Digital approaches to research offer better insight than traditional forms, and companies in the Middle East need to catch up …
Ultrabook shipments to reach 178mn by 2016: Juniper Research
Ultrabooks will grow at three times the rate of tablets over the next five years, according to Juniper Research, with …
Dubai Health Care City implementing Hospital at Home initiative
Dubai Health Care City (DHCC) is in the process of implementing the Hospital at Home initiative, in partnership with the …
March to megapixel
New standards, better capabilities and the flexibility of IP drive adoption. Here’s what to consider. Despite the global economic downturn …
Big and growing
Collating big data and gleaning intelligence from it is becoming important among Middle East enterprises, as it is the worldover. …
Healthcare should take up digital trends: mHealth conference
Mobile health is here and will change the way people in the Middle East receive health care and interact with …
Big data has been around for years: IBM
Jeff Barber, director of worldwide storage product sales, systems and technology group at IBM, says he pities companies that are …
Micron to acquire PCIe virtualisation vendor Virtensys
Micron Technology recently announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Virtensys, a U.K.-based provider of PCIe-sharing products. No financial …
RIM announces appointment of new CEO
Research In Motion’s co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie have quit after a tumultuous period at the company, which saw …
Microsoft’s Q2 net income slightly down
Microsoft revenue rose in the second fiscal quarter, while its profits dipped a bit. Revenue for the quarter, ended Dec. …
Enterprise Hadoop
It’s been a big year for Apache Hadoop, the open source project that helps you split your workload among a …
The cloud CIO
Forbes recently published an interesting article written by Ed Sperling titled “CIOs: Be Careful What You Wish For.” In it, …
Crowd computing- the future?
While firms are up on their toes in their respective bids to take their companies to the cloud–touted to be …
Cyber war is here, and everyone can get caught in it: Kaspersky
The Internet is becoming a cyber war ground that companies and users will get caught in the middle of, warned …
Consolidation should be done for the future: Alcatel-Lucent
Data centre consolidation is nothing to be afraid of, and organisations should do it in preparation for the future, says …
Web blackout marks turning point in SOPA and PIPA debate
Opponents of the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act cheered Wednesday’s Web blackout as a turning point …
Jerry Yang leaves Yahoo
Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang has left the company, the latest dramatic change at the top of the embattled Internet company. …
UN Secretary General promotes energy initiative
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged governments, the private sector and civil society to make significant commitments to minimise …
Buyers beware of unified networks: Salim
Enterprises should think carefully before turning towards internet protocol and unified ICT networks, says Muttahir Salim, principal consultant for reliance, …
A positive outlook
As we usher in 2012, it is important to reflect on the year gone by. I am sure most IT …