Point-of-sale payment processing devices for credit and debit cards are proving to be rich targets for cybercriminals due to lax …
Digital diagnosis
While tele-medicine or remote medicine offers great potential advantages in the region, healthcare institutions are yet to experiment with it …
Extreme takes aim at secure mobile networking
Extreme Networks is going mobile. The company today wheeled out a roadmap that will steer the company’s product line toward …
IBM sees opportunity for environmental business
The need to improve the energy efficiency of buildings and the reliability of utilities has created a multi-billion dollar market …
A word of advice
In the last month, separate CIO events were conducted in Dubai by two of the largest IT analyst groups in …
A rewarding job
When Ben Fried left his post as IT managing director at Morgan Stanley and took over as Google’s CIO in …
HP broadens scope of project management software
With the new update of its Project and Portfolio Management software, Hewlett-Packard is broadening the potential scope of the software …
Intel plots ‘client-aware’ cloud services
Intel wants the cloud to be a bit smarter. The company is developing technologies that would allow applications and services …
IT graduates not “well-trained”
There is a disconnect between students getting high-tech degrees and what employers are looking for in those graduates. Employers agree …
Collaboration apps need to be adapted: Gartner
IT managers implementing collaborative software such as SharePoint have been warned that simply installing applications out of the box will …
Google releases full Android 3.0 SDK
Google has made available the full SDK for the Android 3.0 mobile platform, featuring a UI redesigned for tablets and …
Cisco names first COO as company reinvents itself
Cisco Systems has named Gary Moore as its first COO, formally giving CEO John Chambers a sidekick to help transition …
KSA’s Shaqra University selects SAP
Shaqra University in Saudi Arabia has announced that it has selected market leader in enterprise application software SAP to implement …
Train them right
If the average IT manager in the region wants to retain his staff he would need to invest in them …
Cloud computing is just outsourcing, says forum
Information security professionals should treat cloud computing as they would any other external supplier, according to an analyst at the …
Mobile heavyweights seek to finalise 1Gbps standard
The world’s top handset makers are meeting this week to finalise a version of an advanced mobile communication standard that …
Net purchases peak in KSA
An Arab Advisors Group survey of Saudi Arabia’s Internet users revealed that around 39% of the adult Internet users in …
Compu Me scoops IRISLink 2011 retailer award
Belgium based I.R.I.S is an intelligent document recognition (IDR1) solutions vendor and has presence in the Middle East channel through …
Staffing dominates regional CIO challenges: IDC
By Sathya Mithra Ashok Staffing issues, including recruitment, retention and development, will remain the biggest challenge for regional CIOs in …
Living on a prayer
By Valeria Camerino On the notes of a security-inspired version of Bon Jovi’s “Living on a prayer”, the 20th edition …