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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.

SOFTWARE

A security researcher from Sophos says running Windows 7 without antivirus software is a disaster waiting to happen, but did Microsoft ever advocate this in the first place?

[10:12 PM, November 06, 2009]

Google CEO Eric Schmidt made comments this week that could amount to a can of gasoline tossed onto a smoldering fire, and now the industry awaits Microsoft's inevitable response.

[07:09 PM, November 06, 2009]

The open source e-mail client, Thunderbird 3, has gotten an overhaul and is just about ready for final Release Candidate. There are scores of new features, as well as easier e-mail account setup with Thunderbird 3, now available in beta release version 4. Here's a look at some feature highlights.

[06:24 PM, November 06, 2009]

Brocade unveiled a number of configurations to improve storage performance in Oracle VM virtualization deployments, as well as solutions with partners such as EMC, NetApp, HP, and Sun for database and data warehousing deployments.

[05:20 PM, November 06, 2009]

Mozilla's e-mail client, Thunderbird 3, is due out in RC version sometime this month. We took a look at the pre-RC, final beta release of Thunderbird 3 and found some features we liked, and others that could stand some improvement.

[01:15 PM, November 06, 2009]

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.

[08:05 AM, November 06, 2009]

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.

[08:01 AM, November 06, 2009]

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.

[08:01 AM, November 06, 2009]

Microsoft has provided the usual basic details about the security vulnerabilities it plans to address in next week's Patch Tuesday release, and this month is much lighter than last month's record release.

[08:55 PM, November 05, 2009]

Microsoft executives and partners say Windows 7 has had a level of interest and uptake that meets their expectations, and their attitude thus far is: "So far, so good."

[07:09 PM, November 05, 2009]

ClearCenter provides an open-source service delivery platform based on its ClearOS platform that partners can tailor to meet the IT needs of small business and distributed environments.

[03:30 PM, November 05, 2009]

Google Dashboard provides a summary and direct links for each Google product you use, including Gmail, Calendar, Docs, YouTube, Picasa and more. The dashboard includes links to the privacy policy for each product.

[09:00 AM, November 05, 2009]

Canonical Aims To Take Ubuntu Linux Mainstream

Canonical is bringing Linux to the mass market by way of its partnerships with major OEMs and via word of mouth within the Ubuntu Server user community.