Serjios El-Hage, CEO, EMW
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The concept of value-added reselling or distribution has reached its zenith in the Middle East. Since the economic crash of …
Logicom gains Cisco Distributor Accreditation
Logicom Dubai recently announced that it has been awarded Distributor Accreditation by Cisco EMEAR. The accreditation will help to drive …
SanDisk signs distribution agreement with EMPA
SanDisk recently signed a distribution agreement with EMPA Middle East, in an effort to increase flash memory growth in the …
New Citadel malware variant targets Payza online payment platform
A new variant of the Citadel financial malware is targeting users of the Payza online payment platform by launching local …
Google pursuing broad wireless project for emerging markets, report says
Google has reportedly launched an expansive effort to bring wireless networks and affordable computing to emerging markets such as sub-Saharan …
IT security vendors seen as clueless on industrial control systems
Many IT security vendors have a minimal understanding of industrial control systems (ICS) and try to sell technology that could …
Web suffered 9000 service outages in last five months
Seeing a “404 error” or the Twitter “Fail Whale” can really kill a good online buzz. Those kinds of service …
The third option
By coupling the spark and drive of a successful start-up with some real business sense, Infor has become much more …
UAE cloud security market poised for growth, says Frost & Sullivan
According to the latest report from Frost & Sullivan, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is showing a greater demand for …
US power companies under frequent cyberattack
A survey of U.S. utilities shows many are facing frequent cyber-attacks that could threaten a highly interdependent power grid supplying …
Al Rostamani Communications and McAfee host security seminar
McAfee and Al Rostamani Communications last week hosted a seminar on data loss prevention (DLP), security incident and event management …
CIOs’ relationship with marketing is weak: survey
With sales and marketing departments having more control over the technology agenda in many organisations, CIOs need to think about whether they …
Bitcoiners rally to enlighten Washington
Washington’s biggest problem when it comes to Bitcoin may just be that policymakers on the Hill don’t know enough about …
Will the Feds ever relax the rules on using phones in flight?
Hop on an Emirates flight in Dubai and get up to cruising altitude. You realise you forgot to tell your …
The growing role of network performance management
Brent Lees, Senior Product Marketing Manager, EMEA, Riverbed Technology Global enterprises and growing businesses are harnessing IT to add branch …
Computerlinks becomes Middle East distributor for Trend Micro
Computerlinks today announced that it has become a distributor for Trend Micro in the Middle East to address increasing customer …
Windows 8 won’t hit critical mass in enterprises, Forrester says
Windows 8, the most significant upgrade to Microsoft’s operating system since Windows 95 and one of the most important products …
Oracle renumbers Java patch updates, confuses users even more
Oracle has changed the numbering of its Java security updates, prompting one expert to say, “As if Java updates weren’t …
Google has ‘lapped Siri’ with sci-fi-like search
Google has an image of the future of search and it’s a bit sci-fi. Google developers envision users talking to …