Having unleashed the information revolution, the world’s largest technology companies are helping to fix one of its least desirable side-effects: information pollution.Aware that many are drowning in a sea of digital communications, Microsoft, Google, Intel and IBM – among others – are co-operating to help people better manage the daily barrage of messages that they receive by computer or mobile phone.
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Tech firms act to counter ‘information overload’
A new research group will study how firms can reduce the amount of time workers waste reading unnecessary e-mails