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we're bringing you the news from a to z. it's nasty out there. tropical storm debby just stalled over florida's panhandle. it's smacking that sunshine state it with high winds and heavy rain. look at the pictures. boats getting smashed around and it's going to get worse before it gets any better. forecasters are saying the sl - slow-moving storm could dump another foot of rain on florida over the next couple of days and then spawn more tornadoes as well. that storm is already blamed for one death. florida's governor has declared a statewide emergency. look at you. you found how bad i...

How did this work? >> what this group did was infect millions of computers with a virus in the normal fashion. and then what that virus is d. is when a computer user went to click on a certain web site, such as the itunes web site or netflix, they were taken, instead to a different web site. in the case of netflix they went to something instead called budget match. that's called click hijacking. there was another thing they did called ad replacement. if somebody clicked on the "wall street journal" on the front page of that the paper ad was by american express. they managed to get an ad for fa...

one area includes the capital, mogadishu where an estimated 100,000 people have come looking for aid. the u.n. says nearly half the country is suffering from malnutrition. egypt's ailing former president will next appear in court august 15th as his trial opened. hosni mubarak denied charges of corruption and playing role in the death of more than 800 anti-government demonstrators. the trial of his rmer interior minister is scheduled to get under way at this hour. in eastern australia, a teenage girl is safe but police don't know who strapped a fake bomb around her neck. police sa...

There are a few specific apps you can only get on mac, final cut, editing video, doing audio work. for the most part you can get things like microsoft office and outlook and photo shop. >> the average small business owner as far as software goes, you're fine with either? >> unless you have a specific need, which you know is also available on platform. >> like my husband is an architect, likes to use a pc, work processing. >> and even then, can you install windows, boot it. that's advanced. >> ease of use. >> everybody always said macs are easier to use. especially if you're not a native comput...

Cheap and as efficient as it's ever been. i mean, this is the greatest age for marketing. twitter, you can reach hundreds of thousands of people. facebook, you can reach 600 million people. it's china, india, facebook. >> the lesson is use it. >> use it. get out there, push. don't think of of it as just social networking. think of it as a marketing mechanism. >> guy kawasaki, thank you very much for stopping by. we appreciate it. >> you're welcome. thank you. throughout the show today we've been taking a look at how technology is changing the way small businesses operate. for more, you can c...