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		<title>Why keeping that 3 year old PC could cost you!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this economy, it is crucial to be innovative, and to stay on top of the latest information, so your business (whether small or big) can emerge from the recession as a strong competitor. Businesses are beginning to realize the importance of IT, and it is gradually becoming a priority. Don’t let your PC impact [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accepting Credit Cards? Make sure you&#8217;re PCI Compliant!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Where consumer&#8217;s personal and credit card information is concerned, security is a necessity. That&#8217;s where the PCI Security Standards Council comes in. The PCI Security Standards Council is &#8220;an open forum for the ongoing development, enhancement, storage, dissemination and implementation of security standards for account data protection. The PCI Security Standards Council’s mission is to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.akinsconsulting.com/blog/2010/03/accepting-credit-cards-make-sure-youre-pci-compliant/</link>
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		<title>Ten Tips for Making Your Business More Efficient</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Great article from Cisco: To keep pace in an increasingly competitive world, your business needs to run as efficiently as possible. &#8220;Sooner or later, any company not operating efficiently will be out of business,&#8221; says Laurie McCabe, vice president of small and medium business insights and solutions for research firm AMI-Partners. Efficiency is even more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.akinsconsulting.com/blog/2010/03/ten-tips-for-making-your-business-more-efficient/</link>
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		<title>3 Business Investments For 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As we look toward the new 2010 year, you may be asking yourself what your business should invest in the up-coming year. This is a great question! Even as the economy is still in recovery, it&#8217;s important to think how you can improve and make your business stronger. My top three pics for 2010 will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.akinsconsulting.com/blog/2009/12/3-business-investments-for-2010/</link>
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		<title>In-n-Out Fun!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thank you to everyone that came to our end-of-year event at our Costa Mesa office! It was a great crowd of hungry folks &#8211; not just for burgers, but also learning about how to save money and time by unifying phone systems from Cisco Technologies. In the up-coming year we&#8217;re looking forward to having a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.akinsconsulting.com/blog/2009/12/in-n-out-fun/</link>
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		<title>Cisco Technologies to Roll-up in Burger Truck</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re gearing-up for our December 21st event, and I do hope you&#8217;ll join us. It&#8217;s going to be a great lunch of In-n-Out burgers and fries, and some informative presentations by Cisco Technologies on how-to use technology to help you, business owners in Orange County, succeed on a whole new level. But, how do business [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.akinsconsulting.com/blog/2009/12/cisco-technologies/</link>
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		<title>Windows 7 is released!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Top 7 things I like about Windows 7 1. Its fast. Booting up to Windows is faster. Waking up from hybernation is faster. With a laptop, I often hybernate my system instead of shutting it off so I can get right back to the documents or sites that I was previously working on. One thing [...]]]></description>
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