While tele-medicine or remote medicine offers great potential advantages in the region, healthcare institutions are yet to experiment with it …
Jumbo to open new store in Abu Dhabi
The Marina Mall store opening is in line with Jumbo Electronics’ broader expansion strategy for Abu Dhabi with further plans …
Intel completes McAfee acquisition
Intel has completed its US$7.68 billion acquisition of security vendor McAfee, the chip maker announced yesterday. The all-cash deal makes …
Intel plots ‘client-aware’ cloud services
Intel wants the cloud to be a bit smarter. The company is developing technologies that would allow applications and services …
Cloud adoption ‘will create 90,000 public sector jobs’
The adoption of cloud computing services in the public sector will lead to the creation of 90,000 jobs in the …
Google releases full Android 3.0 SDK
Google has made available the full SDK for the Android 3.0 mobile platform, featuring a UI redesigned for tablets and …
KSA’s Shaqra University selects SAP
Shaqra University in Saudi Arabia has announced that it has selected market leader in enterprise application software SAP to implement …
Footwear and fashion driving RFID growth
Retailers in the US are rapidly deploying systems that support item-level RFID tagging of apparel and footwear, according to an …
Avnet reports Q2 fiscal results
Avnet achieved a fourth consecutive quarter of double-digit year over year revenue growth. Record Avnet Inc. revenue of US$6.8 billion …
Saudi Telecom selects Juniper
Juniper Networks today announced that Saudi Telecom Company (STC), the leading national provider of telecommunication services in the Kingdom of …
Gartner outlines nine data warehousing trends
CIOs need to familiarise themselves with nine key trends in data warehousing and how they will impact the cost-benefit balance …
HP takes first run at tablet market
Hewlett-Packard rolled out its debut entrant into the red-hot tablet market, the HP TouchPad, as well as two new smartphones …
China builds cloud computing city
China is building a city-sized cloud computing and office complex that will include a mega data centre, one of the …
EMC releases free edition of Greenplum database
The company said that the new Greenplum Database CE offering includes free analytic algorithms and data mining tools. “This is …
Building a knowledge economy
Bahrain is building a knowledge economy. Under the patronage of HRH Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown Prince …
Dimension Data achieves Cisco UCS provider status
The Cisco Unified Computing System unites network, computational, storage access, and virtualization resources in a single energy-efficient system that can …
Iomega appoints iSpot as Qatar distributor
The move to appoint iSpot follows Iomega’s recent distribution partnership with Kuwait-based distributor Al Babtain for that country. The …
Google bets $20K that Chrome can’t be hacked
Google will pay $20,000 to the first researcher who successfully exploits its Chrome browser at this year’s Pwn2Own hacking contest. …
du partners with Ericsson for managed services
This agreement supplements du’s aggressive growth strategy and its continuous focus on improving the company capabilities in service delivery, enhancing …
Aptec launches Datacentre Alliance Partner Programme
The launch of the partner programme, follows last month’s partnership betweem Aptec Holdings Group, and four datacentre focused vendors APC, …