FTC Slams LifeLock With $11 Million Fine

by SmallBusinessNews on March 10, 2010

In one of the largest FTC-state coordinated settlements on record, LifeLock and its principals will be barred from making deceptive claims and required to take more stringent measures to safeguard the personal information they collect from customers.

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Seeding Security into the Cloud

by BusinessChannels on March 10, 2010

The RSA conference seeks to use lessons from single-tenant data centers to build security into cloud computing infrastructures. – The RSA conference, held in San Francisco during the week of March 1, sought to catch the cloud computing wave, while the expo show floor was packed to the gills with vendors wheeling and dealing primarily in products that relate to the well-known problems of today. Art Coviello, executive vice …

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Acer Gains, Dell Stumbles in 2009 PC Market

March 10, 2010

Acer may have lost the 2009 number-two worldwide PC market share position to Dell, according to a new report from iSuppli, but it grew faster than Dell, HP, Lenovo and Toshiba. Meanwhile, Dell was the only top-five PC maker to show a loss.

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Thing Labs Acquires Birdfeed, Wikirank to Add to Brizzly

March 10, 2010

Thing Labs has acquired two “passion projects” from former Apple and Google developers to expand its social web aggregator, Brizzly .

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The Power of MiFi in the Tablet Era

March 10, 2010

Verizon Wireless is trying to cash in on AT&T’s latest toy. Calling Apple’s iPad “an opportunity for VZW,” the nation’s largest carrier in a memo obtained by Engadget is coaching its sales staffers to encourage customers to pick up the much-hyped tablet but skip the 3G option and connect it to Verizon’s network with the $100 MiFi . At first glance, it’s a compelling pitch

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Dell Vostro 3000 Laptops, Precision M4500 Workstation Target Different Users

March 10, 2010

Dell introduced new PCs on March 9 that target the extremes of the workforce spectrum. The Dell Vostro 3000 series of laptops offers small business customers new performance options that are secure, affordable and present a professional appearance to complement their brand images.

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Microsoft MSN Homepage Redesigned for Easy Facebook, Twitter Access

March 10, 2010

Microsoft launched the revamped MSN homepage on March 9, with plans to make this new version available to 100 percent of users within the coming weeks. In addition to a newly streamlined design, the homepage also allows quick access to social-networking services such as Twitter and Facebook, as well as Hotmail and lists of the most popular topics on MSN and Twitter.

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Get Satisfaction Now Customer Support Tool for Brands Using Facebook, Google

March 10, 2010

Get Satisfaction , which offers web-based community support tools, this week became the recipient of a couple of influential integrations. While not official endorsements per se, both Facebook and Google brought on the company to help their own customers offer social CRM. Facebook recently approached Get Satisfaction about helping with its fan page product, said co-founder Lane Becker in an interview earlier this week.

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Samsung Plans E-Reader, Barnes and Noble Partnership

March 10, 2010

Samsung will partner with Barnes Noble for its upcoming E60 eReader, which will access Barnes Noble’s e-book store for downloadable texts and leverage the booksellers e-book lending feature. Originally announced at CES, the 6-inch Samsung device will rely on either a PC connection or built-in Wi-Fi for book downloading, and include a stylus for inputting notes or using the scheduling and memo features.

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How to Implement a Successful Disaster Recovery Plan

March 10, 2010

IT professionals all know that a solid business continuity plan is needed to prevent extended period of outages that will cost the company money. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Brace Rennels explains how to implement a successful disaster recovery plan. – The number one priority of business continuity planning (BCP) is protecting the company’s most valuable assets: the health and safety of its employees.

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The Disconnect Between Subscriber Growth and Revenues in Broadband and Mobile

March 10, 2010

Subscriber growth for both fixed-line broadband and mobile service providers was “pretty decent” in 2009 even despite the faltering economy, according to TeleGeography Research , which released figures for the year this morning. But revenues failed to match that modest rise.

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Income Tax Software

March 10, 2010

Finding The Right Income Tax Software by Jo Ring Filing taxes can be a daunting task. You will deal with lots of forms and documents to fill, and you have to fill the number correctly. Otherwise, you’ll get in trouble with the IRS

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Hal Varian Is Right: Newspapers Need to Engage

March 10, 2010

As part of the Federal Trade Commission’s ongoing hearings into the future of journalism, Google’s chief economist, Hal Varian, gave a presentation on newspapers and their financial problems that is well worth taking some time to read (or view). The slide deck is embedded below, and Martin Langeveld has a great overview at the Nieman Journalism Lab that also includes a transcript of Varian’s presentation.

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Google Apps Marketplace to Stoke Partner Software Sales

March 10, 2010

Google March 9 confirmed rumors that it was expanding its third-party application efforts with the launch of the Google Apps Marketplace.

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Microsoft Bing Tops 11.5% in U.S. Search as Yahoo Continues Slide

March 10, 2010

Microsoft Bing grabbed 11.5 percent of the U.S. search market in February, up from 11.3 percent in January, according to comScore. While Google grew slightly to 65.5 percent, Yahoo dropped from 17 percent through January to 16.8 percent in February

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Argela selects GIPS for mobile VoIP

March 10, 2010

Global IP Solutions, the leading provider of IP multimedia processing solutions, announced today that Argela Technologies, a subsidiary of Türk Telekom, Turkey’s leading telecom provider, has integrated GIPS VoiceEngine™ Mobile to ensure excellent call quality on its TT WiRO calling service.

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CTI brings next gen VoIP call recording solutions to UC Expo

March 10, 2010

CTI Group, a global leader in the provision of hosted or premise-based call management and VoIP call recording solutions, will be demonstrating its latest unified communications technologies, including Proteus and the Cisco IVT certified SmartRecord, at UC Expo (10-11 March 2010, Olympia, London).

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GoToManage

March 10, 2010

GoToManage. GoToManage. GoToManage

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Google Maps Adds Biking Directions

March 10, 2010

Did you know that Google Maps’ most-requested feature addition is biking directions, in large part due to a vocal 50,000-signature-strong group of “Bike There” petitioners ? I wouldn’t have guessed it! The petitioners’ wish is being granted tonight, with bike directions for 150 U.S. cities and 12,000 miles of Rails to Trails Conservancy data going live

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Google Opens App Store For Business Software

March 10, 2010

Google unveiled a marketplace of business software to help to spur the adoption of its own suite of productivity applications.

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