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		<title>5 Themes for 2012 technology planning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Summary: Consolidation and process discipline are just two ways SMBs can squeeze operational costs out of their IT budget, leaving more room for innovation. As your company finalizes its technology budget for the 2012 calendar year, it might want to consider some new tips from market research firm Gartner for keeping IT infrastructure costs in...]]></description>
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		<title>5 Ways Enterprises Can Stay Safer On Facebook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some companies are pumping more time and money into business Facebook pages without considering the lack of control when things go wrong. Consider these security steps within your grasp. A friend recently had his Facebook account shut down. He had done nothing wrong, and when he sent a message to Facebook saying as much and...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.itbd.us/miscellaneous-articles/5-ways-enterprises-can-stay-safer-on-facebook</link>
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		<title>Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gartner highlight the top 10 technologies and trends that will be strategic for most organizations in 2012&#8230; Gartner defines a strategic technology as one with the potential for significant impact on the enterprise in the next three years. Factors that denote significant impact include a high potential for disruption to IT or the business, the...]]></description>
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		<title>Internet Architects Warn of Risks in Ultrafast Networks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SANTA CLARA, Calif. — If nothing else, Arista Networks proves that two people can make more than $1 billion each building the Internet and still be worried about its reliability. David Cheriton, a computer science professor at Stanford known for his skills in software design, and Andreas Bechtolsheim, one of the founders of Sun Microsystems,...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.itbd.us/network_security/internet-architects-warn-of-risks-in-ultrafast-networks</link>
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		<title>Do smaller businesses think they&#8217;re immune to security threats?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do small to midsize businesses (SMB) think they&#8217;re somehow immune to security threats? That&#8217;s the impression you could get from the results of a Symantec global survey that asked 1,900 SMB professionals responsible for information technology what they know about security threats and how they prepare for them. While most SMB managers exhibited knowledge of...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.itbd.us/network_security/do-smaller-businesses-think-theyre-immune-to-security-threats</link>
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		<title>How Can Cloud Computing Benefit My Business?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How Can Cloud Computing Benefit My Business? Cloud computing is a term that remains mysterious to many people. If you are one of these people you might be concerned about cloud computing and whether it is some new concept that is of use to your business. Cloud computing is important to your business especially when...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.itbd.us/miscellaneous-articles/how-can-cloud-computing-benefit-my-business</link>
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		<title>SEO – What The Heck Is It All About?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whenever you enter a query in a search engine and hit &#8216;enter&#8217; you get a list of web results that contain that query term. Users normally tend to visit websites that are at the top of this list as they perceive those to be more relevant to the query. If you have ever wondered why...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.itbd.us/miscellaneous-articles/seo-%e2%80%93-what-the-heck-is-it-all-about</link>
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		<title>Your Website – Key to Branding your Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Your business&#8217;s website will be many people&#8217;s first impression of your company, products and services. As a result, your site represents a critical component of your branding strategy: It communicates who you are, what you offer and what you promise (your brand) through its content, organization and appearance (the look and feel). Just as you...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.itbd.us/miscellaneous-articles/your-website-%e2%80%93-key-to-branding-your-business</link>
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		<title>The Number One Reason for a Web Presence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s the number one reason a business should have a web presence? In today’s web world, with social media and online marketing leading the charge it’s no longer the question of “if” you have a website, but “how can you not?” It’s affordable, effective and wrought with opportunity – for any businesses, it is your...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.itbd.us/miscellaneous-articles/the-number-one-reason-for-a-web-presence</link>
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		<title>Top 5 Ways to Recycle Your Old Computer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Contributed By: Katie Robinson Recycle: Your best bet is always to send your old computer directly back to the manufacturer from which you purchased your machine in order to prevent ID theft and e-waste smuggling. You can also use a product like &#8220;Eraser&#8221;, an advanced security tool that allows you to completely remove all sensitive...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.itbd.us/proactive-maintenance/top-5-ways-to-recycle-your-old-computer</link>
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