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  • Amazon Fire Tablet Won’t Make a Small Business Splash

    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…

  • Level Platforms Intros an MSP Certification

    Canadian remote monitoring and management (RMM) firm Level Platforms this week introduced a new certification program for its managed service provider (MSP) partners that will signal to customers a certain level of proficiency in the firm’s Managed Workplace RMM platform. In order to attain the new LevelTech certification, partner employees will have to go through…

  • SaaS CRM Market Set to Triple by 2015: AMI Report

    Cloud-based business applications are garnering considerable attention from U.S. small to midsize businesses, according to AMI-Partners’ latest U.S. SMB Cloud Services Study. The software-as-a-service customer relationship management market—already representing 570,000 U.S. SMB firms—is set to undergo double-digit year-over-year growth in the next five years, the report projected. During this period, spending on SaaS CRM will…

  • Amazon Kindle Fire Tablet at $199 Challenges iPad

    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,…

  • Mobility, Cloud Offer Opportunities for Businesses: Report

    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 Announces iPhone Event on Oct. 4

    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…

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