Acer reported fourth quarter profit of $2.4 million, a financial turnaround after the company faced back-to-back losses in the previous two quarters. …
Android loses market share,as Apple soars: Gartner
Android lost smartphone market share for the first time, as Apple had a great fourth quarter buoyed by the launch …
HP releases ‘power user’ thin client
Calling a thin client a device for power users may seem like an oxymoron, but Hewlett-Packard is giving it a …
Extending identity
The focal point of enterprise security has long been on fighting malware and outsider threats, while most of the breaches …
Windows 8 on ARM to include Office apps for tablets
Windows 8 on ARM, dubbed WOA by Microsoft, could offer a platform for workers wanting to run Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint …
Lenovo’s fiscal Q3 profit up 54%, increases China share
Lenovo’s profit in its fiscal third quarter ended Dec. 31 grew 54 percent year-over-year, as the company saw growth in …
Thomson Reuters in major virtual desktop rollout
Thomson Reuters is rolling out virtual desktop access, based on VMware technology, to 10,000 employees. The news and data giant …
IBM introduces new software to solve BYOD concerns
IBM has introduced new software to help organisations manage and secure the growing use of employee-owned smartphones and tablets in …
Apple overtakes LG as third-largest phone maker
Apple is now the world’s third-largest phone maker by shipments and market share, according to a study from the International Data Corporation …
On the lookout
It might be just another year in the technology evolution chain, but vendors believe that 2012 will bring with it …
King Faisal Specialist Hospital opts for Dell’s virtualisation solution
Internationally recognised hospital and the biggest research facility in Saudi Arabia, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, has selected …
PC shipments decline: research
PC shipments in EMEA declined by 6.5% in the fourth quarter in 2011 compared to the same time in 2010, …
Spend on enterprise network equipment to grow in 2012
Spending on enterprise network equipment will grow by 8.7% in 2012, as companies continue to turn to enterprise mobility, video …
Mozilla moves forward with plan for enterprise version of Firefox
Mozilla is advancing its plans to release a version of Firefox tailored for organisations whose IT departments manage it for …
Trend Micro revamps partner programme
Trend Micro has announced an aggressive new partner programme focused on rewarding proactive partners, driving new business, customer retention, while …
NetApp becomes latest vendor to raise disk drive prices
NetApp this week announced to customers that beginning Feb. 6, it will be raising the price of hard disk drives …
Oki research reveals energy saving in UAE
New research from Oki has revealed that UAE businesses are spending millions of Dhirams per year on avoidable energy costs. …
HDD washout in Thailand
October?s flooding of Thailand has knocked out close to half of the global hard disk manufacturing base. Normalcy will take …
Google acquires more IBM patents
Google has acquired more IBM patents, adding more than 200 to approximately 2,000 patents it had previously bought from IBM. …
Google to pay Mozilla $300 mn yearly in new search deal: report
Google promised to pay Mozilla almost $300 million annually to keep its search engine as the default in Firefox, according …