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"Claiming itself to be a next-generation publisher, WEbook has successfully roped in venture capitalists to invest in their business," Deepak Thakur, senior research analyst in ICT Practice at Frost & Sullivan told the E-Commerce Times. If the dot-com burst and the more recent Wall Street fiasco have taught us anything, it is that investor confidence is not necessarily a harbinger of success.

Regardless of all its hype, security in cloud computing is not a revolution; rather it's an evolution of the age-old business model of outsourcing. The concept of cloud computing has evolved from the concepts of grid, utility, and SaaS, and these models evolved from the application service provider in the mid-early '90s.

For many businesses, keeping computers out of harm's way is a full-time job. IT departments spend increasing amounts of resources keeping out the bad stuff or finding and removing it when malware does slip in from careless users or sloppy adherence to best practices. Viruses, spyware, Trojans and many more unwanted programs can cause serious damage to a computer, or an entire network.

A few weeks ago, I spoke at the BlogWorld Expo conference in Las Vegas about hiring bloggers. I was on a panel titled "How to Hire a Professional blogger...

Spending a couple million dollars doesn't guarantee commercial success.

It's the final piece of the Panama pie. Will profit follow? And how quickly?

U.S. campaign is making a dent in offshore operations and folding more than a few hands of online Texas Holdem.

Getting a website up and running is the easy part: the real challenge is in then making that web presence a success. Like gardening, the successful company website takes time, patience and effort to cultivate.

(ISC)2® ("ISC-squared"), the not-for-profit organisation in educating and certifying information security professionals throughout their careers, is inviting businesses and consumers to download free security awareness materials that have been provided by some of the organisation's 60,000 certified members worldwide.

Google is expanding its market-making ad platform to reach online gamers, a 200-million-strong constituency, with the introduction of a beta program, AdSense for Games. As part of the AdSense platform, it operates much as one would expect: Game producers can display video ads, image ads or text ads within their games to earn revenue.