Research In Motion (RIM) has announced the BlackBerry Bold 9650 and BlackBerry Pearl 3G smartphones. The Bold 9650 premium-class smartphone supports 3G (EVDO) networks in North America and (HSPA/UMTS) abroad and has a full-QWERTY keyboard, a 2.44-inch display, and built-in Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g. On the other side, the Pearl 3G is “the smallest BlackBerry smartphone [...]

WorldMate and American Express have launched the AmEx BlackBerry Mobile application designed for business travelers. The application sends alerts to phone about flight cancellations, sudden meeting changes, and last second booking requirements.

Hewlett-Packard has launched the HP Compaq 6005 Pro Ultra Slim desktop (USDT), measuring 10 inches high and 2.6 inches wide. It features AMD processors, integrated ATI Radeon 4200 graphics, DDR3 memory, dual-monitor capability, a mini PCIe x1 slot that can be populated with a Wi-Fi card, and 10 USB ports.

Microsoft’s Office 2010 suites and Office 2010 stand-alone programs can be pre-ordered now and will be available in June. The Office Home and Student 2010, Office Home and Business 2010, and Office Professional 2010 are priced at $150, $280, and $500, respectively.

Lenovo has announced the ThinkPad L Series notebooks – the 14″ L412 and 15″ L512 – for the eco-conscious business users. Lenovo’s eco laptops will be available with the Intel Core i3 or i5 processors and the Intel integrated or ATI Radeon dedicated graphics. “The laptops use up to 30 percent post consumer content from [...]

Microsoft has announced the public beta version of Windows Intune cloud-based Windows management and security platform for small and medium businesses. The Intune service is a low-cost solution for SMBs to manage updates, monitor Windows endpoints, track hardware and software inventory, set security policies, provide remote assistance, and protect endpoints from malware, all from a [...]

Xerox Corporation has released the Xerox WorkCentre 7120 multifunction printer for budget-minded small- and medium-size business users. Xerox says the latest MPC offers advanced scanning, document workflow features and security enhancements. The MFP prints high-impact color documents, and black-and-white documents at speeds up to 20 pages-per-minute.

Hewlett-Packard has added the the HP LaserJet Pro P1100, M1130/M1210, and P1566/P1606dn Series to the company’s printer lineup. The new printers incorporate the latest HP Smart Install ”plug and print” technology that “allows customers to begin printing in as little as two minutes by simply connecting a netbook, notebook or desktop PC to the printer [...]

Cisco has expanded its portfolio of networking products for small business, offering the new Cisco 100 Series unmanaged switches and the Cisco RV 120W Wireless-N VPN Firewall. According to the company, the Cisco 100 Series Switches are “a new series of energy-efficient, unmanaged switches that provide wire-speed Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet connectivity for small [...]

Server and hosting provider The Planet has announced availability of the Intel Quad Xeon 7550 “Nehalem EX” CPU-powered server. “With more than three times the performance of the Intel Xeon 7400 series, this eight-core processor offers new levels of scalability and advanced reliability for mission-critical applications. It becomes the most powerful server in the company’s [...]

The Planet server & hosting provider has announced addition of the Dell PowerEdge R710 server with the new Intel Xeon X5600 “Westmere” series processor to the company’s fleet. “Built with six cores, the new 32 nanometer processor operates at speeds up to 2.80GHz, with 12MB of cache, a 1333MHz memory bus, and enabled with turbo- [...]

Dell has launched four new PowerEdge blade and rack servers – the Intel Xeon CPU-based PowerEdge R910, M910, R810, and AMD Opteron-powered PowerEdge R815.

The HP ProLiant DL165 G7, the latest generation 1U rack server with up to two new AMD Opteron 6100 8- and 12-core processors is now available for purchase. Hewlett-Packard offers various ProLiant DL165 G7 configurations, offering up to 256GB of DDR3 RAM, support for up to 4 3.5″ or up to 8 2.5″ hard drives, [...]

Dell has released the new business laptops – Latitude E6510, E6410, both with the latest Intel 2010 processors. The 15.6-inch E6510 and 14.1-inch E6410 feature the Intel Core i5 or i7 processors, the Intel HD integrated or Nvidia NVS3100M 512MB dedicated graphics, up to 8GB of DDR3 RAM, up to 500GB HDD or up to [...]

Ad-ology Research has announced thet their popular Marketing Forecast app is now available for Android OS-powered mobile devices. Marketing Forecast is a free application providing industry research, news and trends for advertisers and marketers. The latest version includes a new small business section, social media sharing functions and more content for all marketers.

Intel has released the Xeon 7500 series server processors, offering up to 8 CPU cores. “The Intel Xeon processor 7500 series supports up to eight integrated cores and 16 threads, and can scale up to 32 cores and 64 threads per 4-chip platform or 64 cores and 128 threads per 8-chip platform, and is available [...]