Research In Motion (RIM) has acquired JayCut, a Web-based video-editing software company, to bolster the multimedia capabilities of its PlayBook …
Products from Touchmate
Various peripherals devices including monitors, home theatre, headsets and others 20.1” TFT LCD monitor The monitor is priced for the …
Software AG acquires memory leader Terracotta
Software AG announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Terracotta. This acquisition will allow Software AG to …
FVC Egypt training on Alcatel-Lucent technology
FVC has hosted a three-day training session for its partners across Egypt to introduce Alcatel-Lucent’s enterprise solutions. FVC Egypt partner …
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 …
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. …
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 to acquire switch maker Force10
Dell this week said it will acquire switch maker Force10 Networks for an undisclosed sum. Dell said Force10’s data centre …
Oracle makes Fusion Applications ‘available’
Oracle has quietly made its Fusion Applications generally available, albeit with a caveat, but it seems that any serious fanfare …
Cloud computing brings record results for EMC
Increasing customer demand for big data technologies and cloud computing brought record financial results at EMC in the second quarter, …
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 …
State Street cuts IT staffers, shifts work to IBM, Wipro
State Street is laying off 530 IT workers and transferring another 320 to IBM or Wipro Technologies, part of a …
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 …
Sage to launch BI solutions for SMEs in the UAE
Sage Software, a supplier of ERP, CRM and HRM solutions to medium and large organisations, has revealed the launch of …
VMware unveils VMware vSphere5 and comprehensive cloud infrastructure suite
VMware CEO Paul Maritz unveiled VMware vSphere 5 and a comprehensive suite of cloud infrastructure technologies built to help customers …
Intel to buy networking chip company Fulcrum Microsystems
Intel is acquiring networking chip company Fulcrum Microsystems for an undisclosed amount in an effort to boost its networking offerings, …
Visa, MasterCard and AmEx join Google Wallet competitor
Isis, the mobile-payments joint venture that includes three U.S. national mobile operators, said that Visa, MasterCard and American Express have …
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 …
Lion to ship today on the Mac App Store, Apple releases Migration Assistant update for Snow Leopard
The cat’s out of the bag: During Apple’s third-quarter financial earnings call Tuesday, CFO Peter Oppenheimer announced that Lion would …