Microsoft yesterday kicked off what it called a “two-year countdown” to the death of Windows XP, its longest-lived operating system. …
Sony says it lost $6.4 billion last fiscal year
Sony expects its net loss for the fiscal year ending March 31 will be more than double what it forecast …
NEC launches software to find video clips in large archives
NEC has begun sales of new software to quickly find video clips in large archives, which is well-suited for finding …
Do you have a cloud career plan?
The explosive growth of cloud technologies is shaking up IT departments everywhere. This technology shift is creating a new professional …
IBM aiming to provide womb-to-tomb app development support
IBM is trying to replicate the success it’s had with WebSphere in the mobile market. With the acquisition of Green …
Microsoft retires Vista, Office 2007 from mainstream support this week
Microsoft will shift Windows Vista and Office 2007 into what it calls extended support over the next two days. Vista, …
Red Hat announces beta availability of Storage 2.0
A beta version of Red Hat Storage 2.0 was announced Monday by the Massachusetts-based open-source software company. The product — …
AOL to sell patents to Microsoft in over $1b deal
AOL has entered into a definitive agreement to sell over 800 of its patents and their related patent applications to …
Facebook buys Instagram for $1 billion
Facebook is buying Instagram, a popular mobile photo-sharing app, for $1 billion in cash and stock. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s co-founder …
The lion’s share
The Abu Dhabi Education Council (ADEC) is investing in multiple technology deployments and upgrades in a bid to secure the …
10 most powerful IaaS companies
The 10 most powerful IaaS companies, assembled by Network World with help from analysts at Cloud Technology Partners, Current Analysis, …
Microsoft celebrates 20 years in the Gulf at Open Door UAE
Microsoft celebrated 20 years in the GCC region today at its Open Door UAE event in Dubai. Since coming to …
The snowball effect
Despec Mera has been working hard on strategic expansion plans and has successfully signed one of the first agreements with …
Webair deploys EMC solution to give clients cloud storage
Web hosting and managed services company Webair has deployed EMC Isilon scale-out NAS to provide its clients with cloud storage, …
Cloud helps solve resourcing, collaboration problems: Intergence CEO
Using cloud services benefits mobile workers and those operating virtual offices that traditionally have to rely on high speed broadband …
Oracle president discusses big data, business analytics at OpenWorld
Oracle president Mark Hurd used his keynote at Oracle OpenWorld in Tokyo today to speak about the explosion of data …
Intel launches Xeon processor E5-2600 to UAE
Intel today unveiled to UAE users the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product family, which it said meets the demands of …
Two thirds of firms have no proper mobility strategy – report
Almost two-thirds of firms have no enterprise-wide mobility strategy, despite the widespread prevalence of staff unofficially using their own devices, …
Sony to cut 10,000 jobs: report
Sony will cut 10,000 jobs globally, or about 6% of its workforce, this year as part of a restructuring plan …
TIME Hotels chooses Avaya hospitality solutions
UAE-based TIME Hotels has selected Avaya to outfit its mid-tier hotels and long-stay apartments with Avaya hospitality solutions for wireless …