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Saving space and souping up mobile storage were among the top priorities as hardware vendors offered sneak peeks at their summer wares. At the Digital Experience mini-trade show here last week, IBM showed off its new compact desktop computer that is due to be announced next week. Sans a monitor and keyboard, the ThinkCentre S50 […]

Lexmark International this week is rolling out five monochrome laser printers for small and midsize businesses, home offices, and small workgroups. The E330, priced at $399, prints 27 pages per minute. The first page prints in under 8 seconds, said Lexmark officials. Powered by a 200MHz processor, the E330 has 32MB of memory (expandable to […]

Filling a gap in its printer lineup, Dell Inc. is expected to roll out this week its first multifunction laser printer. According to sources familiar with the rollout, the monochrome Dell Laser MFP 1600n, priced at $399, can copy and print at 22 ppm (pages per minute), as well as scan and fax. It includes […]

Dell rolled out three Axim X30 handheld computers last week. The devices run Microsoft Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition software for Pocket PC and are fueled by Intel PXA270 XScale processors. Two models support Wi-Fi and Bluetooth wireless technology and have 64MB of memory. Users can choose between two processor speeds: 624MHz, for $349, or […]

Xerox Corp. spends about $1 billion a year on research and development, gambling that it can predict the future of IT. Not surprisingly, most of the research is dedicated to the Stamford, Conn., companys core business: copiers and printers. But the results can range far afield from Xeroxs traditional photocopiers. At a New York event […]

Itronix this week debuted its GoBook Q-200 rugged handheld computer, which supports Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and wide-area wireless networks. The Q-200 is the latest in a class of handhelds designed to withstand extreme weather conditions. It can operate in temperatures ranging from minus 4 degrees to 140 degrees Fahrenheit and will work after being submerged in […]

As of late last week, local and federal investigators were proceeding with their probe into a burglary at a Midtown Manhattan telecommunications office involving the theft of several DS-3 cards that left a handful of corporate customers without Internet service for a full business day. Although the crime appears minor, it has raised major questions […]

Handheld shipments dropped off in the first quarter, and researchers say PDA device sales will continue to decline as converged mobile devices, such as smart phones, gain in popularity. According to market researcher IDC, of Framingham, Mass., worldwide handheld shipments last quarter fell 11.7 percent, to 2.2 million, from the same period a year ago. […]

Samsung Electronics last week introduced several color, monochrome and multifunction printers. First up were the CLN-500 and CLN-550N color lasers, which print five pages per minute in color and 21 ppm in monochrome at 1,200 dots per inch. The 550 costs $800; the 550N, priced at $900, includes 128MB of memory and a 10/100BaseTX Ethernet […]

Xerox Corp. on Monday unveiled two new monochrome multifunction machines for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and small workgroups. The WorkCentre M20, for $1,649, allows copying, printing and color scanning. The WorkCentre M20i, priced at $2,199, adds support for Ethernet, scan-to-e-mail, and color faxing capabilities. The M20 can be network-configured for additional cost. The units […]

NEW YORK—Hewlett-Packard Co. has signed a $1.5 billion, seven-year services deal with UK-based telecom provider BT Group plc. The duo starting this summer will roll out joint telecom and IT services to enterprises in Europe and prepackaged solutions to small-to-midsized businesses (SMBs) in the United Kingdom. “IT and communications are coming together,” said HP CEO […]

Citrix Systems last week rolled out the latest iteration of its remote access software, MetaFrame Access Suite 3.0, at an event in New York. New to the suite is a common management interface, which officials said gives administrators greater control to monitor and manage application access across the enterprise. Also new is SmoothRoaming, which officials […]