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Despite the recent economic turbulence and a survey that shows 61 percent of small business owners aren’t optimistic about the economic outlook, new data shows a 27 percent increase in new business activity in the second quarter of 2011 versus the same quarter last year. The findings are part of the first Manta SMB Wellness […]

Technology giant Dell expanded its commitment to providing customers with a portfolio of solutions to help meet the needs of the rapidly changing IT environment, including data management, desktop virtualization, endpoint security and other initiatives that require a combination of end-user devices and complementary services, software and solutions, as well as introducing a revamped version […]

Oracle, led by its steady software sales, turned in an upbeat earnings report Sept. 20, showing gross and net income up for the most recent sales quarter. The database, middleware and data center hardware company reported that its fiscal first-quarter 2012 total revenues were up 12 percent to $8.4 billion over the same period a […]

Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZW) will begin selling the HTC Rhyme, a 3G smartphone based on Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android 2.3 "Gingerbread" operating system Sept. 29 for $199.99 on contract. With its plum color and special "charm" alert device (see it on The Verge blog), the Rhyme is targeted toward female customers, HTC executives indicated at a launch […]

SAP plans to buy out Crossgate, a business-to-business electronic data exchange service that allows trading partners to securely transmit critical business information, including production orders, specifications and invoices. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Crossgate, which was founded in 2001 and is based in Munich, Germany, allows enterprises to set up dedicated secure data […]

Half the employees at small and midsize businesses are estimated to be working outside the office, and a quarter of SMBs’ staff works outside the firm at any given time, at any given time, according to a new study, entitled "State-of-the-Market 2011 Report: Mobility Trends in SMBs." The report, released by business communications specialist Fonality […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has made no attempt to hush talk of "Ice Cream Sandwich," the next build of Android that promises to unify elements of the Android 2.x smartphone branch and Android 3.x "Honeycomb" branch of the platform for tablets. The Android development team paved the way for developers Sept. 19 by warning them about what […]

Apple will continue to dominate the tablet market this year, with or without an iPad 3 entering the market, according to an analyst. “We do not expect iPad 3 this year, but there’s no rush,” J.P. Morgan analyst Mark Moskowitz wrote in a Sept. 19 research note excerpted by Fortune. “The other tablet entrants have […]

Although the overall trend in enterprise storage IT is clearly moving toward smaller, faster 2.5-inch solid-state drives, plenty of shops still use the older 3.5-inch variety, and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies is determined to keep supplying that market. Hitachi on Sept. 19 said that its 3.5-inch Fibre Channel Ultrastar 400S single-level cell SSDs, co-developed with […]

Integra Telecom, a provider of fiber-based, business-grade networking, communications and cloud solutions, introduced a cloud security services suite of managed, networked-based security products for companies that rely on the Internet for their business and need to protect their network from unauthorized and malicious access and content. The first available product is Cloud Firewall Service, a […]

Cisco Systems’ new aggressive push against Juniper Networks and other networking rivals is a long time coming, but could present pitfalls if the vendor isn’t careful, according to analysts. In a week dominated by news from major Intel and Microsoft conferences, Cisco made its own headlines when CEO John Chambers and other executives met with […]

Don’t look for Michael Dell to jump on the post-PC bandwagon. The PC market might be under significant pressure–from the rise of tablets and smartphones to the increased focus on software and services to the uncertain global economic situation–but consumers and businesses alike are continuing to buy PCs, with Gartner analyst predicting as many as […]