Small businesses face tightening IT budgets this year, but here are five technology trends all midmarket companies should be keeping an eye on.
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Should Your Corporate Head Be in the E-Mail Cloud?
Big and small providers alike offer hosted or cloud-based collaboration and e-mail systems geared for businesses, with some obvious benefits.
Google Versus Microsoft: The Fight for the Future of Cloud Computing
While Google and Microsoft have each developed very different business models and attitudes toward consumers and the enterprise, both companies are preparing to clash when it comes to how the world's cloud computing infrastructure deve ...
Apple’s Jobs to Take Medical Leave Until End of June
Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs will take a medical leave of absence from his post until the end of June because his health problems turned out to be "more complex than originally thought".
Salesforce.com Rationalises InStranet Assets to Create Service Cloud
Salesforce.com's latest foray into cloud computing comes in the form of the Service Cloud. This is an effort to combine Google search, Facebook connections, online communities and discussion forums in a SAAS environment to improve cust ...
SanDisk Sees 2009 as the Year of SSD Notebooks
The company believes SSDs are poised to enter mainstream corporate notebooks in 2009. Fast new SanDisk G3 drives will become available in midyear in capacities of 60GB, 120GB and 240GB.
Microsoft: Patch Server Vulnerability to Combat New Attacks
Microsoft has repeated its warning to users to apply a vulnerability patch in their Windows Server service. A new variant of the Conficker worm that targets this flaw is to blame.