Before I finally leave Dubai, a place I’ve worked in for 20 years and called home for the last ten, …
Social media essential to IT service management: Ovum
CIOs must start to think about integrating social media into their service desks as the technology becomes ubiquitous in everyday …
Tablet sales to soar through 2015: Gartner
Gartner Wednesday revised its worldwide IT spending forecast upward, mostly in response to strong 2010 sales of media tablet computers …
Regional CIOs are more business-oriented
The role of the CIO is changing, and more regional CIOs are getting into management roles and business decision-making. This …
BP loses laptop with oil spill data
The personal information of 13,000 individuals who had filed compensation claims with BP after last year’s disastrous oil spill may …
Bank Muscat opts for Avaya
One of the GCC’s bigger banks announced today that it has successfully deployed Avaya Aura to enhance customer service and …
Cybercriminals selling exploit-as-a-service kit
Cybercriminals are taking a page from the software-as-a-service playbook: they’re now selling exploit kits complete with hosting services, with customers …
Haves vs. have-nots
A handful of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software companies have exited the great recession, regained their footing and posted respectable …
Firefox 4 sets unofficial download record
Mozilla set an unofficial record for software downloads on the second day of Firefox 4’s launch, the company said Friday. …
UAE ranked seventh on government spending efficiency
The UAE is ranked seventh in the world in terms of efficiency of government spending in the 2010-2011 Global Competitiveness …
Microsoft sniffs out unused wireless spectrum
Microsoft researchers have designed a scheme for measuring whether licensed radio frequencies are actually being used so unlicensed devices can …
Oracle customers using Itanium chips rethink IT upgrades
Oracle customers this week expressed concern about the effort and cost of upgrading IT infrastructures after the software maker said …
Citigroup spinoff bundles recommendations to credit card users
A New York startup company spun off from Citigroup is about to launch a service that can offer consumers recommendations for …
Three in five SMEs ‘have no business continuity plan
Almost 60% of small and medium sized businesses in the UK lack any continuity plan to respond to natural and …