Beltone Financial, an investment bank in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), has gone live with SunGard’s Valdi trading …
Region’s smart card market set for marked growth
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) smart cards market will reach USD 328.5m by 2014, with the telecommunication sector …
Suhail Bahwan Automobiles deploys Fortinet network security solution
Suhail Bahwan Automobiles LLC, part of Suhail Bahwan Automotive Group, a leading automobile dealer and distributor in the Sultanate of …
Tablets making an impact on OS and PC designs: IDC
The post-PC era is not yet upon us, executives from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices insisted, when questioned about the …
SAP pushes mobile applications with partners
Thousands of SAP partners who sell the Business All-in-One ERP (enterprise resource planning) suite and Business Objects analytics software can …
Just in time for Psilog
Spectrum’s acquisition made in 2009 is showing potential for good returns based on Dubai’s positive trading outlook In 2009, Ajay …
Touch control MFP from Sharp
Sharp Middle East announced launch of the first multi function printers with a finger-swipe touch control panel. The three models …
Sustainability to become major priority for CEOs by 2015: Gartner
Sustainability will play an increasing role in organisations’ financial and operational performance, according to Gartner. By 2015, improving sustainability related …
Infor and Lawson aim to deliver complete industry suites through M3 product line
Infor and Lawson Software today said the direction of the M3 product line is strategic to the growth of Lawson …
Norton reveals top threats targeting smartphones
Cybercrooks are increasingly capitalising on the mass adoption of mobile devices by exploiting smartphone users, at home or at work. …
Acer to acquire iGware to launch cloud platform
Acer said today it plans to acquire iGware, a cloud technology company in the U.S., for US$320 million, as part …
Achilles’ heel
We’d recently organised a roundtable discussion on the very esoteric topic of SCADA with regional security experts help AG, which …
Riverbed acquires Zeus
Riverbed is gearing up to take on F5 Networks and Citrix in speeding up application delivery with the purchase of …
Dell fills data centre technology stack with Force10
Dell’s acquisition of Force10 Networks will fill a critical networking hole as the company buys its way into building an …
Android phones help poor farmers in Uganda
Mobile-phone companies and aid agencies have talked for years about deploying feature phones, coupled with basic text information services about …
Subway changes its menu, adds SaaS
Subway is a fast-food franchise operation with some 35,000 restaurants worldwide. Like many big enterprises, it expected to host a …
Joomla expands beyond content management
With the release of version 1.7, Joomla has been redesigned to support jobs beyond its typical duties of Web content …
HP launches agile ALM tool for project intelligence
HP with its Application Lifecycle Intelligence product introduced Tuesday offers visibility into what is happening in heterogenous environments across the …
95% of holidaymakers can’t switch off: Brocade
New research from Brocade shows that, along with sun cream and swimsuits, 95% of EMEA holidaymakers take at least one …
MBC selects Limelight solutions for online video publishing
Limelight Networks, today announced that Middle East Broadcasting Center (MBC) has selected Limelight as its sole solutions provider for online …