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Small Businesses Have Trouble Finding Qualified Employees
A study examining impediments to growth in the small-business sector reveals that 72 percent of small-business owners would like to expand by adding employees within the next five years, but various impediments are currently standing in their way. According to Growth and External Factors, a report prepared by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB)…
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Apple iPad Tablet Rivals Picking Up Sales
Tablet sales in the United States, excluding units of Apple’s market-leading iPad device, soared to more than 1.2 million units sold from January through October and brought in $415 million in revenue at retail, according to market research company The NPD Group’s monthly Connected Handhelds Report. Total tablet industry sales, for both hardware and accessories,…
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Redundant Power Systems Within Reach for Small-Scale Data Centers
When I visited the data center for 1&1 Internet, a huge hosting and cloud services provider located in Lenexa, Kan., I was struck by the size of the emergency generating system. The Caterpillar diesels that power the generators are the size of locomotive engines. The four generator sets power the 40,000 servers in an N+1…
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Android Market Malware Proliferates as Platform Grows
As Android market share continues to grow, malware developers are increasingly targeting the platform, according to security researchers. While the total volume of mobile malware and malware specifically targeting Android remains very small in comparison to malware targeting the Windows platform, recent reports found the numbers are growing, and will likely continue in 2012. Malware targeting Android…