Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, a division of Alcatel-Lucent, will have an increased presence at Gulfcomms 2011, as part of GITEX 2011, the …
A week with the Droid
At a Glance Droid Bionic Motorola Mobility Price: $299.99 (with two-year contract at Verizon Wireless) Pros: Slim and lightweight, fast …
Mobile app downloads in APAC up 189% this year: Ovum
Asia-Pacific (AP) mobile phone application downloads will top almost 5 billion by the end of 2011, growth of 189% per …
Skype acquiring startup GroupMe
Internet calling company Skype said Sunday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire GroupMe, a startup that …
Top five Android smartphones this DSS
Jacky’s Ashish Panjabi takes a look at Android smartphones Over the last couple of months, we’ve seen a definite uptick …
RIM launches smartphone management for small businesses
Research In Motion (RIM) launched a free online service for small businesses to help them centrally manage BlackBerry smartphones in …
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 …
Google Chrome hits 20% global share: StatCounter
Google Chrome’s rise in popularity has been remarkably fast and it’s just hit a new milestone: more than 20% of …
One billion smartphones to ship in 2015: IDC
Nearly 1 billion smartphones will be shipped globally in 2015, almost double the amount for all of 2011, as millions …
Jumbo’s service centre completes one year
Jumbo also plans to continue growing business in non retails areas such as IT solutions The Jumbo service centre, the …
Saudi’s Al Jouf University chooses Cisco’s WebEx
The Al Jouf University in Saudi Arabia has deployed Cisco WebEx enterprise collaboration solutions for efficient and secure e-learning. Cisco WebEx …
Riding the cloud
The Jumeirah Group has built a private cloud in a hybrid environment to connect disparate offices and improve efficiency. Home …
Gartner tablet forecast overlooks Microsoft
Research firm Gartner yesterday gave Microsoft a hard diss on the tablet front by not including Redmond in its recent tablet-OS …
BMW aims for cars to take e-mail dictation
BMW has developed a prototype system that allows drivers to compose full-text e-mails and text messages using voice commands. Unlike …
Motorola buys Android security company 3LM
Motorola Mobility said today that it has bought 3LM, a company that develops enterprise security and device management products for …
Doing a Ratner
It may be known only in the UK, but people in business anywhere in the world can recognise ‘that Ratner …
Microsoft to pay out “billions” as part of Nokia deal
Nokia yesterday hinted that Microsoft essentially won a bidding war against Google to supply software to the world’s largest handset …
Nokia-Microsoft: is this the path to success or continued failure?
The broad Nokia-Microsoft partnership announced yesterday in which the Windows Phone operating system would run on Nokia smartphones sounds like …
IBM unwraps mobile security initiatives
IBM has unwrapped a variety of mobile security initiatives to help corporate customers better protect and manage the mass of …
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 …