Reports released this week showed that Microsoft Corp.'s Bing search tool continues to gain ground in the search engine wars, …
Outlook separation anxiety holds back Google Apps
In its bold march to become a credible collaboration and communication suite for businesses, Google Apps has encountered a frequent …
Wi-Fi enabled products to surge with electronic medical records
ABI Research forecasts that Wi-Fi-enabled health care products will hit sales of nearly $5 billion globally in 2014, up 70% …
IBM security software masks confidential info
IBM researchers said today they have developed software that uses optical character recognition and screen scraping to identify and cover …
Facebook attracting more users with gray hair, wrinkles
Facebook is growing in popularity and its users are growing long in the tooth, according to a study released this …
Stable and growing
With nearly two decades in existence, Gulf Business Machines (GBM) has built up a formidable repute as a leading IT …
Fujitsu eyes professional services, virtualisation
With virtualisation technology going mainstream and as organisations view the technology as the ideal way to consolidate existing, server, desktop, …
DCTG, now DCG, set to help resellers implement healthy business practises
The second general assembly meeting (AGM) of DCTG held yesterday is set to be a turning point in the association’s …
Google OS may force Microsoft to reinvent Windows
Google's Chrome OS won't be an immediate threat to Windows, but it may force Microsoft to reinvent its operating system …
MasterCard halts remote POS security upgrades
In a purported second major security change in recent weeks, MasterCard has decided to disallow merchants' use of remote key …
Gigabit Ethernet goes to war
The US Navy continued to ramp up network power this week by signing Boeing to a five-year, $42.9 million to …
Google’s new OS raises privacy, antitrust concerns
Google's announcement that it is developing an open-source operating system raised questions among privacy advocates about the amount of personal …
Web threats soars in Threatscape Report by Fortinet
Fortinet announced that its June 2009 Threatscape Report showed dominance and significant growth in Web threat traffic, marked by increased …
Saudi Ministry migrates to high-performance network
Juniper Networks announced that the Ministry of Culture and Information, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s agency responsible for state broadcasting, …
Can you manage an iPhone like a BlackBerry?
Users love the iPhone, but IT does not. The biggest complaints: The iPhone can't be managed for security and access …
Next generation WLANs: beyond intelligent and thin
Wireless LAN (WLAN) has evolved from a niche technology to the primary mode of network access. Today’s enterprises deploy WLANs …
Cisco’s new-market ambitions extend into orbit
At its user conference in San Francisco last week, Cisco Systems boasted about the 30 new businesses it's developing. One …
Location-based services subscribers to double in ’09
Gartner Inc. predicts that the number of subscribers using location-based services (LBS) globally will double this year, even as mobile …
Microsoft may have known about critical IE bug for months
The vulnerability that sent Microsoft scrambling and is being used by hackers now to attack Internet Explorer (IE) users may …
Gmail, other Google apps, out of beta
Gmail is out of beta. After five years and plenty of industry snickering and corporate complaining, Google announced Tuesday the …