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Immigrant entrepreneur Derek Ng of China Great Lakes Innovation, LLC spoke at Cuyahoga Community College and told of the opportunities in Cleveland that he could not match in New York or Washington DC.

Eric Brown, IBM Research Scientist working on the DeepQA project which created the Watson Jeopardy playing system spoke at a NEOSA Tech Week event in Cleveland on Tuesday. Gabe Torok of PreEmptive Solutions asked the question we all wanted to hear - can Watson pass the Turing Test?

Ohio.net now offers a VOIP based fax solution designed to work with your traditional fax machine. For a long time, VOIP technology did not want to work with traditional fax machines. Ohio.net launched the FAXPORT solution for those organizations that still want to use a traditional fax machine. It may be a necessity for you to fax documents with hand written notes or signatures, or you don't want to use fax to email that requires you to scan paper documents before they can be sent.

You can also use VOIP as a Remote Phone.

Ever wanted to work from home for a day but take calls in and dial out like you were at the office? Ohio.net's remote phone feature works with their hosted platform and allows your home office or cell phone to operate through your Hosted PBX as if it were your desk phone. This is an easy solution for being in two places at once.

Join Ohio.net and The Ruby Group for a free lunch seminar on April 27 that will help you recognize sales opportunities and increase revenue through Ohio.net's Agent Program.

Alex Desberg of Ohio.net will be speaking about What Technology Companies Are Looking For Today.

Alex is a twenty year veteran of launching and marketing internet technology and has supported the evolution of dial-up into broadband and business grade connections, co-location to cloud services and traditional telecoms into VOIP. Most of his technology tenure has been with regional and national providers.

At Ohio.net, a wholly owned subsidiary of Doylestown Communications (an Ohio ILEC established in 1899), Alex has been the development spearhead of a mature VOIP product line designed for business application and brings his support and knowledge to the B2B environment.

Alex Desberg of Ohio.net at the NEOSA Best of Tech Awards

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NEOSA Director Brad Nellis, Eric Brown and Kay Soltysiak of IBM
and NEOSA Chairman Gave Torok

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They gave insights into subjects every woman wants to talk about like "How do you do it all?" and "How do you balance family and work?"

Stefani Schaefer, Tami Longanberger and
Lieutenant Governor Mary Taylor

Mac fanboys always claimed that Macs were immune from viruses because of superior coding. In reality, virus writers chose to ignore the relatively small (4% or so) percentage of Macs and concentrated their efforts on the Windows world.

Now that the Mac is gaining some market share, they are becoming a target.

The Flashback Trojan has compromised an estimated 600,000 plus Macs, making it comparable to the massive Conficker worm botnet that affected Windows PCs.

PC World reports that "According to current data from Net Applications, Mac OS X is the number two desktop OS with 6.54 percent market share. Windows, on the other hand, accounts for 92.48 percent of the market. Based on market share, the Flashback Trojan botnet is equivalent to a Windows botnet of nearly 8.5 million PCs. That makes it an even larger threat than Conficker--just on a much smaller platform."

They continued, "It doesn’t help anything that Apple perpetuates the myth of invulnerability. It takes time to develop a patch, but as soon as Apple was aware that the threat existed, it should have proactively communicated to Mac OS X users to make them aware. In fact, it should have provided users with instructions to disable Java and mitigate the threat pending a patch to resolve the issue. The fact that it didn’t is probably a contributing factor to why the Flashback botnet is as large as it is."

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The Great Lakes Geek just finished reading #tweetsmart: 25 Twitter Projects to Help You Build Your Community

It's fitting that a book that focuses on the short (140 characters or less) messages of Twitter would itself be fewer than 100 pages.

But don't let the brevity of the 85 page paperback dissuade you from checking it out.

Great Lakes Geek Book Review of #tweetsmart

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