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Google and Yahoo are so well established in my daily Internet search routine that I wasn’t expecting to find anything new with a beta engine from a start-up search company. But ubExact had more than one pleasant surprise in how it lets users search. ubExact launched its beta on Sept. 2 after spending much of its first year designing the search platform and loading a database of information and vendor links keyed to Metro Service Areas around the nation. That process will continue for some time until the end of phase one.

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ubExact Gives Search a Little More Personality

These days, when you hear about downloading music for free, it’s usually bad news: a lawsuit from a label, a threat from an ISP, or a crackdown from the government. Now, though, a new startup is turning the tables and encouraging fans to grab all they want — without paying a single dime. TrueAnthem considers itself a modern-day music label. Launched in April, the service offers widget-based downloads of entire albums for free. The only catch? A five-second ad at the top of each track.

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TrueAnthem: Shaping the Future of Free Music

Apple’s new iPhone App Store is full of ways to waste time, but some Houston entrepreneurs are trying to leverage the device’s popularity to turn a profit. Houston private equity investment adviser, software developer and private pilot Tyson Weihs, 32, appears to be one of the early success stories. In the first weekend after the iPhone 3G launched July 11, Weihs’ application, ForeFlight, brought in an estimated $3.4 million, according to Medialets, a mobile advertising analytics firm tracking iPhone application sales.

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Bringing In the Bucks With Practical iPhone Apps

The world of online business communication has introduced two industry-changing elements for small business: more customers and more competitors. Circa 1999, you were ahead of the competition by simply having a Web site to preview your service or products. By 2004, Web transactions were the norm, and convenience was the king. Both those previous core competencies have become expected norms, with social interaction, immediate consumer feedback, and a live and evolving social network and Web presence the new differentiators for cutting-edge online small business best practices.

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Giving Your Site a Social Life

We’re facing a Web security gap. The Web has become the primary source of infections in enterprises, surpassing e-mail. Although most enterprises do some form of URL filtering on their Web traffic, it’s proven to not be an adequate security solution alone. Only 15 percent of organizations are performing the deeper inspection and blocking on Web traffic necessary to protect their employees, according to Gartner. And the problem is growing, with over 9,000 Web sites hosting malicious code being added each day.

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Is Web 2.0 Security’s Achilles Heel?