Nokia has filed claims in the U.S. and Germany saying that products from HTC, Research In Motion (RIM) and ViewSonic …
The future of security
Last month, I’d the opportunity to moderate a panel discussion at our Security Strategist event. The panel comprised chief security …
Facebook's open-source data centre project gains strength
Facebook’s year-old project to develop open-source hardware designs with the aim to build efficient data centres gained momentum yesterday, with …
Blue Coat signs Westcon Middle East as distributor for MENA Region
Westcon Middle East, a value-add distributor of convergence, security, networking and mobility products and services, announced that it has been …
Yahoo claims Facebook bought patents to countersue it
Facebook purchased in the last five months eight of 10 patents it has cited in a counterclaim to a patent …
Sony set to roll out VAIO E14 Series across the region
Sony, the consumer electronics brand, today announced that the new VAIO E14 Series, a 14-inch notebook with stylish new ‘wrap …
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 …
Google Drive problem is a public cloud problem, says privacy expert
The explosion of outrage from privacy advocates over Google Drive’s terms of service appears to have subsided somewhat, after a …
Abiba to expand channel partner network in EMEA
Abiba Systems, a provider of telecom business intelligence and analytics software solutions, is planning to further expand its channel partner …
HP Envy 14 Spectre Ultrabook
“Sleek, midnight black glass on the outside and stark contrast silver on the inside make Spectre extraordinary, defying conventional notebook …
Dell Precision workstations get custom new look
Dell has unveiled four new Precision workstations that have been designed for maximum upgrade flexibility. The Precision T range workstations …
Sophos partners with Facebook for user protection
IT security and data protection company Sophos today announced a partnership with Facebook to help protect users from links that …
Amazon CTO: startups lead the way in big data analytics
Startups and small companies are stealing a march on their larger enterprise counterparts by employing analytics at the heart of …
Conficker worm still the top corporate network threat: Microsoft
Companies are still plagued by the Conficker worm, used to create botnets and spread other forms of malware, according to the …
A delicate balance
With the rise in the influence of social media on the business, it’s time for CMOs to get better acquainted …
Making it work
Storage systems can prove to be challenging to deploy and use within organisations. Vendors suggest choosing the latest in technologies …
From IT to ET: Cloud, consumerisation, and the next wave of IT transformation
That’s hardly a new observation. It was most notably made in 2003, in a now-famous Harvard Business Review article by …
Facebook pays Microsoft $550m for AOL patents
Microsoft and Facebook, which have struck a variety of business, technology and advertising agreements in recent years, announced yesterday a deal …
Acer ships desktops with quad-core Ivy Bridge chips
Acer yesterday started shipping desktops that are among the first PCs available with Intel’s third-generaton Core processors, code-named Ivy Bridge. …