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 …
Nokia unveils N9 smartphone using MeeGo
Nokia unveiled Tuesday its new N9 smartphone that runs the MeeGo operating system, and is being marketed as a “pure …
HP unveils thin client virtualisation solutions
Faced with increasing competition and a fast paced global environment organisations are making investments in strategic IT investments that enable …
KalSoft and Avanza Solutions join forces
KalSoft has signed an agreement with Avanza Microsoft Technology Group (MTG) combining the service delivery capabilities of the two companies …
Mozilla to add PDF viewer to Firefox
Mozilla is working on a project that will add PDF rendering to Firefox using HTML5 and JavaScript, eliminating the need …
Fujistu introdues pre-configured data centre for private cloud
Fujitsu introduced today its first completely preconfigured data centre environment in the Fujitsu Dynamic Infrastructures portfolio with Microsoft Windows Server …
Epin enters GCC
Qatar’s and the regions projects are attracting a new breed of project suites Qatar’s skyline is being rebuilt. Many localities …
Packard Bell’s summer wave
With its new range of consumer products ready to roll, Packard Bell is hoping to regain its market share this …
Itqan’s second wave
Growing competition and increasing regional demand for its services are making it bullish to cross over When Feras Al-Jabi, General …
Virtual blind spot
Malicious hypervisors. Subversive virtual machines. Live migration impersonators. Welcome to the world of virtualisation, where the threats are new and …
Windows phones will outdo iPhones by 2015: IDC
The Windows operating system for smartphones is expected to gain market share in the next few years thanks to Nokia, …
Reseller announces award winners 2011
AMD, Asbis, Kaspersky pick up prestigious awards at Reseller Awards 2011 Component vendor AMD and regional distributor Asbis, picked up …
One billion smartphones to ship in 2015: IDC
Nearly 1 billion smartphones will be shipped globally in 2015, almost double the amount for all of 2011, as millions …
Amazon’s Android e-store inferior: Apple
Apple this week called Amazon’s Appstore for Android “inferior” as it urged a federal court to block the online retailer …
BCS recognises local efforts in IT
BCS-ME, The Chartered Institute for IT, Middle East section held the Chairman’s annual dinner yesterday at the Holiday Inn hotel, …
Oracle is legally bound to reverse Itanium decision: HP
Oracle’s decision in March to stop developing software for Intel’s Itanium chips is in violation of “legally-binding commitments” Oracle has …
Setting standards
Qatar First Investment Bank chooses the cloud to host its disaster recovery apps and data, and finds that it could …
HP announces converged storage strategy, products
Hewlett-Packard today announced a series of upgrades to its storage products, including the addition of data snapshots and a portfolio …