March, 2012
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Want to make money off the iPad?
Apple announced their next iPad yesterday and it’s already a sensation everywhere except Microsoft, Google and IT Solution Providers built largely on top of Microsoft productivity business. According to Apple marketing the new iPad is revolutionary, magical and even resolutionary! Besides being so awesome that it warrants creation of new words, what sort of impact [...]
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Ultrabook doomsday or are far worse things on the horizon?
As the whole IT industry awaits the birth and the name of “iPad 3” we get a reminder that it’s harder and harder to make money building Windows PCs. Team from Verge discovered that even though Acer cannot turn a profit on their $799 Acer Aspire S3, the plans to produce an even cheaper version [...]
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Did LulzSec impact small business?
Big news of the day comes on the indictments of six members of the popular hacking group LulzSec. With international arrests, worldwide reach and stories of espionage, betrayal and cybercrime the event reads more like Mission Impossible 5 script than a lesson small businesses operating online need to learn. That lesson is that an Internet [...]
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To cloud or not to cloud
SMB150, SMB Nation influencer contest, is out with it’s annual list and our friend Steve Noel noticed something interesting: Of 350 nominees only 6 of them have tagged themselves with the “cloud” provider. This is interesting both because the cloud is so popular but also because the “influencer” list consists of both vendors and SMB [...]
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NSA’s Off-the-Shelf Ultra-Secure Android Phone: Highlighting Lack of Interoperability
The NSA has developed an “ultra-secure” Android phone, designed to comply with the NSA’s tough information security rules yet be as cheap and easy to use as possible. The primary security design goal was a 0solution routes all traffic through the enterprise first. According to a piece published this morning on SC Magazine, the NSA [...]
