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Starting Your VAR Business: The Best Tax Structure
The birth of a VAR typically goes something like this: the employee of an IT service provider comes to the realization that he can do the same work himself and collect the profit without having to answer to superiors he might disagree with. The employee quits and calls on a few of the clients he…
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Cisco’s Big Flip Off
For the blink of an eye, it seemed the Flip camcorder would become the next iPod. Almost everybody was buying one. But then, just as quickly as the fun little point-and-shoot video cameras burst into the market, they seemed to disappear. And so ended another technology fad. Perhaps it had to do with competition –…
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Nook Color Takes on iPad, Offers Flash
(Reuters) – Barnes & Noble on Monday introduced new features to its Nook Color e-reader designed to make the device more competitive with Apple’s iPad and to offer more functions that Amazon.com’s Kindle does not. Barnes & Noble said in a press briefing over the Internet that the updated Nook Color includes a store to…
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Green Tech Sells Despite Doubts of Efficacy
A new survey of more than 6,800 online U.S. adults aged 18 or older revealed that although a vast majority of respondents (89.4 percent) incorporate some level of greenness into their daily lives, there is an undercurrent of doubt when it comes to green advertising claims and product efficacy. Burst Media, a provider of targeted…
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More Than Half of Web Apps Fail Security Audits
More than half of Web applications have some kind of serious security flaw after development, according to a research report, suggesting that software developers need to improve their security coding skills. About 58 percent of Web applications generally fail a security audit the first time around, according to Veracode’s State of Software Security report, released…
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Companies Lost Billions on Lost, Stolen Laptops
The Ponemon Institute surveyed 275 European organizations in its latest lost laptop report to determine the economic consequences of having a laptop lost or stolen. Participating organizations lost more than 72,000 laptops during a 12-month period for a total economic impact of $1.79 billion, according to the “The Billion Euro Lost Laptop Problem” report, released…