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  • H-1B Jobs: IT Solution Providers at a Disadvantage

    IT hosting and on-demand infrastructure provider SingleHop is growing fast. In the last five years the small company in Chicago has increased revenue 4,000 percent. SingleHop’s core business of hosted applications and on-demand infrastructure services are in hot demand as businesses of all kinds embrace managed services and hosted applications in the cloud. SingleHop’s employees…

  • Apple

    Apple Apple has taken the smartphone category that RIM first revolutionized and turned it into a cultural phenomenon with the iPhone. RIM’s been struggling to keep up with Apple’s cool factor ever since. Google Hot on Apple’s heels, Google has taken advantage of RIM’s vulnerability through a surge of new Android-powered smartphones. Last quarter it…

  • Apple’s Joint Venture Service for SMBs: A Lose-Lose Proposition

    Over the years, Apple Computer has hardly ever missed a chance to antagonize its channel partners. So it comes as no surprise that partners aren’t exactly rolling out the red carpet for Apple’s new small business initiative, which the vendor evidently dug deep into its creative capacities to christen “Joint Venture.” Joint Venture works like…

  • EMC Will Roll Security Automation Vendor NetWitness Into RSA

    Rumors that circulated recently about EMC buying another data security-related company turned out to be true after all. The storage and data security giant announced April 4 that it has acquired Virginia-based NetWitness, a provider of network security monitoring and analysis software, and had closed the deal on April 1. Terms of the transaction were…

  • Intel Atom-Based Tablets on Sale in May

    Tablets powered by Intel’s upcoming “Oak Trail” Atom processor reportedly should start hitting the market in May. In an interview with PC Advisor, an Intel spokesperson said the Atom-powered tablets will start becoming available around the time of the Computex trade show in Taiwan, which runs May 31 through June 4. "Oak Trail tablets are…

  • Apple’s iPad 2 Tops Consumer Reports’ Tablet List

    Consumer Reports may have longstanding issues with the iPhone 4, but its editors have decided to give a big thumbs-up to the new iPad 2. The publication tested 10 tablets, including the Motorola Xoom and Samsung Galaxy Tab, before deciding that the 32GB iPad 2 with WiFi and 3G ranked highest across 17 criteria ranging…

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