Siemens is offering packaged OpenScape communications offerings that include audio conferencing, unified messaging and collaboration tools for the licensing cost of a voice-only solution. – Siemens Enterprise Communications is offering new integrated unified
communications packages based on its OpenScape platform and aimed at
enterprises and midmarket businesses.
The
new IP-based packages, OpenScape UC Server Enterprise and OpenScape UC Server
Xpress, offer a host of communication…
HP’s new Digital Learning Suite includes six solutions, such as a tablet and "pocket" whiteboard, that can be paired depending on the classroom’s need. – Hewlett-Packard, the worldwide leader in PC sales, is introducing a
suite of education-focused products aimed at helping quot;schools prepare
students for greater achievement and success, quot; it said in a Feb. 2
statement. Called the HP Digital Learning Suite, it includes six components,
from…
Samsung has introduced the Ace, Fit, Gio and mini Galaxy smartphones. Geared toward first-time smartphone owners, the phones may not reach U.S. shores. – Samsung is apparently planning world domination. Or more
exactly following swift
sales of 10 million Galaxy S smartphones and well more than a million
Galaxy Tab media tablets the launch of four more-affordable Galaxy S
phones – the Ace, Fit, Gio and mini.
Geared toward first-time smartph…
Samsung Mobile preannounced three devices for Verizon Wireless’ 4G LTE network Jan. 6, including a 4G Galaxy Tab, a 4G Galaxy S smartphone, and a 4G mobile hot spot. – LAS
VEGAS Samsung Mobile Jan. 6 pledged its support for
Verizon Wireless’ 4G LTE network, promising to build a version of the Samsung
Galaxy Tab and a new Android smartphone based on the speedy network.
Products
bearing Verizon’s new LTE network, which shuttles data 10 times faster than its
…
Apple CEO Steve Jobs showed off two super-skinny MacBook Air laptops at todays event, as well as OS X Lion, iLife 11 and FaceTime for Macs. The MacBooks are available now. – At Apple’s much-hyped event Oct. 20 at the company’s Cupertino, Calif., campus, CEO Steve Jobs offered attendees an early look at Mac OS X Lion, introduced updates to iLife 11 and announced that FaceTime, a capability previously only available on the iPhone 4 and iPod touch, is now available for Mac…
Sony Oct. 12 in New York demonstrated four new Sony Internet TV sets powered by Google TV, as well as a new Blu-Ray player for $399 loaded with the Android-based Google TV software. – NEW YORK Sony
Oct. 12 introduced a new Blu-Ray player and four Sony Internet TVs powered by
Google TV, ranging from $599 to $1,399, as the company became the first to
deliver Google’s new service on a TV set.
Based on Google’s Android operating system and powered by an Intel Atom processor,
G…
Motorola Sept. 13 said it will release the Motorola Defy Android smartphone on T-Mobile for the holidays. The device is said to be rugged enough to weather sand and storms. – Motorola Sept. 13 introduced the quot;Defy quot; smartphone, a so-called
ruggedized device based on Google’s Android operating system. It will be
offered for T-Mobile in time for the holidays.
While previous Motorola devices such as the Droid X and Droid 2 emphasized a
larger screen and slide-o…
HPs new Compaq 6000 Pro All-in-One Business PC is an enterprise-geared PC that slips to the center of its lineup. Starting at $899, users get a 21.5-inch display, Intel Core 2 Duo processors and Windows 7 Professional. Still, customizations, from the hard drive to the USB ports, are a point of pride for HP. – Hewlett-Packard introduced its first all-in-one, enterprise-class
PC, as part of its HP Compaq 6000 Pro line June 22. Still, as
enterprise PCs go, “Its not our first rodeo,” Kirk Godkin, HPs
manager of business PCs in the Americas, told eWEEK.
HPs Touchsmart 9100 all-in-one, for example, ha…
At the opening of its TechForum show, HP is rolling out new rack and blade servers using the latest Intel processors, new application provisioning software, a new interconnect technology and a new power-management solution. The offerings are part of HPs overall converged infrastructure initiative. – Hewlett-Packard is pushing forward its converged infrastructure
initiative with a refreshed ProLiant server portfolio powered by the
latest Xeon processors from Intel and host of new software products
that offer greater manageability, networking capabilities and energy
efficiency.
The refresh o…
Toshiba will enter the tablet market this summer with the Libretto W100, a book-style tablet with two 7-inch multitouch screens that can work separately surf the Web on one and compose an e-mail on the other or together, acting like a book or newspaper. – Its a tablet! Its a PC! Its the Toshiba Libretto W100, a
“next-gen, ultra-mobile concept PC,” per Toshiba, with two 7-inch
multi-touch displays that fold together like a book and can work in
concert or independently.
Introducing the 1.8-pound device June 21, the computer-maker said its
p…
Lenovo put its best enterprise foot forward with the introduction of five energy-efficient desktop products rich with features, slim in design and boasting green credentials. The M90z All-In-One, for example, is said to have swallowed 65 plastic bottles. – Lenovo introduced five new PC products for the enterprise June 10,
including what officials say is the industrys first 23-inch all-in-one
desktop for businesses.
Lenovo entered the enterprise AIO space in late 2009, but the products
were “more mainstream and lacked some features that enterp…
At the InfoComm 2010 show, Cisco introduced the Tandberg TelePresence Server, which supports Ciscos Telepresence Interoperability Protocol, which is designed to make solutions from Cisco and third-party vendors work together. Cisco also unveiled the TelePresence Commercial Express, a low-cost telepresence product aimed at SMBs. – Cisco Systems is putting support for its interoperability protocol into its
Tandberg TelePresence Server, the first step in its push to enable the
telepresence products from Cisco and other vendors to work together.
The TIP announcement was one of several Cisco made June 8 at
the InfoComm 2010 s…
The Motorola Flipout with Android, Adobe Flash, an updated version of MotoBlur and even CrystalTalk technology for improved sound quality could hardly be called a square, though thats exactly what this colorful, pivoting phone is. – As was predicted, the Motorola Flipout, a pivoting smartphone with Android 2.1, Adobe Flash and support for Microsoft Exchange, has hit the market in early June.
Motorola formally introduced the Flipout June 2, with news that it will begin shipping “in certain regions around the world” thoug…
During a major press conference in China, Acer introduced the LumiRead e-reader it alluded to in January, an Android-running Stream smartphone, and a notebook and all-in-one PC with an emphasis on home entertainment. – Acer is rolling out an Android-running smartphone called the Stream, the LumiRead e-reader, a 23-inch all-in-one PC, and an Aspire 5745P notebook.
No information has been offered yet about when the products, which were
announced May 27 during a press conference in China, may arrive in the
Un…
The Dell Streak tablet PC, aka the Mini 5, will arrive in the United Kingdom in June and the United States by late summer. The 5-inch-wide mobile device features Google’s Android mobile OS, 3G and WiFi, and a 1GHz processor. Unlike the Apple iPad, the Dell Streak will support Adobe’s Flash technology, and it’s also a phone. – Dell has joined Apple and thrown its hat into the tablet arena with the
introduction of the Streak a small tablet running Google’s Android mobile
operating system and supporting Adobe’s Flash technology.
Also known as the Mini 5, the Streak will be available in early June in the United
King…
T-Mobile will begin carrying the Garminfone and the myTouch 3G Slide this June. Both phones run Googles Android operating system and can access T-Mobiles 4G-like HSPA+ network, which will roll out soon in Los Angeles.
– T-Mobile currently offers more than a dozen devices that can benefit
from its HSPA+ technology, and in June it will up that number by two,
when it adds the Garminfone and the T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide to its
lineup.
Some users may actually be enjoying HSPA+ speeds already,
whether they know …
Nokias slim new C3, E5 and C6 phones put an emphasis on messaging and multitasking. Nokia Messaging was also introduced and will run on all Cseries and Eseries phones, enabling, for example, support for up to 10 e-mail accounts.
– Nokia launched three slim mobile handsets April 13 the C3, E5 and C6, each
with a focus on messaging.
“The one constant across all three devices, and now also across both Cseries
and Eseries is Nokia Messaging,” Nokia officials said in their Conversations
blog. “Having grown from humble begi…
Acer’s newest notebooks, the Aspire Ethos 5943G and 8943G, feature high-definition displays as well as tiny touch screens where a touchpad might be. Also on board are Intel Core i5 and i7 processors and massive storage.
– Acer has introduced the Aspire Ethos 5943G and 8943G laptops, and with them
a new take on touch screens.
The Ethos laptops, unveiled March 31, include a second touch screen a smaller
one replacing the touchpad that displays icons for easier navigation of
multimedia apps.
quot;The medi…
T-Mobile plans to rollout HSPA+, a 3.5G technology said to offer three times the speed of 3G networks, across its network by years end. At CTIA, it showed off its HSPA+ speeds on the Dell Inspiron Mini 10, its very first netbook offering.
– T-Mobile pulled the sheet off the master plan for its new high-speed
network, announcing at the CTIA Wireless 2010 show that it will deploy
HSPA+ technology across its entire 3G footprint 100-plus metropolitan
areas housing 185 million people by the end of 2010.
HSPA+, a 3.5G technology,…
Kyocera has returned to the smartphone space with the introduction of the Zio M6000 Android phone. Featuring a 3.5-inch motion-enhanced touch-screen, itll arrive in the second quarter.
– Kyocera introduced the Zio M6000 Android smartphone at the CTIA
Wireless 2010 show on March 23, marking the handset makers return to
the smartphone space, after a hiatus focusing on feature phones.
The Zio, which measures 4.6 by 2.3 by 0.5 inches, features a 3.5-inch
WVGA, motion-enhanced tou…
