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At Austin’s Capital Factory last week, CompTIA attended Apple CEO Tim Cook’s announcement that the App Development with Swift curriculum will now be offered at Austin Community College (ACC), one of the nation’s largest higher learning institutions.

The truth is, it's really quite easy to start a business. The hard part is turning an owner into a leader.

Our Linux guru, Jason Eckert, is back to “Talk Tech to Me” about Linux foo. Can your moves stand up when everyone is Linux foo fighting?

While researching other certifications to build his IT career, Leonard Waker realized that he only had a few days to keep his current ones from expiring. CompTIA CertMaster CE let him prove his skills quickly and conveniently without disrupting his busy schedule, and taught him some valuable new IT tricks.

Few great leaders are born with those skills. But with hard work and a positive strategy in place, IT business owners can acquire the aptitude and attitude needed to ensure the success of their organizations.

With more than 70 percent of businesses using cloud services today, there is enormous potential for channel partners to grow their businesses through SaaS. Find out how here.

If you aren't familiar with zpool and zvol, don't fret. Our Linux guru, Jason Eckert, is back to “Talk Tech to Me” with a crash course on configuring ZFS.

This month, CompTIA’s Human Services Information Technology Advisory Group (HSITAG) participated and held its monthly meeting at the Medicaid Enterprise Systems Conference (MESC) in Baltimore. Traditionally, HSITAG has been focused on Human Services programs such as social services, child care, child support, and temporary assistance for needy families (TANF).

In a recent interview, iRobot CEO Colin Angle mentioned that the maps built by iRobot’s Roomba could potentially be sold to other companies. Naturally, this heightens privacy concerns that have been steadily building around digital data and always-connected devices.

The CompTIA State Government Affairs (SGA) National Committee convened its annual mid-year meeting on August 7th at the Aloft Seaport Hotel in Boston. The meeting was held in conjunction with the National Conference of State Legislatures’ (NCSL) Legislative Summit. The meeting kicked off with a session on several key activities that the overall CompTIA organization is undertaking, including an overview of the CompTIA Association for IT Professionals (AITP).

Some have reservations about mentoring others. Whether that lack of confidence comes from their own skills, or concerns about communicating with a different generation of workers, it may be keeping them from a highly rewarding experience. How can they overcome those stumbling blocks?

Whether you call them useless or interesting, here are five fun facts about the open-source software.

CompTIA CEO Todd Thibodeaux offers five steps to coming diversity challenges in the workplace.

Business technology is no longer just about the components and networks. With the focus shifting to problem-solving, efficiency, and differentiation, it's creating opportunities for channel companies to partner with CPAs, attorneys and other specialists. That's why CompTIA Council members made it a major topic of their joint meeting conversation at ChannelCon.

When Bryan Amoroso was ready to move up in his IT career, he found that Wilmington University not only offered the program he needed, but that he would get college credit for his CompTIA A+ certification.