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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.

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Services and financial services did well in HP's fourth fiscal quarter, but the company was dragged down by hardware and software sales. Next year, however, the company should see a rebound, HP said.

[06:58 PM, November 23, 2009]

Greg Davis, vice president and general manager, global commercial channels, and Paul Shaffer, director of U.S. marketing and operations for Dell's global commercial channels, said the company is exceeding goals with enterprise-focused solution providers and expects SMB revenue through the channel to pick up.

[04:10 PM, November 20, 2009]

Cloud Engines updates the Pogoplug, which connects your USB drive to the Internet to access and share your files with anyone or a select set of users from anywhere, according to the company.

[10:41 AM, November 20, 2009]

Dell reported large declines in its fiscal third quarter 2010 revenue and income compared to the same period last year, with enterprise and SMB drops leading the way.

[07:46 PM, November 19, 2009]

The Sixth Annual Tech Innovators Awards, unveiled this week at the XChange Tech Innovators conference in Las Vegas, honored companies for using new methods or technologies to deliver top-notch products.

[06:30 PM, November 19, 2009]

Celebrating its third birthday, Sony's PS3 is gaining sales momentum in the marketplace against Microsoft's Xbox 360.

[02:28 PM, November 19, 2009]

The commission enacts that all televisions smaller than 58 inches sold in California in 2011 must consume 33 percent less electricity and 49 percent less electricity by 2013.

[11:14 AM, November 19, 2009]

IBM researchers have created a new supercomputer that simulates the cerebral cortex of a cat's brain, marking a major achievement in advanced computing.

[04:37 PM, November 18, 2009]

HP on Tuesday introduced new products and solutions aimed at helping customers move away from PCs and migrate to thin client computing at a time when many are considering upgrading their PCs to the new Windows 7 OS.

[03:18 PM, November 17, 2009]

IBM will offer customers the "Smart Analytics Cloud" system based on its Blue Insight architecture.

[11:33 AM, November 16, 2009]

Five of the top 10 supercomputers use either AMD Opteron or the company's ATI graphics processors, but Intel still dominates the semiannual TOP500 ranking of the world's biggest, baddest computers.

[11:25 AM, November 16, 2009]

Apple won a key victory in its lawsuit against Mac clone company Psystar after a judge reaffirmed Apple's copyright protection of its OS X operating system.

[10:55 AM, November 16, 2009]

While XBox Bans Modders, It's Ready to Embrace Tweeters

Microsoft may be getting rid of a million modders from its Xbox Live platform, but it could gain millions of Twitter and Facebook users next week.