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	Going Solo: The Online Business Pro as an Active.... It takes a lot of guts to be your own boss. With tough economic times, and the well-stated fact that most businesses fail rather than succeed anyway, you have to be a real daredevil to take the plunge to go into business for yourself—a daredevil with a thirst for challenge, and the inner drive to make it on your own. Most can’t do it, but there are those that can and succeed at that. The obstacles of an entrepreneur are well known: doing your own taxes, drumming up business, and holding ont....

	Apple Confirms: It's the iPhone 5 Never before in the recent history of Apple product announcements has the famously tight-lipped company confirmed the name of a gadget in advance. But that's what happened Tuesday when the invites arrived for a special event on September 12 -- featuring a giant 5 in the shadow of the date. Apple famously wrong-footed the media around this time last year, announcing the iPhone 4S after every outlet on the planet had predicted the device would be called the iPhone 5. No clues as blatant as th....

Android Vs iPhone: The Economics Of Apps 2011 was a fantastic year for Google's operating system, Android. Its smartphone market share has been growing rapidly. Accordingly to Gartner, Android comprised about 53% of the smartphone shipments in the third quarter of 2011, followed by 17% with the Symbian operating system and 15% with iOS from Apple. Apple's market share fell 16.6% from a year ago. TUTORIAL: Economics Basics: Introduction Apps Market Looking at these numbers, it's safe to say that Google is currently winning the ....

Research: Twitter Drives More Traffic to Press R.... PR Newswire teamed up with digital marketing platform Crowd Factory to analyze the activity surrounding thousands of press releases over a number of months. According to the research, 48 percent of press release sharing happens on Facebook and 37 percent on Twitter. However, each share on Twitter results in 30 percent more views. Ken Dowell, EVP at PR Newswire said in a statement, “We have known for some time that Twitter was more heavily used for news and business purposes, and the number....

Blackberry users complain of ongoing email delays Research In Motion said Wednesday it is investigating reports of Blackberry users still experiencing email woes, after a service outage affected millions of people worldwide last month. "We're getting reports that some users are experiencing delays," the Canadian company said in a tweet. "We're investigating and will update you ASAP (as soon as possible)." RIM's network services for the popular smartphone were down intermittently for up to three days in October in western Asia, the Middl....

Latinos in Information Sciences and Technology A.... The mission of the Advisory Committee on Diversity for Communications in the Digital Age is to make recommendations to the FCC regarding policies and practices that will further enhance the ability of minorities and women to participate in telecommunications and related industries. Specifically, the Committee will focus on lowering barriers to entry to communications and related industries for historically disadvantaged men and women, exploring ways in which to ensure universal access to and a....

How To Buy New Must-Have Products For Next To No.... The Internet has generated some interesting new ways to shop over the past few years. There’s no shortage of web sites offering deals – everything from daily deals to members-only private sales. But when it comes to real jaw-dropping deals, there’s one company that seems to have figured out a way to really deliver. And it must be working for its customers because the company has been around for years and more and more people are using it. The company is called QuiBids and they auction the ....

J.D. POWER AND ASSOCIATES RECOGNIZES VERIZON WIR.... WARREN, NEW JERSEY – Verizon Wireless ranked highest among all other national wireless providers in the New York Metro Region in the J.D. Power and Associates 2011 Wireless Network Quality Performance StudySM, Volume 2, issued today. “The great Verizon Wireless lineup of devices, from smartphones and tablets to netbooks and hotspots, are all powered and backed by our network,” said Pat Devlin, president of Verizon Wireless, New York Metro Region. ]. “This study and other third-party studie....

Steve Jobs resigns from Apple With Steve Jobs bowing out as CEO, Apple Inc. must persuade investors and consumers that it doesn't need the force behind the iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad in charge to keep the technology hits coming. Tim Cook, his hand-picked successor, has handled the top job repeatedly in the absence of the ailing Jobs, who resigned as chief executive Wednesday and was elected chairman of Apple's board. Though not nearly as recognizable as Jobs, Cook had been running Apple since January. The company's sto....

Motorola’s Xoom is here to stay Motorola has entered that wonderful and rapidly expanding world of tablet computing in a big way with a tablet that promises to hold its own against the iPad, the Xoom. With the Xoom, Motorola’s place in what is becoming a highly competitive market where only the best survive, is assured. The Xoom, with its 10.1-inch, 1280x800, 150 dpi, screen is not only easy to operate, but a joy to work and play with. Tablet computing, unlike its counterpart computer computing, is a special and very....

Mac Users: Organize Your Online Life with Genieo SAN FRANCISCO - Genieo today announced at the 27th annual Macworld 2011 its free personalized home page service is now available for Mac users. Genieo debuted last year at DEMO 2010, and has been widely adopted and enjoyed by PC users who sought to be more productive online. Genieo learns your interests through online behavior and then combs social and news feeds for what’s relevant to you at any moment, such as blogs, videos, articles, Facebook status updates, tweets, Quora topics and breakin....

Google Ventures Wesley Chan joins Colleague Crai.... EMBRASE Business Consulting announced that they have added Google Ventures’ Wesley Chan to its keynote address lineup for their StartupCamp event, taking place Thursday, February 3 at the Miami Beach Convention Center. “We are very excited about Mr. Chan’s Keynote at StartupCamp. It is a great opportunity for attendees and exhibitors alike to gain invaluable knowledge and insight into what it takes for to be successful” This third edition of StartupCamp Comms, spotlights early-stage ent....

3-D Phones, Longer-Life Batteries are Tomorrow.... IBM picks 5 technologies it expects to take off in the next 5 years Three-dimensional cell phones and batteries that last much longer are just two of the technologies that could become commonplace in the next few years.   For the fifth year, IBM has looked at the horizons of research, picked five technologies and announced them as tomorrow’s innovations.   "Individual technologies take different times to matriculate," says John Cohn, IBM’s Chief Scientist. "But the....

eBay Inc. Prices $1.5 Billion Senior Unsecured N.... SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--eBay Inc. (NASDAQ:EBAY) today announced the pricing of a $1.5 billion underwritten public offering of its senior Notes, consisting of $400 million of 0.875% Notes due 2013 (the "2013 Notes"), $600 million of 1.625% Notes due 2015 (the "2015 Notes") and $500 million of 3.250% Notes due 2020 (the "2020 Notes"). The public offering price of the 2013 Notes was 99.793% of the principal amount, the public offering price of the 2015 Notes was 99.630% of the princi....

ANTs Software Announces Initial Customer Pipelin.... ANTs software inc. (OTCBB:ANTS), a leader in database consolidation solutions, today announced an update of the initial phase of its go to market strategy for the IBM® DB2® SQL Skin for applications compatible with Sybase ASE (IBM DB2 SSacSA) product. A total of ten Global 2000 and other large corporations in Financial Services, Healthcare and Manufacturing originally engaged in the official IBM beta program that is soon to be concluded. These ten organizations, with a total of nineteen Syb....