Scott Ferguson

Dell is hoping to woo back the increasingly lucrative small business market with five servers geared toward companies with little or no IT budget and the need to grow rapidly. During a Sept. 27 conference call with analysts and reporters, Frank Muehleman, vice president of Dells Small Business Division, introduced the five new servers, which […]

Sony Electronics announced Sept. 26 that it is offering a new broadband version of its high-end Vaio notebooks that the company hopes to market to those on the go. The Vaio VGN-TXN10 series notebook, which comes equipped with an Intel Core Solo processor and Sonys SmartWi technology, will allow users access to connect to Sprints […]

TechTracker, a Portland, Ore-based software maker, announced Sept. 25 that it has begun offering a new update of its VersionTracker software for Apple Computers Macintosh platform. Like previous versions of the software, VersionTracker Pro 4.2 will provide a central database of updates for Mac users as well as peer feedback. The desktop application scans local, […]

Online transaction failures can prove costly to Web businesses, as many customers lose confidence in the Web sites ability to protect their personal information when a financial transaction fails. Those are the results of a new poll from Harris Interactive, based in Rochester, N.Y., finding that 40 percent of online customers will abandon a Web […]

Apple has released the latest of its Aperture imaging software. The Cupertino, Calif., computer maker announced Aperture 1.5 at the 2006 Photokina trade show in Cologne, Germany, on Sept. 25. Aperture, which competes with Adobe Systems Lightroom software, will now offer photographers an open library system that allows images to be stored either in the […]

Lenovo Group has experienced a single notebook battery pack failure similar to those seen recently by Apple Computer and Dell, leading analysts to believe it too may have to issue a battery pack recall. The battery pack, housed inside an IBM ThinkPad T43, caught fire at Los Angeles International Airport earlier this month, Lenovo officials […]

Hackers arent the only danger coming from computers, environmental watchdog Greenpeace said. A recent study by Greenpeace found high levels of toxic substances in a number of popular notebook computers, singling out Hewlett-Packard and Apple Computers as having the highest levels of chemicals in companies computer components. The study, which was conducted in March 2006 […]

Laplink Software has begun offering a new product that the company says will allow files, setting and software applications to migrate from a Windows computer to an Intel-based Macintosh. This new migration software, called PCmover, works with Apple Computers Boot Camp software, which allows Intel-based Macs to run either Mac OS X or Windows XP. […]

Nokia, the worlds largest mobile phone maker, announced Sept. 21 that it would begin offering Microsofts Live Search for its Mobile Search platform. Nokia, based in Finland, said the Live Search feature will be available for its N-Series multimedia phones as well as for phones that use its S-60 software. “Microsoft will provide advanced search […]

Oracle announced Sept. 20 that it will begin making the Oracle Content Database and Oracle Records Database, introduced in June, available to its customers. On June 15, the software company, based in Redwood Shores, Calif., said in a statement that the Oracle Content Database and Oracle Records Database would be part of its new content […]