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  • Apple iPhone, iPad Owners Most Loyal: Report

    Nearly one in five consumers, who own both an iPad and an iPhone, say switching smartphones is more difficult than changing bank accounts. A simple, integrated user experience is driving consumers’ brand loyalty to their smartphones and they are less likely to switch brands the more applications and services they use on the device, new…

  • Mobile Malware Proliferates as Smartphone Market Booms

    According to a new report out last week from McAfee Labs, the rapid proliferation of malware has caused researchers to bump up their estimates for cumulative the number of unique samples to float around the Internet by the end of 2011. In its McAfee Threats Report: Third Quarter 2011, the firm reported that its increasing…

  • Dell Enhances PowerEdge Server Portfolio With AMD Opteron 6200 Processors

    Technology giant Dell introduced enhancements to its PowerEdge server portfolio with AMD (NYSE: AMD) Opteron 6200 Series processors for better energy efficiency and performance for enterprise applications, Web, private cloud and virtualization. The company offers the AMD Opteron 6200 Series processors in its PowerEdge R715 and R815 rack servers, the PowerEdge M915 blade server and…

  • Microsoft Giving Online Option in Windows 8 Upgrade Process

    Microsoft will offer Windows 8 upgrade as an online purchase and install, a fairly radical change from the company’s traditional model of boxed software and discs. “Buying boxed software is quickly becoming the exception rather than the rule,” Christa St. Pierre, a member of the Windows Setup and Deployment team, wrote in a Nov. 21…

  • 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)…

  • Most Common Password of 2011: 12345

    The 25 most popular passwords in 2011 include such gems as "password" and "123456," according to an analysis of various lists and databases dumped online by hackers this year. Internet users were selecting common names, numeric sequences and keyboard layouts as their passwords online, according to the 2011 Worst Passwords of the Year list released…

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