The United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) has successfully deployed Arrive Systems green technology by Visionaire, Dubai’s homegrown ICT and Intelligent …
Qtel, Cisco to collaborate on new services in Qatar
Qtel and Cisco have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that will see the companies collaborate on a range of …
HP unveils Pavilion notebook PC
HP today unveiled the Pavilion notebook PC series, which it says reflects HP’s new mosaic design approach The mosaic approach …
Amazon releases staggering storage figures
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has outlined the rapid growth of its Simple Storage Service (S3), which it says now holds …
Startup YouDazzle combines social collaboration, cloud storage
There are plenty of collaboration software tools on the market, and a growing number of cloud storage options for businesses …
Oracle CSO slates PCI rules
Oracle chief security officer Mary Ann Davidson has called on vendors of payment application software to join her company in …
Dell says AppAssure now its premier backup product
Despite its longstanding partnership with Symantec and CommVault, Dell says that products from recently acquired AppAssure will become the company’s primary backup …
HTC Q1 profit sinks by 70 percent
High Tech Computer reported a 70 percent year-on-year fall in net profit for the first quarter on Friday, as the …
Gartner slashes IT spending forecast
Analyst Gartner has slashed its forecast for worldwide IT spending growth for 2012. Gartner now estimates worldwide IT spending will …
Samsung starts manufacturing speedy microSD card
Samsung Electronics has started mass producing a microSD card that uses an Ultra High Speed-1 (UHS-1) interface to improve data …
A quarter of the world’s households now have Wi-Fi: survey
A total of 439 million households around the world had installed a Wi-Fi-based home network at the end of 2011, …
Google deprecates old App Engine datastore in favour of High-Replication version
Google is deprecating the Master/Slave Datastore used by its cloud platform App Engine in favor of the High-Replication Datastore (HRD), …
Open-source data mapping tool CartoDB provides customisable views
Vizzuality this week launched an open-source data-mapping tool CartoDB, promising an easy and customisable way for users to display their …
ITU: Broadband key to achieving 2020 carbon reduction commitments
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), an agency of the United Nations, has propelled broadband to the front of the world’s …
Emitac appoints new director
Emitac Enterprise Solutions (EES) yesteday announced that George Petrides has joined as director of its enterprise management solution division, where …
Schneider Electric appoints new VP for Saudi IT business
Energy management firm Schneider Electric today announced the appointment of Abed Al Jawad Qasem as vice-president for its IT business …
EMC expands cloud portfolio
EMC yesterday announced an expanded portfolio of cloud services to help customers accelerate the adoption, consumption, optimisation and management of …
DCIM tools eliminate inefficiencies
Some data centre managers were never sold on first generation data centre infrastructure management (DCIM) tools because the tools were …
BlackBerry triumphs in comparison of mobile platforms in enterprise
BlackBerry 7.0 has come out on top in a comparison of mobile platforms and how they meet the demands of …
MultiNet bags Corning top honour
The Dubai-based MultiNet Communications has been named as the best distributor in EMEA region for Corning Cable System. “A distributor …