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The Future of Security on Social Networks

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The social networking bug has bitten and gone viral. With invitations to join Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Plus, MySpace and many more streaming through the inbox and endless new networks cropping up by the day, connecting with friends, family and business associates all on one platform, has never been easier.

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For example, take Facebook. A name synonymous with social networking, this media powerhouse has taken the Internet by storm. If its popularity is anything to go by, the user count is predicted to run into billions in the next few years. Add to this the amount of private information being uploaded every second on hundreds of social networks that overrun the web and what you get is a strong requirement for security measures to be firmly established. Read more…

What will be the Top Hardware Stories of 2013?

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New operating systems, interactive website interfaces, and exciting new games might grab the attention of technology writers around the world, but surely, the launch of new and innovative hardware gets pulses racing quickest.

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Whether it is a smart television, a computer, or a mobile phone, people love to see the capabilities that the latest pieces of hardware are going to give to them. We took the opportunity to explore some of the biggest hardware stories around, and at how we can expect to see them develop over the rest of 2013. Read more…

How to Use E-Books to Promote Your Website

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Advances in technology and the increasing number of online publishers have made it possible for anyone to become an author. You don’t have to jump through the hoops of traditional publishing, and you don’t have to invest a lot of money in traditional self-publishing. If you can write the book, you can format it, upload it, and make it for sale. If it’s popular enough, you might even make (a lot of) money on it.

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You don’t have to be an aspiring Stephen King to want to publish your own book. Businesses of all kinds can publish e-books not only to generate revenue, but also to promote their websites and create greater awareness of their brand. Here are just a few ways that you can use e-books to promote your website and your brand: Read more…

Importance of IT Support for a Small Business

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It doesn’t matter how large or small your company is, there’s no escaping the fact that a good IT infrastructure is essential to ensure that your business will be a success. However, it doesn’t matter if you have the best software and hardware because that will quickly prove to be worthless when things go wrong if you don’t have the best support structure in place to ensure that your IT systems are running smoothly when you need them.

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Mobile Device Security: A Growing Need in Today’s Expanding BYOD Culture

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BYOD: Bring Your Own Device – this phenomena in today’s IT business culture is on the rise and not likely to abate anytime soon. By most measures many IT managers have embraced (at least to some extent, anyway) employee use of their own devices at work for a number of reasons, including saving the company money on expensive hardware expenditures, increasing employee morale, and as one CIO put it, BYOD being “a great way to recruit and retain young talent.”

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This paradigm shift seems especially prevalent in IT start-up enterprises. CIOs, managers and other decision makers within these new organizations may be more adept at addressing the phenomena and all it entails provided they are forthright in their assessment and understanding of it. Read more…

Antivirus for Mac: Excess or Necessity?

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There’s a wide-spread opinion that the devices that run under Mac OS X are immune to viruses. Do Mac users need to install an antivirus on their devices? In this article I’d like to try and answer this question and also tell you about good antiviruses for Apple devices.

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How to Remove Copyright Infringing Web Pages from Google Search Results

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Despite the facts that online plagiarism is pretty common in the world of Internet, but as a blogger we will never want to see our hard work being copied and republished on other sites without our consent. If your site is unfortunate, becomes the target of online content thieves, what can you do to deal with them? In the previous posts, we’ve taught you some effective methods for fighting with notorious copycats such as send a warning message, submit a Cease & Desist letter or file a DMCA complaint. Today we’ll show you a quick tutorial guiding you to send a notice of copyright infringement to Google, requesting the search engine to remove copyright infringing webpages from its search results. We hope you’ll find it useful!

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How Cloud Storage Software Has Made The Possibility of Mobile Music Production A Reality

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Music production and recording has come a long way since the days when group of singers huddled in a room around one microphone, trying take after take until they got it just right. The advent of 8-track recorder changed the music landscape of the 60’s, the proliferation of at-home recording software changed the world of music again in the 2000s and now, in the 2010s, Dropbox and other cloud storage technology has ushered us into a new era of long-distance collaboration and a speedier process.

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50 Best Facebook Infographics You Must See

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How much do you know about Facebook? Last month, Facebook announced that it crossed the 2 billion monthly active users mark. If the online social media site is a country, by world population it will be ranked at the first position. Whether you like it or not, you can’t change the fact that Facebook has become an important part of our daily lives.

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Apart from being widely used to make friends and play social games, Facebook has also been one of the most effective platforms to promote businesses and engage target audience for building good relationships. If you happen to be a blogger, online marketer or entrepreneur, it’s important to understand Facebook user statistics, what Facebook’s capable of and how to make full use of its functionality and usefulness. Read more…

Monetizing Your Website by A/B Testing

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The competition in the world of online entrepreneurship is, indeed, a tough one. As more and more online stores and companies come into business, the more difficult and tricky it gets to maintain your pool of customers, let alone, add new clients to your base. But then again, there are always ways to go about this for the wise and resourceful online business executives. One of which is to use the available tools in order to make your website a smashing success and lure more of your target market into availing your products and services.

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In this regard, one of the most useful and efficient tools which is widely used nowadays is the A/B Split Testing. In fact, this technique has been around for some time. But just the same, it has proven itself to be no less than powerful through the years. Read more…

Pros and Cons of Free Blogging Services

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Weblogs could be used for recreational purposes or for serious minded business publicity and advertisement. They are basically online journals where users post stuff that relates to things that interest them. They can be owned or created by anyone who wants to create or have one. The delicacy of the matter lies in coming up with something interesting and different every time for your blog on a regular basis.

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If you are not into the complicated procedures of designing a website for your regular posts and blogs you need not look too far. There are easy to use free blogging websites available on the web which has made creating a blog an easy task. All the challenging tasks including the HTML and web publishing is performed by the website that is providing you with the blogging facility. Read more…

VoIP Softwares for Small Business Transactions

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Due to the series in contemporary technology, a lot of companies have been recognized to assist quicker communication amid persons in altered continents. VoIP quality software has likewise been brought in to manner and guarantee voice conversations throughout telephones transversely exact based network such as that of IP.

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You are a miniature business; consequently, you require an effortless way to converse with your clients and vice versa. Selecting a phone system that you can rely on is a difficult, hard business, and not in fact somewhat you desire to harass with at the last part of the day. Read more…

6 Ways a Mobile Phone Monitoring Application Can Keep You Safe

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In today’s fast-paced world, corporate decisions need to be taken in real time. To support decision making, companies provide their key employees with mobile phones. Working parents are also providing cell phones to their spouses and children. To safeguard against misuse, they install a so-called mobile phone monitoring application on the phones. Perfectly legal to use, this software covertly logs the details of the mobile phone’s activities to the vendor website for secured viewing. This state-of-the-art technology can help you stay safe in more than one way.

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67 Google PageRank 10 and 9 Websites You Must Know

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At the time of writing, Google, Facebook, YouTube, Yahoo! and Baidu.com are the top 5 most popular websites according to Alexa.com, but none of them have Google PageRank (PR) 10. Why these sites can’t score the highest PR even Google itself? This is absolutely a great topic for discussion.

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Many webmasters and bloggers trying all they can to pursue a higher PageRank because it’s one of the key factors determining how good SEO (Search Engine Optimization) a site gets. A website with a higher PageRank tends to have better SEO, making it ranks higher in the Google search results and receives more traffic. While PageRank’s link analysis algorithms are constantly changing, but the golden rule for building up PageRank is still getting quality backlinks from authoritative sites that are related to your niche. Read more…

Completely Erasing A Particular Data On Your Computer

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Erasing data permanently involves so many reasons for an individual. Before one would consider formatting the hard disk and erasing data from the computer, there can be several reasons ranging from personal to clearing the old records, which are no more in use. One can delete the data permanently by using Shift+Del button on the keyboard, but still so many other things have to be taken care.

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