Stories by: Robert Dutt

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7 ways Tim Cook's Apple can serve small business better 27 August, 2011 10:17:00

Apple and small businesses have an interesting relationship. While Apple has seemingly gone out of its way to avoid catering to the business market, it certainly has its adherents.
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The good, bad & ugly of Dropbox authentication error 22 June, 2011 04:28:00

Online storage service Dropbox made an embarrassing error Monday, turning off password authentication for millions of users.
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Upcoming MacBook Air refresh should be first 'Ultrabook' 14 June, 2011 04:14:00

When Intel showed off the specifications for and a prototype of its new "Ultrabook" mobile platform in late May, the thin and light laptop design looked awfully familiar to a lot of Mac owners.
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Plan now for Apple Lion's arrival 08 June, 2011 05:37:00

Of all the discussions around Apple's upcoming Lion release of OS X coming out of this week's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, there's one that must have Mac-friendly IT departments everywhere reaching for the antacids and prematurely greying.
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MacDefender evolves, cat-and-mouse security comes to Mac 03 June, 2011 04:27:00

Mac users and those who offer administration and support to them find themselves in the security rat race for the first time, as MacDefender scareware has rapidly adapted to avoid Apple's detection.
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Desktop virtualization coming of age for small business 25 May, 2011 04:20:00

The acquisition of Kaviza, a maker of simple desktop virtualization software for small businesses, by Citrix Systems is all the buzz at this week's Citrix Synergy event at San Francisco's Moscone Center West.
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Does Chromebook hardware-as-a-service make sense? 13 May, 2011 04:41:00

Google made an interesting hardware-as-a-service proposition to businesses Wednesday with the introduction of the Chromebook. The Web-centric and laptop-like device will launch next month with support from vendor partners Samsung and Acer.
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Google-Skype deal could create communications powerhouse 06 May, 2011 08:15:00

Both Facebook and Google are in the running for some sort of joint venture with consumer voice-over IP (VoIP) giant Skype, according to a Reuters article.
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Make sure your Cloud provider communicates 29 April, 2011 06:43:00

Last week's outage of Amazon's Elastic Cloud Compute, and specifically the company's lack of communications around that outage, point out the importance of transparency when working with a cloud provider.
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What your business can learn from Amazon Cloud outage 27 April, 2011 05:34:00

The servers are back up and users can once again check in on Foursquare and ask questions on Quora, but the legacy of last week's Amazon Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) outage will live on and provide important lessons for businesses as they look to cloud computing for their IT future.