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Printer manufacturer Lexmark is branching out to create new business process management (BPM) software for health care and other industry verticals, such as education, financial services, government and retail. The company plans to leverage the enterprise content management (ECM) capabilities of its stand-alone Perceptive Software unit and the BPM tools of Netherlands-based Pallas Athena to […]

CompTIA, the nonprofit IT association for the IT industry, has released its "Third Annual Healthcare IT Insights and Opportunities" study showing small physician practices continuing to complement laptops and desktop PCs with smartphones and tablets but slow to adopt cloud computing services. The organization conducted the study, announced on Nov. 16, to find out where companies […]

In its latest research, the 2011-2012 North America SMB Unified Communications Overview, IT research firm AMI-Partners found that while deployment of full or complete Unified Communications (UC) solutions in North America is low, adoption of its individual components is actually rather high. More than half of small to medium-size businesses (SMBs, or firms with 1-999 […]

Having been integrated into Microsoft, Skype is now moving ahead with new Facebook integration and some new features for its Mac and Windows versions. The latest versions of Skype for Mac and Windows now boast the ability to conduct Facebook-to-Facebook calls from within Skype. Starting such a call involves connecting the user s Skype and […]

SEATTLE, — Intel is continuing the aggressive expansion of the hardware, software and services offerings the chip maker offers to systems makers to sell to businesses. In the first half of 2012, Intel’s Enterprise Platform and Services Division (EPSD) will roll out 12 new platform offerings–such as motherboards for servers and workstations–that not only will […]

Salaries for IT security professionals are projected to increase by 4.5 percent in 2012, according to a new salary survey. The increasingly hostile threat landscape and growing demand for cloud computing has made security the hottest IT career in terms of salary growth, staffing firm Robert Half Technology said in its latest 2012 Salary Guide […]

nCircle, a provider of automated security and compliance auditing solutions, announced the release of PureCloud, a network security scanning service aimed at small to medium-size businesses (SMBs). PureCloud combines enterprise class security technology with a user-friendly browser-based scanning service. The service can scan both internal and external networks without requiring any hardware or software to […]

Digital storage solutions specialist Western Digital (NYSE: WDC), announced the release of the WD Sentinel DX4000, a network storage solution aimed at small and midsize businesses. The DX4000 includes the Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials operating system software and the Intel D525 Dual Core Atom CPU. The DX4000 offers centralized shared storage and automatic […]

Michael Dell told eWEEK last August that his company is steering more aspects of the business toward the higher-margin enterprise markets. That strategy apparently is starting to make a difference on the bottom line. Dell on Nov. 15 posted profits that were up 9 percent over the same period a year ago, despite banking only […]

Per its CEO Marc Benioff’s plan for the company, Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) made another acquisition aligned with its goals for padding its mobile, social and cloud-computing portfolio. The software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider agreed to purchase consulting services concern and partner Model Metrics for an undisclosed sum Nov. 14. Model Metrics advises over 500 clients on the deployment […]

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating system continued its steady march up the worldwide smartphone charts in the third quarter, reaching 52.5 percent, according to Gartner. Android, which more than doubled its smartphone pie from Q3 2010, took share from all of its rivals. The platform bested Nokia’s (NYSE:NOK) Symbian platform at 17 percent, down from 36 […]

Research in Motion released two new smartphones based on the BlackBerry 7 operating system the Bold 9790 and Curve 9380. The Bold 9790 offers a high-resolution touch display and a tactile keyboard. The Curve 9380 is the first-ever Curve smartphone with a touch display. The Bold 9790 combines a high-resolution and touch display with a […]