bMighty News Flash: Wednesday June 3, 2009

HARDWARE & SOFTWARE

• Acer Announces Sub-$600 Notebook With 8-Hour Battery -- Aspire Timeline series of business notebooks that average more than 8 hours of battery life with pricing from $598 to $899
• Opera 10 Beta Release -- The first beta of the Opera 10 Web browser includes an array of new features, a fresh look and feel, and enhanced speed and performance
• Vista-To-Windows 7 Upgrades Coming Soon -- "Part of the deal" for consumers who buy a Vista PC prior to Oct. 22, Microsoft says
• Intel Unveils Atom, CULV Chips For Ultra-Thin Laptops -- The processors are targeted at mainstream laptops that are less than an inch thick and weigh two to five pounds
• BakBone Offers SMB's Continuous Data Protection -- New continuous data protection product NetVault FASTRecover claimed to eliminate backup windows and recovers Exchange, SQL Server, and Windows File server data in as little as 30 seconds
• Microsoft To Exclude ARM Netbooks For Windows 7 -- ARM had said netbooks using its chipsets would run on an operating system based on Linux
• Nvidia Shows Off Computer-On-A-Chip For Mini PCs -- The sweet spot for the platform is smartphones and an emerging category of PCs called smartbooks, the company says

MOBILE

• AT&T Launches "All for Less" Bundle For SMBs -- Package includes 450 minutes of talk time each month for wireless devices, high-speed Internet access, unlimited local and domestic long distance calling, call forwarding and caller ID, and an Internet package with 11 e-mail accounts and AT&T wireless Internet connectivity
• G2 Coming To T-Mobile In July -- T-Mobile is spreading word about the launch of the Android G2 but isn't saying which device will actually carry the T-Mobile G2 name-tag
• New iPhone Software May Allow Application Sharing -- Apple's iPhone Software 3.0 may introduce features that let users share their purchased applications with family or friends
• INQ Mobile Building Twitter Phone -- The company is building a phone that has strong integration with the popular microblogging service and costs less than $140

NETWORKING & COMMUNICATIONS

• Panasonic Offers SMBs Financing On Phone Systems, IP Cameras -- No money down, 90-day deferred payments and 0% financing is available for credit qualified customers on all Panasonic IP cameras and selected business telephone systems

SECURITY

• Red Condor Launches BotHunter -- Included in Red Condor's e-mail security solutions, BotHunter monitors bot activity in real-time across the Internet
• SMBs Not Fully Equipped For Disasters -- Agility Recovery Solutions SMB market analysis finds that most SMB's are majorly underprepared for disasters and misled by existing data backup plans

SERVICES

• Office Depot Launches SMB Self-Help Site -- Survival of the Smartest site offers business resources, templates, forms, advice, and more than $1 million in prizes
• Google Local Gives SMBs A Dashboard -- Google is offering local businesses with physical addresses, a free Google Analytics like dashboard, that'll show stats such as how many times their business comes up as a search result
• Mahalo Unveils Redesign -- The "human-powered search engine" restructures to focus on leveraging user-contributed content, streamlined editing, and a revenue-share model
• Adobe Launches BrowserLab -- The hosted online service that lets professional Web designers preview how their sites will look in various Web browsers on the Mac and Windows platforms
• Apptix Adopts 100% Uptime SLA -- Provider of hosted Microsoft Exchange e-mail, Microsoft SharePoint collaboration services, and hosted VoIP phone service for SMBs announces 100% uptime service level agreement for its hosted services on the Apptix OnDemand platform
• SunGard Secure2Disk Provides Online Backup and Recovery Services -- Solution helps organizations upgrade their tape-based backup systems for their servers, virtual machines, databases, e-mail applications, and storage devices with an online service that provides multiple generations of their backed-up information on an onsite SunGard appliance
• Tibco To Offer Cloud Computing Software -- Analysts expect the cloud computing field to grow rapidly over the coming years as companies look to slash costs by outsourcing costly data center operations
• Time On Social Networks Almost Doubles -- Nielsen Online finds the number of minutes on social networks in the United States rose 83% in April from the same month a year ago
• 90% Of Tweets From 10% Of Twitter Users -- Harvard Business Review study finds that the top 10% of Twitter users account for more than 90% of all tweets with the median number of lifetime tweets per user being just one tweet
• Google Launches Google Search Appliance 6.0 -- The newest version of the Google Search Appliance, 6.0 is designed to help it compete in the enterprise search market against companies such as Microsoft