ARM Holdings hopes to wrestle dominance of the mobile PC market from Intel and have ARM-based processors in more than …
Oracle introduces JavaFX 2.0 beta
JavaFX 2.0, an upgrade to the Java-based rich client platform that originated at Sun Microsystems, was made available in a …
Microsoft previews Mango
Microsoftyesterday, previewed the next major release of Windows Phone, code named “Mango” for the Gulf Region at a media event …
Citrix buys virtual desktop company
Citrix Systems has acquired Kaviza, a company whose pre-configured Virtual Desktop Infrastructure-in-a-box makes it easier for small and medium-size businesses …
Sophos introduces enhanced encryption solutions
IT security and data protection company Sophos today announced the availability of a number of new and enhanced enterprise product …
China Sourcing Fair returns
You may have noticed over the past several years, when you go to a store to buy something, a large …
Dubai’s China Sourcing Fair returns
You may have noticed over the past several years, when you go to a store to buy something, a large …
An app store future and what it means
Apple’s App Store for its iPhone and other iOS devices is an unqualified success, blowing through the 10 billion downloads …
Nokia kills Ovi brand for mobile services
Nokia will abandon its Ovi mobile services brand as it prepares to sell smartphones based on Microsoft’s Windows Phone software, …
Google launches Chrome OS
Google co-founder Sergey Brin said Windows and other traditional PC operating systems are “torturing users” at Google’s Chrome OS launch …
Microsoft agrees to buy Skype for $8.5 billion
Microsoft has agreed to buy Skype for $8.5 billion, the companies announced Tuesday. The companies’ CEOs, Steve Ballmer and Tony …
Microsoft to buy Skype
Microsoft has agreed to buy Skype for $8.5 billion, the companies announced Tuesday. The companies’ CEOs, Steve Ballmer and Tony …
Dubai’s China Sourcing Fair plays a key role in MENA’s trade
You may have noticed over the past several years, when you go to a store to buy something, a large …
Dell works towards faster virtualisation
Dell announced today a four-socket blade server with up to 48 processor cores for deployment in virtualised environments. “The PowerEdge …
Google Android OS going strong: Canalys
Market research firm Canalys has given Google’s Android OS a 35% share of the smartphone market for the first quarter …
Iomega launches NAS storage line for SMEs
EMC subsidiary Iomega today unveiled a new series of simple disk storage arrays aimed at small-to-medium sized businesses and remote …
Red Hat pitches new cloud software
Microsoft and VMware are the enemies of interoperability, and only open source software can prevent cloud lock-in. That, at least, …
Nokia outsources Symbian OS activities, transfers employees
Nokia will outsource its Symbian software activities to Accenture, transferring 3,000 employees to the company in the process, as it …
Gartner tablet forecast overlooks Microsoft
Research firm Gartner yesterday gave Microsoft a hard diss on the tablet front by not including Redmond in its recent tablet-OS …
Nokia’s profit drops
Nokia reported an increase in sales for the first quarter, but profit declined and the company expects a challenging second …