Lisa Vaas

Intel unveiled five new Atom processors at the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai, China, on April 2, while OEMs pulled out a host of pocket-size mobile Internet devices that will feed off the small, energy-efficient, low-cost but powerful chips. Intel’s Atom processor, formerly code-named Silverthorne, will come in speeds up to 1.86GHz and will support […]

Windows XP, edging perilously close to its June 30 end-of-support date, is looking to get a reprieve when Intel rolls out low-cost subnotebooks and MIDs (Mobile Internet Devices). Intel has been touting its low-cost Atom processor, a small yet powerful chip created with Intel’s 45-nanometer process that can be crammed together 2,500 CPUs to a […]

Talk of recession is at fever pitch, fanned by the news that the august Wall Street investment bank Bear Stearns went belly-up on March 14. With sluggish hiring, spiraling fuel costs and the mortgage foreclosure crisis gripping the nation, it would seem to be only common sense to say that IT is one of many […]

Dell has unleashed two new PowerEdge servers-the R300 and T300-that it claims perform up to 31 percent better than comparable Hewlett-Packard servers and up to 51 percent better than similar servers from IBM. Dell is also claiming that the new servers have up to three times the memory capacity and are thus better suited to […]

On March 10, IBM vowed to make a major push into UC, starting with its new Lotus Sametime Advanced software and going far beyond that into a three-year plan that will encompass acquisitions, internal development and new services. IBM dangled figures from IDC that predict the market for UCC (unified communications and collaboration, which includes […]

Google is dead set on convincing businesses that it’s safe to move data from under their mattresses to the bank-the bank being Google Apps, of course. To that end, Google on March 13 introduced two-factor authentication: an extra layer of access security that Google hopes will help to get businesses over the impression that Google […]

Fonality on March 4 is announcing a major upgrade to its business phone system-the PBXtra 4.0-that promises to sniff employees out and forward calls to their cell phones if it detects that they’re not tapping away at their keyboards. PBXtra 4.0’s new FindMe feature allows users to stipulate when and how they can be tracked […]

Microsoft on Feb. 20 is spreading its arms to draw its SMB and midmarket servers under one roof, announcing what it’s calling a new “family,” the Windows Essential Server Solutions family. The new product family will encompass both the company’s small business and its midmarket servers, with licensing and migration paths to ease the move […]

Microsoft wants to drag online every mom and pop shop it can, and if it has to give away Web hosting, Web site building tools, custom domain names and business-branded e-mail accounts to get them there, that’s exactly what it’s planning to do. The company will announce on Feb. 11 that it’s collapsing what was […]

Between Microsoft’s new freebie, Office Live Small Business tools, and Yahoo’s recently announced all-you-can-eat free Web site hosting buffet, you’re a fool if you reach for your wallet when it comes to getting online. In fact, one analyst said, you’re crazy if you own a small business and are actually paying for software to get […]

CA has released new backup, recovery, high-availability and replication products, all geared to midmarket companies with the updates’ ease of use, better security and faster data recovery. Frank Jablonski, director of product marketing for CA Recovery Management, said that this trio of updates is the most significant crop yet from CA’s new Midmarket and Storage […]

Within days of finalizing its $1.4 billion purchase of EqualLogic, Dell has delivered the first fruits of its promise to bring plug-and-play ease to data storage. Dell launched its EqualLogic PS series of iSCSI SAN (storage area network) products in a splashy Nashua, N.H., event that was simultaneously Webcast on Feb. 4. “The world will […]