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The popularity of Android tablets is rising as well as the variety of tablets out there. Many well-known companies like Samsung, Dell, LG, and Cisco are unveiling their plans for tablets and almost all of them are choosing Android. Since there is a lot of competition between these top companies, it may be hard to decide on the best technology for executives, and which tablet fits for your business.

Here are a few criteria to look for when selecting an Android tablet for business:

1. Synchronizes with your Email and Collaboration platform.
2. Stability and Reliability.
3. Your business applications run on it. (Your IT Support should help you determine this.)

Here is what Engadget has to say about a few of the latest tablets and how they rate against each other:

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While it seems almost impossible to predict an email scam, many scams can be recognized with the proper knowledge of how to avoid them. The FTC estimates that as many as 9 million Americans have their identities stolen each year.

What does a phishing email message look like?

Figure 1- http://www.microsoft.com/security/online-privacy/phishing-symptoms.aspx

Here are 6 ways to identify an email scam:

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As Macs become more popular in the United States, virus and malware writers are stepping up development of malicious programs to take advantage of Macs.

Apple products are thought of as virus free, but the reality is they have not been targeted as much as Windows systems, until now.

According to a  2010 Google study of search poisoning, 14 percent of all the compromised sites they saw included drive-by download attempts to which OS X computers, or Macintosh computers, could get a trojan, and even more malware or viruses.

If a Mac user visits this type of page on a system and they do not have all recent security updates for OS X and their browser, they could be extremely vulnerable.

Here are some tips on keeping your Mac protected from security threats:

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Social media has been the new way for businesses to effectively communicate across multiple constituencies. There are many ways to communicate via social media. Some of these types include: Blogs, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Xanga, MySpace, Foursquare, Word Press and now the newest Google plus.

There are nearly 150 million social media users in the U.S. alone, which is more than 60% of the U.S. internet population.

According to eMarketer, the average time spent per user on social networks as of late 2010 exceeded 5 hours per month.

Is the amount of time spent on social media worth it? Can spending time investing in these sites result in increased revenue?

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Summer can be a busy time for many businesses. Because summer months fly by, this allows very little room for a business owner or CEO to be unorganized.

A 2008 survey at Intel showed employees receive 350 emails per week on average. If you are a CEO and could hire someone else to be spending countless hours in your inbox, would you?

Rather than spending 6-8 hours per day checking e-mail, you could spend that time increasing your productivity or investing in your employees. Getting through all those messages every day isn’t easy.

Here are some easy steps from slashBlue that you can take in staying organized with e-mail:

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In 2010, the economy experienced a 3.8% increase in revenue  growth. Clients of slashBlue, experienced 14.8 % revenue growth in 2010.  That is almost 4 times more revenue for slashBlue’s clients than the average market.

How did your business do in 2010?

By getting your employees equipped well to handle challenges and do what they do best, they are able to spend more time on revenue growth.

What could your employees achieve with extra time focused on growth? Read more »

Many companies, like Amazon, have suffered loss of reputation because of the lack of a good communication plan during disaster recovery.

Does your company have a communication plan as part of your Business Continuity Planning?

How a company handles a disaster, depends on how well they have prepared a plan with their IT Support. If disaster planning with your IT Support has not been done, the risk of loss can increase.

During Amazon’s disaster, their customers lost faith in them. Read more »

According to businessdictionary.com, security breaches are an act from inside or outside an organization that get around or disregard security policies, practices, or procedures. Security breaches can have financial consequences, damage to reputation of your company, damage to customer and investor confidence and loss of data on servers.

By letting your data security slip through the cracks, your business could have the potential of being in danger. What happens if your company were to have a security breach?

Here are two recent breaches on the news about how their business was affected and how to prevent data breach. Read more »

If you post this, you will spread this link to all your friends as well.

See the following article for details.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/osama-execution-video-scam-spreading-on-facebook/8607?tag=nl.e539

If you have put off getting your staff tools to do their jobs, now is the time to get them.  The right tools are crucial to getting the most from your employees and retaining them as the economy heats up.

With some careful investment, you could get more from your existing staff through great leadership and better equipment.  If a larger monitor will allow your staff to get more done in a day, why wouldn’t you do that before you hire?

What tools is your staff missing to be the most effective? Read more »