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The world is getting smaller thanks to modern technology; but unfortunately, aches and pains are growing as a result. The excessive use of mobile devices and incorrect posture while using smart phones and other gadgets or while sitting in front of a computer can lead to neck, back, wrist and even thumb pain, in addition to other musculoskeletal issues. The problem is becoming so widespread that earlier this year a spokesperson for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration said that musculoskeletal injuries remain one of the biggest workplace health and safety problems in American industry.

“People will be delighted to learn that they can enjoy technology without experiencing pain,” says Dr. Rick McMichael, president of the American Chiropractic Association (ACA). “Our

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The launch of Microsofts cloud-based Office 365 service is not exclusively news for small businesses, but small businesses were clearly the target audience for the services official unveiling on June 28.

While Microsoft was careful to stipulate Office 365 will meet the needs of any size enterprise, the companys press release also repeatedly touted the particular benefits of the service for small businesses. Elia Wallen, owner of the 35-employee temporary housing provider Travelers Haven, was quoted as saying the cloud service, which combines Microsofts Office, SharePoint, Exchange and Lync programs, will save his company $100,000 annually. According to Microsoft, Office 365 will cost between $2 and $27 per user per month, depending on the service plan.

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New Google tools have been launched to help small businesses more effectively reach customers on their mobile devices.

Last week, Google made small business technology news with its Mobile Sites feature, which the company described as an easy way to create websites tailored to mobile devices like smartphones. By enabling the tool, users who build their pages using Google Sites can automatically have their web page features, such as width and sidebars, adjust when loaded on an Apple or Android mobile device. Since launching Mobile Sites, Google has added templates for landing pages, eCommerce and other website components, making it easy for businesses to set up mobile-friendly web pages.

A June 29 post on the Google Mobile Ads Blog cited a company survey that found 61 percent of users were unlikely to use their phone to access a site they did not find mobile-friendly.

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Business demand for rapid time-to-market and lower operational costs is driving IT organizations to quickly adopt new approaches such as composite application architectures and cloud services. As the quest for quickly delivering high-quality business services continues, IT management – from automation and security to governance and service assurance – becomes the most critical factor for success.

CA Technologies acquisition of ITKO will add a new and critical dimension to modern IT management and extend it to encompass the entire service delivery lifecycle. In

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EVANSVILLE — Tri-Staters who had visited Banana Republic stores in other U.S. cities and abroad, and had long wished a store in the popular chain would locate here, will soon see that wish come true.

Bruce Goodman, owner of Evansville’s Pavilion, confirmed Tuesday that the giant retailer of men’s and women’s clothes, accessories and gifts will open in the shopping center off Burkhardt Road and East Lloyd Expressway before Thanksgiving.

By phone from his Jenkintown, Pa., office, Goodman said Goodman Properties officials and the Banana Republic had been negotiating the past six months about bringing the new store to the city.

A division of Gap Inc., Banana Republic is based in San Francisco, Calif. It began in 1978 as mainly a retailer of safari and travel-themed clothing. T

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Americans make tens of billions of keyword searches each year. It seems to have become one of America’s favorite pastimes – baseball, hotdogs, apple pie, and Google search. Savvy small business owners know how to harness and leverage the power of search engines to their keyword advantage.

Determining the right keywords to help your website SEO is a fine art. Assigning the proper keywords to your web pages can have tremendous implications on the success of your SEO or PPC campaign. The first keyword you may normally think of is usually not the one you should use. In fact, “keyword” in terms of SEO is a misleading misnomer. While in a very few and rare cases a single keyword may be effective, 99% of the time a “keyword” actually consists of a key phrase.

The keywords and phrases you utilize on your small business website can make or break the success of your SEO marketing campaign. They are th

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EVANSVILLE — Quietly and slowly, Eldorado, Ill.-based Banterra Bank began making inroads into the Evansville market in 2006 by opening a small commercial lending office in Lakeside Commons off Lynch and North Green River roads and ATMs at several area Casey’s general stores.

Its customer base began growing, and Banterra had two full-service banks built: One in Cross Pointe Commerce Center, where the banking center opened in July 2009, and across from the Apple Center in Newburgh, which opened in 2007.

Now, Banterra reveals plans to open a third full-service bank in the area, this one on Evansville’s West Side at St. Joseph Avenue and Delaware Street.

The location presently is a Don’s Claytons DCI Fine Drycleaning outlet, which expects to close Saturday.

The company operates another West Side store at 518 N. B

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Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) and Benchmark Capital have formed Hortonworks, an independent company consisting of key architects and core contributors to the open source Apache™ Hadoop™ technology!. The formation of Hortonworks increases investment in the development of Apache Hadoop and will accelerate adoption by making it more robust and easier to install, manage and use for enterprises and technology vendors. This investment will enable Apache Hadoop to meet the growing market demand and become the big data management and analysis platform of choice for the industry.

“Apache Hadoop is an exceptionally valuable technology and its growing adoption during the last five years demonstrates its potential to quickly become the de facto platform for managing big data.”

Apache Hadoop is the open source technology at the epicenter of big data and cloud computing. It enab

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Not every company that operates has to have public liability as part of their business insurance package, but the majority of companies that have property that a customer can physically access need to have this coverage in case of an accident.

If we knew when accidents were going to happen, then we would change the scenario and prevent them from happening. Instead we have no idea when something tragic is going to befall us, so we need to buy coverage in policies that will protect our assets and interests in the event of the unthinkable happening.

If you own property where you perform your job, and other people come to that property as clients or customers, then at any moment one of these people could possibly be injured while they are on your property, and you would be liable for the damages they suffer.

All it takes is for someone to trip on a rug, and they could fall and injure themselves, and damage some piece of personal property they may have been carrying when they fell. Read more…