Worldwide mobile phone sales dropped by two percent in the quarter ending in March compared to the same period in …
Google to sell Nexus smartphones, tablets direct, report says
Google is reportedly moving to more direct sales of its Android smartphones and tablets in an apparent move to wrest …
Getting trends-as-a-service
There has been a shift towards management software in recent years, particularly as companies attempt to get to grips with …
No tablet comes close to touching iPad: survey
After a brief dip in late 2011, the Apple iPad has firmly reasserted its position as the dominant player in the tablet market, …
Making the leap
Standards-based 40- and 100-gigabit Ethernet switches and routers are starting to show up in enterprise networks, and it’s easy to …
Integrating public cloud storage into your storage vision
As IT organisations build their storage plans and create a vision for the future, cloud storage and the paradigm on …
VMware ups its collaboration offering with Lithium integration
VMware has announced that its SocialCast sharing tool will now work with Lithium Technologies tools to capture and integrate external …
Microsoft, Barnes & Noble deal could lead to Windows-based tablet, analysts say
Microsoft’s new partnership with Barnes & Noble could lead to development of a Windows-based tablet or e-reader, not just a Nook e-reader application for …
Gain with intelligence
Storing data is one thing, but how does a company actively gain intelligence from analysing the data and then pump …
Acer Q1 profit falls by 72%
Taiwanese PC maker Acer’s first-quarter net profit dropped 72.1 percent year-on-year, while revenue slumped 11.4 percent. Profit for the quarter …
Facebook pays Microsoft $550m for AOL patents
Microsoft and Facebook, which have struck a variety of business, technology and advertising agreements in recent years, announced yesterday a deal …
Asus ships quad-core Transformer Pad 300 tablet for $379
Asustek started shipping its Transformer Pad 300 tablet in the U.S. yesterday, with the company pitching the tablet as a …
Dell’s Wyse buy a hedge against slowing PC sales
Dell’s plan to buy Wyse Technology is an effort to boost its client hardware portfolio and protect the company from …
Windows sales defy predictions, grow 4%
Stronger-than-expected sales of Windows helped Microsoft post a 6% increase in revenue for the first quarter of 2012, the company …
IBM posts flat revenue, falling hardware sales
While IBM continues to financially excel at selling software and systems, its hardware revenue for the past three months has …
Intel grabs record share of growing chip market
As global semiconductor revenue hit $306.8 billion in 2011, Intel grabbed its biggest bite of the chip market to date. …
CIOs still dismissed as mere techies by CEOs: research
CEOs still often dismiss CIOs as too techie and not aligned business activities, according to Gartner research. The survey of …
Apple is third largest PC maker in US, while iPad is ‘product to beat’: report
The latest research published by Gartner shows that Apple is still the third largest PC manufacturer in the US. Meanwhile, …
Lenovo gains over Dell as world’s second-largest PC maker
Lenovo extended its lead over Dell as the world’s second-largest PC maker, but it is too early to say whether …
Microsoft starts XP retirement countdown
Microsoft yesterday kicked off what it called a “two-year countdown” to the death of Windows XP, its longest-lived operating system. …