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Apple Opens New App Store for Businesses
One of the other Apple announcements of recent days is the opening of a new kind of App Store for corporate customers, allowing them access to a simple system for buying apps in bulk and distributing them among employees and devices.
The Volume Purchase store was announced a couple of weeks ago, but finally went live yesterday …
Survey: 90% of Companies Hit by Network Security Breaches
A survey of 583 companies in the U.S. has revealed that “90% of the respondents said their organizations’ computers had been breached at least once by hackers over the past 12 months,” according to Computerworld.
These aren’t just small businesses we’re talking about either. The study (available here as a PDF) “surveyed 583 IT and IT …
Asana Looks to Fill Google Wave’s Void (And Lets Employees “Pimp Out” Their Cubicles)
Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz left a pretty good gig at Facebook two years ago to start his own company, Asana. After two years under wraps, TechCrunch finally got the big reveal yesterday. The response? Moskovitz didn’t leave Facebook for naught–Asana could actually be a huge hit.
The startup’s premise is that people need a …
As Facebook Hits A $50 Billion Valuation, Will It Go Public?
After a $500 million investment from Goldman Sachs and a big time Russian investment firm, Facebook ‘s value jumps to a stunning $50 billion, making the company worth more than competing companies eBay, Yahoo and Time Warner.
(More on Techland: Facebook Forecast 2011: Mobile & E-Commerce)
The new investment comes at the beginning …
Facebook Forecast 2011: Mobile & E-Commerce, But What About China?
There’s no denying: Facebook had a hell of a year.
From a media standpoint, its copious (and sometimes scandalous) headlines were a dream – even Hollywood agreed. There have been few stories to match Facebook’s, and when they come along, the world seems to pounce. But mistaking the company (or its 26-year-old billionaire CEO) as …
Are Google’s Search Results Fixed?
Is Google unfairly promoting its own content above everyone else’s? According to those who run rival services, the answer is definitely yes, and now the company is under investigation by the European Union over allegations of favoritism. The problem is apparently the placement of Google services above other search results, and for those …
BlackBerry Users Get "Roam" Credit Card Reader Attachment
BlackBerry users now have a secure way to quickly capture credit card transactions on their handsets. The newly-announced Roam attachment is “the world’s first encrypted audio coupled card reader for BlackBerry devices,” according to the company’s press release.
The “swiper,” as it’s called, connects to the headphone jack of any …
HP EliteBook 2540p Review: Elite Features Offset the Elite Price
While $1,629 seems like a lot to spend on a notebook nowadays, it’s oddly comforting to know that you can get a decked-out computer with very few compromises for well shy of two grand.
Such is the case of HP’s EliteBook 2540p, a 12-inch rugged-but-portable notebook with a low-voltage Intel Core i7 processor, six-cell battery, Windows …