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  • Incorporate on January 1

    Incorporate on January 1 Anytime’s a good time to limit liability through incorporation, but the experts recommend the start of the year as a particularly beneficial time to pull the trigger. Incorporate on January 1 Rocket Lawyer Says: "With a filing date of January 1, you’ll save time when filing a tax return for that…

  • 1. License Software

    1. License Software The last thing RIM should do is make its BlackBerry operating system exclusive. The company’s software is still a solid choice for many enterprise users, and there are a host of companies that want to break into that space. Why not help them by licensing the software? 2. Sell the Hardware Business…

  • Hiring Outlook for 2012 Remains Cautiously Optimistic: CareerBuilder

    Employers expect to add new jobs in the New Year, but are waiting to see how the economy shapes up before turning up the volume on hiring, according to CareerBuilder s annual job forecast. Nearly 25 percent of hiring managers plan to hire full-time, permanent employees in 2012, similar to 2011. Employment trends among small businesses, which…

  • Apple iPad Tablet of Choice for Small Businesses: NPD

    Nearly three quarters of U.S. small and midsize businesses with fewer than 1,000 employees have plans to purchase tablets over the next 12 months, with the Apple iPad being the most considered tablet among those firms planning an upcoming purchase, according to IT research firm The NPD Group s third quarter SMB Technology Monitor. Among the…

  • Windows Phone Road Map Details ‘Tango,’ ‘Apollo’

    A leaked Windows Phone road map purports to trace the smartphone platform’s evolution over the next year. The road map was first posted Dec. 27 by the blog WMPoweruser, which declined to mention the source. Nonetheless, if taken at face value, the document suggests that Microsoft will follow up its recent Mango software update with…

  • Microsoft Releases Workarounds for DoS Zero-Day Bug in ASP.NET

    Microsoft has released a workaround for an ASP.NET vulnerability to help protect Websites against potential denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, according to a security advisory. The publicly disclosed vulnerability affects all supported versions of the .NET framework, but Microsoft is "not aware" of any attacks in the wild currently exploiting the flaw, Dave Forstrom, director of Microsoft…

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