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  • CompTIA Certifications Open Doors All Over the World

    CompTIA visited two of our international academy partners – Uxbridge College in Middlesex, England, and Tecnológico de Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico – to learn how students are taking advantage of CompTIA certifications to add value to their resumes and jumpstart their careers.
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  • Top Five Tech Surprises for Captain America

    As Captain America: Civil War is being waged in theaters worldwide, we look at the shock Steve Rogers must have felt adapting to modern life after being frozen in ice for 70 years and thawed out at the end of the first movie in the franchise.
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  • Spring Cleaning Your Tech: How IT Pros are Keeping on Top of Security and More

    Spring, a time of transformation, may also translate as such for the computer system. Seasonally, it presents the opportunity to reevaluate the tech being used at a company, making sure it’s all in proper working order and deciding if and when it may be time to make any upgrades.
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  • NPower Canada Sets Students Up For Success With CompTIA A+

    Helping to bridge the gap between the economically disenfranchised of Toronto and the city’s IT economy, NPower Canada provides free IT education to give hardworking young people a foot in the door. With CompTIA A+ in the curriculum, the organization has an impressive student success rate that keeps growing.
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  • CompTIA Webinar to Tackle the Rise of Malware

    David Emm, principal security researcher at Kaspersky Lab, will be discussing the recent rise of malware and how cybersecurity is more important than ever in this CompTIA webinar on May 4.
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  • A Day Without Technology

    Computers are everywhere, a point placed into stark relief when we consider a world in which they’re nowhere. Imagine waking up one day and all the world’s computers are just gone. The resulting chaos would stack up quickly, which is why we should no longer look at IT as just a part of the world but rather the entire world.
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  • CompTIA Project+: A Certification for Everything

    Western Governors University teaches its project management course in both its IT college and its business school. That’s because CompTIA Project+ is a certification that fills a critical need for the new business landscape. Projects are everywhere, in IT and beyond.
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  • Security and Privacy: Is it Really a Zero-Sum Game?

    It’s time to get past the zero-sum game mode of thinking with regards to privacy and security, where one or the other wins out. But to do that, we’ve got to learn more about the basic principles of privacy and security and how they work together. That’s why CompTIA is conducting a webinar called Security, Privacy and You: A Report on Today’s Industry Best Practices on April 20 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern.
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  • CompTIA’s Got Your Back on National High Five Day – and Every Day

    April 21 is National High Five Day, and that’s why this week we’re high-fiving the whole IT profession with this list of five ways that CompTIA’s got your back.
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  • Focus Management: The New Normal for Project Management?

    Doing business these days can mean living in a world of near-constant interruptions – little is routine. This challenges traditional project management, and makes managing your current focus much more important, as is knowing how to pause and resume projects or manage that micromanaging CEO. Project management isn’t dead, but it’s changing, and CompTIA is keeping pace with it.
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