Oracle fattened up its already burgeoning middleware stack, announcing that it has purchased SOA (service oriented architecture) management vendor AmberPoint. …
Xerox, ACS close $6.4B merger deal
Xerox Corp.’s $6.4 billion acquisition of Affiliated Computer Services Inc., approved by the shareholders of both companies on Friday, creates …
Report: Google to make Gmail more social
Google plans to tweak Gmail to make it easier for its users to post and share status updates, in an …
Adobe apologizes for 16-month-old Flash bug
Adobe apologized over the weekend for letting a 16-month-old bug in Flash Player languish without a patch, even though it …
Cisco to unleash data center extensions
Cisco next week is expected to unveil new and enhanced data center products that are designed to more easily interconnect …
Almasa IT Distribution signs Ericom Software
This agreement authorises Almasa IT Distribution to distribute, market, service and maintain designated Ericom Software in the Middle East and …
Driving IT innovation
MEEZA, a provider of managed IT services and solutions in Qatar and the Middle East region has urged businesses in …
Acing with smartphones
RWME: Acer has just unveiled its range of smartphones in the Middle East market. What’s Acer’s main motivation behind this …
Is Cisco a better value over 3Com, HP?
In my numerous interactions with the IT networking vendor community, I have come to understand that new products from 3Com, …
IBM details world’s fastest graphene transistor
Thanks to a change in recipe, IBM has created a graphene-based processor that can execute 100 billion cycles per second …
Blackberry spyware source code released
Veracode released Blackberry-specific spyware, which the code-review specialist intends as a “call for defensive research” to show that the BlackBerry …
Facebook celebrates 6th birthday with redesign
Facebook is celebrating its sixth anniversary with another redesign of its homepage. Employees at Facebook last night were celebrating the …
iPhone, BlackBerry users can make VoIP calls over 3G
With its newest software, Agito lets a cell phone user place a voice call as a VoIP data connection, over …
Symantec hit with class-action lawsuit over auto-renewals
A New York man has sued security software maker Symantec for automatically renewing his subscription to Norton Antivirus, alleging that …