Inmarsat, the provider of global mobile satellite communications services, has announced the commercial availability of a new voice distress service …
Automation boosts market volatility: Analysts
Over the past month, stock market indices have looked like a lot like a Six Flags roller coaster, with 500 …
The PC is the new mainframe: IBM
“The PC is dead!” We’ve heard that message a lot since the birth of Apple’s iPad, but when one of …
HTC unlocks its phones, but probably not just to irk Google
HTC, which just announced it would stick with Google and keep running Android on its best phones even though Google …
IDC advises retailers on tech initiatives for 2011
IDC Retail Insights today announced the availability of a new report, Perspective: Top 10 Recommendations for the Holiday Season, describing …
Avoiding a revolution: an enterprise guide to virtualisation
With virtualisation comes the potential to reduce costs and enhance productivity, realising savings across server count, carbon footprint, power consumption …
IBM brings brain power to prototype chips
IBM has created prototype chips that could mimic brain-like functionality, which the company said is an “unprecedented” step forward in …
MTN, Opera partner in Africa, Middle East
The soaring demand for faster Internet connectivity in Africa and the Middle East has led regional operator MTN to partner …
Start-up releases all-in-one VMware server, storage appliance
Start-up Nutanix yesterday launched its first product, a slim, virtualised server that is clustered together with solid state and hard …
Securing parameters
As our society mobilises and more individuals use smart devices to access corporate data, cyber criminals are developing more sophisticated …
When service matters
Emirates Airlines is a regional success story of global proportions. However, its continued success relies on being able to scale …
HP updates dependency mapping software
Hewlett-Packard (HP) has updated its dependency mapping software to help customers figure out which departments are using which systems and …
Champions of value addition 2011
The combination of global economic changes and new technology life cycles has made global IT vendors more accountable for the …
New breed of champions
During the Reseller conference in June 2011, two presentations got me thinking. The first was from HP’s Hemayun on vendor-partner …
Fabrics of our life
It is incredible how connected our lives are today. Increasingly sophisticated wireless devices are becoming common every day tools leading …
Top five Android smartphones this DSS
Jacky’s Ashish Panjabi takes a look at Android smartphones Over the last couple of months, we’ve seen a definite uptick …
Asset management firm chooses SAP
Dubai-based asset management company wasl today announced the successful implementation of a suite of SAP software solutions to ensure efficiency, …
UK’s first government-approved Public Services Network launched
After a successful testing phase, the Cabinet Office has launched the UK’s first compliant, national Public Services Network (PSN), with …
Epicor sued over alleged ERP project failure
Epicor is being sued by one of its customers over an ERP (enterprise resource planning) project that allegedly racked up …
IBM declares the end of the PC era
Are we living in a “post-PC” world? Steve Jobs thinks so, and he often refers to the iPad as a …