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Apple announced that preorders of its iPhone 4S have topped 1 million in a single day, surpassing the previous single-day preorder record of 600,000 held by iPhone 4. The iPhone 4S is the company’s latest smartphone and comes with new features including Apple’s dual-core A5 chip, an all new camera with advanced optics, full 1080p […]

Acer this week will start selling its new Aspire S3-951 laptop, an ultrabook that will come in at a cost under the crucial $1,000 price point set by Intel when it introduced the concept in May. Acer officials announced the new ultrabook Oct. 10, which will start at $899 and will offer a host of […]

Network operator AT&T announced the upcoming availability of five Android smartphones–the Motorola Atrix 2, Samsung Captivate Glide, Samsung DoubleTime, Pantech Pocket and AT&T Avail, a smartphone option for prepaid customers. These handsets increase AT&T s 2011 Android lineup to 19, with more planned. In addition, competitor T-Mobile launched two 4G Android 3.2 (Honeycomb) tablets–the T-Mobile […]

Small business optimism gained 0.8 points in September, according to the National Federation of Independent Business’ latest index, ending a six-month decline. However, the NFIB’s chief economist cautioned that in spite of this uptick, there is little among the 10 index components that can be considered "positive." Reports of owners expecting real sales to improve […]

SAN FRANCISCO — JavaOne has become a tradition for me. I have not missed one yet. Each year is memorable for different things. This year it is memorable as the place where I learned of Steve Jobs passing. I was in a meeting with a source at JavaOne here when he received a text informing […]

Research from Techaisle’s SMB Managed Services report indicates that small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) in the U.S. will be spending $7 billion on managed services in 2011 and will continue to grow in double digits for the next several years, an increment of more than a billion dollars each year. The data is based on […]

Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) began accepting preorders for its Kindle Fire tablet computer a week ago, and it already may be on pace to sell 2.5 million units, according to data leaked to an industry blog. The Kindle Fire is a 7-inch tablet based on a customized version of Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating system. Amazon CEO Jeff […]

Remote monitoring and management provider LabTech Software has released its latest version, LabTech 2011.2, designed for faster speed, enhanced management functions, newly developed reports, and improved connectivity to end-users, the company said.  The new version, available to LabTech partners immediately, offers the following new features, the company said: Direct Tunneling  MSPs can create a IP […]

I don’t exactly remember the first time I met Steve Jobs, but it was sometime in the very early ’80s, around the time that I first started to write for Byte, the great magazine of the early personal computer age, which is nothing like its pallid successor. In those days, Byte was the Bible of […]

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating system commanded 43.7 percent of U.S. market share through August, gaining almost 2 percentage points from comScore’s last count of 41.8 percent in July, according to the researcher. Android sales could get a boost in the U.S. from sales of the new Samsung Galaxy S II Android 2.3 "Gingerbread" smartphones on […]

It’s hard to overestimate the effect that former Apple CEO Steve Jobs, whose death was announced Oct. 5, had on the technology industry as a whole. His company’s innovations in tablets and smartphones kicked off the current rush toward mobility that will almost certainly define the space for years to come. Apple’s Website now opens […]

SAN FRANCISCO Oracle jumped onto the increasingly crowded social-networking gravy train Oct. 5 when its co-founder and CEO Larry Ellison introduced the enterprise-oriented Oracle Social Network as a key part of its evolving cloud strategy. Ellison also took the wraps off his company’s newest cloud-oriented middleware products and strategy, called Oracle Public Cloud, in an […]