Office 365 is now officially out, but customers of the suite’s previous version, called BPOS, will have to wait at …
Digital hoteliers
The Internet has changed the way the hospitality industry does business. CNME speaks with IT professionals in the sector to …
Clean cable clutter
Somehow, you can meticulously connect each cable from your PC to your various gadgets and peripherals, carefully ensuring that they …
Google to take on Facebook
After months of speculation, Google has launched a social network to rival Facebook. Google today unveiled its Google+ project, a …
A congress for software
The second annual GCC Software Congress 2011 brought together multiple stakeholders from the IT industry to discuss the interlinking nature …
Microsoft consortium to trial TV spectrum for WiFi
Microsoft has got together with a range of technology and media companies, such as BT and the BBC, to trial …
Nokia ships phones with banking application in India
Nokia has started shipping mobile phones in India that are preloaded with its banking application, in a bid to popularise …
UAE’s YSA upgrades to HP networking tools
The UAE’s General Authority of Youth and Sports Welfare (YSA) has upgraded its entire network with HP Networking products to …
Travel firms ‘unsure’ about DR plans, says City Lifeline
A third of IT managers and users in the travel sector are “unsure” that their disaster recovery plans would work …
Cloud top priority for Asian CIOs: Gartner
Chief information officers (CIOs) in Asia are continuing to search for innovative cloud technologies to support business growth, according to …
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 …
Microsoft revamps retail and consumer focus
A new consumer focussed group is being created to enhance excitement across the portfolio An exciting moment at DCC 2011, …
Hard drive copy station
Hard drive copy station from Integral Memory The Integral hard drive copy station allows an identical copy of a computer …
Fujitsu’s S700, S900 thin client series
Thin clients are equivalent of desktops in an enterprise computing environment Similar to a traditional desktop PC, and offering the …
OBS, Sita to build a global cloud infrastructure
SITA, the air transport industry IT specialist, and Orange Business Services (OBS), the leading global integrated communications service provider for …
Apple wins touchscreen patent
More than three years after its original filing, Apple has finally been granted an iPhone patent that could potentially see …
Samsung debuts Galaxy SII
Samsung Electronics has launched its Smartphone, the GALAXY S II in the Middle East. The widely anticipated smartphone has the …
The new generation of apps
The world today is at the confluence of several trends, each sufficiently disruptive in its own right to affect profoundly …
Look and listen
Steady growth in the cloud services sector reflects the rapid pace at which companies are moving all or portions of …