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bMighty News Flash: Friday April 3, 2009

April 3, 2009
By bMighty Staff

Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Karen Gordon Mills confirmed to for SBA, Google buying Twitter? No-contract 3G modem, rural 4G broadband, Office for iPhone, WiMax as Betamax, free WiMax in Silicon Valley, Verizon app store, Conficker Symantec scam, PowerPoint security hole, Amazon Elastic Map Reduce. . .

"I am a believer in American small business. I am a believer in America's ability to manufacture goods and services that are world class, and I am a believer in America's spirit of entrepreneurship. This spirit is one of our country's greatest assets and we need to cultivate it today, more than ever."
-- Karen Gordon Mills, Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration

BUSINESS & E-BUSINESS

Karen Gordon Mills Wins Unanimous Senate Approval To Lead SBA

Google rumored to be in talks to buy Twitter

MOBILE

Sierra 3G modem for Verizon doubles as storage drive, no contract required

Verizon will bring 4G wireless broadband to rural areas

Microsfoft Office rumored to be coming to the iPhone

Nokia dismisses WiMax as the new Betamax

Clearwire announces free WiMax beta network for developers in Silicon Valley

Verizon Wireless announces app store

SECURITY

Scammers using Conficker panic to lure victims to fake Symantec antivirus

Microsoft acknowledges zero-day flaw in PowerPoint

SERVICES

Amazon's combines cloud computing infrastructure with Hadoop open source framework in Amazon Elastic Map Reduce for large scale date processing

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EVENTS

Tuesdays, 8-10 PM ET: BatchBlue Software hosts SBBuzz Twitter chats for business owners, entrepreneurs, IT pros to discuss social media

April 7, 2009, 11 AM - 12:15 PM ET: IT Failures Town Hall: Risks of Survival

April 24, 2009: Intuit United Small Business grant competition deadline

April 29, 2009: bMighty bSecure: SMB Security On A Budget

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