In a YouTube clip from one of Steve Jobs’s last interviews, he appears to be enjoying reminiscing about how he first hit upon the idea for the keyboardless tablet that eventually became the iPad.

“I had this idea of being able to get rid of the keyboard, type on a multitouch glass display and I asked our folks, could we come up with a multitouch display that I could type on, I could rest my hands on and actually type on,” Mr. Jobs says, smiling slightly as he recounts his enthusiasm at seeing the first prototype. “It was amazing.”

There’s a widely shared image on the Internet of a teacher’s note that says: “Dear students, I know when you’re texting in class. Seriously, no one just looks down at their crotch and smiles.”

College students returning to class this month would be wise to heed such warnings. You’re not as clever as you think—your professors are on to you. The best way to stay in their good graces is to learn what behavior they expect with technology in and around the classroom.

Emphasizing the role of engineers and technical communicators, the book discusses the root causes and costs of information overload within organizations and introduces strategies and proven techniques for reducing information overload and minimizing its negative impact. It offers a theoretical framework and ideas for future research, and features special chapter ‘insight boxes’ that recount different approaches to problems from various multinational corporations.

In times past, people communicated by letters written on paper, and there were excellent incentives for applying optimal composition. – – – Email, the successor of the written letter, suffers from spillover from these trends – and from the lack of time caused by information overload. Nobody has the time to craft good messages and many wouldn’t know how if they did.

Who doesn’t love a list? Simple, concise, efficient, lists are a great way to put all the important information in a single place for quick reference and to help us avoid distraction. They help us remember (think grocery and laundry lists), keep us organized (a to-do list at our sides at work ensures nothing slips between the cracks), and give us direction (those same lists help us know how and what to prioritize).

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Think you’re overloaded with information? Not even close.

A study appearing Feb. 10 in Science Express, an electronic journal that provides select Science articles ahead of print, calculates the world’s total technological capacity — how much information humankind is able to store, communicate and compute.

From reading emails to managing status updates on mobile devices 24/7 with an all-you-can-eat data plan – we are consuming information like never before.

Launching satellites into deep space won’t tell us much about our universe if we can’t efficiently retrieve information, according to a team of Australian and American researchers.

IBM discusses unified communication and collaboration.

In today’s business world we all face pressure. Pressure to be more productive, more responsive, do more with less and get closer to our customers. We partner with our competitors and compete with them too. We face increased pressure to acquire, to be acquired, to downsize, to right-size and at the same time, to always be compliant and green.