Lumba says that in this challenging economy, enterprises and small businesses need to keep employee morale, motivation, initiative, productivity and retention remain high.

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Hiring managers will love your productivity and initiative.

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The move was part of a "productivity initiative designed to simplify business processes" and comes as rival products such as the iPad tablet computer eat into HP's sales.

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The initiative aims to simplify the way applications are developed and offered, increasing productivity of the application ecosystem for the Smart TV industry.

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Riding high on its previously-introduced sister products -- the Handheld PC and Palm PC platforms, now dead and transformed into Windows Mobile, respectively -- Microsoft's Auto PC initiative was promised to herald a revolution for in-car entertainment and productivity.

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The initiative was designed to encourage more face-to-face communication with customers and co-workers, raise productivity, or provide a break from the ever-filling email inbox.

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