Windows 7 has expanded its lead over Windows Vista with more than 350 million licences sold after 18 months on …
EBay to acquire GSI Commerce
EBay has agreed to acquire for about US$2.4 billion GSI Commerce, whose suite of e-commerce and digital marketing tools and …
LTE round the corner
So now that Etisalat is rolling out its LTE services, and some other operators in the region trialling the next …
Firefox 4 sets unofficial download record
Mozilla set an unofficial record for software downloads on the second day of Firefox 4’s launch, the company said Friday. …
AMD hires former HP executive as CIO
AMD yesterday continued shuffling its senior executive ranks, appointing former Hewlett-Packard executive Mike Wolfe as its chief information officer. Wolfe …
Cisco unveils secure teleworker products
Cisco has unveiled a home office wireless LAN access point (AP) along with other wireless gear aimed at helping corporations …
HP unifies software support services
Hewlett-Packard has launched a new set of services that combine software support and professional services into a single unified offering. …
Five exabytes of disk storage ship in 2010
Last year, hard disk drive manufacturers shipped 5,127 petabytes of storage capacity, a 55.7% increase over 2009, according to a …
Extreme roadmap plots broader view of mobility
Extreme Networks’ new product roadmap has a catchy name — Make Your Network Mobile — but it might be a little …
Pre-nimbus perplexity
Just for once, let’s not talk cloud. Instead, let’s look at the technology initiative that, a few years back, was …
A word of advice
In the last month, separate CIO events were conducted in Dubai by two of the largest IT analyst groups in …
HP broadens scope of project management software
With the new update of its Project and Portfolio Management software, Hewlett-Packard is broadening the potential scope of the software …
Mobile network spend to rebound: Dell’Oro
Global spending on mobile infrastructure has been falling for the past two years despite rising demand for network capacity, but …
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 …
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 …
Lenovo breaks ground on new operations centre
Chinese PC maker Lenovo has broken ground on a new operations centre in southwestern China that will produce computers, as …
Microsoft Windows revenues plunge 30%
Revenues from Windows plummeted 30% last quarter compared to the same period the year before, Microsoft said yesterday. But in …
Android tablets gain traction with developers
Although Apple’s iPad remains number one in the hearts of tablet application developers, Google Android tablets are increasingly piquing programmers’ …
CIOs come together to discuss data centre issues
CIOs and IT managers in the UAE named connectivity and the lack of redundancy in their data centres one of …
Dell agrees to buy Compellent for $960M
Dell has agreed to buy virtualized storage vendor Compellent Technologies in an all-cash deal worth US$27.75 per share, a little …