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How small business could benefit from cloud computing

Posted by: altabel on: March 14, 2012

We all use cloud services in one way or another. When you access your Gmail, use Facebook and store photos online, you are actually leveraging cloud services. For small businesses, saving money, increasing productivity and enhancing uptime are some of the major reasons why a move toward the cloud computing platforms available today should be [...]

We are now living in the age of the Smartphone, and as Google has recently proved, there are millions of people getting new phones every single week (over 500,000 Android devices are activated every day!). As the number of users increases, so will the security risks that Smartphones bring to us. Even though Android and [...]

Google’s new privacy policy: what’s changed?

Posted by: altabel on: January 31, 2012

There are many opinions about Google’s new privacy policy among bloggers, journalists and friends. After studying all of them I have some questions left: Is Google’s new strategy of replacing separate policies for each application with one shorter policy — one which allows them to share our data across all those applications with no way [...]

Android Apps will be developed by the “Style Guide” Book

Posted by: altabel on: January 19, 2012

It’s well known that Android is fragmented or, as Google CEO Eric Schmidt contends, “Differentiated.” In a bid to codify design principles for the operating system’s look and feel, Google unveiled Android Design at CES 2012. This website seeks to help app developers create apps with a more uniform look and feel for Android 4.0, [...]

People Say: Will Google Chrome be #1 in 2012?

Posted by: altabel on: January 17, 2012

According to Statcounter numbers and charts, Google Chrome should be the number 1 browser in the world as soon as this year. Let’s see what LI members think about this prediction. «No. Good old IE has plenty of mileage left yet, and because it is a “known platform” will continue to be a standard in [...]