Here is this week’s round-up of technology news small business owners may find informative, useful or entertaining:
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Small Web Businesses Crucial to Economy, Industry Leaders Say – Experts suggest they play a vital role in stimulating the economy of the US
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Small and Midsize Businesses’ IT Security Budgets ‘Recession-Proof’ – The majority of SME owners view IT security as vital and will not cut spending even during a recession
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Using computing and technology to grow your business – Some tips how you could improve productivity by introducing new technology
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The 10 Most Disruptive Technology Combinations – An interesting list of technological combinations that have changed entire industries
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Why Good Data Can Be Hard To Find - This article examines why Web statistics can be inaccurate and hard to collate
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25 leading-edge IT research projects – These are the technological developments that universities are exploring
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Patent Boss Admits that the Patent Office Keeps Getting Flooded By More & More Bad Patents – The patent system in its current form appears to be fundamentally flawed
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AT&T: Internet to hit full capacity by 2010 – Rich media content estimated to slow the Web unless significant investment made to upgrade capacity
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Ebay considers sale of Skype subsidiary – The auction giant likely to make at least a $1.42 billion loss on re-sale of VOIP company
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PayPal denies plan to block Safari – Earlier reports were false
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Bluetooth surveillance secretly tested in the city of Bath – Up to 10,000 Bath residents had their movements secretly tracked via Bluetooth technology over a six month period as part of a University research project
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Appeals court uphold search of laptop at LAX – The ruling means US airport security are able to search any laptop even without any level of suspicion
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Wi-Fi users to be monitored in Russia – A Russian law will require all devices that can use Wi-Fi to be registered
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Ballmer: Vista a ‘work in progress’ – Microsoft CEO admits a lot is still needed to be done with Vista
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Yahoo rewiring itself from the inside out - Yahoo announced a huge change in direction this week, whilst Microsoft gave the first hint that their potential $44 billion merger may be off
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Live Mesh: First Look at Microsoft’s New Platform – A sneak peek at Microsoft’s new attempt to tie all our data together
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Microsoft plans Office subscription service – A new content subscription service from Microsoft could replace their yearly updated Office suite
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Microsoft quietly offering ad-funded Works – If you purchase a new computer in the UK it may unexpectedly come with a free copy of Microsoft Works funded on advertisements
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How Apple Is Preparing for an iPod Slump – Apple have been working hard on their other products as the iPod reaches market saturation
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iPhone sellers braced for hit on unsold handsets – UK retailers will soon be forced to sell the iPhone cheap to prepare for the new 3G model coming in the Summer
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Spambot cracks Windows Live Hotmail CAPTCHA – This will now require a move to more sophisticated image-based authentication methods of telling humans apart from machines such as this
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Wikipedia to be converted to a book in Germany – The online dictionary is ironically set to be released as a book
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