After a number of delays, the beta of the Fedora 18 Linux-based distribution has been released. The beta release date …
Red Hat rolls out private PaaS
Red Hat officially jumped into the cloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS) market yesterday. Last year the company announced an initial version of OpenShift, an application …
Alcatel-Lucent enters crowding SDN field
Alcatel-Lucent’s enterprise division this week jumped into the SDN market with a strategy to fortify products to enhance network programmability …
A forgotten cause
Dr Sassan Dieter Khatib-Shahidi, CEO, German Imaging Technologies (GIT) Dubai LLC, says the Middle East IT industry is not doing …
Tech job market on the upswing
To see the state of the job market for tech workers, just look at the headlines over the past few …
HP in the dark over partner product sales in Syria
Hewlett-Packard said in a letter to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it had determined that its products were …
Dual-identity smartphones to bridge BYOD private, corporate divide
Late next year, consumers will be able to buy smartphones that either come with native hypervisor software or use an …
Microsoft promises Surface RT support until 2017
Microsoft will support its Surface RT tablet with updates, including security patches, until April 2017, or nearly four-and-a-half years after …
Windows 8’s early uptake trumps Vista’s, not Win 7
Microsoft’s Windows 8 may be lagging far behind Windows 7 in its usage uptake, but it’s easily topping the low …
IDC: Enterprises buying iPhones ‘in droves’
Apple iPhones and Android smartphones will replace BlackBerry as the top smartphones used by workers around the world in 2012, …
Texting, taking pics are more popular than making calls
More American adults use their smartphones and other cell phones to take pictures and to send texts than to download …
EU’s cyber security budget dubbed “paltry”
Despite vowing that fighting cybercrime is high on its agenda, the European Commission increased its planned cyber security budget by …
Orange launches VoIP mobile app to rival Skype
Orange has launched an application that gives mobile users free international calls and could prove to be a potential rival …
Anonymous attacks ‘cost PayPal £3.5m’
The Anonymous hacking group cost PayPal £3.5 million when it carried out an attack on its websites, it was alleged in court this week. …
Despite mobile hype, PCs and email still dominate: research
While there is a lot of talk about mobile computing, there is a significant difference to the way people are …
Skype says scam calls on a steady decline
Skype has been battling wily adversaries who are abusing the Internet calling application to direct people to scam websites, but …
Mozilla suspends work on 64-bit Firefox for Windows
Mozilla this week suspended development of a 64-bit version of Firefox for Windows, citing add-on incompatibilities and low priority for …
IDC: HP customers should demand assurances over Autonomy’s future
Research group IDC has said that following HP’s £5.5 billion writedown of Autonomy, its customers should seek ‘formal assurances’ about …
Office workers aren’t aware of security policies, says Xerox, McAfee
More than half of office workers don’t follow their company’s IT security policies, or aren’t even aware of the policies, …
Vox Spectrum partners with Almasa
Vox Spectrum,an International group of telecom companies and the master distributor of Plantronics Headsets in the region, has appointed Almasa …