Archive for December, 2009
December 28th, 2009
Vonage has announced the Vonage World Mobile calling plan, providing cell phone users with unlimited international calls to over 60 countries for a flat monthly rate. “Users of the iPhone, BlackBerry and iPod touch can subscribe to Vonage World Mobile and get access to unlimited international calling to more than 60 countries across the world. [...]
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December 28th, 2009
Apparent Corporation has released Barcode Producer 5.7 barcode generation software for Mac OS X and Windows. Barcode Producer 5.7 is ready for 2010 barcode industry standards, including GS1 DataBar requirements for coupons. The new version updates the software’s integrated Symbology Guide and documentation for the new year’s standards, according to the press release.
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December 23rd, 2009
Acer has released the TravelMate Timeline ultra-thin series notebooks for business users: the 15.6″ TravelMate 8571, 14″ 8471, and 13″ 8371. The new TravelMate laptops are based on Intel Core 2 ultra-low voltage CPUs and the 4500MHD integrated GPU. The laptops feature up to 4GB of DDR3 memory, up to 320GB of HDD capacity, and [...]
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December 21st, 2009
American Express OPEN, the small business division of American Express, today launched AcceptPay online invoicing and payment solution that allows business owners to create, send and track invoices. According to American Express, AcceptPay benefits include faster payments and improved efficiency, variety of payment types, added financial control, and ease of use.
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December 21st, 2009
Intuit has added GoBiz Solutions’ GoBiz XL , a Web applications suite for small business operations, to the App Center in QuickBooks Pro and Premier 2010 and to Intuit Workplace. “The GoBiz XL suite includes Contact Management, Sales Cycle Management, Service/Dispatch Management and Inventory Management applications and can be accessed through many devices with Web [...]
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December 18th, 2009
Hosting.com, a managed hosting, cloud hosting and colocation solutions provider, today announced enhancements to the Cloud Enterprise solution. “Access to high performance SAN (EMC) storage, increased computer resources (8GB of RAM now 32 and 4 virtual CPUs now 8 ) and support for seven additional operating systems (including RedHat and Windows Datacenter 2008 R2) highlight [...]
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December 17th, 2009
The HP iPAQ Glisten, a smartphone that has been announced recently by Hewlett-Packard and AT&T, is now available for purchase. The iPAQ Glisten is a Windows Mobile 6.5 Pro-based 3G & Wi-Fi phone featuring a 2.5-inch AMOLED touch-screen, a QWERTY keyboard, and the Qualcomm 7200A processor. It also has a 3.1MP camera and GPS/AGPS support.
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December 16th, 2009
GoingPaperLess, Inc. has announced DocBunker, a secured information manager and document management system for the small business entrepreneur. “DocBunker is set apart from the others by adding an information manager (passwords, contacts, etc.) to a paper based document management system. The software was designed with a heavy emphasis on graphics giving the end user that [...]
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December 16th, 2009
EMC Corporation has announced EMC Retrospect 7.7, an upgrade to its Retrospect backup and recovery software for small and medium businesses. “Available immediately, EMC Retrospect 7.7 adds several new capabilities, including integration with VMware Consolidated Backup, which allows Retrospect to perform off-host backups of active virtual machines. Other new features include complete protection for computers [...]
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December 15th, 2009
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), enabling enterprises to connect their existing infrastructure to a set of isolated AWS compute resources via a Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection. All current and future Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) customer accounts are enabled to use Amazon VPC, but customers will [...]
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December 14th, 2009
Cyberoam, a provider of identity-based Unified Threat Management (UTM) solutions, today announced an extension to its “Accelerator Series” network security appliances, the CR25ia and CR35ia. Aimed at small and medium businesses and branch offices, the Cyberoam Accelerator CR25ia and CR35ia have “2 to 4.5 times” greater firewall throughput than that of comparable products, and “1.5 [...]
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December 14th, 2009
A VoIP provider VoX Communications Corp has annnounced the VoX Mobile, offering unlimited data and voice service on the HTC Touch Pro2 mobile phone. For $69.95 a month excluding taxes, the VoX Mobile service includes unlimited US, Canada and Puerto Rico calling, as well as unlimited texting, e-mail and Internet access. The HTC Touch Pro2 [...]
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December 13th, 2009
Hewlett-Packard has released the HP Pro All-in-One MS218 Business PC, a desktop computer offering a slim profile, a minimal footprint and an uncluttered design. The HP Pro All-in-One MS218 features an 18.5″ 1366×768 LCD display with tilt and swivel, the AMD Athlon X2 3250e dual-core processor, 2GB of DDR2 memory, a 250GB hard drive, the [...]
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December 13th, 2009
Apple has launched recently their Mac Mini small form factor computer with Snow Leopard Server OS pre-installed. Designed to be an energy efficient server for a small business or group, the Mac Mini with Snow Leopard Server features two 500GB 5,400rpm hard drives, a 2.53GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 4GB of DDR3 RAM, and [...]
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December 13th, 2009
PowerVPS, a provider of virtualization and cloud hosting services, has unveiled new cloud hosting packages for small businesses. The new packages are called Fuse, Force, and Ignite and feature cloud servers offering a complete managed solution including the operating system, core services management, system and security monitoring, and data backups.
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December 11th, 2009
SMB Virtualization, a firm providing virtualization information and training for small and medium sized information technology (IT) businesses, has partnered with Third Tier, a leading provider of remote support services for IT professionals, to offer advanced incident and project support services for virtualized networks. SMB Virtualization supplies IT firms with the knowledge to sell and [...]
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December 11th, 2009
Spiceworks, Inc. today announced the release of a new version of its free IT management software with expanded features designed to help users manage networks of up to 1,000 computers. Key feature additions include real-time SQL Server monitoring, enhanced scan scheduling, editable network maps, help desk queues and SSL support. Currently 20 percent of organizations [...]
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December 11th, 2009
Dell has released the OptiPlex 780 USFF (Ultra Small Form Factor) desktop PC and Optiplex 380 desktop, available in Minitower, Desktop and Small Form Factor.
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December 9th, 2009
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) now offers Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server Standard 2008 instances in all Amazon EC2 Regions, extending EC2’s existing offerings that include Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2005 instances.
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December 8th, 2009
Dell has unveiled the Vostro V13 ultra-slim and affordable business laptop, featuring a 13.3-inch LED backlight display and Intel’s ultra-low voltage processors. The Dell Vostro V13 weighs at 3.5 pounds and is 0.65 inches thin. It comes with the Intel Core 2 Duo SU7300, Core 2 Solo SU3500 or Celeron 743 ULV processor and includes [...]
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