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Verio Inc., a provider of online business solutions to small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) worldwide, including Web hosting, application hosting and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), announced at its viaVerio Partner Summit the availability of Microsoft Hosted Exchange 2010, which the company said is now available. READ MORE >>

Avaya is working with IBM to help improve communications capabilities in the health care field. Avaya officials announced May 4 that the company is integrating real-time, intelligent communications into health care applications through its own ACE (Agile Communication Environment) and IBM’s Health Integration Framework. READ MORE >>

EMC subsidiary Iomega, a provider of network storage to small and medium-size business,announced the latest entry in its lineup of network storage products with the launch of the StorCenter ix12-300r Network Storage array. Supporting groups of up to 250 users, the StorCenter ix12-300r Network Storage array provides up to 24TB of networked storage in a […]

(Reuters) – Intel, the world’s largest semiconductor company, unveiled a new version of its Atom platform, promising lower power consumption, cheaper cost and smaller size to better target smartphones. "Intel has delivered its first product that is opening the door … in the smartphone market segment," Anand Chandrasekher, general manager of Intel’s Ultra Mobility Group, […]

(Reuters) – Hewlett-Packard Co is rolling out a back-to-school lineup of notebook personal computers in what will be its largest single launch of laptops featuring processors from Advanced Micro Devices. HP said it refreshed or overhauled its Envy, Pavilion and Mini netbook consumer lines, and ProBook enterprise PCs. They will go on sale later in […]

HELSINKI (Reuters) – Nokia and Microsoft unveiled on Wednesday the first result of their new software collaboration aimed at breaking the dominance of Research in Motion’s BlackBerry in wireless services for corporations. Nokia and Microsoft, at one time fierce rivals in the mobile telecommunications business, announced the alliance in August 2009. They expect to offer […]

A new proposal by U.S. Sens. Harry Reid, D-Nev., Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and Bob Menendez, D-N.J., would see a stiffening of the regulations surrounding H-1B and L-1 visas, including restricting the number of H-1B and L-1 employees that U.S. companies of a certain size could hire. While the plan currently circulating on Capitol Hill is […]

A prominent IT researcher forecast May 3 that the hard-disk storage industry will be building and selling products at an unprecedented pace during the next five years. In fact, the world hard drive industry is predicted to deliver more than 300,000 petabytes of storage capacity through 2015 — mostly to enterprise data centers and cloud […]

Hewlett-Packard’s acquisition of Palm for $1.2 billion is widely expected to change the smartphone landscape, not to mention save the Palm brand from implosion. What’s less certain is how the deal might affect the nascent tablet PC market. HP has a number of decisions confronting it, including how to best integrate Palm’s products into its […]

Enterprise adoption of virtualization is continuing its upward trend. But what about security? According to Prism Microsystems, organizations are slacking when it comes to protecting virtualized environments. A survey of 302 IT managers, security pros, auditors and administrators about their virtual deployments paints a picture of a landscape where the hypervisor is unprotected and separation […]

BumpTop uses “pile creation techniques” to shuffle and stack documents as if they were cards in a deck. The app was originally created for use with a pen-style stylus; the startup added multitouch last September, looking to capitalize on the shift toward touch-screen interfaces by letting users move, zoom in and out on, and access […]

Microsoft has confirmed reports of a cross-site scripting vulnerability in SharePoint Server 2007 and SharePoint Services 3.0. According to Microsoft, the vulnerability could allow escalation of privilege (EoP) within the SharePoint site. If an attacker successfully exploits the vulnerability, the person could run commands against the SharePoint server with the privileges of the compromised user. […]