The central role information technology will play in Egypt’s economic and political future was confirmed by Dr Magued Osman, the …
Royal Jordanian agrees on desktop deal with SITA
Royal Jordanian and aviation IT specialist SITA, have announced a major deal for a fully managed service for desktops, printers, …
Citrix takes on ex-VMWare channel head as new regional director
Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTXS), a leading provider of virtual computing solutions that help companies deliver IT as an on-demand …
Khaleej Times avoids bandwidth upgrade with Riverbed
Khaleej Times, a leading newspaper in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has deployed Riverbed Steelhead appliances across its organisation to …
IBM launches e-commerce practice
Hoping to grab some of the US$70 billion yearly worldwide market of electronic commerce software and services, IBM has launched …
The choice illusion
Recently I went shopping for a laptop. As a family, we have owned and still call ours a couple of …
FEWA Dubai selects SAP to standardise divisions
The Federal Electricity and Water Authority (FEWA) in Dubai signed an agreement with SAP to standardise all divisions of FEWA …
Nokia lays out risks in Microsoft deal
In a recent filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Nokia laid out the threats it faces as part …
Dell: ARM servers could face software issues
Dell is experimenting with chips based on ARM processors in its servers, but the architecture faces software issues that could …
Mozilla releases Firefox 4.0 release candidate
The Mozilla Foundation has issued the first release candidate of Firefox version 4.0, finishing a gruelling and ambitious beta development …
Palestinian technology venture fund launches operations
MEVCF, the Middle East Venture Capital Fund announced today that it has secured $28.7 million from leading international companies, foundations, …
HP unifies software support services
Hewlett-Packard has launched a new set of services that combine software support and professional services into a single unified offering. …
SAS pushes BI to Apple’s iPad, iPhones
SAS Institute is teaming up with mobile BI (business intelligence) vendor Mellmo to bring analytic applications to Apple’s iPhone and …
VMware buys WaveMaker, aims to ease app development
VMware said yesterday it had acquired WaveMaker, the creator of open-source software that lets non-developers build Java Web applications. WaveMaker …