MidMarket: IT, Technology, Software, News for Small, Medium (SMB) Businesses
Owners and employees of small and medium sized businesses can find the latest news and how-tos for technology here at MidMarket. We cover all your needs including security, networking, software, hardware, IT, mobile computing, and technology.
Despite resignation that slow economic growth in the U.S. will impact their businesses, small business owners remain generally optimistic about their own companies, according to U.S. Bank's annual survey of small business owners.
A comScore report finds local mobile search is growing at a rapid pace, and attracting a younger, wealthier audience: Over half have a household income in excess of $75,000 and 58 percent are 34 or younger, according to the report.
Nintendo can't escape the general woes of the video game industry as the company posts its first net loss in two years, hampered by a strong Japanese yen and declining sales of its popular DS handheld console.
Digital imaging specialist Fujifilm announced the launch of four digital cameras, the F300EXR, Z800EXR, S2800HD and JX280, featuring wide-angle zoom lenses, touch-screen capability and HD movie capturing. Ranging in price from $149.95 to $329.95, these cameras are ideal for users who want a broad range of features on a budget.
An exhaustive data breach report from Verizon, in collaboration with the U.S. Secret Service, finds while data breaches are declining, businesses of all sizes remain at risk, and many breaches could be easily avoided.
Cost-conscious businesses with a small IT department are more likely to migrate to cloud computing than their larger contemporaries, while SMBs in emerging markets like Latin America lead the pack overall, according to a Spiceworks survey.
Storage management and security software provider Symantec reports that net income for its fiscal first quarter was $161 million, up substantially over the net of $74 million for the year-ago quarter, but its revenue was flat.
The Dell-branded Unified Threat Management product line for network security centers on the Dell J-SRX Gateway, a do-it-all appliance that plugs into an IT system to handle multiple layers of security, including antivirus and anti-spam protection and intrusion detection.
According to survey results by MyType, owners of Apple's high-profile iPad are likely to be snobbish, rich and prone to the temptations of anger, lust and, um, overeating. But you still want one, right?
Cyber-criminals are using a complex, innovative scheme to commit widespread check forgery. According to research by SecureWorks revealed at Black Hat, the ring has counterfeited an estimated $9 million in checks in the last year.
Dell reaches out to cost-conscious businesses on a worldwide scale with an expansion of its Take Your Own Path initiative, offering resources such as videos, success stories, white papers and a custom business group, the Business Solutions Exchange.
The IT industry is going green, according to a report from the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, which found the IT sector is on target to achieve CSCI's reduction goal by the end of its 2010 fiscal year in June 2011.
Beware, mobile bankers: Citigroup is encouraging Apple iPhone owners who downloaded the company's mobile banking app to upgrade to a patched version after a security flaw was found.
Former small business employment powerhouses California, Nevada and Florida have shed nearly 1.7 million jobs since 2005, just one of the disturbing trends uncovered by a review of the nation's small business employment market.
Vizioncore offers cost-conscious businesses the first free management pack on the market to extend Microsoft System Center Operations Manager to monitor VMware virtual infrastructure.
The BlackBerry Storm2 9550 provides reliable performance, touch-screen technology that delivers new on-screen capabilities, and more connectivity options both domestically and abroad. The Storm2 9550 is also the first device RIM has shipped with the BlackBerry OS 5, which adds a number of enhancements.
VMware Fusion 3 enables the use of Windows, Linux and Mac virtual machines on a physical Mac system. Fusion 3 is competitive with Parallels Desktop Switch to Mac Edition and Sun VirtualBox, with a slight lead in terms of day-to-day operations. While VMware Fusion 3 is aimed at individual users, the product is a worthwhile choice for IT departments that are switching PC systems to Macs.
Percussion's Rhythmyx 5 provides all the flexibility and capability we'd expect from a high-end content management application, without sacrificing usability.
For corporate Web sites that need tight content management but don't need a lot of high-end features, Ektron's CMS300 provides quick deployment and high usability at a price that won't even get you in the door at most content management companies.
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