| Protect Your Biz From Cyber Attacks Posted: 10 Jun 2012 11:30 PM PDT 
Mashable: You may think that cybersecurity is only important for major companies, but think again. Small businesses are particularly vulnerable to cyberattacks: Without the big security budgets of Fortune 500 companies, they're seen as easy prey by digital information thieves and corporate espionage experts. And if you're hit by an attack, you should be prepared to face a revenue loss of up to $10,000 (or more) if your website goes down in the process. That's a lot of money for a small business to lose, and it can happen at any time. How can a small business protect against cyberattacks and information leaks without breaking the bank? 1. Smart Passwords 2. Mobile Device Education 3. Social Media Education 4. Risk Management Click here for a more thorough description of each tip.
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| Google Maps Going 3D Posted: 10 Jun 2012 11:00 PM PDT 
Soon you will be able to search through a city using an aerial view. That search will be in 3D if you’re using Google Maps, reports CNet. Both Google and Apple now have technology to create 3D maps that include buildings. Neither has rolled the product out yet. Today at Google’s San Francisco office, we saw Google demonstrate its new 3D mapping product that will use its own library of aerial imagery to build fully-modeled 3D cities. The ability to fly through a city and see all its buildings and trees as if you were “flying in your own private helicopter” is incredibly cool. In the demo we saw, most buildings looked close to photorealistic, although some (in particular the AT&T ballpark), had strange artifacts showing. This 3D feature would be a great spiff for Android users and a great reason for iPhone users to download a new Google Maps app for that platform. Except for one thing: Very soon, this won’t be a unique feature. Apple bought C3 Technologies in October, and that company does exactly what the new 3D feature in Google Maps does: It turns aerial photos into 3D models.
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| Trends: Tablets Are Booming Posted: 10 Jun 2012 10:30 PM PDT 
If you want to make money, you need to be where the trends are at. According to PCMag.com, tablet use has exploded. What opportunities are there for you? The data measurement company found that smartphone adoption has exploded, with nearly one in four smartphone owners (or 23.6 percent) also using tablets during the three-month period ending this April. A year prior, just 9.7 percent of smartphone owners also used tablets. “Tablets are one of the most rapidly adopted consumer technologies in history and are poised to fundamentally disrupt the way people engage with the digital world both on-the-go and perhaps most notably, in the home,” Mark Donovan, comScore’s senior vice president of mobile, said in a statement. “It’s not surprising to see that once consumers get their hands on their first tablet, they are using them for any number of media habits including TV viewing.”
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| Today in Entrepreneurial History: June 10 Posted: 10 Jun 2012 07:13 PM PDT 
For more about Antonio Meucci, read Antonio and the Electric Scream—The Man Who Invented the Telephone: Antonio Meucci represents an unlikely story in American history. Having come of age in Florence, Italy, he immigrated to America by way of Cuba, where he lived for many years and where he worked with the Italian Opera Company. Familiar with telegraphy, wherein intelligence (information) was being transmitted through a wire, he proposed to transmit human voice through the same type of wire. Having come to New York, and having established several kinds of business, he experimented with his telettrofono (electric phone). Satisfied with the results of having transmitted voice intelligence from one end to the other end of copper wire, Meucci applied for a patent and received a caveat instead. A. Graham Bell, however, received a patent for a similar invention. Now, finally, after more than 160 years, Meucci is being vindicated: 1) A Silver and Bronze Medal were struck by The Italian American Bicentennial Society. 2. The Meucci-Garibaldi Museum has been established in New York. 3. The US Postal Services has published a commemorative stamp, and, 4. The 107th Congress of the United States resolved to recognize Meucci as the inventor of the telephone. 
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