Mozilla said it would update Firefox for the Mac to deal with a bug in Apple’s impending Lion OS. Firefox …
Asia group launches cloud computing index
Asia’s cloud computing industry group recently unveiled two initiatives that can help guide organisations in the region as they consider …
Partner Up: Reseller Middle East’s 2011 Conference
Top notch speakers at the Reseller Conference covered a wide gamut of channel topics including upcoming technology trends, value addition, …
Tuqnia enters alliance with Xerox Emirates
Xerox Emirates, document management, technology and consulting services vendor announced the appointment of Tuqnia as a business partner to sell …
Linking up again
A core team of ERP specialists that left Arthur Anderson in 1996 finally realise their dream in the Middle East …
Avatars of 2011
Editorial The last quarter of 2011 is going to be fierce. The retail community at Distree 2011 voted Microsoft as …
Is the BlackBerry PlayBook for you?
In early May, I was one of the fortunate few in the UAE to have had a BlackBerry PlayBook in …
Facebook confirms “awesome” Skype integration
Facebook today said it is teaming up with Skype to bring video chat capabilities to users of the world’s largest …
Android’s 38% market share keeps it on top
A commanding 38% share of all smartphone users in the U.S. used Android-based devices in the three months ending in …
Bing to power Baidu’s English search
Microsoft’s Bing search engine will provide English-language search results for Baidu, China’s largest search engine, the companies announced yesterday. Further …
Nortel’s patents more valuable than its products
Nortel’s patents were slightly more valuable than its products, as the transactions for Nortel’s product groups combined did not quite …
Google Chrome hits 20% global share: StatCounter
Google Chrome’s rise in popularity has been remarkably fast and it’s just hit a new milestone: more than 20% of …
Aerohive updates its 802.11n WLAN software
Aerohive Networks has released new wireless LAN software, with new mobile device management and spectrum analysis features. The changes are being …
Google to shut down health and energy services
Google said that it plans to shut down two services that proved unpopular: Google Health and Google PowerMeter. Google Health …
Rebates, incentives, loyalty programmes, promotions: What works?
By any theory of channel marketing these are established instruments of “reward power”. However with shorter life cycles and new …
High-end SME and retail, key areas for Lenovo
With growth and product movement in these segments, the vendor has made them a priority for this year At DCC …
Windows OS going strong, Windows IE on the decline: Forrester
A new study of corporate operating system and browser trends by Forrester Research reveals both good news and bad news …
Samsung debuts Galaxy SII
Samsung Electronics has launched its Smartphone, the GALAXY S II in the Middle East. The widely anticipated smartphone has the …
Look and listen
Steady growth in the cloud services sector reflects the rapid pace at which companies are moving all or portions of …
Netezza rolls out large-scale analytic appliance
IBM’s Netezza division is rolling out a new analytic appliance that can analyse up to 10 petabytes of data “in …