SMB Products: News

Warranty and extended services provider, United Group, has revealed a product protection plan, Product Care, for manufacturer and consumer electronics businesses.

Distribution Central adds AdvaTel to Unity line-up

Spending on electronic devices like laptops and office consumables fell in the second quarter of 2010 thanks to lower consumer confidence and the lack of Government stimuli, according to the GfK TEMAX report.

Chipset vendor, AMD, recently held an event in Sydney to showcase its processors in a range of devices.

IPL Communications has landed a distribution agreement with VoIP software vendor, CommSoft RMS. It has also flagged plans to launch market initiatives for partners.

Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday introduced a variety of products for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), a segment that worldwide spends an estimated US$234 billion per year on IT products, the company said.

Telstra has cut prices and simplified its business broadband plans in a bid to offer better value to SMBs.

Engin and Samsung Communications have teamed up on VoIP-based systems and plans aimed at Australian SMEs.

ASX-listed services provider, Melbourne IT (ASX:MLB), expects SMEs with global ambitions to take up its newly released .CO Internet domain places.

Symantec is warning that its Endpoint Protection Manager server product is erroneously marking signature updates issued this year as out of date.

Specialist security distributor, Microbe, has formed a partnership with eScan to target SMB customers.

A new distributor has launched in Australia with large-scale expansion plans.

HP left no product category untouched as it released a myriad new computing, printing and visual collaboration hardware this week.

Salesforce.com and Cisco Systems on Monday announced an offering for small and medium-size companies that integrates Salesforce.com's on-demand, customer-service software with Cisco's unified communications technology.

Lexmark has taken the wrappers off its new range of SMB multifunction printers (MFPs).

Edimax Technology has released a wireless IP camera that has the capacity to send live video to any Web browser in the world.

Dicker Data has increased its datacentre play through a partnership with switching vendor, Blade Network Technologies.

Cisco has expanded its range of products specifically for the SMB market.

D-Link has launched a Microsoft Response Point phone system aimed specifically at small businesses.

Oracle on Tuesday stepped up its assault on rival Salesforce with a new version of its on-demand CRM (customer relationship management) application.