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Toshiba s Digital Products Division, a division of Toshiba America Information Systems, introduced the DX1215, the company s first all-in-one PC for the U.S. market. The DX1215 is being marketed as an all-purpose entertainment hub offering enhanced audio capability with performance and technologies for high-definition entertainment and multitasking. The DX1215 features a 21.5-inch diagonal touch-screen […]

Amazon.com could launch tablet computers as early as this August or September, with expectations to sell 4 million units for the remainder of 2011. Citing Taiwanese component makers, DigiTimes said Amazon will use processors from Texas Instruments, with Taiwan’s Wintek to supply touch panels, ILI Technology putting in LCD driver ICs. Quanta Computer will build […]

Users of enterprise B2E (business-to-employee) and B2C (business to customer) smartphone and media tablet mobile applications are forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of nearly 90 percent and exceed 830 million active users by 2016, according to a report from IT analytics firm ABI Research. These numbers include B2E apps such […]

More features of Windows 8 have apparently seeped out, courtesy of an early build that leaked onto the Web. "A new build of Windows 8, build 7989, has surfaced," the blog Redmond Pie reported June 18. "Slowly but surely, it s finding its way onto file-sharing sites, and some Windows enthusiasts have already dug deep […]

Cisco Systems is now offering its Quad enterprise collaboration platform as a hosted or managed service and is bringing in some partners to help with the effort. At the Enterprise 2.0 show in Boston June 20, Cisco officials rolled out a number of announcements around its year-old Quad offering, including the upcoming release of Quad […]

Among organizations not currently using a public-cloud-based unified communications service, only 10 percent plan to deploy such a service within the next year, according to the findings of a new survey. Respondents to the survey cited concerns over loss of customization, uptime and security. However, among those organizations that cannot or would not deploy public […]

Interoperability between room-based telepresence systems continues to be a focus of such top-tier vendors as Cisco Systems and Polycom. Now a smaller company, FuzeBox, is introducing a product aimed, not only at ensuring interoperability between such systems, but also extending such telepresence conferences to other endpoints, including mobile devices like tablets. FuzeBox s Fuze Telepresence […]

Despite repeated reminders to select strong passwords and not to reuse them across Websites and services, online users continue to be frighteningly lax in their password security, according to a recent analysis of leaked passwords. Security experts recommend taking a multilayered approach to security. Instead of relying on a single point of failure, organizations should […]

The fact that Vivek Kundra has decided to leave the federal government to accept a fellowship at Harvard should surprise no one. There are several reasons why it should have been expected, even predicted, despite the fact that Kundra probably didn t realize it himself initially. First, trying to implement a huge but vague mandate […]

As I was refilling my bookshelves I found the following bullets from Dale Carnegie & Associates, copyright 1967 and updated 1981. All the information is highly pertinent for today’s biggest sales management challenges; my white paper on The Job of Sales Management that is located on my Website is somewhat similar but specific to the […]

Acer America has designed its latest notebook PCs — the Aspire Ethos AS8951G and AS5951G — to deliver a high-definition personal theater experience for a range of activities, including graphic-intensive gaming, video streaming and viewing of high-definition DVDs, photography and videos. This is aided by the notebooks’ detachable touchpad that doubles as a remote control. […]

Hewlett-Packard’s rapidly disintegrating relationship with Oracle is threatening to spill over into the courtroom again, now that HP is suing the software giant over its abandonment of Intel s Itanium processor platform. A week after HP officials sent a demand letter to Oracle essentially warning of a lawsuit over the issue, they followed through June […]