Massive layoffs. Lagging stock. Declining profits. Cisco has never had it so bad since 2001 in the aftermath of the …
A class apart
The American University of Sharjah is making calculated investments in the latest that technology has to offer to make its …
Capital scope
When it comes to embracing cutting edge technology to enhance business processes, beat the competitor and please the customer, the …
Java 8 gears up for the cloud
Now that Java 7 SE (Standard Edition) has officially been released, Oracle and members of the JCP (Java Community Process) …
Fusion-io to buy IO Turbine to reach virtualised servers
Flash storage vendor Fusion-io has agreed to buy IO Turbine for up to US$95 million to extend its on-server cache …
VMware backpedals on price changes after customer criticism
After criticism over new restrictions on the amount of virtual memory customers can deploy before having to buy new licenses, …
Twenty years ago today
Actually, it was 20 years ago on the 6th August that the world’s first Web site was published. Not surprisingly, …
Twitter to open source streaming data analyser
Expanding the field of complex event process software with another offering, Twitter will release as open source its software for …
Google, Microsoft bicker over patents
Google and Microsoft continued a very public and heated exchange that sparked after Google’s top legal officer accused rival companies …
Barracuda doubles capacity of cloud storage
Barracuda Networks today announced it has doubled the capacity available to customers of its backup service while keeping the price …
Samsung buys MRAM maker Grandis
Samsung Electronics today said it has acquired Grandis, maker of magnetic random access memory (MRAM) technology known as spin transfer …
Sage appoints ADAM IT as new channel partner for the UAE
Sage Software, the supplier of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Human Resource Management (HRM) Solutions to …
Microsoft kicks off $250,000 security contest
Microsoft has launched a $250,000 contest for researchers who develop defensive security technologies that deal with entire classes of exploits, …
Clearwire plans LTE network, seeks $600M
Clearwire plans to deploy an LTE network in addition to its existing WiMax system but estimates it will need to …
Motorola unveils latest industrial-class fixed RFID reader
Motorola Solutions, a provider of mission-critical communication products and services for enterprise and government customers, today introduced the FX9500 industrial-class …
Sprint to sell WiMax service wholesale
Sprint Nextel is a wholesale customer of Clearwire’s WiMax service but will itself become a wholesale provider of the service …
Kenya works with ISPs to bring rates down
At the direction of Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki, the government has engineered a deal with ISPs that has started to …
du and Cisco sign support and optimisation agreement
Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company PJSC (“du”) today signed a three-year contract with Cisco for network support and optimisation services to …
Dell warranties servers for ‘fresh-air cooling’
Dell said it will warranty servers to run at 113 degrees Fahrenheit (45 degrees Celsius) for a limited number of …
Telcos pursue lower infrastructure pricing in Africa
High costs of accessing inland fibre-optic infrastructure and lack of guidelines on DSL access have forced telecom operators in Africa …