Serjios El-Hage, CEO, EMW

Lenovo’s net profit up 90 percent, smartphone shipments soar
PC sales in China and high growth in smartphones shipments helped boost Lenovo’s net profit for its fiscal fourth quarter …

BlackBerry Live: Opportunities in emerging markets
At BlackBerry Live, senior executives from BlackBerry and special guests from Asia, Latin America and Africa discussed mobile-led innovation in …

BlackBerry unveils low-cost Q5 smartphone aimed at emerging markets
It’s an art to begin a presentation with a bang – and Thorsten Heins, CEO, BlackBerry seemed to have mastered …

Embrace mobility or be left behind, says SAP
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region’s business leaders need to embrace enterprise mobility, or they risk suffering rapid …

Four more years
Even the best storage products must eventually be retired – a fact that many belt-tightening CIOs are at pains to …

EMC updates software portfolio
EMC today announced new and enhanced management software suites designed to provide “360 degree transparency” into storage, network, and compute …
Unrivalled Velocity
Undisputable storage powerhouse EMC claims to be ahead of the game, and you don’t get out in front by standing …

Cash cow
When the Amman Stock Exchange’s IT team found problems with high availability last year, they came up with an elegant …

Blackstone says Dell offer is off
By John Ribeiro and Agam Shah, IDG News Service Blackstone Group has given up its bid for Dell, less than …

Can you work effectively without a PC?
There’s plenty of doom and gloom surrounding the PC industry right now. Research firm IDC recently reported a “perfect storm” …

Struggling PC market causes Intel profit plunge
Intel reported a drop in profits and revenue for the first quarter, as the biggest PC market slump in recent …

Are data centre vendors taking companies for a ride?
The volume of data centre projects continues to rise in the Middle East, but experts believe that the education level …

Worldwide device shipments to top 2.4bn in 2013, says Gartner
According to Gartner, over 2.4 billion devices will be sold worldwide during 2013, marking a 9 percent increase from 2012. …

Microsoft stock takes beating amid declining PC shipments
Microsoft’s stock took a beating over the weekend after a pair of research firms said PC shipments in the first …

‘Perfect storm’ leads to PC market free fall
A “perfect storm” of struggling PC companies, aversion to Windows 8 and wider mobile-device adoption plunged the already struggling PC …

Brocade releases new platform to simplify campus network design
Brocade today announced the availability of the Brocade HyperEdge Architecture, which automates and simplifies campus network design. The new platform …

Security experts warn against Facebook Home
Facebook Home, the new app that replaces the home screen on an Android smartphone, should be banned from corporate networks …

Maximo Middle East User Conference kicks off in Dubai
eSolutions Maximo’s Maximo Middle East User Group Conference 2013 kicks off on Tuesday, April 7, at the JW Marriott Marquis …
Piracy stats – what’s up with that?
The detectives at IDC have been at it again, this time with the compliments of Microsoft, which commissioned a study …