Acer appoints Amin Mortazavi former GM, Middle East, HP IPG to head the company’s Middle East and Africa operations.
Lack of awareness is key barrier to cloud usage, study reveals
The key concern for SMBs when it comes to the cloud seems to be a lack of related knowledge. This …
ECS announces ‘Modmen’ PC modding competition
Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) today announced that it is teaming up with Thermaltake, G.skill and various media partners to announce …
Russian start-up working on Intel to ARM software emulator
A Russian start-up company called Elbrus Technologies is developing a technology that will allow data centre owners to migrate software …
New Arm chip technologies could power mobile networks
Emerging chip technologies that Arm Holdings announced this week, could help to power mobile networks that are being asked to …
Facebook acts to block mass harvesting of phone numbers
Facebook has restricted the rate at which users can perform phone number searches on its mobile website in order to …
Lenovo tops HP in PC sales, says Gartner
Lenovo has stripped HP of its title as the world’s top seller of PCs, research firm Gartner said in a …
Focus Softnet reveals new look ahead of GITEX
Focus Softnet has unveiled its dynamic new corporate identity along with its latest brand logos for its products to be …
IBM and AT&T collaborate on cloud services
IBM has struck up a partnership with AT&T to offer secure shared cloud services to customers over private networks rather …
Inmarsat and Cisco agree satellite next-gen services deal
Inmarsat and Cisco have joined forces to share network capacity and technology to make it easier to deliver applications and …
Symantec adds disaster recovery to Veritas Cluster Server
Symantec has announced the latest version of its Veritas Cluster Server (VCS), which adds the ability to reduce virtual machine recovery times …
13in Retina MacBook Pro ready for production this quarter
Apple is on track to begin production of a 13in MacBook Pro with Retina display this quarter, according to NPD DisplaySearch …
Microsoft patches Word flaw, 20 other critical bugs
Microsoft has patched 20 vulnerabilities in Word, Office, Windows, SharePoint Server, SQL Server and other products in its portfolio, including …
CIOs lack succession plans, according to study
IT pros are accustomed to handling unexpected crises, such as when hardware fails or a cloud service has an outage. But …
Dubai eGov to host 26 government entities at GITEX
Dubai eGovernment are set to host 26 government entities at GITEX this year, according to H.E. Ahmad Bin Humaidan, Director …
Ballmer’s bonus dwarfted by peers’, Hastings leaves Microsoft board
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer saw his bonus shrink a little in 2012 while that of other Microsoft executives rose significantly, …
Infected computers rented as proxy servers on the black market
Cyber criminals are using computers infected with a particular piece of malware to power a commercial proxy service that funnels …
Huawei customers announce security concerns after congressional report
Three service providers that use equipment from Huawei have said they will take strong precautions to ensure the security of …
Lenovo unveils Windows 8, RT hybrid laptop, tablet devices
Lenovo has announced a new range of Windows 8 and RT hybrid computing devices that can function as tablets or …
IBM expands PureSystems line for data duties
IBM has expanded its PureSystems line of pre-integrated systems to include new models to handle business analysis and online transaction …