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10 Businesses You Can Start From Your Smartphone

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10 Businesses You Can Start From Your Smartphone
You're out of work. The job listings are thin. You have no money to start your own business. Maybe you don't even have a computer to assist in conducting a proper job search. Rest easy, we're here to help. We've scoured the earth for ten solid business ideas -- endeavors that you can mostly start up with little more than a smartphone and a Gmail address, and that you could get under way tomorrow if you absolutely had to. Read More


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Enterprises today are migrating from a purely physical infrastructure to a highly efficient virtualized infrastructure and potentially to a fully enabled cloud environment. This migration promises to greatly enhance the efficiency and scalability of data center operations. Read now!

Netbooks vs. iPads -- can they coexist?
There has been a lot of talk about whether the iPad will take the place of the netbook -- or, in fact, whether it will eat into the market share for more mainstream desktop and laptop computers. Netbooks have already formed a market of their own alongside and apart from other PCs. But the iPad has a long way to go before it becomes a netbook killer -- if only because it has created a space all its own. Read More

Enterprises clinging to IE 6 may hurt IE 9 launch
Every month, journalists following the browser battles between Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome -- including this one -- check in with Net Applications to see who's up and who's down in market share. But a closer look at the numbers from someone who's been covering browsers longer than I have shows potential trouble ahead of Microsoft's coming IE 9. Read More

Sony Reader: A Visual Tour
See how Sony's latest e-reader devices compare with the previous generation -- and with Amazon's Kindle. Read More


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In an Instant, Google pulls further ahead of Microsoft, Yahoo
Now that Microsoft Bing and Yahoo officially have joined forces, Google needed to turn around and offer up a new, splashy feature that would give it a clear edge. And that's just what Google did on Wednesday, when the company unveiled Google Instant , say industry analysts. Read More

DARPA looking for extreme wireless interference buster
Researchers at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will this month begin looking for technology that will let wireless communications work even through the most extreme and nasty interference. Read More

Recent court ruling makes it more important than ever to understand the GPL
When Alan Shimel reported on the recent court decision against Westinghouse Digital in the BusyBox suit, he talked of the GPL having teeth. Think about the teeth of a saw. Very useful, but requiring understanding and care. It's surprising how misunderstood the license is, especially given its popularity. Read More


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Buzzblog: 40% would pay for mobile healthcare? Don't you believe it.
New research from PricewaterhouseCoopers paints a rosy picture for the future of health-care services delivered over mobile devices, with fully 40 percent of consumers saying they would pay for a device and monthly service to have their health data sent to a doctor. ... Seriously? No. Dig deeper into the survey results and you'll see that's not really the case. Read More

Warrants may be needed for cell phone data, court says
In a precedent-setting decision, a federal appellate court this week ruled that judges have the option of asking prosecutors to obtain a warrant before they are allowed to access to an persons cell phone location data. Read More

10G Ethernet vendor Myricom taps new chief, expands beyond HPC
Myricom, a pioneer in high performance computing that has shifted its focus to more mainstream networking applications in recent years, has named co-founder Nan Boden as its new president and CEO. Read More

Cyber-Warfare: U.S. Military Hackers and Spies Prepare to Knock the World Offline
Theoretically, the world is engaged in a hidden global war that is being fought on a dark virtual battlefield. On October 1st, in the cyber domain, 1,000 U.S. military hackers and Internet spies will get down to the business of cyberwar. Read More



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