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Lenovo is getting deeper into the tablet fray, announcing that the ThinkPad Tablet, the company’s first business-class Android-based tablet, is now available for sale through the computer vendor’s network of U.S. business partners and online with models starting at $499. Additionally, the company noted Seton Hall University would be the first educational institution to deploy […]

In an annual report called IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2011/2012, Computer Economics, an IT research and advisory firm, reveals that 61 percent of health care organizations are increasing IT staff head counts in 2011. Computer Economics conducts the study to give key metrics to IT managers to help them with organizing finance and strategy. […]

Research In Motion’s BlackBerry-branded Playbook has won the tablet wars. Actually, no, that statement probably deserves a little bit of adjustment: RIM s 7-inch tablet hasn’t exactly put a dent in the iPad’s blockbuster sales run, but nonetheless it s one of the few touch-screen devices on the market to actually survive the Apple juggernaut […]

Hewlett-Packard’s TouchPad turned out to be a bestseller. All HP had to do was kill the tablet, which in turn sparked a global fire sale at electronics retailers. Over the weekend, Best Buy slashed the price of the 16GB TouchPad from $399 to $99, and the 32GB version from $499 to $149. (That’s on top […]

Web-based project management software developer Projecturf updated its software with online project management tools such as video integration, custom drag and drop Gantt charts, and showcasing designs for approval. These features are offered alongside several other enhancements that are designed to help small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) increase productivity and integrate the SaaS-based software into […]

Catbird, a specialist in security and compliance for virtual, cloud and physical networks, announced plans to add VMware vShield controls to Catbird vSecurity through a partnership with VMware. The integration will give Catbird vSecurity customers the ability to deploy the VMware vShield App as an integrated component of Catbird’s security and compliance solution for virtualized […]

Aug. 18, 2011 may well turn out to be a pivotal day in the 72-year history of Hewlett-Packard Co., the world’s largest IT provider. The day boiled down to simple subtraction and addition and not just in reference to the 2011 third-quarter financial report it delivered, which was the most dire one in recent years. […]

Computer maker Lenovo announced the ThinkPad Edge 14-inch E425 and 15.6-inch E525 laptops for small and midsize businesses and the ThinkVision LT1421 Wide, the company’s first mobile monitor that gives mobile professionals a second screen for on-the-go use to display spreadsheets and make presentations. The ThinkPad Edge laptops offer a slimmer, more polished design complemented […]

Microsoft’s Office 365 seems to be experiencing some outages. "We apologize for the inconvenience that the Office 365 outage has caused today. We re sic are working on resolving the issue," read an Aug. 17 tweet posted at 3:30 EST on Microsoft’s cloud-services Twitter account.  Around 20 minutes later, Microsoft’s official Office 365 Twitter account […]

Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8 and Google’s Android OS will emerge as the only real alternatives to Apple’s dominant iPad in the tablet market, according to Dell CEO Michael Dell. Speaking to analysts and journalists Aug. 16 in a conference call to announce the company’s second-quarter financial numbers, Dell said that Google’s Android platform will benefit […]

When Hewlett-Packard’s board of directors selected former SAP CEO Leo Apotheker as its new leader to replace Mark Hurd in September 2010, they knew exactly what they were doing; they hand-picked a career software veteran to transform their longtime hardware maker into a software and services company for the 21st century. They have moved aggressively […]

Nexsan, a provider of disk-based storage systems, and Toshiba, a specialist in the development, design and manufacturing of storage solutions, partnered to boost the performance of network-attached storage in virtualized operating environments, with the aim of providing improved file access. The partnership blends the technology in Nexsan’s E5000 Series NAS family with solid-state drive technology […]