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Netgear Launches Wireless Networking Platform for SMBs
Networking specialist Netgear announced the release of two wireless access point platforms aimed at small and midsize businesses, the ProSafe Wireless N Access Point (WNAP320) and the ProSafe Dual Band Wireless N Access Point (WNDAP360). The access points are designed for first-time, small company single installations or for widely scattered corporate network "edge" deployments. Both…
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Small Business Turning to the Cloud for Storage, Web Hosting
Small businesses are using cloud predominantly for storage (67 percent) and Website hosting (56 percent), according to a recent survey by Iconnyx, an managed IT and Web hosting company. Research of more than 300 small business leaders conducted over two events in the past month shows these to be the typical SMB applications, followed by…
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Apple iOS Platform Outreaches Android by 59 Percent: comScore Report
A U.S. study of Apple iOS users, based on data from the comScore MobiLens service, revealed a combined iOS installed base of 37.9 million users. According to the report, the installed base of iPhones slightly exceeded that of iPod Touches, both of which were approximately twice as high as the number of iPads. The report…
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Outsourcing Market Declines on Restructuring
A new study out this week showed that the global outsourcing market declined significantly over the last year due to companies spending less money renewing deals with their existing outsourcing vendors. Released by TPI, an Information Services Group company, the first quarter 2011 Global TPI Index showed that the total contract value of commercial outsourcing…
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Data Breaches Increase, but Data Loss Drops
Data loss through cyber-attacks decreased markedly in 2010, but the total number of breaches was higher than ever, according to Verizon’s “2011 Data Breach Investigations Report.” The number of compromised records involved in data breaches investigated by Verizon and the U.S. Secret Service dropped from 144 million in 2009 to only 4 million in 2010,…
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Microsoft Launches Office 365 Beta
Microsoft has introduced the public beta of its Office 365, the company’s cloud-productivity offering and current best chance for driving back the threat presented by Google Apps and similar platforms. Microsoft has a habit of launching large-scale betas for its products, the better to apparently weed out bugs and other issues ahead of the general…