After forming in 2009 and stalling a couple of times since, the Open Cloud Initiative formally launched yesterday in an …
Huawei closes certification gap
Huawei ties up with regional education player Stage 2 Learning to meet demand gap in its IP certifications In the …
Dell debuts cloud-ready system
Using OpenStack cloud software, Dell has created a package of hardware, software and services that organizations can use to deploy …
Businesses lack bandwidth for the cloud
Only one-in-ten companies are currently deploying cloud computing technologies, mainly because of network bandwidth concerns, research has found. The news …
Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya top African ICT rankings
A new survey conducted by the Africa Business Panel has found Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya to be Africa’s fastest-expanding …
Inevitable Innovations
As organisations across the world invest in a variety of applications to differentiate themselves from competitors, developers of these applications …
RIM Slims as Sales Slump
Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) announced that it will lay off 2000 employees and shake up its senior management …
Gartner: Smart devices may fuel BI adoption in Hong Kong
While less than 30% of the potential users of organisations’ standard business intelligence (BI) tools actually use the technology, the …
Sneak peek into Oracle’s MySQL 5.6 features
Oracle yesterday announced a sneak peak at features slated for MySQL 5.6, the next version of its open-source database, that …
Mo’men Group deploys Oracle E-Business Suite to boost growth
Oracle today announced that Mo’men Group, a food processing company in Egypt with a diversified portfolio of fast food chains, …
Alcatel-Lucent confirms Enterprise business may be sold
Alcatel-Lucent this week confirmed it is “exploring strategic options” for its Enterprise business, a non-core asset that’s been reported to …
Navigating wireless landscape
With 802.11n, enterprise Wi-Fi networks are shifting from convenient to critical. They’re becoming the preferred and primary network access for users …
Google being investigated for not playing fair
Google is being scrutinised by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for allegedly deceptive practices when it comes to online search …
Global market for AML technologies witnesses record growth
The emergence of Anti Money Laundering (AML) technologies has helped drive in a fresh wave of demand across the global …
EMC expands high end storage market reach with VMAXe storage system
EMC Corporation today introduced the new EMC Symmetrix VMAXe storage system, innovative storage technology designed for virtualised cloud and mission …
Toyota launches intelligent system that senses pedestrians to avoid accidents
Toyota has developed a safety system that can automatically stop a car in the moments before a collision with a …
Sony Grappling with 55 U.S. Lawsuits After PSN Hack
It looks like Sony may be going to court, and we’re not talking once, or thrice, but 55 times over. …
IBM speeds storage retrieval with flash drives
With an eye toward helping tomorrow’s data-deluged organisations, IBM researchers have created a super-fast storage system capable of scanning in …
RIM buys video-editing vendor JayCut
Research In Motion (RIM) has acquired JayCut, a Web-based video-editing software company, to bolster the multimedia capabilities of its PlayBook …
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Various peripherals devices including monitors, home theatre, headsets and others 20.1” TFT LCD monitor The monitor is priced for the …