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Small businesses are increasingly becoming educated about the benefits cloud computing holds for their companies, according to a report from Fonality, a business communications company. Fonality released the results of a survey conducted by Webtorials, which measured 2012 communications goals and challenges for small to medium-size businesses (SMBs). The "2012 Small and Medium-Sized Business Communications […]

Amazon’s (NASDAQ:AMZN) Kindle Fire helped power market share for tablets based on Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating system to 39 percent market share for the fourth quarter of 2011, up from 29 percent a year ago. Global tablet shipments reached an all-time high of 26.8 million units in Q4 2011, up 150 percent from 10.7 million […]

The idea that IT professionals and business leaders are resisting the consumerization of IT and the trend of bringing your own device (BYOD) to work is myth. On the contrary, more and more people are embracing these notions and trying to incorporate them into the workday, according to a recent study. Several recent reports have […]

VMware is joining a number of other virtualization and cloud vendors in trying to leverage online marketing muscle to expand its customer base, while offering new products to its partners and developers. On Jan. 25, VMware officially launched its Solution Exchange, an online virtualization and cloud marketplace that is designed to help customers, partners and […]

Back in April 2011, Dell, Microsoft and VMware got into a three-way marriage to co-develop private cloud systems. As nature would have it, nine months after the consummation of the deal, the partnership is resulting in new offspring. On Jan. 25, the trio came out with vStart, a new preconfigured cloud system server that the […]

VMware’s latest stab at accelerating customer cloud adoption comes in the form of VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite, which is the newest piece of VMware’s comprehensive management portfolio. The vCenter Operations Management Suite is designed to simplify and automate the operations of virtual and cloud environments. Ideally, the product will make it easier for enterprise […]

Cisco Systems continues to be the dominant player in the increasingly competitive router space, and executives are looking to push that advantage going in 2012 by extending the solutions strategy they say is the company s key differentiator. Over the past year-plus, Cisco has aggressively brought services–such as security and collaboration–onto its Integrated Service Routers […]

The saga over Symantec’s stolen code took another twist as the company acknowledged that pcAnywhere customers are at risk for man-in-the-middle attacks and new exploits. The breach actually occurred on Symantec servers in 2006, and attackers stole source code to several Norton security products and the pcAnywhere remote access tool, Symantec confirmed last week. At […]

Apple s upcoming iPhone 5 will feature a bigger screen and a different casing from the iPhone 4, suggests a new posting on the Apple-centric blog 9to5Mac. According to the Jan. 25 report s reliable source at Foxconn in China, the various prototypes circulating around that production facility share some common features, including a 4-plus-inch […]

Instead of just launching distributed denial-of-service attacks, cyber-attackers have started hijacking domain names and redirecting traffic from legitimate sites to malicious ones. The hacker group Anonymous recently managed to hijack the Domain Name System record for CBS.com and redirected all traffic to another Web server that displayed an empty directory structure. It appeared as if […]

LG-Ericsson USA announced the availability of the latest in its line of business communications solutions to support small to medium-size business voice, video and data communications management needs, the iPECS-MG Business-Enabled Communications System. Available through LG-Ericsson’s certified resellers, the iPECS-MG system, a software tool that facilitates centralized configuration and monitoring of all connected devices, both […]

Technology professionals enjoyed their largest annual salary growth since 2008, according to the 2012-2011 Salary Survey from Dice, a career site for technology and engineering professionals. After two straight years of wages remaining nearly flat, tech professionals on average garnered salary increases of more than two percent, boosting their average annual wage to $81,327 from […]