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7 Super Storage Technologies—and How They Could Backfire
7 Super Storage Technologies—and How They Could Backfire
by Dave Greenfield
Green StorageWhat it is: The use of storage technologies to reduce the amount of power...
Google Watchers Strike Down Google Netbook Notion
Google Watch readers are surprisingly skeptical about the notion that Google will create a version of the Android mobile operating system for netbooks.But let...
Are Android, Chrome-Flavored Netbooks on Tap for Google?
Earlier this week, I lamented what Google didn't do in 2008, but with the year winding down let's consider what's on tap at Google...
Apple iPhone Comes to Wal-Mart
It has been a tough year for small-business owners. While small to midsize businesses are hanging tough in a rough economic climate, owners are...
Security in 2009
Every December I get a lot of pitches from vendors, analysts and other security types with predictions for the next year. This year I've...
Notebook Sales Outpace Desktop Sales
Today's notebooks are sleek, stylish and eminently portable. They allow your small business to take the company on the road in the space of...
SMBs Worry More About Sales, Real Estate than Credit
Although disrupted credit lines around the world are wreaking havoc on businesses in the midmarket space, a new study suggests small to medium-size business...
Chamber Sues Over E-Verify System
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce sued the Department of Homeland Security Dec. 23, challenging the legality of the agency's E-Verify program. The Chamber contends...
SSL Certificate Vendor Sells Mozilla.com Cert to Some Guy
The SSL infrastructure is based, in a large sense, on trust. We trust that vendors of the software that checks certificates will only trust...
Android Aside, Google Proves Frugal for This Who’s Christmas
In the dog days of August, mere weeks before the credit crunch crippled Wall Street in September, I compiled this piece pondering some of...