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Security Vendor AVG Intros Internet Security, Anti-Virus Suite for Small Business
Free anti-virus software maker AVG Technologies has introduced AVG Internet Security 2011 Business Edition and AVG Anti-Virus 2011 Business Edition, designed for cost-conscious businesses that need maximum protection in an easy-to-use product. AVG said its new suite of business security products provide small and medium-sized business owners who are active on the internet with the…
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Future-Proof Your Skill Set: Top-Demanded IT Skills
Looking to future-proof your skill set? You’d be wise to focus on mobile platforms and cloud computing for application development and IT delivery. IT professionals broadly say that mobile and cloud computing will be a major focus over the next few years, emerging as the most in-demand platforms for both application development and IT delivery.…
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Microsoft Unveils Windows Phone 7 Smartphones
(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp unveiled a new line of phones running its Windows software on Monday, as it attempts to pull back market share from Apple Inc’s iPhone and Google Inc’s Android system in the fast-growing market for multi-featured "smartphones." The world’s largest software company is hoping that the new phones, from handset makers Samsung,…
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Always Be Closing
I had a closing kind of day. There’s a scene in The Boiler Room where Ben Affleck talks about closing. He asks “Who’s going to close? You or him?”. Alec Baldwin does it even better in Glengarry Glen Ross. Besides “Coffee is for closers”, Baldwin says “Only one thing counts. Get them to sign on…
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Jobs Report Disappoints
(Reuters) – The U.S. economy shed jobs in September for a fourth straight month as government payrolls fell and private hiring slowed, hardening expectations for more stimulus from the Federal Reserve to spur the recovery. Nonfarm payrolls dropped 95,000, the Labor Department said on Friday. Private employment, a better gauge of labor market health, increased…