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Hewlett-Packard (HP), the world’s largest technology company, unveiled its largest investment in the all-in-one desktop PC market to date, debuting a portfolio of products that offer consumers, small to medium-size businesses (SMBs). The space-saving Omni series PCs–comprised of the Omni 120 and the Omni 220–are expected to be available on Sept. 21 and Sept. 11 […]

Hewlett-Packard will divide its webOS arm into two separate units that will report to different areas of the company, according to two leaked memos that have made their way onto the Web. HP acquired webOS as part of its takeover of Palm in 2010. The manufacturer originally had big plans for loading the operating system […]

Professional services automation vendor ConnectWise is taking its annual IT Nation conference to the next level this year, opening it up to IT solution providers who are not ConnectWise partners. “IT Nation has served as an annual meeting of ConnectWise partners to get together and share their successes with one another,” said Arnie Bellini, ConnectWise […]

Yahoo, a Web services pioneer that has been beset with financial troubles for the better part of the last decade, made a change in leadership Sept. 6 when its board of directors removed CEO Carol Bartz and named Chief Financial Officer Tim Morse as interim CEO. It was the second announcement of a change at […]

Networking solutions provider D-Link announced the ShareCenter Pro network storage solutions, which support concurrent NAS and iSCSI connectivity and are designed for SMB environments. With the ShareCenter Pro N-Series and S-Series models, D-Link has expanded its business storage offerings to offer unified storage solutions with built-in security, data protection and disaster recovery functionality well-suited for […]

By many accounts, the improvements in technology use by the U.S. government following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks have been few, expensive and mostly ineffective. Critics point to airport scanners that travelers hate and that have so far failed to uncover or foil new attacks. “Most of the innovation that has occurred is in protecting […]

Ten years ago, when the 9/11 terrorist attacks hit the eastern United States, storage and security concerns about business data weren’t that different from what we have today. Large enterprises housed their data in mainframes and array clusters, and they had archive tapes carted away to mysterious locations. Midrange businesses also did this but on […]

Amazon.com’s (NASDAQ:AMZN) Android tablet has been one of the worst kept secrets for months since CEO Jeff Bezos alluded to it. Analysts have predicted features and price points below $300 to help it effectively compete with Apple’s standard-bearing iPad. Price right with Amazon’s powerful brand, Forrester Research believes the tablet could sell 3 million to […]

The August CBIZ Small Business Employment Index (SBEI), a barometer for hiring trends among companies with 300 or fewer employees, further decreased by .36 percent through the month, after posting a decrease of .90 percent in July. Today’s announcement follows ADP’s August jobs survey, which showed that the private sector added 91,000 jobs in August, […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Flushed with success from the rapid adoption of the Chatter social networking program, Salesforce.com kicked off its annual Dreamforce user conference here Aug. 31 by saying businesses of all sizes should get ready to build the “social enterprise.” Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff says they can do this by using Chatter within the Salesforce.com software […]

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android U.S. smartphone market share of 40 percent is equivalent to the percentage of mobile consumers over 18 who use smartphones in this country, according to Nielsen’s July statistics. The researcher said Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iOS came in at No. 2 with 28 percent. Looking forward, one-third of U.S. consumers polled who said they […]

The revolution will not be televised. Rather, it will be Tweeted, posted on Facebook, and aired on YouTube. What revolution, you ask? Well, according to Salesforce.com Chairman/CEO Marc Benioff, in his Aug. 31 keynote at his company’s Dreamforce 2011 conference, we’re on the cusp of an "Enterprise Spring," a revolutionary period for corporations that is […]