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As if they needed more stress, organizations are facing evolving and increasingly stringent compliance regulations from the Payment Card Industry, as well as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA and others. Here are a few security compliance products that can make the audit process less excruciating.

Here are 10 of the distributor's hottest new offerings winning over solution providers.

New smartphones from Sony, Motorola and the first-ever Twitter-only mobile device -- the TwitterPeek -- headline a busy week for handset makers as the holiday shopping season heats up.

HARDWARE

VoiceCon San Francisco brought some of the latest in enterprise telephony, networking, infrastructure and UC products to the Moscone Center. Here's a look at some of what attendees saw.

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Nvidia steps up its bitter rivalry with Intel with a new Web site featuring cartoons that mock the world biggest chip maker.

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Unit sales of Windows 7 were 234 percent higher than Vista during the first few days of release for both operating systems, according to The NPD Group.

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Motorola and Verizon on Friday make available to the public the Droid: the touch-screen, Android 2.0-based smartphone that is perhaps the most aggressively feature-rich phone on the market today based on the Google-driven mobile OS.

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The most important thing you need to know about Motorola's Droid is this: After about five minutes of use, it's no longer a big deal that it's based on Google's Android 2.0 operating system. The thing just works, works well and provides its money's worth of functionality and ease of use.

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Did Intel's white-box channel feel the same strong-arm tactics to exclude AMD products that Intel is alleged to have given Dell, HP and IBM?

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After rescuing Apple from bankruptcy and revitalizing the company with products such as the iPod and iTunes, Steve Jobs has earned the nod from Fortune.

[05:06 PM, November 05, 2009]

Ex-Galleon employee, former Moody's analyst and others charged with allegedly dealing in insider information on 3Com, Avaya and Kronos; prosecutors promise more to come.

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Google boss Eric Schmidt recently suggested Android adoption is 'about to explode.' Here are 10 hot smartphones running on the white-hot Android platform, including price, availability and U.S carriers, that might suggest he's right.

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Channel partners of Cisco, EMC, and VMware praise the vendors' Vblock blueprints for building virtual data centers and private computing clouds but want more information.

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The chip giant now faces formal U.S. charges on the heels of antitrust rulings, fines in Europe and Asia.

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Hewlett-Packard's Converged Infrastructure Architecture portfolio includes fabric, storage, virtualization answers to Cisco's new Virtual Computing Environment.

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