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  • Lenovo, IBM Look to High Schools for Future IT Workers

    As the need for more IT workers becomes more and more dire, major vendors are making efforts to seed the industry with trained technology staff by reaching out to potential candidates in high school. Lenovo recently announced an effort with the National Academy Foundation to launch a program to help high school students learn mobile app…

  • Apple Topples Samsung in Smartphone Shipments: Juniper

    Apple has overtaken Samsung again during the last quarter of 2011, according to data from mobile analyst firm Juniper Research. Almost 25 percent of the 149 million smartphones shipped worldwide in Q4 were iPhones. While Apple overtook Samsung to reach the pole position, the Korean giant has increased its market share four-fold since Q1 2010,…

  • Android Counterclank Malware Hits Android Market

    A nasty piece of malware called Android.Counterclank that Symantec (NASDAQ:SYMC) said has the highest distribution of any malware this year to date is making the rounds on Android smartphones and tablet computers. Symantec counts anywhere from 1 million to 5 million combined downloads of the malware, spanning 13 different application titles. Android.Counterclank is a variant…

  • Is Flash Ready for Enterprise Tier 1 Storage?

    When it comes to performance, flash-based memory has always been the undisputed king. However, flash memory has also been the leader in another area as well–expense. Until recently, flash memory has proved to be far too expensive for the typical enterprise to deploy for tier 1 storage. Simply put, the performance offered was not worth…

  • Social Media, SEO and Hiring Top SMB Priorities

    Schedulicity, a specialist in online appointment scheduling for small, appointment-dependent businesses, announced the results of its business and economic outlook study for 2012. Among survey respondents, fully 91 percent indicated they expect their business to perform better than it performed in 2011, while only 2 percent predict negative business results. More than 47 percent expect much…

  • The Customer Loyalty Crisis of 2012

    Now that the New Year has started, let’s talk about your customers for a moment. Customer retention is always a challenge, and as such, it must be a priority in any company’s strategic business plans for the year. Fortunately for IT services providers, they have never had better customer-retention tools at their fingertips than now.…

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