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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

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, should see the company rebound, HP said.

[06:58 PM, November 23, 2009]

Windows 7 is still bathed in the afterglow of its launch last month, but already details are emerging about its successor, Windows 8.

[06:10 PM, November 23, 2009]

Company targets solution providers that develop data storage and virtualization services

[06:08 PM, November 23, 2009]

The move is the latest in a growing string of acquisitions by the online search giant.

[03:10 PM, November 23, 2009]

Links with on-premise software and extensive data management capabilities give the cloud computing platform an edge.

[11:38 AM, November 23, 2009]

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has hinted that Google Chrome OS will eventually converge with Google Android into one Google operating system.

[09:05 AM, November 23, 2009]

Critics of Apple's App Store say the approval process is too loose and that many apps are approved without being certified or tested.

[08:49 AM, November 23, 2009]

Peer-to-peer music streaming software already supports Android devices and Apple's iPhone

[08:33 AM, November 23, 2009]

Color Microsoft solution providers unimpressed with the limited details Google provided this week on its forthcoming Linux-based Chrome OS.

[06:08 PM, November 20, 2009]

IBM's Rich Michos rallied solution providers at this week's XChange Tech Innovators conference to join in the push to build a smarter planet.

[04:06 PM, November 20, 2009]

At Microsoft's annual shareholder meeting, CEO Steve Ballmer found himself answering the same questions that he's been fielding for several years, and his answers weren't much different than in the past.

[02:30 PM, November 20, 2009]

Zlago offers hosted desktop services for small businesses, complete with e-mail, security and storage, which VARs can private-label to their customers.

[02:30 PM, November 20, 2009]

Xobni Wrings Time Savings Out Of Outlook

Xobni fills the gaps in Microsoft Outlook with more efficient organization of contact information, building profiles that allow users to quickly find the people with whom they're trying to connect.