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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.

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Get back to where you once belonged: Judge approves a temporary restraining order for digital music site BlueBeat.com over sale of Beatles songs.

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With the Adamo XPS, Dell says it is reinforcing its commitment to craftsmanship and design. It's 0.4 inch thin, features an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, unfolds itself and looks like nothing else on the market.
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Verizon Wireless now offers not one but two smartphones featuring Google’s Android: the Motorola Droid and the HTC Droid Eris. While the move is expected to be a win for all parties, Motorola is most in need of a success.
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Dynamic Network Services' content delivery network manager, aimed at cost-conscious businesses, decreases DNS latency.
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Caspio launches a search engine optimization (SEO) service and the latest version of cloud-based Web application platform Bridge Version 6.5, aimed at cost-conscious businesses.
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The Nokia 3711 is a new budget-friendly option for the holiday season. It arrived Nov. 5 on the T-Mobile network for $69.99 and supports Web browsing, e-mail, IM and SMS and includes GPS, Bluetooth, a media player and a camera.
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IT outsourcing has been known for high-ticket consulting jobs where IT bodies from overseas are used for projects. Once the Fortune 500's playground, IT outsourcing is now being used by small and midsize businesses to build e-commerce sites, use mobile applications to lure customers or integrate open-source tools into tech support. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Srinivas Balasubramanian explains how small and midsize businesses can benefit from the democratization of IT outsourcing.
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Research In Motion’s share of the enterprise smartphone market has been challenged lately, as competitors ranging from Apple’s iPhone to the Palm Pre all seek to usurp the BlackBerry as device of choice for many business users.

RIM’s response to this increasingly competitive landscape was to issue the Bold 9700, a phone that includes BlackBerry’s enterprise functionality in a sleeker and more streamlined package. While not a radical updating of its Bold line, the Bold 9700 does include improvements to its display and form-factor, as well as a newly tweaked operating system with BlackBerry OS 5.0.
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In an intelligence note, FBI officials say a mix of banking Trojans and phishing attacks has plagued victims - mainly public institutions and small and midsize businesses - to the tune of $100 million in attempted losses as of October.
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A report from Pew Research finds the Internet and information and communication technologies are not isolating influences in American life.
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McAfee reaches out to cost-conscious businesses with a Web and e-mail security appliance, which is the company's first appliance that links to global threat intelligence from its Artemis and TrustedSource technologies.
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Nortel adds features such as InTouch and FindMe/FollowMe to the latest version of its business communications software.
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With Intel and AMD moving toward microprocessors that combine the CPU and graphics on the same piece of silicon, Nvidia could see its chip-set business disappear. However, Nvidia could also start making its own x86 processors to target both mainstream PCs and low-end mininotebooks, according to one analyst.
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Apple's App Store now contains some 100,000 apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Although Apple declined to publicly estimate how many apps had been downloaded, eWEEK's math puts the number at 2.250 billion. The iPhone and the App Store could receive a challenge in a few days from the Motorola Droid smartphone, which runs on Google Android and could encourage developers to create an alternative mobile-application ecosystem.
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The Apple iPhone has encouraged use of smartphones with touch screens, according to a report by ComScore saying the iPhone has 32.9 percent of the market. However, holiday arrivals, particularly smartphones running Google's Android mobile operating system, are likely to change that.
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