Google is now offering customers of its Apps for Business communications and collaboration suite an optional service that automatically captures, …
Samsung Galaxy Note defies critics, sells 5 million
Samsung today announced that the Galaxy Note has sold 5 million units worldwide, putting the company on pace to exceed …
SuccessFactors offers free version of Jam software in hit against Salesforce.com
SAP’s SuccessFactors subsidiary is rolling out a version of its Jam social collaboration platform at no charge to all users, …
Kingston launches wireless portable storage device for smartphones, tablets
Kingston Digital Europe yesterday launched in the UAE a wireless portable storage device that allows user to carry and share …
Axed Microsoft’s tablet concept reborn as iPad app
Microsoft killed the Courier tablet concept in favor of Windows 8 tablets, but the idea behind it has now found a new …
Box unveils cloud service for workplace mobile apps
Box, a provider of cloud-hosted enterprise collaboration and content management software, will announce on Wednesday a new service designed to …
Jive develops enterprise social app for intranets
Jive Software has developed a version of its enterprise social collaboration software designed for intranets, the latest product it creates for …
Avira latest to offer antivirus software for Macs
German security company Avira has released free antivirus software for Apple Macs, joining a host of security software providers offering …
AOL unplugs 10,000 servers, saves $5 million
AOL decommissioned almost 10,000 servers and saved itself $5 million along the way to winning a contest that highlights the …
Apple confirms imprecise iPad battery meter
Apple reacted to reports that the new iPad under-reports its battery status, saying a researcher’s analysis was essentially correct but …
Google working on advanced web engineering
Google is working on a number of advanced programming technologies to ease complex web application development, a Google engineer revealed …
DotCloud adds vertical scaling to its PaaS offering
DotCloud has become the latest platform-as-a-service provider to add features typically associated with infrastructure-as-a-service offerings, this time by enabling vertical …
Cybercrime now major drag on financial services: survey
Too few organisations in the financial services sector are investing in the response mechanisms needed to cope with cybercrime incidents, …
Lenovo debuts App Shop for larger businesses
Lenovo announced an enterprise-focused app storefront for tablets running Android 3.1 or higher. The Lenovo Enterprise App Shop offers larger …
Honouring innovation
The recipients of the Network World Middle East’s 3rd annual awards were announced at a gala ceremony in Dubai last …
Filling the gaps
The noticeable gap between the IT skills needed and those that are currently available in the market got Pallavi Sharma …
More on the air
With the advent of 4G, operators are being forced to revamp their backhaul strategies, or risk being left behind. Mobile …
Global SaaS spending to rise 17.9% to $14.5 billion: Gartner
Global spending on SaaS (software-as-a-service) will rise 17.9 percent this year to $14.5 billion, according to figures released yesterday by …
Internet contributed SAR37 billion to Saudi economy in 2010: report
The Saudi internet economy contributed SAR37 billion to the overall Saudi economy in 2010, representing 2.2% of GDP and putting …
Datatel and SunGard Higher Education join to become ‘Ellucian’
Education technology companies Datatel and SunGard Higher Education have joined together to become a collaborative new brand called Ellucian. “Ellucian …