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John Chambers, Cisco CEO, on Presence

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Interesing bit of positioning / sales work today from John Chambers, Cisco CEO, at the Gartner show today during his “brainshare,” or “mindmeld” or whatever it was called. Oh — just checked the program, it’s called a “mastermind” session.
He mentioned “telepresence,” which used to be called video conferencing, [...]

Tautology

According to American Heritage Dictionary, tautology means:
Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy

Strictly speaking, definitions for tautology refer to silly logical propositions which are always true, such as "tomorrow, either the world will end or it will not end."  But a more interesting example of tautology is to describe something as "adequate [...]