Citrix is moving into the mobile network optimisation market with its announced purchase of Bytemobile. Bytemobile specialises in making data …
Samsung gets serious about Linux with $500k investment
It’s been clear for some time that Samsung has a strong interest in Linux; but on Tuesday, the company put its money …
Experts question the need for a Facebook smartphone
Mobile technology will play an important role for Facebook as it tries to find new sources of revenue
RIM said to plan to lay off 2,000 staff
Research In Motion, the ailing maker of the BlackBerry, is planning to cut at least 2,000 staff as part of …
Dell's profit shrinks in the first quarter
Dell yesterday reported a drop in profits for the first quarter, weighed down by a revenue decrease and slower sales …
Lenovo working with Intel on ThinkPad Windows 8 tablet
Lenovo is working with chip maker Intel on a future ThinkPad tablet based on Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating system, a …
Lenovo building industrial centre to develop tablets, smartphones
Chinese PC maker Lenovo plans to invest more than 5 billion yuan (US$796 million) to build facilities for the development …
How to virtualise mission-critical applications
Enterprises are virtualising more and more of their workloads. The benefits are well-known: consolidation and infrastructure efficiency; faster provisioning of …
Does the iPad cannibalise Apple’s laptops?
The question – whether the company’s tablet cannibalises sales of its own portable computing line – is ultimately impossible to …
Acer Q1 profit falls by 72%
Taiwanese PC maker Acer’s first-quarter net profit dropped 72.1 percent year-on-year, while revenue slumped 11.4 percent. Profit for the quarter …
GCC opts for SAP solutions to help increase Middle East presence
Gulf Consolidated Contractors Co. (GCC) has selected SAP to bolster its IT solutions and increase its influence across the Middle …
Tablets will be most users’ main computing device, Forrester says
Tablets will become most users’ primary computing device within the next four years, Forrester Research analyst Frank Gillett has said. …
SACO selects SAP for management software suite
SAP has been selected by home improvement superstore SACO to implement a complete suite of enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer …
What to consider before signing up for Google Drive
Just as with an Apple product launch, Google has had to do next to nothing to create buzz around its long-awaited Google …
Dell’s Wyse buy a hedge against slowing PC sales
Dell’s plan to buy Wyse Technology is an effort to boost its client hardware portfolio and protect the company from …
Windows sales defy predictions, grow 4%
Stronger-than-expected sales of Windows helped Microsoft post a 6% increase in revenue for the first quarter of 2012, the company …
SAP designs facility for ‘agile’ cloud application development
SAP intends to become a major player in cloud-based software, and has been adopting agile software development practices as one …
Out of the box
Storage is a continuing story as vendors consistently innovate to help businesses cope with increasing amounts of data. Pallavi Sharma …
Samsung to show ‘the next Galaxy’ smartphone on May 3
Samsung Electronics is expected to show the next flagship Galaxy smartphone at an event in London on May 3. The …
IBM opens branch in Qatar
IBM today announced the opening of a new branch office in Doha, Qatar. The company said the increased presence in …