IT spending in the UAE is expected to grow from around US$ 3.1 billion in 2008 to approaching US$ 4.7 …
Android moves into home entertainment
MIPS Technologies made available Android software source code to anyone interested in creating Android applications for products that use the …
Advertising and the future of wireless
Let's say you're an enterprise that manages a large fleet of vehicles using location-based services to track cars in real …
IBM, HP use big discounts to woo Sun customers
IBM and HP are trying to lure server and storage customers away from Sun Microsystems by exploiting uncertainty caused by …
Data centers go underground
As Hurricane Ike bore down on Houston one Friday last September, the Continental Airlines' flight operations center, located on the …
IBM tops at US patent office
Nobody has dominated the annual list of new U.S. patents like IBM. Now Big Blue may put one of its …
Symantec: Why bigger is better but less is more
Symantec likes to point out how much bigger it is than competitors like McAfee, which at $1.6 billion in annual …
IBM set to launch ‘Smart Analytics’ systems
IBM preparing a new series of BI (business intelligence) products dubbed Smart Analytics Systems, the company was expected to announce …
Symantec program sends security analysts to customer sites
Symantec widened its security support services with a program that places Symantec security experts on-site with enterprise customers to carry …
Intuit unveils DroboPro from Data Robotics
DroboPro delivers a radically simplified storage experience enhanced by advanced self-monitoring and self-healing functionality that enables small and medium businesses …
Twitter breach revives security issues with cloud computing
Security and privacy issues over cloud computing are not very different from those surrounding any sort of IT outsourcing and …
Nissan car monitors GPS for road dangers ahead
Most drivers have done it: misjudged a bend in the road and only realized they are travelling too fast when …
Oracle buys data-integration specialist
Oracle Corp. said it is buying GoldenGate Software, a San Francisco maker of data integration tools, for an undisclosed sum. …
HP Mini 2140
An update of the pioneering Mini 2133, the 2140 swaps the older model’s underpowered Via C7-M CPU for the ubiquitous …
Five tips to reduce network costs
An economic slowdown can mean that resources are constrained, IT staffs could be flat for the coming year and new …
Adobe confirms Flash zero-day bug in PDF docs
Adobe is investigating a critical vulnerability in its Flash format that is currently being exploited by hackers using malicious PDF …
Are mobile Web apps ever going to grow up?
In just the past year, several trends have crystallized into a mobile Web platform that promises to transform mobile application …
Red Hat lauds, criticizes Microsoft’s Linux efforts
While applauding Microsoft's contribution of code to the Linux community this week, Red Hat nonetheless urged its rival to pledge …
Exact Software opens Qatar and Saudi offices
The Gulf’s growing demand for sophisticated business software has led to a steep increase in the sales of solutions that …
DRAM prices expected to keep rising
The price of DRAM computer memory chips is on the rise as global PC makers gear up for back-to-school and …