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10 Tech Products to Boost Your Small Business Productivity
From mini storage arrays to IP cameras to print servers, these 10 hardware devices will help you run your small business more efficiently whether you're in the office or hitting the road to close a deal. Read More


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Army takes a flier on OpenSim
The U.S. Army is not new to using simulated virtual environments for training. In fact, almost all soldiers have used virtual simulations, according to Douglas Maxwell, the science and technology manager for virtual world strategic applications at the Army's Simulation & Training Technology Center in Orlando. Read More

Progress report: Building, and managing, the 21st century data center
Even if you've never heard of Flextronics you have probably used or benefited from one of the products this global digital equipment manufacturer has helped assemble -- a Microsoft Xbox 360, for example, or components that show up in everything from Cisco and Motorola devices to aerospace and automotive equipment. Read More

Fixing process exceptions. And music on hold
Gibbs wrestles with a lost medical insurance payment ... for five hours Read More

CIA Chief advises you to ask: What are your rights? Who owns your data?
The cloud is old news, it's "so three years ago," and Big Data "was so last year," but according to the CIA's Chief Technology Officer, Ira "Gus" Hunt, this year is about "how to get value" from Big Data. At the GigaOM Structure Data conference, Hunt presented, "The CIA's 'Grand Challenges" with Big Data" and I highly recommend that you take about 30 minutes to personally listen to it. Read More

Straight talk on security gets employees to listen -- and comply
Sure, you want users to comply with security edicts, but would you phish your own employees or share your company's hack history? At least some CIOs say yes. Read More

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How to tell if your Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn efforts are paying off
As businesses make more use of social networks, the number of engagement, analysis and monitoring tools has exploded. Enterprises are trying to understand their return on social media investments, to find out if their Twitter and Facebook marketing campaigns are actually delivering customers. They want to track social mentions across multiple networks and be responsive to both kudos and complaints. Read More

Apple leverages Wi-Fi location with latest acquisition
Apple has bought a small software startup that lets smartphones and tablets pinpoint their location indoors using nearby Wi-Fi signals. The move apparently is part of the company's efforts to expand and strengthen its location services, which it has developed as an alternative to Google Maps. Read More

BlackBerry Z10 launches in the U.S.
BlackBerry Z10 launches in the U.S. Read More

eBay develops metric for data center performance
There's a maxim in the data center business that you can't manage what you can't measure, and eBay has come up with a new measurement for doing both. Read More

 
 
 

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