Sat.Oct 27, 2012 - Fri.Nov 02, 2012

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Protect Before You Connect! Simple Precautions To Avoid Online Personal Privacy Disaster

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by Mark Weinstein, CEO and founder of Sgrouples.com. The Internet is an amazing, fantastic, vibrant place. But there are also evil people out there who steal identities, hack credit card accounts, track personal information, violate privacy, insert malicious programs that can exploit your company or home network, destroy your hard drives and raid your social network.

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How To Build Out Your Business To Support Yourself

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by Brandon Anderson, founder of Trans Supply. Do you have a small business right now that you wish could support yourself full time? Here are some tips on how to increase the size of your business so you don’t need any side gigs to make ends meet. I started my traffic safety business Trans Supply in high school and ran it through four years of college, so I had plenty of time to grow it to a point where I didn’t need any other job after college. 1.

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[Singapore] [Event] UP for PMEs’ Personal Data Protection Act Workshop

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Singapore recently passed its Personal Data Protection Act to help safeguard an individual’s personal data against misuse, such as those annoying cold calls from telemarketers touting anything from bank loans to yet another credit card. The bill encompasses the creation of a national Do-Not-Call registry and as well as a new enforcement agency tasked to regulate the management of personal data by businesses and impose financial penalties if they prove miscreant.

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FindersCodes – Recover Lost Items Through QR Codes

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We’ve never been really been big fans of QR codes. The cases where technology’s been put to good use have been few and far between (only TESCO Homeplus’ use of QR codes to create an entire virtual subway supermarket store targeted at busy professionals comes to mind). But here’s a startup that aims to use QR codes in a different way.

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[Singapore] Boston Consulting Group Opens Center For Business Excellence

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Mr S Iswaran, Minister, Prime Minister’s Office & Second Minister for Home Affairs and Trade & Industry, Dr. Hans-Paul Bürkner, President and Chief Executive Officer of BCG, and Mr Jeffrey Chua, Partner and Managing Director, BCG Singapore, opens BCG’s Center for Business Excellence in Singapore. Leading global management consulting firm Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has announced the opening of its first-ever Center for Business Excellence, right here in Singapore.

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[Singapore] Brother’s MFC-J2510 InkBenefit Prints Up To A3… And Does It Sideways

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IT peripheral manufacturer Brother International earlier this week launched a new inkjet multifunction printer, the MFC-J2510 InkBenefit. Tailored for personal, SOHO or SMB use, the MFC-J2510 InkBenefit features a 3.7-inch touchscreen interface along with its copy, scan, fax and print capability. What’s distinctive about the multifunction printer is that it can actually print up to A3 size (and on two sides as well), which is extremely uncommon for printers meant for small or home office u

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Will The Nexus 10 Be The New Small Business Workhorse Device?

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If you’ve been catching up on the most recent tech news, the latest gadget just announced is the Nexus 10, a 10-inch Android tablet put together by tech giants Google and Samsung. This powerful device looks to marry Samsung’s best-in-class hardware chops with the best of what Google has to offer, including the latest Android version, 4.2 Jelly Bean.