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Business Owners Confident Despite Sluggish Economy, Survey Finds

Despite resignation that slow economic growth in the U.S. will impact their businesses, small business owners remain generally optimistic about their own companies, according to U.S. Bank's annual survey of small business owners.

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Local Mobile Search Usage Growing Fast, Study Finds

A comScore report finds local mobile search is growing at a rapid pace, and attracting a younger, wealthier audience: Over half have a household income in excess of $75,000 and 58 percent are 34 or younger, according to the report.

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Strong Yen, Weak Sales Hurt Nintendo Profits

Nintendo can't escape the general woes of the video game industry as the company posts its first net loss in two years, hampered by a strong Japanese yen and declining sales of its popular DS handheld console.

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Fujifilm Finepix Digital Cameras Offer New Lenses, Capabilities

Digital imaging specialist Fujifilm announced the launch of four digital cameras, the F300EXR, Z800EXR, S2800HD and JX280, featuring wide-angle zoom lenses, touch-screen capability and HD movie capturing. Ranging in price from $149.95 to $329.95, these cameras are ideal for users who want a broad range of features on a budget.

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Most Data Breaches Avoidable, Verizon Report Finds

An exhaustive data breach report from Verizon, in collaboration with the U.S. Secret Service, finds while data breaches are declining, businesses of all sizes remain at risk, and many breaches could be easily avoided.

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Technology Companies Leading Cloud Services Adoption, Report Finds

Cost-conscious businesses with a small IT department are more likely to migrate to cloud computing than their larger contemporaries, while SMBs in emerging markets like Latin America lead the pack overall, according to a Spiceworks survey.

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Symantec Storage Sales Issues Led to Flat Quarter

Storage management and security software provider Symantec reports that net income for its fiscal first quarter was $161 million, up substantially over the net of $74 million for the year-ago quarter, but its revenue was flat.

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Dell Launches New Security Appliances for SMBs

The Dell-branded Unified Threat Management product line for network security centers on the Dell J-SRX Gateway, a do-it-all appliance that plugs into an IT system to handle multiple layers of security, including antivirus and anti-spam protection and intrusion detection.

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Apple iPad Owners Elite, Selfish, Wealthy, Survey Finds

According to survey results by MyType, owners of Apple's high-profile iPad are likely to be snobbish, rich and prone to the temptations of anger, lust and, um, overeating. But you still want one, right?

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Massive Check Fraud Operation Run by Hackers Revealed at Black Hat

Cyber-criminals are using a complex, innovative scheme to commit widespread check forgery. According to research by SecureWorks revealed at Black Hat, the ring has counterfeited an estimated $9 million in checks in the last year.

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Dell Expands 'Take Your Own Path' Program Online

Dell reaches out to cost-conscious businesses on a worldwide scale with an expansion of its Take Your Own Path initiative, offering resources such as videos, success stories, white papers and a custom business group, the Business Solutions Exchange.

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IT Industry Working Toward Energy Efficiency, Report Finds

The IT industry is going green, according to a report from the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, which found the IT sector is on target to achieve CSCI's reduction goal by the end of its 2010 fiscal year in June 2011.

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Citi, Apple Disclose iPhone App Security Flaw

Beware, mobile bankers: Citigroup is encouraging Apple iPhone owners who downloaded the company's mobile banking app to upgrade to a patched version after a security flaw was found.

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Small Business Employment Still Volatile, Report Finds

Former small business employment powerhouses California, Nevada and Florida have shed nearly 1.7 million jobs since 2005, just one of the disturbing trends uncovered by a review of the nation's small business employment market.

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Vizioncore Launches Free Management Pack for VMware

Vizioncore offers cost-conscious businesses the first free management pack on the market to extend Microsoft System Center Operations Manager to monitor VMware virtual infrastructure.

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