• America's Oil Addiction
  		• Micro-Solutions to Macro Problems
  		• Automation Wireless Growth Paradigms
  		• The Re-Shaping of America
  		• eFeedback - Nov. 21, 2006
  		• The Soaring Cost of Political & Presidential Campaigns
  		• Washington K Street - Blatant Bribery & Corruption
  		• The Public-Education Crisis in America
  		• Micro-Loans help to Abolish Poverty & Build Self-Respect
  		• Rockwell Sells Reliance, focus on Computers/Software
  		• Wireless Mania at ISA Expo 2006 in Houston
  		• ABB Boasts a Breadth of Wireless Products
  		• Electronic Voting Anxiety
  		• America's Population Growth is Healthy
  		• Humans using Earth's resources too fast
  		• eFeedback - Nov. 03, 2006
  		• Global warming - natural or man-made?
  		• Emerson Launches Industrial Wireless Breakthrough
  		• The specter of electronic voting fraud
  		• Cheap worldwide telephone calls
  		• Book: iWoz - the ultimate geek's manifesto
  		• eFeedback - Oct. 04, 2006
  		• eFeedback - Sept. 20, 2006
  		• Religions are a Divisive Force in the World
  		• World Happiness Map
  		• Free Worldwide Telephone Calls
  		• Industrial Automation Wireless at the - Tipping Point
  		• Honeywell Culture Drives for Leadership
  		• eFeedback - Sept. 04, 2006
  		• The great Blimericks (Bush Limericks) contest
  		• The Technology Treadmill
  		• The Balance between Masculine & Feminine
  		• The Possibility or Probability of Global Calamity
  		• China Rising - Facts & Figures
  		• Pinto's List: 10 New Technologies for Industrial Automation
  		• GE's Jack Welch - Fall of an Icon
  		• ABB: Centerman out - Dormann Pushes Re-Structure
  		• Artificial Intelligence - Hype or Revolution?


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