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With the HP TouchPad on the ropes and Apple’s iPad 2 cornering the tablet market, small businesses might think they don t have as many choices as they’d like when it comes to an efficient, business-centric tablet. While devices like the BlackBerry PlayBook cater to a more professional market, consumer-savvy devices like the Samsung Galaxy […]

NEW YORK CITY — Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) introduced its Kindle Fire tablet computer, a WiFi-only, 7-inch slate priced at $199.999 to drastically undercut the $499 base price of Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad. The Kindle Fire, which is based on Google’s (NASDAQ:GOG) Android operating system, will go on sale Nov. 15. The device is equipped with an IPS, […]

The tech support market for small and midsize businesses will exceed $20 billion by 2015, according to Parks Associates, which notes that the 2008 launch of AT&T’s Tech Support 360 is a significant milestone in this market because this service was the first to integrate communications, data services and technical support on a nationwide level. […]

Apple seems ready to launch its next smartphone, sending to media an invite for an Oct. 4 event. “Let’s talk iPhone,” it reads, below a calendar icon for that date, a clock icon set to 10 a.m., a phone icon and a map icon indicating Apple’s Infinite Loop headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. Increasing chatter over […]

Samsung is doubling down on its Galaxy devices, with the announcement that its Galaxy Tab 8.9 tablet will ship Oct. 2. Over the past year, the company has affixed the Galaxy brand to a growing number of smartphones and tablets, in a bid to offer an alternative ecosystem to Apple’s iOS. The newest Galaxy Tab, […]

Cloud automation and management software provider Cloupia announced Open Automation for Clouds, allowing its customers and partners to extend, add or enhance data center management and operations automation in addition to its Cloupia Unified Infrastructure Controller (CUIC) cloud and data center automation capabilities. The company’s Open Automation for Clouds capability provides customers with a way […]

Hosting and cloud services enablement specialist Parallels announced the availability of Parallels Automation for Cloud Infrastructure, a scalable solution for service providers to deliver cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) to small to medium-size businesses. PACI provides hosting control, from provisioning and billing to self-service management and security. It is ready to deploy on any […]

Just 27 percent of small business owners have had an outside party test their computer systems to ensure they are hacker-proof, according to the findings of Newtek Business Services’ Small Business Authority Market Sentiment Survey, a monthly window into the concerns of independent business owners. Based on a poll of approximately 1,200 respondents, one of the […]

The newly released Lenovo ThinkPad tablet flips the consumerization of IT paradigm by adding business-class features such as management software, full-size peripheral connectors–including a full-size USB 2.0 port–and an optional digitizer pen to a tablet that has a 10.1-inch display and runs the Android “Honeycomb” operating system. IT managers who are in a position to […]

Not long after Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems in 2010, it did some rebranding and ported over its 2-year-old, Hewlett-Packard-boxed Exadata Database Server to its new SPARC-powered hardware and began weaning it off the older machines. If Oracle was going to become a full-service IT provider, this is where it had to start. That was the […]

Microsoft is detailing some of its security procedures for Windows 8. Key to Windows 8’s platform integrity architecture is its UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface), a set of specifications for how the operating system communicates with platform firmware during the boot-up process. UEFI features a firmware validation process known as secure boot, which dictates how […]

Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) appears set to introduce its long-rumored Kindle Tablet Sept. 28 at a media event in New York City, a happening that could cap months of speculation about a potential rival to Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad. Amazon Sept. 23 sent out media invitations asking press and analysts for the event next Wednesday, and eWEEK will […]