Cisco will host its premier flagship technology event Cisco Expo UAE 2012 on Monday, March 19th 2012 at Atlantis, The …
Qatar Telecom announces 16% revenue increase
Qatar Telecom today announced a 16% year-on-year Group revenue increase, ending the 2011 fiscal year at QAR 31.8 billion, compared …
Price versus brand takes focus in the battle for smartphone supremacy
Established vendors such as HTC, Sony and LG Electronics want to set their smartphones apart from less expensive devices from …
AMD’s acquisition of SeaMicro puts Intel on the defensive
Intel suffered a setback in the server market with the news that its former partner, SeaMicro, is being acquired by …
Siemens launches new version of OpenSpace UC suite
Siemens Enterprise Communications today announced Version 7.0 of its OpenScape UC suite that enables the VoIP platform to support up to 500,000 …
FourSquare drops Google Maps API for OpenStreetMap
Location-based social media service FourSquare this week abruptly swapped the Google Maps technology underlying its product for the OpenStreetMap, announcing …
Companies struggling to fill mainframe skills gap
Companies are struggling to fill the skills shortage in mainframe development as existing staff retire and IT students are put …
Disk storage system sales in Q4 top $8.5 bn: IDC
In the last quarter of 2011, disk storage systems generated more than $8.5 billion in revenue, representing a 3.5% increase …
Judge hints at stay of Oracle-Google trial until patent reexamination is over
The judge overseeing Oracle’s intellectual property lawsuit against Google wants Oracle to provide “a clear answer” as to why the …
IBM tops Cloud provider report
Australian ICT research firm, Longhaus, has dubbed IBM as the most trusted infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) Cloud provider in its new report …
IT execs accept BYOD, despite some reservations: survey
Despite security and IT integration problems related to the consumerisation of IT in the workplace, CEOs and IT execs are …
Cyber threats will become number one security concern: FBI
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation anticipates cyber threats to overtake terrorism as the number one threat to the country, …
The biggest crisis I’ve ever dealt with, says RSA marketing VP
Brian Fitzgerald, VP of marketing at RSA, says the security breach at the security company last March was the biggest …
A fragmented entity
Earlier this month, HP conducted its first Global Partner Conference in Las Vegas, USA. It had earlier been conducting these …
AMD buys SeaMicro for $334 mn, enters server hardware business
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced yesterday it is buying low-power server vendor SeaMicro, a surprise move that puts AMD in …
Avaya releases communications management platform
Avaya is looking to take over the management of an enterprise’s entire communications platform with a new offering the company …
Microsoft unveils Windows 8 “Consumer Preview,” downloads start
Microsoft yesterday released its “Consumer Preview” of Windows 8, and before Windows president Steve Sinofsky finished his presentation to reporters …
Thai floods catapult Seagate into hard drive market lead
The flooding in Thailand last year helped Seagate Technology recapture the worldwide lead in hard disk drive shipments in the …
Microsoft’s Azure cloud suffers serious outage
Microsoft’s Azure cloud infrastructure and development service experienced a serious outage yesterday, with the system’s service management component going down …
Middle East enterprises not good enough at information risk: Williams, RSA
Information risk in the Middle East is very basic and companies in the region are leaving themselves vulnerable to attack. …