After winning the approval of regulators in Europe, Australia, and Japan, Western Digital may have hit a snag in its …
Al Hilal Bank deploys digital pen technology
Al Hilal Bank, a progressive Islamic bank, is using state-of-the-art digital pens developed in the UK to revolutionise its document-based …
Qtel launches high capacity networking product
Qtel Business Solutions (QBS) today launched an innovative network solution that will allow customers with high bandwidth requirements to aggregate …
Big and growing
There is no easy way to say this. Ask a few people about what big data stands for, and you …
Google acquires more IBM patents
Google has acquired more IBM patents, adding more than 200 to approximately 2,000 patents it had previously bought from IBM. …
Users desert Windows XP in near-record numbers
Microsoft’s Windows XP shed a large amount of usage share again last month as users continued to desert the decade-old …
Hackers to combat censorship with own satellites
Hackers reportedly plan to fight back against Internet censorship by putting their own communications satellites into orbit and developing a …
Chrome nears 20%, IE resumes slide
After a one-month pause, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) resumed its usage share slide in December, dropping to a new low …
Schneider Electric collaborates with Cisco for energy management
Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management, has teamed up with Cisco, the worldwide leader in networking for the …
Imation buys Nine Technology
Storage vendor Imation has acquired intellectual property and other assets of online backup provider Nine Technology. Imation, a provider of …
Telecom Namibia deploying first DWDM network
Six months after withdrawing from Angola and South African markets to concentrate on the local market, Telecom Namibia is deploying …
Vodafone Egypt intros personalised mobile services
Subscribers of Vodafone Egypt, the country’s largest telecom operator, will soon enjoy a host of customized services. The operator is …
MEEZA gets ISO certified
The Qatar-based IT solutions service provider MEEZA has announced that it is now certified for ISO 27001:2005 and ISO 9001:2008 …
IBM’s Watson shows up for work at Cedars-Sinai’s cancer centre
IBM’s Watson supercomputer is about to begun work evaluating evidence-based cancer treatment options that can be delivered to the physician …
Google to pay Mozilla $300 mn yearly in new search deal: report
Google promised to pay Mozilla almost $300 million annually to keep its search engine as the default in Firefox, according …
MSAT partners with Liquidware Labs, Citrix and Microsoft to launch Workspace-as-a-Service solution
Mahindra Satyam, an IT consulting and services provider, today announced the launch of Workspace-as-a-Service (WaaS), which leverages technology from Citrix …
Quad Enterprise Social Software
Cisco’s thin client application allows a user to work across business and social media feeds through one interface Global enterprise …
Office 365: Microsoft rolls it out
A new paradigm of unified computing, targeted at small and medium enterprises, is being rolled out across the region. So …
Samsung and HTC smartphones picking up pace
The battle between Samsung and Apple for smartphone superiority continues. After an abundance of advertising, lawsuits and patents trying to …
SSD shipments leap 66% in Q3, revenue doubles
Shipments of solid-state drives (SSDs) jumped more than 66% in the third quarter of 2011 compared with the same period …